What Are File Attributes Windows files have several attributes, or properties. These attributes affect how your file can be manipulated. Below is a list of the available file attributes and their definitions: Read-only: The file cannot be accidentally edited and saved. Hidden: The file cannot […]
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Straggling Headings Sometimes, there are paragraphs that naturally belong with another paragraph. For instance, section headings belong with the paragraphs that follow them, a signature line belongs with the explanation line that may be after it, and a figure belongs with the caption that may
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Word 2016 Style Gallery Did you ever wonder if you could change what is shown in Word’s Style Gallery? How to add your own styles to it? Or rearrange the order in which your styles appear in the gallery? Well, as it happens, changing what
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Function Keys Nothing fancy! No flashy pictures this time! I think we all know that Function Keys exist on our keyboard but it is very surprising to me that most of us have no idea what they do or how useful they can be to
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Mail Merge In Word When you use the mail merge feature of Word, you can either merge to the printer or merge to a new document. In my opinion, the best option is to merge to the latter since it gives you the ability to
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Copy and Paste Colored Text A client who has a document containing many text selections formatted as red contacted me to inquire whether there was a method to select all of the red text and copy that text to a new document. There are a
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Table of Contents Perhaps you are writing the great American novel – or you just have a very long document. Either way, you might want to create a Table of Contents (TOC) for that document. The easiest method for creating a TOC is using heading
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AutoText AutoText has always been a very useful feature in Word. There are many reasons why you would want to remove an AutoText entry created previously, including just because you had a need for it, but no longer do. Suppose you had created several AutoText
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Calculating Expressions Obviously, a Word document is not a spreadsheet, but you can treat it like one (kinda) by adding a toolbar button that will allow you to quickly calculate values in your document based on numbers in a selection. For example, you could highlight
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How many times have you been typing away only to glance down and discover that Caps Lock is on? Fortunately, Excel can catch these errors for you – IF I tell it to! Follow the steps below to learn how: On your Ribbon, Click the
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I have received frantic e-mails and phone calls from clients telling me that all of a sudden when they open Word their document opens up with a strange graph paper effect. Well, there are a couple of reasons why this may have happened, but the
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As you may or may not know, in Excel you can add a comment to a cell that is only visible when someone hovers their mouse over it. But can you do it in Word as well? The short answer is no, it does not
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Word will create address labels for you from data that has been stored in a different source (i.e., Access database or Excel workbook). Essentially, Word takes the information from those sources and places it into the format that you designate in Word. Because it has
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PowerPoint makes it easy for you to create streamlined presentations that always look as if they had been professionally done. One way in which they do that is by providing you with design templates, which are formatted themes with their own backgrounds, fonts, and styles.
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