Many times when you are working on documents with other colleagues there is cause to protect certain text in that document; they are marked do not check in the Language dialog box. Also there could be styles that are set so that they will not […]
I have clients and subscribers that have used Outlook for years but have no idea what a robust piece of software it is or how it can simplify their lives. So, I have decided to do a post pointing up some of the great features
How many times have you had to create a document and you think to yourself, “wait, I did this for another document about a week ago!” And didn’t you wish that you could quickly copy the styles from your previous document to your new one?
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When you have large worksheets in your Excel workbooks it can be cumbersome and time-consuming to move around in them. This is a slick little trick that has existed in Excel for a very long time, but most folks do not know about it. Follow
The Envelope feature in Word is pretty intuitive and fairly easy to use so that you can create really professional looking envelopes that rival the ones you get at the Stationers. Word makes it so easy in fact, that it takes the liberty of assuming
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Have a document that has multiple highlighting in it? Yes, lots of folks DO have documents like this and sometimes they have a need to change the color of the highlighting. It could be that you have more than one person working on the document
If you have ever worked on very long documents that use line number, you may have, for some reason, stored a parts of the document in different files. But, wait! You do not want the line numbers to start over when you print the different
Normally ScreenTips will appear when you position your mouse over a toolbar button. Their function is to display a hint about what the button does. Go ahead and hover your cursor over the Underline tool on the Home tab of your Ribbon and you will
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If your job requires you to create address labels in Word, you most certainly will have noticed that Word limits the number of lines you can use in an address. Now you will not necessarily see this limit while you are creating your envelopes or
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We all know that one of the tasks teachers must perform is creating quizzes, tests and exams for their students. One of my dearest friends has a daughter who is a teacher and she likes to format her true and false quizzes thusly – though
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A reader wrote recently inquiring about the documents he takes home to work on. It seems like the documents he brings home on his flash drive always open in Read Only. I asked him if he had the same version of Word at home as
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Many businesses use Excel to manage data that employees work with on a daily basis (i.e., invoice data, shipping records, product name, etc.). In some instances, when working with this information, it becomes necessary to extract records based on different criteria. This is a prime
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You can use the Voting Buttons in Outlook to get responses from a group. This is a very handy feature when obtaining feedback regarding meetings, appointments, dinner engagements, and even menus! The possibilities are infinite! Outlook even tallies the votes so that you can access
Ok, I think I have covered in past posts how you can format your documents in levels in Word (i.e., characters, paragraphs and sections. Of the three, sections seem to be the one that throws folks for a loop when it comes to formatting. If
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