If you are a user of the numbered list feature in Word, you may have noticed that the numbers at the beginning of each item cannot be selected. And, as you add or delete items from your list, the other items are automatically renumbered. Normally […]
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I would like to share a few handy and useful tricks for using the Find & Replace feature in Word with you. Feel free to follow along on your own computer, using your own documents. I usually encourage that interaction because once you have actually
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I am sure you all know how to set tab stops in your Word documents by now. Word gives you complete control regarding which characters (to a certain extent) you can insert in the blank space created by the tab you insert in your document.
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How many times a day do you have to go back to your last edit in your Word documents? Depending upon what you do for a living, it could be quite a few! As you may know I intensely dislike wasting time and keystrokes so
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Yes, that’s right – the 2016 iteration of Office is right around the corner and although it is not terribly different from Office 2013, there are some major differences. Yes, I am sorry to say we still have the Ribbon to contend with but in
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As you know, when you select a cell in your worksheet in Excel, you can see the contents of that cell in your Formula Bar. If, however, the content is longer that what can be displayed in a single line on your Formula Bar, the
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This tip may not be for everyone, but for those who write macros in VBA and have a need for it, it will certainly be appreciated. Sometimes when you are creating a macro in VBA, there comes a time when you need to determine the
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Sidehead? What in the heck is a sidehead?? A lot of folks scratch their heads when I mention this topic as they have never heard the term before. Well sideheads are document headings that are in the margin of your document rather than in the
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By default Word displays the text on your screen the same way it will appear when you print your document. Most trainers call this what you see is what you get, or WYSIWYG. There are times, however, when viewing your document in this way just
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A lot of folks seem surprised when they enter a date in Excel and it is not displayed in the manner it was keyed in. Unfortunately those same folks try to remedy this by keying in an apostrophe before the date. That will make the
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As a rule the applications within Microsoft Office work very well together. A perfect example of this is the ability to embed an Excel chart in a Word document! There are many, many reasons why one would want or need to embed an Excel chart
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MS Word allows us to create accented letters in our documents very quickly using the accent shortcuts that are built into it. All you really have to do is use the shortcut key combination and then add the letter to be accented! Follow the steps
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Here’s a slick little trick that a lot of folks don’t know about and it comes in very handy and saves you time, frustration and keystrokes! Follow the steps below to learn how to move paragraphs around in your documents: To move a paragraph up
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If you have ever had a drawing object in your worksheet and wanted to flip it either horizontally or vertically and didn’t know how, this article is for you! Follow the steps below to learn how: Click on the object you would like to flip
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