Sometimes you inherit a document from someone else and it is necessary to remove text boxes that have been placed in it. If there is just one, that is a snap to remove. But suppose your document is very large, like a work manual and […]
A client wrote to me recently with this problem: She had a worksheet with about six thousand rows (yes, those do exist!). At the very top of her worksheet there is a graph based on her data with the data starting at row 50. The
The new settings in Office 2013 take you to the File | Save As menu when you click the Save button. This occurs in most Office 2013 applications – the Save and Save As buttons are exactly the same when you are working with a
I work on a lot of legal documents for clients and I love using this tip when I do. But, you can use this tip regardless of what kind of documents you work on. Legal Assistants and Paralegals always complain to me that they create
Whether you use version 2003, 2007, 2010, or 2013, if you use Word as your e-mail editor, it is very easy to change signatures on your Outlook messages. And if you have more than one e-mail account, you can create a signature for each account
You all know the Formula Bar resides at the top of your Excel window, immediately below the Ribbon area or the Formatting toolbar depending on which version of Excel you own the license to. There are two parts of the Formula Bar: On the left-hand
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There is a tool in Excel that allows you to very quickly and easily change the color of a selected cell. That would be the Fill color tool, which can be found on the Formatting toolbar or the Home tab of your Ribbon and has
All Word documents contain styles, even without you manually applying one to a paragraph. When you open a new blank document it is based on the Normal style. Microsoft Word will show you which style you are using in each paragraph in your document. I
Some folks think you need another program entirely, such as Visio, to create an organization chart. Not so! There is a much easier way to create an organization chart and you can do it right within Word! It was not always as easy a task
If you are not keen on Excel but you need some basic calculations, you can use Word to do the work for you. This is certainly not something that will do complicated Math for you and will surely not ever take the place of Excel,
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There is so much available to us in this latest version of Word! Trust me, nobody knows ALL of it, least of all me! So imagine my surprise when I ran across an article regarding Stylistic Sets and Ligatures! I found myself puzzled and wondering
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The ability to record and run macros has been a wonderful feature in Word and continues to be in the latest versions of Word. Macros are recorded commands and keystrokes that allow us to save great amounts of time instead of doing the same thing
There is a fine line between making your Word tables boring and eye catching. You do not want to make your table so busy that it loses its purpose, but you do want to draw the reader’s eye to it! One way to do this
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Using Styles in Word allows you to apply formatting that you have defined to blocks of text in your documents. Most of the folks I train are terrified of Styles in Word. Having said that, once I show them what a time saver they are,
