There is a tool in MS Excel that allows you to cycle through the font colors available to you, however, it is little known because it is not readily available to you. Follow the steps below to add the tool so that it is available […]
Endnotes are references that are placed at the end of a section or the end of your document in MS Word. Follow the steps below to learn how to insert Endnotes in your documents: Place your cursor where you would like your Endnote to appear
So now you know that you can create special AutoText entries to use in your documents. But wait, suppose you have a need to rename it at a later date? Well rest easy. There is a very easy method to accomplish this task. Follow the
You will want to customize the AutoText feature in Word in order to get the most benefit when working with words and phrases that you find yourself using over and over again. Fortunately, it is very easy to do this in versions 2007 and 2010.
Once you have created your AutoText entries, you may, at a later date, have a need to edit them. There is no special editing feature to accomplish this in MS Word unfortunately. The best method to edit an AutoText is described below. Follow these
When the information in your worksheet will not fit on a single page, Excel will break it up for you at row and column boundaries, and then it will print your data on multiple pages. You cannot control the order in which Excel will pring
There may be occasions where you want to send your document to your colleagues, but you don’t want them to edit your work. There are more than one way to make your document read only. The easiest way to accomplish this is to create your
Many folks insert pictures into their Word documents. If you are one of those people inserting JPG images, you should consider using the Picture option on the Insert tab of your Ribbon, rather than copying and pasting and I will tell you why. Word handles pictures differently when
I have have readers write to me in the past because when they print their document, they notice that the quotation marks are not printing properly even though they look fine on the screen. There could be a couple of causes of this behavior. To
Some folks are not aware that there are several kinds of underlines available in Excel that you can use within your cells. Follow the steps below to learn how: Display the Home tab of your Ribbon. In the Cells group, click the down-arrow under Format
Many offices employ the Track Changes feature in MS Word. It is a great feature when you are working on a “round trip” document. For instance, suppose you are negotiating a settlement of some sort or attempting to put together a contract. First, you create
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There is an interesting function in Excel worksheets. I know that you are most likely thinking – well most of them are pretty interesting, but this particular function is interesting in that it makes sure that your text is clean. What do I mean by
Yes, I wrote an article about adding borders to tables last week. This is he same article but with clarifications. One reader wrote to me who said that she “had a hard time following the items mentioned in this article.” Everyone learns in different ways
A client recently sent me a query, wanting to know if she could somehow omit the hyphenated words when performing a word count in her document. I am sure she is referencing compound words in her document (i.e., son-in-law, built-in). Actually there is no built-in way
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