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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Once you have created a table in your document, you may want to spiff it up a bit by changing the borders. Luckily it is not all that difficult to do in Word and there are several methods you can use to accomplish this: Select
You may not be aware of it it, but Word contains a table editor that allows you to create complex tables in your documents. There is a great feature of the table editor that allows you to merge adjacent cells, so that it looks like
A lot of folks really do not care about what happens behind the lines when they use bookmarks in their documents, but I am of the opinion that the more you know about something, the better able you are to understand it and as a result, more
I have Windows 7 and I had not seen anything about this and didn’t know it existed, but now that I know about it I thought I would share it because I think it is such a helpful feature! So many times, I receive e-mails from
Once your presentation is finished and you are taking questions from your audience, wouldn’t it be nice to have a preview slide showing to refresh their memory?I personally think it is a great idea! PowerPoint animated shapes are a great way to display a lot
The ability to record and run macros has been a wonderful feature in MS 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
