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 […]
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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You all know I love working efficiently and saving time and working from your list of recently used Docuemtns in Word is a great way to do just that. Say you were working on a document yesterday and at the end of the day you
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How many times do you send an e-mail requesting that a colleague take care of something and a week or so later you remember and ponder… Did they reply? Did I forget to follow up? Now where is that e-mail? Don’t beat yourself up! It’s
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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,
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A reader recently wrote to me asking where he could the Table Tools tab in MS Word 2010. Apparently I had referenced the Table Tools tab in an article and he could not find it. My response: It is there although not readily intuitive for
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Most of my clients are a bit shy about using fields, mainly because they do not know how and so they are skittish about it. But they also do not know the power of fields in Word. Otherwise, they would be using them more often.
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There are many uses for fields in MS Word. You can, for example, use SEQ codes to create automatic numbering which can be extremely helpful in the business world and in academia. Then there are the Fill-In fields, which you can use in a template.
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There are occasions when you may have a document that is full of hidden text and now you need to make that hidden text visible. The quick answer is use the Find and Replace feature in MS Word. Follow the steps below to learn how.
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A client recently e-mailed me inquiring about filtering in his Excel worksheet. It seems he had a list of data in column A and one in Column B. He had created a conditional format such that any data that was in column A and also
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