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Repeating Last Action There is a key that is hardly used and yet is a highly efficient shortcut for speeding up tasks in Word and Excel when you need to repeat the same action, once, twice or many, many times! That key is the F4 […]
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Templates Templates in Word are a guide for how you would like your document to appear. One great use of templates is to store boilerplate documents (i.e., contracts, forms, legal pleadings, etc.). I use templates to create boilerplate documents all the time. Everyone knows that
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Sure Office 2016 has been around for a bit now, but trust me, there are still lots and lots of users who are still slogging through the settings that just are not to their liking. Those users will never be comfortable with the applications the
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Microsoft has been busy updating their various products on this February 13, 2018 “Patch Tuesday”. Given the horror show in January of this year, many tech-savvy people are recommending that you defer these updates until the unpaid beta-testers have finished grumbling about how these patches
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The latest iteration of Word is geared more toward folks using the Web. The default line spacing has been changed to 1.15 — a more casual look that works well if you are creating content for the Web. If you are not, however, and most
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Hyphenation is the process of adding hyphens to words at the beginning of lines so the hyphenated part will fit at the end of the previous line. Hyphens are inserted between syllables in a word. How To Hyphenate Selections Word offers you two types of
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Yes, I know a gazillion people who think it is just easier to keep hitting that Tab key all the way across their document so that blocks of text will line up for them. That’s all well and good if they like wasting time and
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Background Images In Outlook Do you have a background in Outlook? If so, is it monochromatic or very colorful? You are not locked into a white background in Outlook. You can use any image as a background for an e-mail you compose. I don’t know
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Vacation Auto-Reply Nowadays, taking your mail with you is so very easy! Apparently, what folks think is difficult, is leaving it behind! We all know that wherever you wander, taking all your e-mail with you is oh so easy, although perhaps leaving it home is
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How To Change Column Layout On the Page Layout tab of your Ribbon, Word provides a tool you can use to modify the number of columns in your document or in a text selection. Follow the steps below to learn how: In the Page Setup
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Find And Replace When you are working with longer presentations, it can be tedious trying to find and locate a specific word or phrase. The good news is PowerPoint can quickly and easily search your presentation using the Find feature and can just as easily
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Fonts are a necessary part of any computer system, but especially systems that use word processing programs (i.e., Microsoft Word). Very often, different systems have different fonts. There could be times when one may consider transferring fonts from one system to another. You should know
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Quick Print In Excel Should you need to quickly print the contents of a workbook without opening the workbook yourself manually, you can absolutely do this! Follow the steps below to learn how: Use the Explorer, My Computer or any Open dialog box to locate
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Microsoft Excel I saw an article recently regarding this topic. I had never really thought about doing this before, but it is nice to know that if I needed to, I could probably work it out. I thought it prudent to share this information with
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