Microsoft Office articles
I teach all my students to enable Show/Hide and always have your non-printing characters showing. Why? Well because then you can see what is going on in your document. If one line of text looks out of kilter you can immediately see if there is […]
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Microsoft introduced a new feature in Word 2007 named Alignment Tabs, which are reminiscent of WordPerfect’s Relative Tabs feature. Alignment tabs have been retained in Word 2010, so let’s take a quick look. Alignment tabs can be useful because they readjust automatically if you change
Microsoft’s Office for iPad Wildly Successful Microsoft’s Office for iPad has had more than 12 million downloads in the week since its release. Each of the apps —Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote — are free but require an Office 365 subscription to be able to
If you want to create your Bibliography in the easiest way possible, you’re in luck because Word 2010 makes it extremely easy! Were you aware that you could create a Bibliography in Word 2010? Well you can! You can also format in-text citations, insert footnotes
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New Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella, announced that Microsoft Office apps are now available for iPads. Word, Excel, OneNote and PowerPoint are available for free in the App Store. In order to create and edit documents, however, customers will need subscribe to Office 365. Eligible subscriptions
With all the hubbub surrounding XP’s impending day of doom, the fact that support for Microsoft Office 2003 ends on the exact same date seems to have been pushed well into the background. Yes folks, as of April 8th there will be no more security
A reader recently wrote to me concerning a problem he was having with his Table of Contents (TOC). He had a heading on two lines and wanted it to appear in his TOC on one line. Below is what he wanted to appear on one
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OneNote, Microsoft’s popular note-taking service that syncs across multiple platforms, is now available for free. OneNote has previously been included as a component of the rather expensive Microsoft Office suites but is now available free for everyone as a separate entity: OneNote now on Mac,
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Amazon Prime Price Going Up If you are an Amazon Prime subscriber, you received an email this week announcing that Amazon is raising the price of its popular service to $99. According to Amazon’s website, the price change is set to occur on April 17th.
I get a lot of questions about SmartArt. Everyone wants to know what it is and how do they use it. SmartArt is simply one of the graphics features that Microsoft really worked on in version 2007 and they have expanded it even further in
There are occasions when using Word that you have a very, very large document, with many chapters, sections and sub-sections with several levels of headings and subheadings. When this happens, such as a technical manual, you may want to help those reading the finished product
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You can protect cells in your Excel worksheet pretty easily, but protecting cells in an Microsoft Word Table – not so much, although it can be done. How? Well you insert a Text Form field control into each cell where you want your users to
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It is very easy to insert page numbers in earlier versions of Word. You simply open the header or footer and click the appropriate options on the Header and Footer toolbar. The Page Numbers option is also available from the Insert menu. It is still
