Microsoft Office articles
If you are not keen on Excel but you need some basic calculations, you can use Word to do the work for you. This is certainly not something that will do complicated Math for you and will surely not ever take the place of Excel, […]
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There is so much available to us in this latest version of Word! Trust me, nobody knows ALL of it, least of all me! So imagine my surprise when I ran across an article regarding Stylistic Sets and Ligatures! I found myself puzzled and wondering
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The ability to record and run macros has been a wonderful feature in 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 thing
There is a fine line between making your Word tables boring and eye catching. You do not want to make your table so busy that it loses its purpose, but you do want to draw the reader’s eye to it! One way to do this
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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,
You may already know how easy it is to copy and paste an URL (Uniform Resource Locator) into Word documents. The link appears in blue (the default) and can be activated using the key combination shortcut Ctrl + Enter. But did you know that you
Styles make your life so much easier because you create a document once and then you always have it at your fingertips, formatted exactly to your standards for any particular use. Styles are like creating an exemplar for how you want your document to be
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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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