Microsoft Office articles
The Format Painter is a very handy tool that I use every day, mostly in Word, but it is available in Publisher, Excel, and PowerPoint. Remember: it is used to copy formatting. This works great with text headers and paragraphs, but it doesn’t work for […]
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 choose from to accomplish this,
When you click that key combination it no longer opens up the Find & Replace dialog box. What happens since version 2010, is that a pane will appear on the left-hand side of your screen that will allow you to search. Personally, I feel as
We should all know about AutoText entries by now right? Ever want to have a shortcut key to enter a sentence or phrase in your document? Well AutoText sort of has a built in shortcut key. Once you have created your entry, you can key
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I received an e-mail recently asking me how to search a document for a specific field. As it turns out, it isn’t all that difficult to do! Follow the steps below to learn how: Be certain the field codes are visible in your document. If
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The latest batch of security updates for Microsoft Office, released just last week, has apparently been causing widespread problems. If you’ve been receiving repeated requests to install the same updates over and over, then you are definitely not alone. The issue is restricted to Office
Latest MS Office updates cause issues – patches to patches released Read More »
As you know from previous posts, fields are used frequently in MS Word documents. Often, fields in your document are updated automatically when you make edits to your document or print it. There can be instances though, when you may not want a field to
Fields are one of the most useful features of MS Word! I think that most of you know that you can use fields to insert anything in your document ranging from a date to the time, to summary information in a document! There are times
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I have a client who wrote to me asking if it was possible to include unique serial numbers in his document. More than that, he wanted the numbers to be specific and not in order. I advised my client that the quickest and easiest method
While working on a spreadsheet the other day I had difficulty getting zeros to show in a column of zip codes even though the numbers were formatted as zip codes. I’d never had this problem before, but it was somebody else’s worksheet. There are several
Kind of a slow week techwise… Yahoo Bests Google Chalk one up for Yahoo. comScore announced this week that, for the first time since May of 2011, Yahoo! had more of its sites visited in the U.S. than Google. Yahoo had 196.6 million visitors to
These days, if you take pictures, chances are you’ll post them somewhere like Facebook, your website, or even in an email. If you do, you should edit your images; especially their size. The problem is, many people don’t know how to use or can’t afford
Sometimes you have a need for a slashed zero in your document. I am sure you have see seen them before. They are very often used in technical or academic documents. They are used mainly to show the difference between zero and the capital
I use Excel spreadsheets as my data files in most mail merges with Word because the process is easy and seems to work seamlessly, but I’ve worked mostly with textual data. The first time I worked with currency values, I had problems getting the dollar
Getting Excel’s Currency Symbol to Show in Mail Merges Read More »
