Microsoft Office articles
Below is a list of file extensions automatically blocked by Outlook. Why are they blocked? Well attachments with the file extensions listed below are known to potentially contain a virus. Now, not every attachment sent to you with or without one of the extensions on […]
Did you know that you can add diagonal borders to the cells in your Excel worksheet? Well you can! You can put border on the right, left, top, and bottom of your cells. If you select a range of cells, you can even add those
Did you know Word has a formatting option that will allow you to show text as uppercase when it isn’t? Well it surely does! You can apply the all caps formatting very easily. Follow the steps below to learn how: Click Ctrl + D to
I currently have four email clients installed, why? Well, each has its own merits. Thunderbird – because I love to customize and Tbird has lots of add-ons, extensions and themes Postbox – because its slim and eager to go and I got the license for
As you know, you can use the Find and Replace tool in MS Word to look for and find just about anything in your documents. But why do it the long way??? Besides, that pesky dialog box very often gets in the way! Anyone who
I cannot tell you how many times I have received a document from a client who cannot correct the problems that he/she has encountered in it. For this reason, I instruct all my students to have the Show/Hide feature enabled in MS word. I would
In academia and the legal arena, there is a frequent need for special characters in documents. The two most frequently used special characters which are used in these particular areas are the Pilcrow (paragraph symbol) and the section symbol. The pilcrow looks like a backwards
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You should know that if you are using the pattern-matching capability in MS Word, you cannot search from some special characters as you normally do when searching. In the normal search you indicate the start of a special character by using the caret (^) followed
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Okay, so it’s not exactly a rental system, but Microsoft’s new pay-as-you-go subscription plans for its latest Office iteration are certainly close. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has labeled the sales approach “an entirely new way to think about the productivity experience“, and predicted that the
It doesn’t matter which operating system I have loaded… … I love to use custom icons, and there is no shortage of them available for download… so why not? If you also like to step outside the box and make Windows your own, this is
A lot of folks are not aware of the pattern matching capabilities of the Find and Replace feature in MS Word. You can, for instance, specify that you only want to match at the beginning or end of a word by using the < and
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There are two ways to work with dates in Excel, the hard way where you do all the work or the easy way where Excel does all the work for you. If you work with monthly sheets e.g. Jan, Feb, etc. then this tutorial may
I don’t know about you, but I have on more than one occasion had a footnote so long that it did not fit in the footnote space on my page. If this has happened to you as well, you noticed then that MS Word will
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