Microsoft Office articles
Many offices employ the Track Changes feature in MS Word. It is a great feature when you are working on a “round trip” document. For instance, suppose you are negotiating a settlement of some sort or attempting to put together a contract. First, you create […]
Hide Formatting Changes When Tracking Changes in Word Read More »
There is an interesting function in Excel worksheets. I know that you are most likely thinking – well most of them are pretty interesting, but this particular function is interesting in that it makes sure that your text is clean. What do I mean by
Clean Your Text in Excel Read More »
Yes, I wrote an article about adding borders to tables last week. This is he same article but with clarifications. One reader wrote to me who said that she “had a hard time following the items mentioned in this article.” Everyone learns in different ways
Adding Borders to your MS Word Tables Read More »
A client recently sent me a query, wanting to know if she could somehow omit the hyphenated words when performing a word count in her document. I am sure she is referencing compound words in her document (i.e., son-in-law, built-in). Actually there is no built-in way
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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 use to accomplish this: Select
Apply Borders to your MS Word Tables Read More »
You may not be aware of it it, but Word contains a table editor that allows you to create complex tables in your documents. There is a great feature of the table editor that allows you to merge adjacent cells, so that it looks like
Merging Table Cells in MS Word Read More »
A lot of folks really do not care about what happens behind the lines when they use bookmarks in their documents, but I am of the opinion that the more you know about something, the better able you are to understand it and as a result, more
The Power of Bookmarks in MS Word Read More »
While a core group at Redmond have been working tirelessly on Windows 8 another group has been hard at work on Microsoft’s next Office version, Office 2013. Today the customer preview was released to the general public and you can test it out by visiting
Microsoft Office 2013 Customer Preview available for download Read More »
Once your presentation is finished and you are taking questions from your audience, wouldn’t it be nice to have a preview slide showing to refresh their memory?I personally think it is a great idea! PowerPoint animated shapes are a great way to display a lot
Create a Preview Slide in MS PowerPoint Read More »
The ability to record and run macros has been a wonderful feature in MS 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
Creating & Running Macros in Word 2007 – 2010 Read More »
You all know I love working efficiently and saving time and working from your list of recently used Docuemtns in Word is a great way to do just that. Say you were working on a document yesterday and at the end of the day you
Working with Recent and Pinned Documents in MS Word Read More »
How many times do you send an e-mail requesting that a colleague take care of something and a week or so later you remember and ponder… Did they reply? Did I forget to follow up? Now where is that e-mail? Don’t beat yourself up! It’s
Keep Track of Those E-Mails in Outlook! Read More »
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,
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A reader recently wrote to me asking where he could the Table Tools tab in MS Word 2010. Apparently I had referenced the Table Tools tab in an article and he could not find it. My response: It is there although not readily intuitive for
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