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Hello, April here. I just wanted to welcome you to the first edition of the MS Office Tips & Tricks Newsletter.

Tips & Tricks will be published twice weekly (Tuesdays & Thursdays) and packed with ideas to help you work more effectively and efficiently with MS Office Suite.

Each edition will contain an Office 101 Tip for beginners plus an Office Tip of the Day.

Well that's enough of the intro…let's get on with the show.

MS Office 101

Did you ever sit down to work in MS Word at a computer that wasn't yours? Or how about a system that just had a new version of Word installed? It just doesn't feel like things are "right", does it? You're used to seeing the electronic version of the page a particular way and you certainly aren't seeing things that way now.

The first thing I do is to make a few quick adjustments to the view settings so that I see things the way I'm used to them. My friends like to say that I'm "nesting" again, you know, moving in and making it my own. Well, with a quick adjustment you can feel at home again in no time.

There's a good chance that one simple change in the view menu will solve all (or most) of your problems.

Simply go to the View Menu and select a layout from the list at the top of the menu.

You may have to try a couple of the choices to find the one that suites you, but it's a quick and easy way to make you feel at home again. Most of the people I've worked with tend to like either the Normal or the Page Layout view. (Who knows, you may even find one that you like better!)

Office Tip of the Day

Custom Buttons

Here's a Tip that can help you be at home in almost any MS Office application.

Have you ever tried to work in an Office application that seems to be missing the buttons you would regularly use? How about when you're working with someone else and it seems that they have a few more "cool toys" on the screen than you do?

Chances are the "toys" are simply extra toolbars the user has chosen to be a regular part of the application.

A toolbar is a collection of buttons that share a common theme. There are often several different toolbars already set up in the application and you simply have to tell the program which ones you'd like to display.

To find the available toolbars go to the View menu and then slide down to the toolbars selection. A sub menu should pop up to show you what's available in pre-fab toolbars.

Toolbars currently displayed on the screen will have a checkmark beside the name. The remaining names are for toolbars that can easily be displayed by clicking on the name in the list.

Experiment with the different buttons on the toolbars to find shortcuts to the things you use the most. Displaying the right toolbars can save you a lot of the time you previously spent surfing the menus.