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Welcome back!

I hope everyone enjoyed a terrific New Years.

With holidays over we'll be back to our regular newsletter schedule - so here we'll be every Tuesday and Thursday trying to make us all leaner, meaner, more efficient "MS Office Suite machines".

$8.97 Super Special!

We have a fantastic special for you! We have 5 of the best programs around for only $8.97ea. And yes, US shipping is free! We featured this in our other newsletters and it was a huge hit! So, we wanted to offer it to you too!

Check these out:

1. Print Shop Select 15 - This is an incredible buy. It's basically the current version of PrintShop, just not as much clipart! You can create banners, booklets, business cards, greeting cards, letterhead, photo albums, report covers, labels, postcards, and TONS more! Considering PrintShop retails for $59.95, this is a fantastic deal!

2. The 2003 Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia - Here's another fantastic deal! This includes over 78,000 articles, plus 15,500 images, 200+ videos, 150+ panoramas, 750+ sound clips, an atlas with 1,200 maps, and more. It even includes a built in dictionary and thesaurus! Incredible buy!

3. Family Tree Maker Generations - OK, you know you've been threatening to create a family tree for awhile now. For $8.97, how can you pass this one by? It's the latest and greatest version of the most popular Family Tree software on the market. It even includes tutorials to help get you started!

4. Calendar Creator 9 - Need a calendar for the new year? Well, why not make your own? This is the latest version of the best calendar creation software available. Add your own pictures, graphics, and text. Make calendars that show your important events (birthdays, anniversaries, etc) and pass them out to the family. No more forgetting grandma's birthday card!

5. Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 15 - Got a computer? Now think about this - wouldn't your computing experience be better if you were a better typist? Sure it would. This program is a fantastic way to get better at typing, and the faster the better. It's helped a couple friends of mine tremendously, and I know it can make your typing better too. Give this program a try, you'll be glad you did.

Again, all the programs above are only $8.97 each! That's a fraction of the $40-$60 they retail for. Note that quantities are limited on this offer, so you'll want to get to the site ASAP! Here's the link:

http://www.worldstart.com/store/897superspecial.htm

Oh, and if you buy 2 or more, you'll also get an additional 10% off between now and January 3rd 2003. Go now - you'll be glad you did :-)

MS Office 101

Cell Formatting Trick

Do you constantly find yourself going to the Format menu, Cells choice to make changes in MS Excel? (You know, for things like cell format, text direction, borders, fill color, etc…)

Looking for a faster way to access the Format Cells window?

Yes?

Good, then you're in the right place.

Next time skip the menu and highlight the cells you need to format. Form there, simply use the key combination of Ctrl + 1.

Poof! You're instantly taken to the window where you're free to format to your hearts content.

Office Tip of the Day

Table Headers

Here's the scenario, you've made a perfect table of information in MS Word and you're getting ready to print your document. As you're looking things over you realize that your table prints on several pages and your column titles are on the first page but not the others.

What do you do?

Do you make extra rows at the top of every page and manually put the titles on each page?

I suppose you could… but I wouldn't recommend it. It makes for some messy editing later on should you need to remove or add rows.

So, if that's not the answer then what is?

The solution you seek is in one word: Headings.

Headings?

Yep - headings.

Basically, what you need to do is to tell Word which row contains your column headings and then it will automatically put that row at the top of each new page in the table.

Since this is automatically done for you, it won't require manually moving the titles every time you add or delete data. It's a huge timesaver that makes the table so much easier to handle.

So, how do you get to these little timesaving wonders?

Well, believe it or not, you can have table headings in just two steps.

First you need to highlight your column headings.

The second, and final step, is to go to the Table menu, Headings choice.

That's it! You've now got your headings set for the entire table regardless of how many pages you may print.

Here's a couple of side notes about table headings.

I found that I could also highlight cells on the left side of the table and set those as headings as well.

I also found that you would only see the headings in the Print Preview screen or in the Page Layout view. (Go to View menu, Page Layout choice)

The headings will print anyway, you just may not see them if you choose to view the document in another format.

Now let's go out there and put those finishing touches on the tables. Really make them shine.

~ April