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Hello everyone.

Here are a few words of wisdom regarding last week's tip about the spell checker…

"Bee car full, a spell checker wile knot fined awl yore miss takes."

~ April

Got Clipart?

Hey! You can never have enough clipart!

What an incredible deal! We have a special on ClickArt 250,000 Premier Image Pack! This includes:

- 210,000 images / graphics

- 50,000 photos / fine art

- 1000 fonts

- And tons more.

These images all come in standard formats that work with just about any graphics, print, or word processing program out there.

Not only does it include graphics, but also has a fantastic search engine that makes finding the perfect piece of clipart a snap. Just choose the type of clipart you're looking for (graphic, photo, etc), enter your keywords, and click "find" to see your results! It even remembers your searches!

In addition, it has a super-handy little image editor / creator. Just import a graphic and modify it so it's exactly what you want. Even create your own graphics! I use stuff like this all the time for quick touch ups.

If you don't have a graphics program don't worry! This comes with PrintMaster Express. It's not the full version of PrintMaster, but it's still powerful enough for you to make just about anything you can think up!

If you're like me, you know you can never have enough clipart. I have been personally been using ClickArt software for years and have always been very pleased with it. Frankly, I don't know how I'd do print projects without it. It's on my list of must have software, that's for sure.

As for the price, it has a retail of $39.95, but your cost for this title is only $18.97! Of course, US Shipping is FREE and you can return it if you don't love it! We checked Amazon.com and they have the exact same title "discounted" at $28.99. Then we checked at CDW and they wanted $31.17 plus shipping! Our price is a heck of a deal, so be sure to get to the site today.

http://www.worldstart.com/store/clickart-250.htm

PS - We purchased these due to an overstock situation. Once they're are gone, the price will have to increase, so be sure to get to the site today! Besides, $18.97 is a heck of a deal for a quarter million images!

MS Office 101

For all my keyboard enthusiasts I thought I'd include a short list of key combinations that are for MS PowerPoint.

Editing Shortcuts (In addition to the regular shortcuts for copy, paste, bold, Italics, etc...):

• Ctrl + Shift + D will make a duplicate of the current slide.
• Ctrl + M will insert a new slide, allowing you to select the slide layout.
• Ctrl + K will open the window to insert a hyperlink.
• Page Up will move you back one slide.
• Page Down will move you forward one slide.

Shortcuts While Running Your Slideshow:

• Enter, Shift or N will advance your slideshow one slide.
• Backspace or P will go back one slide in your slideshow.
• Esc will end your slideshow.
• B will display a black screen. (B again will return from the black screen.)
• W will display a white screen. (W again will return from the white screen.)
• A number then Enter will go to that slide number.

Well that's quite a few—enough to learn for now.

(But—if you're just dying to know more this very minute simply run a slideshow and press the F1 key. An entire list of keyboard shortcuts will pop up for your use.)

Office Tip of the Day

Jazz Up Your Tables In MS Word

How would you like, with only a couple of clicks, to change this ordinary MS Word table

into this…

or maybe this…

or any of over 3 dozen styles?

Sound too good to be true?

Well, maybe it does, but let me assure you it is 100%, absolutely true!

Want to know how?

Yeah—of course you do. After all, if the program will put the finishing touches on the table for us then we'd be crazy to waste our time doing it manually. Wouldn't we?

So here's the scoop!

The first thing you need to do is to draw your table.

(For information on drawing MS Word tables see the MS Office Tips & Tricks archives located at http://www.worldstart.com/archives/index.htm. Check out the May 2, May 7 and May 9, 2002 issues.)

At any rate, once you have the table drawn you're ready to go.

Next, put the cursor in the table - anywhere.

Now you're looking for Table AutoFormat. This can be found several ways.

One way is the Table menu, Table AutoFormat choice. (Alt, A then F will also do that trick without the mouse.)

Another way is to right-click and then choose Table AutoFormat from the pop up menu. (If you're using Word 97 you only have to have the cursor placed in the table for this to work. Newer versions require you to highlight the entire table and then right-click.)

Once you've made the selection the Table AutoFormat window will open.

This window gives you a choice of styles down the top left side and a preview to the right of the list.

Scroll through the list - there are a lot of choices.

Find the one that you like best and leave it selected.

Now we need to turn our attention to the choices in the bottom of the Table AutoFormat window.

The middle section of the screen allows you to customize the formatting changes made to your table. Borders, shading, font, color and AutoFit are your choices. Deselecting an option will remove that change from the style you picked from the list.

(Just one quick note here about the AutoFit choice. If you do not deselect this option your columns will be adjusted down to "just" fit the largest item in the column. If you have narrow data it tends to "shrink" the entire table quite a bit. I find that I uncheck this box constantly because I do not want the dimensions of my table changed.)

Notice the preview section - it changes as you select or deselect options giving you a clear picture of what your table will look like when you're done.

The bottom section allows you to choose where the special formats will be applied. Again, check the preview pane as you choose options to get exactly the effect you want.

When you've made all your decision click Ok.

Voila!

Your table has been transformed into a beautiful masterpiece with just a few clicks!

If only redecorating the house worked this way…

~ April