Don, from Roanoke VA asks:
I’ve got a problem with the MS Word 2010 application. Every time I open the program I get a security warning just below the ribbon stating that macros have been disabled (click enable content.) Could you explain this macro, and how do I make this action enabled by default. I can’t seem to find a solution under the file tab>options.
When you’re at the end of a bulleted or numbered list, what do you choose to do?
I mean we all know what happens… you enter the last item and hit the Enter key… and there’s yet another bullet or number.
Most people I’ve watched in this situation start up with the Backspace key and often end up hitting it one too many times… Continue reading
OK, so all of the MS Office 2007 & 2010 users have come to deal with the fact that the menu & toolbar system is gone and in its place we have the Ribbon.
It’s a rather large “gadget” and takes quite a bit of screen space.
Many have learned to live with it “as is” but others have learned to minimize it.… Continue reading
Daniel, from Florida asks:
I’m able to copy documents I’ve typed on Word into the body of an (AOL) e-mail but I can’t copy any text that was scanned into my computer. How do I copy scanned documents into the body of an e-mail? I’m not talking about an attachment.
Converting Images to Text
Today, everything seems to be about speed. There… Continue reading
When you’re trying to finalize the appearance of a document, do you find yourself hoping that everything is lined up correctly?
I mean, is that picture or shape really lined up with the text or some other object?
We do have the horizontal and vertical rulers to work with, but if you’re trying to align many different items, it can take a lot of… Continue reading
Many of us have a template or two that we use all the time.
Of course, the first thing we do upon opening the template is to make a few changes to the layout or text.
We make those changes again, and again, and again, and again…
Well, you get the idea…
With the endless work of changing… Continue reading
The other day, we discussed the AutoRecover feature of the 2007 & 2010 Office Suite of programs and the advantages of a backup system for unexpected and unstoppable closures of a program.
Well, for those of you with Word, Excel or PowerPoint 2010 I’d like to extend that discussion to a feature that I consider to be a bonus of AutoRecover… … Continue reading
The power goes out…
The program stops responding…
You entire system crashes…
Whatever the cause, you just had the program close unexpectedly and your work is gone… gone… gone…
Or maybe not.
If you’ve got the AutoRecover feature active, then you might be in for a pleasant surprise!
With the AutoRecover feature… Continue reading
We’ve all done it – we’ve begun typing up a list of items and then realized too late that we should have put it into a table…
Using a table to organize and present our information is often an easy way to accomplish our task.
At any rate, back to that already typed list of information… what do we do?
Retype… Continue reading
Do you use MS Word for labels?
Ever need to print different labels on the same sheet? (I know I do it all the time at work. I never seem to need 30 of the same thing and I rarely use them for addresses).
Have you figured out how to get Word to give you a blank sheet of labels to work with or are… Continue reading
When you use MS Word, do you find yourself updating the exact same information in many different files?
For example, maybe you have a weekly sales figure that is put into several different Word files each week.
Do you open all the files and change the information in each and every one? Even with a copy and paste process it still can take quite… Continue reading
Well here we are, several years into learning to work with the Themes that were introduced with Office 2007.
Personally, I really like them, but then again I tend to do a lot with shapes and SmartArt type diagrams with my students, to help them see the connections that they need to make.
At any rate, I use Themes or at least parts of… Continue reading
When working with a very long document, I often find myself scrolling back and forth between different locations of the document to reference, move or copy information from one place to another.
No doubt about it… it’s frustrating.
There’s nothing worse than going to page 25 to retrieve information, then scroll up to page 8 and forget what you just found, by the time… Continue reading
Do you struggle in a constant battle with Excel and your computer monitor?
Do you always feel like you can’t see enough at one time… whether the problem is a small monitor or a very large worksheet?
Either way, you want to see more without shrinking everything – the eyesight is bad enough – we certainly don’t need
Quick… in MS Word, what’s the difference between Ctrl + U and Ctrl + Shift + W?
Tick-Tock, Tick-Tock…
Give up?
The answer is one little word: spaces.
Let me explain.
I’m sure you all know that Ctrl + U will underline text, spaces and all
I can’t speak for everyone, but when I’m using pictures in my documents, e-mail messages, spreadsheets or presentations, I’m looking to make an impression.
While a picture in its own right can be a very powerful message, sometimes it would be nice to have that same picture presented in a different manner, maybe as a pencil sketch, a chalk sketch, an image seen through glass or even… Continue reading
Using the Cover Page feature of MS Word 2007 / 2010? (Insert tab of the Ribbon, Cover Page button.)
It’s pretty handy and sure makes life easy when you need one.
Have you ever tried to use a cover page in the middle of a document? Maybe you need one as a chapter or section title page?
When you tried to… Continue reading
We’ve all had our moments when we needed to know just how many words are in a document. Maybe it’s a paper, essay submission or whatever, but the why isn’t important… it’s the “how many” that counts.
If you find yourself in this particular situation, then here’s where you’ll find a lot of help – anything would beat trying to count by hand!
Do you work with long documents in MS Word?
Ever find yourself editing a large document, jumping from location to location, only to realize that you should have done just one more thing at the last editing spot?
How annoying is that? To have to go back through the document and find that exact position again.
Well, wait! What if we… Continue reading
Now I know we’ve all thought that just at the moment of no return when we’ve clicked the wrong icon and instead of starting Word we’ve started Excel… or instead of PowerPoint you’ve started Publisher.
We’ve all done it and it can be a royal pain – especially if your computer doesn’t start programs instantaneously.
So now you wait while the wrong program loads… Continue reading
Anne asks:
This afternoon I finished typing a letter and went to save it and Word would not let me! I have tried and tried; I changed the name a bunch of times and it just kept giving me a bunch of gibberish! It said something about the location and format not being valid; what does that mean? I can’t get it to save and it is
Previously we’ve discussed the ability possessed by MS Office to save files in PDF format and at some time you probably also noticed that the file format XPS seems to be lumped with the PDF choice.
Most of us are very familiar with PDF since so much that we see online is in that format. Forms such as tax forms from the state… Continue reading
If, for whatever reason, you’re using the MS Office 2007 or 2010 programs and always need to save files in a format different from the default then I’d bet that you’re tired of forgetting to make that change.
I don’t know about you, but I just enter a file name and hit the enter key… changing the file type is the last thing I think of.… Continue reading
When you’re going into the program options for the newest MS Office programs you might feel a bit overwhelmed.
There’s lots and lots going on in those dialog boxes… categories such as proofing, advanced, save, etc… and then within each of those there are sections of options such as editing, display, print… and if that were not enough there are options in there program specific.… Continue reading
We all know that the newest version of Microsoft Office programs has a lot of really cool features.
We also know that many of these features just don’t work with older file formats.
I can’t speak for you, but I have a lot of files that were created with Office 2002 and I’m not about to start over just to access the new cool… Continue reading
Did you know that you can convert .PDF documents to Word documents for free on the web?
If you have access to the Internet, rather than a program, I can recommend a website to you. This website is zamzar.com/. It’s entirely free and each time that you want to convert a PDF to Word, OpenOffice etc, you simply go on the site, upload the document, select… Continue reading
If you’ve ever looked at a hard copy of a document and wondered “Now where did I save this?” then you want to know this one.
One of the most sure-fire ways to ensure that you know how you saved the file is to include the path (file location) and file name in the header or footer of the document.
