Let’s take a quick minute to expand on last Tuesday’s (11-2-04) “Save All” tip.
Last week we discussed that when you hold the Shift key down and go to the File menu you get a new command on the menu, “Save All”.
Take a look at the command just above Save All…
See it?
Close All works pretty much like you’d expect. It will close all open… Continue reading
Office Tip of the Day
Three Key Range Highlighting in MS Excel
Have you ever found yourself playing the highlighting game in MS Excel? You know, where you’re trying to highlight with the mouse and find the file flying by creating incredibly huge highlighted areas?
Many of you may know lots of keyboard tricks for highlighting using the Shift key combined with the arrows, Page Up, Page Down, Home and… Continue reading
The Mouse-less Right Click
There are many people who are new to the right click menus that my tips are always referring to.
These right clicks are great for everyone who’s comfortable with the mouse. And many people aren’t even remotely interested in trying to remember all the key combinations necessary to replace all the stuff the that right click can do.
But what about the rest of you? The… Continue reading
Have you ever needed a symbol or some other special character like the degree symbol, the small square checkbox, the copyright symbol, etc.? Well, they’re tucked away in a folder that, once you know where to look, is easy to get to and use.
Here’s How:
Hold the Windows key and hit the R key (Win+R). In the Run box that pops up, type charmap
This will work in all… Continue reading
Q:
I have old disks laying around with important stuff on them but the software that created them is no longer around. Am I out of luck?
A:
In many cases, the info on the disk(s) seems like it’s inaccessible with newer machines. Maybe the software that created it is no longer in existence, or it’s just an odd ball format.… Continue reading
Q:
Help! I created a document in MS Word, but now Word doesn’t “see” it anymore. I can go to My Documents folder and it’s there, but when I try to open it in Word, I can’t seem to find it – or any other word document for that matter. What’s going on?
A:
My guess? It’s a filter problem.
No, not… Continue reading
