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
Microsoft Excel is the most popular spreadsheet program used worldwide but there are some features within Excel which tend to be overlooked even by “power-users”. People who swear by macros, pivot tables, V-Lookups and H-Lookups are unaware of the existence of Spreadsheet Solutions within Microsoft Excel and how to make use of it.
Microsoft Excel provides pre-defined solution templates for:
– Loan Amortization
– Personal… Continue reading
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
MS Outlook 2010: Where Did the Search Options Go?
So, if you’ve used the search box in Outlook 2007 to locate messages then you probably used the down chevron to open up a more detailed set of options for your search. Click here to view a tip on using the search feature from Outlook 2007.
If you’ve switched to Outlook… Continue reading
Have you tried the Delete key when using OpenOffice Calc?
What happened?
Well, that depends upon where you were…
As in, were you in a cell or the formula bar editing content or did you have an entire cell(s) selected?
If you’ve got your cursor in the cell data (or the formula bar) editing the information then the… 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
Sometimes it’s helpful, or even necessary, to know what number a particular week is in a year.
There are occasions where it’s helpful for reporting information, appointments, etc. Heck, I even find it helpful for keeping track of pay periods. Instead of counting Fridays on a calendar I simply need to know if I’m paid on odd or even week numbers (being paid bi-weekly). Trust me, the… Continue reading
Here at Worldstart, we’ve discussed autoformatting in MS Word, but did you know that it can also be done in OpenOffice Calc? Using the Autoformat feature, you can quickly enhance otherwise plain looking spreadsheets.
You start by selecting a group of cells.
Once you’ve selected the cells, go to the Format menu and choose Autoformat.
We’ve all seen and used the standard PowerPoint handouts.
Without a doubt they’re often helpful for the audience but let’s face it, there are times when you want to give your audience a bit more in a handout without actually adding that information to the slide.
Given that situation, you’ve got to wonder if there’s a… Continue reading
Often in Excel we’re looking to create headers and footers with data information in them. Things like page numbers, file names, dates, times, etc…
Anyway, while we’re creating our headers and footers there’s always some place where we can choose to insert this stuff, but wouldn’t it be faster if we just knew a couple of characters to do the same job?
Yeah -… Continue reading
We all know that you can change the font type and size if you don’t mind leaving the body of your document to go to a toolbar or menu… but you’ve got to wonder at times if there are other options.
And, while I’m sure there are many different ways to make these formatting changes today I’d like to talk about what you can do with a… Continue reading
On Monday we took a look at the new Text Effects button in Word 2010. It’s awesome and it definitely can make it easy to get that WordArt look with any text super quickly.
But what are we going to find when we actually do go to the Insert tab on the Ribbon and click the WordArt button?
It’s a good question so I… Continue reading
When we work in spreadsheets we end up using text as well as numbers. I know that we like spreadsheets for their easy organization and ability to do calculations but let’s face it… you’ve got to label the data. A spreadsheet filled with unlabeled numbers is pretty useless.
With that in mind, I’d like to talk about what we can do when our text is too long… Continue reading
I happened to be working in Word 2010 the other day and happened upon a new button in the Font group of the Home tab in the Ribbon.
It’s called the Text Effects button and when you use it you open a palette of choices like this:
If you take a look you should… Continue reading
Learn about how to manipulate MS Office AutoShapes using one simple control. Continue reading
I see this all the time at school – students are forever giving me tables set up in spreadsheets where the table title is either left justified over the table columns or placed haphazardly “sort-of” in the center of the table. They just love to try to center titles by using a bunch of spaces or by putting the title in a cell that’s as close as they could get… 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.
Have you tried to put page numbers in your Writer documents yet?
Did you find it?
If not then I’d bet that you’d like to know where OpenOffice has placed them so let’s take a look at that today.
First, we usually want our page numbers in either a header or footer… so you can insert those through the Insert menu.
Now, with your cursor in the header or footer… Continue reading
Have you ever put together a PowerPoint presentation where it seems that the slides have way too much unused space on the left and right sides?
I know that when I put together presentations for teaching my students tax forms the slides begin to look like this:
In order to have the whole form from top to bottom… Continue reading
As I’m sure most of you know, when working in MS Excel, Ctrl + Home will take you to the upper left corner of your worksheet (cell A1).
Do you know where Ctrl + End will land you?
Let’s all hope it’s not in the bottom most corner of a worksheet! Have you ever scrolled out right or down to find out just how big Excel makes its worksheets?
Well… Continue reading
Those of you who have experience with Microsoft Office should recognize the term “WordArt”.
It was that handy little feature that allowed you to take any text and really turn it into a piece of art.
If you’re now switching to OpenOffice then you may have wondered a time or two if there is an equivalent feature available.
Of course there is… you just have to know what it’s called:… Continue reading
