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The other day, I was typing and went back and change a thing or two. I needed to put a space between a couple words and instead of moving the text to the right to accommodate the space, the text was overwritten! It did this no matter what letter I typed. I ended up having to re-type an entire paragraph because of it. After I rebooted, the problem
Page Border Printing Problems
By now I’m sure more than one of you have run into a problem with your page borders (from last Thursday’s tip) that is when you print the page it’s not a complete border.
No matter how thin you make the bottom line, it seems determined to be uncooperative!
In fact, I bet you’ve seen this lovely little message a few times
Custom Page Borders Demystified
So, if you worked through the tip from last Thursday (7-22-04) on Word’s Page Borders then you probably noticed the Custom Setting at the bottom of the list.
Some of you may be wondering “What’s that all about?” and I’d say that’s a very good question.
To put it simply, this is a setting that allows you to pick and choose between… Continue reading
Now You See It, Now You Don’t
Ever have a beautiful MS Excel worksheet, I mean absolutely perfect, except that one column. You know, the one column with the necessary data for your calculations but not really a part of the presentation. We’re talking about the essential column that you must keep, but don’t want displayed for a presentation or on the hard copy.
Often, Excel users have a lot… Continue reading
Quick Table Splits
You’re working in MS Word and you’ve got a beautiful table—it’s perfect!
Well… almost perfect.
Unfortunately, for whatever reason, you’ve just come to the conclusion that it really should be two different tables.
Now what?
Are you having copy / paste nightmares?
Or, worse yet, you’re picturing a situation where you’ve got to create a whole new table and re-enter all that data!
Well worry no more.… Continue reading
Hide / Unhide Excel Key Combinations
In keeping with last Thursday’s theme (July 29, 2004) involving the hiding of rows and columns in MS Excel, I thought we might take a look at how to accomplish this task with some handy key combinations.
Hiding columns or rows is a good way to make necessary data “invisible”. This allows you to organize your worksheet the way you want… Continue reading
MS Excel Formatting Without The Mouse
I thought today might be a good time for an installment of keyboard shortcuts…
In MS Excel:
Outlook Startup Choices
Here’s a tip that comes to you courtesy of a reader’s question. She was looking for a way to force Outlook to open straight to the Inbox.
Sounds like a very relevant and legitimate concern.
I don’t know about you, but when I start up Outlook I’m looking for my email. Don’t get me wrong, there’s lots of other great stuff in Outlook, but 99.9% of the… Continue reading
One-Click Cell Addresses
Did you know that there’s a faster way to enter cell references in Excel formulae… a way that doesn’t involve typing cell addresses?
Interested? (Yeah, I thought you might be.)
Here’s the scoop…
Next time you’re entering a formula and you get to a cell reference (like A5 for example), instead of typing A5 use your mouse and click on A5.
Some of you are already thinking… Continue reading
Formatted Text in AutoCorrect
I’m sure we’re all aware of MS Word’s AutoCorrect feature—that little gem secretly working in the background replacing many of our common typos with the correct spelling.
And, for you more advanced users, I’m sure you’ve already modified the list to be used as an automatic replacement tool for complex or long text strings.
My question is: do you find that you’re constantly going back to… Continue reading
