Cell Margins and Cell Spacing are two important settings in any Microsoft Word Table but they aren’t used much and not well understood. Cell margins are the spaces between your text and the edge of the cell. They can be set separately for the top, bottom, and either side of the cells. To change the […]
Microsoft Word’s Styles Gallery can be fixed to show the styles you want, rearrange to the order you want, not the collection and order decided by Microsoft. It makes sense to have the styles you use most frequently in a prominent place in this panel, and Word allows you to both add styles to the gallery, and to […]
Add a bit of zing to your document, Word has a fun little feature that allows you to add color gradients or rainbow effects to your text, the background of a text box or inside an Office shape. The rainbow effect is a bit gaudy but demonstrates the possibilities of more subtle gradients. The rainbow […]
An IF statement might sound like a complicated thing that programmers do, but it’s actually fairly easy to do in Excel. An IF statement basically puts something into a cell depending on certain conditions – if A is true, put X in this cell. You can even use what’s called a nested IF statement if you have […]
Change Case options in Word, like many Word features goes beyond the obvious choices from the basic shortcut. There’s up to five choices on the ribbon with a keyboard shortcut to reach it. Alter the upper/lower case of words, phrases or more. ‘change case’ can become ‘Change Case’ or ‘CHANGE CASE’ or even “cHANGE cASE” […]
