Microsoft has a number of free programs that you can use to view (but not change) Microsoft Office documents. USING THE FREE OFFICE VIEWERS Microsoft has a number of free programs that you can use to view (but not change) Microsoft Office documents. In this issue we’ll show you why
In this article, we look at section breaks with a particular emphasis on page numbering. SECTION BREAKS AND PAGE NUMBERING By Michael Barden In a recent Office for Mere Mortals newsletter, we covered the basics of creating and manipulating headers and footers in a Word document. Last week we looked
In this article we’ll explain what section breaks in Word are, how they work and some nifty purposes that you can put them to. SECTIONS BREAKS IN WORD You may have noticed the Insert | Break option in Microsoft Word and wondered what it was for, or worse, tried to
A watermark is any text or graphic that appears either on top of or behind existing document text when the document is printed. WHAT IS A WATERMARK? By Michael Barden A watermark is any text or graphic that appears either on top of or behind existing document text when the
A header or footer is the text that is printed at the top or bottom of every page in a document. HEADERS AND FOOTERS A header or footer is the text that is printed at the top or bottom of every page in a document. As you can probably guess,
The tables function in Word is very handy and not just for producing obvious grids of information. TRICKS WITH WORD TABLES The tables function in Word is very handy and not just for producing obvious grids of information. The same feature has some tricky uses as we’ll describe in this
Powerpoint has had the ability to make elements of a slide or the slide itself move for a long time. Today we’ll focus on animating text but similar commands apply to images, charts or other slide elements.
Microsoft Office has some features that can help when stuck for a word. The Thesaurus; lexicon, vocabulary, glossary, phrase book or word list. INSIDE WORD’S THESAURUS Microsoft Office has some features that can help when stuck for a word. The Thesaurus; lexicon, vocabulary, glossary, phrase book or word list. The
How to setup Outlook to operate for different people on the one machine. OUTLOOK WITH SPLIT PERSONALITIES A mention in a recent issue of our Email Essentials newsletter prompted some questions about how to setup Outlook to operate for different people on the one machine. Starting in this issue we’ll
Notes is a small but useful feature in Microsoft Outlook that can help you to organize all of your electronic notes and clippings. NOTES IN OUTLOOK AND MORE You will often come across information that you want to save for a future reference but don’t have any logical place to
In this article we look at the AutoText, AutoFormat, and SmartTags tabs in the AutoCorrect Options dialog box. MAKING AUTOCORRECT DO THE WORK FOR YOU – PART 2 By Kara Monroe In the last edition of Office for Mere Mortals we looked at the first two tabs of the AutoCorrect
If you learn how to use the AutoCorrect features, you’ll find yourself working faster and more effectively with Microsoft Office. MAKING AUTOCORRECT DO THE WORK FOR YOU By Kara Monroe Many people find the feature of Word that pops up pseudo tool tips when you are typing common words, such
In this issue we’ll discuss smarter ways to use the replace function plus a more advanced method to insert dynamic text. DYNAMIC TEXT IN WEB PAGES – PART 2 In the last issue of Office for Mere Mortals we talked about the idea of updating a web site using dynamic
Quite often you’ll want to make a web site with Frontpage that has text that changes occasionally. In this issue we’ll cover the basics and the in-built Frontpage method. PUTTING CHANGING TEXT IN WEB PAGES Quite often you’ll want to make a web site with Frontpage that has text that
In this issue we’ll look at Excel’s ability to automatically fill your cells with automatic and pre-defined lists to save you typing. AUTOFILL AND CUSTOM LISTS IN EXCEL In this issue we’ll look at Excel’s ability to automatically fill your cells with automatic and pre-defined lists to save you typing.
We continue our look at the “Replace” function in Office by examining more advanced replacing techniques. By Michael Barden In the last issue of Office for Mere Mortals we looked at how to search within a document in the various Office programs. There is a lot of hidden power accompanying the
We look at the basics of replacing text, followed by more specifics such as replacing formatting and special characters such as paragraph marks. By Michael Barden In the last issues of Office for Mere Mortals (part 1 and part 2) we looked at how to search within a document in the
Microsoft Outlook has provided the capability to work with multiple calendars in a single installation of Outlook since at least Outlook 97. However, in Outlook 2003, new functionality was added that makes this feature far more practical and easy to use. By Kara Monroe Microsoft Outlook has provided the capability
In the second part of her “Sorting paragraphs using Word” article, Kara Monroe looks at delimiters and sorting options. SORTING PARAGRAPHS AND MORE USING MICROSOFT WORD By Kara Monroe You are probably aware that Microsoft Excel can be used to put all of your data in order, but Microsoft Word
You are probably aware that Microsoft Excel can be used to put all of your data in order, but Microsoft Word has some pretty powerful sorting capabilities of its own, as long as you know how to enter the information into Word in a format that it can understand. SORTING
Ever wondered how web sites put the same headings, sidebars and footer on each web page? For many versions, Frontpage has had a way to do that called ‘Shared Borders’.
Whether you get 5 emails a day or 500 – everyone feels that they get a lot of email. And the more email that we get, the more important it becomes to organize the email. ORGANIZE YOUR EMAIL Whether you get 5 emails a day or 500 – everyone feels
An introduction to XML as a primer for understanding the new Office document formats. THE BIG DEAL ABOUT OFFICEML All the ’tissues’ have been full of the news that the next Office release (known for the moment as Office 12) will have a new and improved document format – known
Office 12 will have a new and improved document format – known as OfficeML. All the ’tissues’ have been full of the news that the next Office release (known for the moment as Office 12) will have a new and improved document format – known as OfficeML. What is this