Where is the Select All command and why you don’t need to find it. “As software changes so do the tool bars. A simple change for the location of the “select all” button is frustrating’ – Anthony C. We assume Anthony is asking about the ribbon in Office 2007 and
Some anti-spam settings to avoid in Outlook We spend a lot of time writing about Outlook settings and how to use them. It occurred to us that there are settings we don’t talk about because they are NOT good and best avoided. In the past we looked at Navigation Buttons.
Outlook 2010 has several options for reading a message without opening it but it could be better. Down on the bottom right corner of Outlook 2010 are some controls for reading messages in the reading pane. The Reading Pane is the newer name for what most of us call the
An alternative way to view Office documents and many other file formats. Free Opener is a new, free tool that lets you open and view over 70 different file formats including most of the types used by Microsoft Office. The concept is for a single download that can let you
One important but hidden feature in Outlook will let you see more and faster. Outlook has a lot of different aspects; email, calendar, contacts etc and we see many people switching between them, waiting for different views to load …. and they don’t have to. If you click on a
Put more useful navigation options on the Outlook screen. The default Outlook Navigation pane isn’t meant for you, it’s intended for absolute beginners to the program and to reduce the number of support calls. Once you’ve started to use Outlook, it’s time to change the way it looks to suit
Navigation Buttons take up valuable space you can better use in Outlook – here’s how. The navigation buttons are the ones on the left of Outlook ‘Mail’ ‘Calendar’ ‘Contacts’ etc. They are big, space gobbling buttons designed for new Outlook users – once you’re past the very basics there’s better
Another way to enter lists in Excel, why Microsoft’s effort sucks and an alternative. Excel has two ways of typing in data, there’s the usual direct entry into the worksheet or you can make a form with a single click of a button. For example here’s a ‘typical’ Excel list:
Why can’t you add repeating words or phrases to the Microsoft Word custom dictionary? Word’s custom dictionary can’t handle repeating words or phrases and it should. While we wait for Microsoft to catch up there are limited options available. Microsoft Word’s custom dictionary only lets you add single words to
It’s easy to make an Excel list into an HTML table. Excel has great list making features. It’s often the best way to manage a simple list or database. There’s features for sorting, filtering, auto-complete and calculated fields. But using the finished list isn’t always obvious, especially if you want
Office 2010: the real startup guide, second edition is available on the Kindle. We delighted to announce that the second edition of our Office 2010 ebook is now available for the Kindle. Office 2010: the real startup guide, second edition is available from Amazon USA or Amazon UK. The second
It promises a raunchy PowerPoint presentation, but gives you a malware Trojan instead. A nasty email is doing the rounds promising a PowerPoint presentation of the Kama Sutra but includes a program to take control of your computer as well. Sophos is reporting that an infected email is about to
Free training manuals for Office 2007 and before plus Quick References for Office 2010. Mouse Training in the UK has released their training manuals free for all comers plus some Quick Reference Guides. The Training Manuals are for Office 2007, Office 2003, Office XP (2002) and Office 2000. They cover
And you thought Word 2010 was new? Microsoft has released a cute video on YouTube showing how the US Declaration of Independance was ‘made’ with Word 2010 and collaboration tools. You can slow down or stop the video to show how some Word features are done. The font
Word’s spell checker has some peculiar ideas about where an & symbol belongs. Susan S. writes with a question about the Word spell checker. She’s noticed that an ampersand next to a letter doesn’t trigger a spelling error in Word. We tried it out and she’s right: An ampersand next
Why is an obviously incorrect word not picked up by Word’s spell checker? Susan S. complains that her copy of Word has phrases like ‘ Thisis ‘ which aren’t showing up as a spelling error. In other words there is no red squiggly line when there should be. We’ve had
Yes, you can type a long subject to an email, but it’s not much help to the reader. Recently we’ve received quite a few emails with long subject lines, sometimes only a subject with no message at all! We explain why they are difficult to read in Outlook despite Outlook
Trim down those enormous PPT/PPTX files. While it’s not the problem it was a few years ago, there’s still a need to reduce the file size of a PowerPoint presentation to something more portable for transport or even use on older machines which may have trouble dealing with large file
The second edition of “Office 2010: the real startup guide” is now available for new and past purchasers. We’re delighted to announce that a second edition of Office 2010: the real startup guide is now available for new and past purchasers. The new edition has over 150 extra pages covering
What to do about the latest email pest that Outlook isn’t detecting. The latest serial Inbox pest is fake messages that appear to come from the LinkedIn service. Outlook with the latest junk e-mail update doesn’t pick them up. The ‘From’ address is spoofed to appear to come from linkedin.com
OneNote 2010 has introduced Heading styles the same as in Word. OneNote 2010 has introduced Heading styles the same as in Word. This is a welcome new feature because it makes it much easier to structure notes as you type them. The OneNote developers understand the importance of keyboard shortcuts
An overview of the Print options in the new Backstage view. In Office 2010 the Print tab is moved to the File menu aka Backstage. Available Printer options, page settings and page preview have all been grouped together in one place and made more obvious. The Print pane is much
Two ‘free’ update emails are scams but not detected by Outlook. We check out the ‘red flags’ you should look for in any suspicious or unexpected email. Two similar scam messages have arrived in the last day, they might fool some people and certainly don’t get caught by Microsoft Outlook’s
Some options for making a Gmail like ‘Priority Inbox’ in Outlook. Google’s Gmail service continues to innovate with the addition of a Priority Inbox feature. This feature (being gradually deployed to all Gmail users) puts ‘important’ emails into a special view above the standard Inbox. What is deemed ‘important’ changes
