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All about Find in Microsoft Word Text Boxes. Text Boxes in Word have special needs when you’re either looking for text inside Text Boxes only or just the main document. What’s inside Text Boxes is handled separately to the main document, depending on the options you’ve chosen for the search. Find in Text Boxes Standard […]
Find and replace inside Microsoft Word Text Boxes is something that Word can’t do directly but is possible in two different ways. As we’ve already explained, Word can only find text inside Text Boxes as either part of a search of the entire document or just the content of Text Boxes. The trouble comes if […]
Let’s go deeper into the Microsoft Word ‘Find’ function, looking specifically at a number of options that can be accessed in the Word “Find” feature (Ctrl+F) and clicking its “More” button. In a recent issue of Office for Mere Mortals we looked at how to search within a Word document. There is a lot of hidden […]
Excel can’t add up reliably and it never has. It’s an important limitation of computer software that everyone needs to be wary of. Phil N sent us an interesting Excel worksheet. He’s simply adding a column of numbers starting with a negative number then positive numbers – the total should be ‘a wash’ – that […]
PowerPoint’s ‘camera in slide’ feature ‘Cameo’ is getting a welcome boost, if not an essential piece of Cameo. Cameo placeholders can be added to Slide Masters. Cameo is Microsoft’s name for putting a live camera image into a PowerPoint slide presentation. It’s ideal for online presentations. That was fine but the cameo video had to […]
