There’s a useful and long-standing Office add-on for people who have many documents open at once and prefer them to appear in tabs (like web pages) instead of separate windows. Office Tab switches Microsoft Office for Windows from the usual ‘one document per windows’ view to ‘many documents in a
To my horror, I encountered something strange while working on a Word document with “strung out” or ‘stretched’ text on the last two lines with huge gaps of space between them. Here’s the two ways it can happen and the four fixes available. A stretched-out line in a Word document
Type the three different types of Ellipsis … marks in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Ellipsis … symbol is used for a gap or break in some text, usually to drop out some irrelevant text or speech. The same applies
Combine or divide adjacent Microsoft Word or PowerPoint table cells into a merged single cell or split a cell in two. Welcome to ‘Merge Cells’ where you can combine adjacent cells into a single cell. It’s very handy for table formatting tricks and other unusual situations like a longer than
Type the Yen ¥ currency symbol into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac. Yen is used for Japanese currency and the Chinese Renminbi / Yuan. Microsoft Excel also offers the Yen symbol for Mongolia even though the tögrög currency uses another
More ideas and a wish list for ending a PowerPoint presentation with a different slide. After our article on the ending slide options for PowerPoint, Vivian from the UK writes: “… it’s really very easy to do what I always do at the end of PPT presentations. Just add a
The blank black slide which appears usually at the end of a slideshow is a default setting in PowerPoint. But it can be changed. The blank black slide which appears usually at the end of a slideshow is a default setting in PowerPoint. But it can be changed. Open PowerPoint
How to change the PowerPoint slide numbering to a different start number. In PowerPoint, slides are numbered by default from 1 but that’s not always what you need. For example, you’re working on some slides which are just part of a set of slides eg. working on slides from number
In PowerPoint you can record narration and comments during or after a slideshow. This makes the presentation more interesting and interactive. This feature is especially useful when you convert presentation to video. With narration the video would seem complete and the process of doing this is quite simple and easy.
Word can generate a list of all the tables in a document. Like a Table of Contents, this list of tables or Table of tables can include page references or links to each table. A Table of tables can be useful for creating a proper appendix or reference within more
A Word document and a floppy disk caught a serial killer back in 2010. There are still lessons for anyone wanting to keep their personal or business data confidential. Known as the ‘BTK killer’, he murdered 10 people in Kansas between 1974 and 1991. The murderer was finally caught in
Occasionally you’ll get someone who sends lots of messages you don’t want to see. Outlook has a few options for refusing or politely ignoring messages from certain email senders – either individually or automatically. Most commonly these are enthusiastic zealots on some subject and are trying to ‘spread the word’
If you look in folders that contain Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) you might see the occasional .tmp file. What are they? Could they be useful? How to look inside. Can they be safely deleted? The quick answers are: probably Word or Office document remnants, could be handy to recover
You might think that the hyphen is a simple small horizontal line … but no. There are NINE different hyphen or short horizontal line choices in Microsoft Word. Let’s start with the standard hyphen, actually called a ‘Hyphen-Minus‘ with ASCII code 45. See Hyphens and Hyphenation, all the options in
Here’s your four choices for making text fit within an Excel cell. About wrapping text, adding line breaks and merging cells in Excel. There are plenty of options to fit text in Excel but not all of them are obvious. At first, when you type text in a cell it
Add a keyboard shortcut for any Microsoft Word style including Headings and Normal style. A shortcut is faster than clicking on the ribbon anytime you want to apply a style. For commonly used styles it’s easier and faster to use a keyboard shortcut. Microsoft even supplies a few with Word,
Make an image using the original Microsoft Office WordArt designs, courtesy of some clever web work by Mike McMillan. Or use the better WordArt that’s still available in modern Microsoft Word. Does anyone miss the original WordArt from the 1990’s? Now you can get it back https://makewordart.com/ recreates, with scary
There’s no need to switch out of Word to do simple calculations because Word for Windows has its very own built-in calculator. Calculate in Word has some nice tricks but also problems and traps. Type a calculation, hit the button (see below) and the result appears in the status bar
How to find words with or without accented characters in Microsoft Word. You might need to find both naïve and naïve or café and cafe. There are many options in Word Find or Advanced Find but not the choice to ‘ignore accented characters’ or ‘treat accented characters as if not
Your deadline is in four hours, you’ve got pages to write and BAM! a letter key breaks on your keyboard …. What do you do? There are at least six different workarounds available in Word, Windows and Mac. A broken key happened to Colin Chambers, a University of Buffalo student
Which version of alphabetical order does Microsoft Word use? I thought that alphabetical order was, well, alphabetical order. That’s what I was taught at school and apparently I was taught wrong. There are at least three ways, two used by dictionaries, another by Microsoft and that’s for English alone! Reading Sue
When you open a master document in Microsoft Word it might give you a scare. Instead of showing the document text all you see is some links. All the subdocuments will appear as hyperlinks in the master document. To see the entire master document with sub-documents go to View |
The inverted or Spanish exclamation mark ¡ is available in Microsoft Word, regardless of language setting. There’s even an in-built shortcut. ¡ is most commonly used in Spanish for the start of an exclaiming sentence. As far back as the 1660’s there have been attempts to introduce ¡ inverted exclamation
Viewing an .MSG file in either Windows or Mac isn’t always easy or even possible. We’ll explain what a .msg file is and why to avoid .msg in favor of better ways to share Outlook information. What is a .msg file? .MSG files is the “Outlook Message Format” are made