Styles in Microsoft Word would be very cumbersome if you had to set up each one individually. To make it easier, styles have inheritance. A new style is usually a copy, linked to an existing style with just some changes to selected items. Here’s an example of inheritance in a simple Word document. This is […]
There are good reasons to avoid the Normal style for the main text in a Word document and use the hidden ‘Body Text’ style instead. The standard Microsoft Word document structure has Headings (Heading 1, Heading 2) … with paragraphs of text in the Normal style. It sounds good but, as usual with Microsoft Office, […]
Adding thumbnail or preview image for Word, Excel or PowerPoint Office documents is easy, though you won’t find the choice anywhere obvious. We’ll dig into how thumbnails work for some nerdy extra detail. Thumbnails are the small images that appear in File Explorer and elsewhere instead of the standard icons for Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc. […]
Excel has a way to rank a series of values, showing which is top, middle and bottom. As usual, what appears to be a simple thing has extra features to cope with the real world like equal placings. Here’s a simple ranking. As you can see, Excel has ranked the Value entries from 1 to […]
Here’s a look at two things that you’d expect Excel to handle quickly and easily, but doesn’t. Showing a ranking of items with equal ranks shown (3rd equal etc) and ordinal numbers (1st, 2nd, 3rd etc) or ordinal names (first, second, third etc). All are possible in Excel but strangely not provided by Microsoft directly. […]
