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
How can you email a file that’s too big to be sent even after its been compressed. I think most people know they can squeeze the size of a file using a tool like WinZIP winzip.com, WinRAR rarlabs.com (our personal choice) or many other similar file compressors. Both those products
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
If you want to see the latest developments in the world of email you only have to look at Google’s free Gmail service. Their teams of developers are rolling all sorts of interesting things. If you want to see the latest developments in the world of email you only have
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Adding a few pictures or images to your PowerPoint presentation is quite simple. There are many ways to do it, the official way and others. Adding a few pictures or images to your Powerpoint presentation is quite simple. There are many ways to do it, the official way and others.
The Track Changes or Reviewing feature has been in Microsoft Word for many years though it has changed name and undergone many changes and improvements in each version. In a recent article we mentioned a submission to a US Senate committee and the use of the track changes feature in Word.
We take you through the basic Grammar checking options that work for English and other languages. WHAT ABOUT GRAMMAR? I pity people who have to learn English as a second language – the ‘language of Shakespeare’ is also the language of irregular spellings, strange pronunciations and grammar ‘rules’ that have
We look at some more printing options in Office and beyond. In particular the Print options under the Tools menu. This issue we’ll continue from last time with look at some more printing options in Office and beyond. In particular the Print options under the Tools menu. Most of these
Nothing as simple as saving a document – right? Maybe you’ve figured out by now that nothing is simple in Office. SAVING IN OFFICE Nothing as simple as saving a document – right? Maybe you’ve figured out by now that nothing is simple in Office. If you go to Tools
Adding text to an incoming message might help find it later – especially if the message isn’t clear or comes from an unusual source. After last week’s article, another use for editing an existing email message occurred to us and it relates to the much faster ability to search in
There are some things people do in Outlook that are very useful, but not obvious to others. We detail some of these “hidden” features. RESEND A MESSAGE It’s easy to resend a message you’ve sent in the past either to the same people or others. This is handy if the
However long you’ve spent using a program, chances are that there are always some things hidden away that you didn’t know were there. We take a look at some of these hidden features in Excel 2003. By Helen Bradley However long you’ve spent using a program, chances are that there
The Word thesaurus has changed over the years but the basics have remained the same. Microsoft Word has had a thesaurus for years and for years it’s been the subject of complaint and jokes. The complaints come from censorship by Microsoft when some unfortunate link is made between words of
