Excel 2003 has limited undo level, until you use our tip to increase the number of actions than can be reversed. Excel 2007 lets you undo 100 actions; with Excel 2003, the limit is 16 but that’s an arbitrary limit set by Microsoft. If that feels too restrictive, you can up the Excel 2003 limit […]
By default, Outlook displays either your Inbox or the Outlook Today page when you open it. What if you’d like it to display your calendar instead? Or, perhaps you’d find it handy to open two Outlook windows, one showing your Inbox and the other your calendar. By default, Outlook displays either your Inbox or the […]
Word 2007 has changed the Rand() feature and not entirely for the best. One of Word’s quirky, tucked-away features is the rand() function. It lets you quickly insert a block of text in a document. To use the function in pre-2007 versions of Word, at the beginning of a line type =rand() and press Enter. […]
Does Excel have a bug that forces an unchanged worksheet to be saved again? Gordon H writes: “Here’s a long standing bug in Excel that Microsoft has never fixed. I open a Word document, look at it then close the document – there’s been no change to the file so Word closes it without a […]
The new ‘ribbon’ interface in Office 2007 is officially called the ‘Fluent’ interface and there are some nifty shortcut tricks available. The new ‘ribbon’ interface in Office 2007 is officially called the ‘Fluent’ interface and there are some nifty shortcut tricks available. First off, keep in mind that the ribbon interface isn’t as scary as […]
