 If you often have to use your mouse or keyboard to scroll though long documents looking for one particular section, then you know how tedious it can be to continuously move your document’s scroll bar up and down, or to page up and down using the keyboard’s arrow keys. However, if you have a mouse [...] Avoid the My Documents default (Microsoft Word 2003/2007) When you choose Save As or Open, Word automatically opens the My Documents folder in the resulting dialog box. If you tend to work from a folder other than My Documents, you’ll save valuable time by setting that primary folder as your default. To do this, choose [...] Customize the Track Changes color options and create just the view you need (Word 2000/2002/2003/2004/2007) If you use Track Changes, you already know that Word uses a different color to track the changes made by each user. Although you can’t assign a specific color to each individual user, you can assign the [...] Instantly deactivate all hyperlinks or fields in a document (Word 2000/2002/2003/2004/2007) Sometimes, you may want to deactivate hyperlinks so they act like regular document text. In fact, you may have wanted to do the same with field codes, too. Instead of digging around in dialog boxes and shortcut menus to solve the problem, Word offers [...] Require that a hyphenated word remains on one line (Word 2000/2002/v. X/2003) You may want to keep certain hyphenated terms from breaking at the end of a line. For example, if you’d prefer that the phone number 555-4312 not break to the next line between 5 and 4, you can insert a non-breaking hyphen. This way, [...] Insert your favorite photo inside of WordArt using PowerPoint or Word 07 Fireworks fill the sky on New Years Eve 2. Pick a style (Word 2000/2002/2003/2004) You can minimize the size of your documents by turning off Word’s Allow Fast Saves feature. Although the function creates a faster save, it can also result in bloated file sizes. During a fast-save, information about new changes is tacked on to previously saved information about past changes, so Word continues to store info about [...] Did you know that Word documents can contain hidden information that can provide clues to your identity and information of people you e-mailed a file to using Outlook. Older versions of Word even retain logs of the last ten people who revised the document, including their e-mail addresses which are easily harvested. Unrevised versions of your text [...] Far too many times, I have been making a bulleted list in Word or PowerPoint and want to hit enter just to wrap a line, but I don’t want a bullet to show and I can’t do it…until now. All you have to do to start a new line without a bullet is hold down Shift [...] Changing your default font (Microsoft Word - prior to 07) If you consistently find yourself changing the font of your Word documents from Times New Roman to another font, consider saving yourself some time by changing the default font. This affects all documents you create based on the Normal.dot template (or another template, if you have another [...] |
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