MS Word: Pick and Choose Which Non-Printing Characters to Display If you've ever used Word's ability to display the non-printing characters in a document, you know how helpful it can be to visually verify information such as the actual number of spaces, tabs or paragraph marks present. However, when you use that feature you get … Continue reading Choose Which Formatting Marks to Display in Word
Using a Spreadsheet within a Word Document
MS Word: Using a Spreadsheet Within a Document On more than one occasion, I've found that within a document I've needed to present data that really should be set up in Excel. Don't get me wrong, Word's tables are great, but when it comes to calculations and numeric data displays, Excel wins hands down. Some … Continue reading Using a Spreadsheet within a Word Document
Numbering Tables in MS Word
MS Word: Stop Numbering Table Rows Manually, Word Can Do That for You It's not that uncommon... you've got a table in MS Word where you need the rows numbered, so you find yourself manually keying them in. ...1 - down arrow - 2 - down arrow - 3 - down arrow - 4 - … Continue reading Numbering Tables in MS Word
Google Cloud Connect Add-in for Microsoft Office
Do you work with a lot of Google Docs documents? Do you have spreadsheets, Word documents, PDF reports, PowerPoint presentations stored in your Google Docs account, and are looking for an easier way to create or manage these documents from Microsoft Office desktop UI? There are tons of desktop apps available for managing Google Docs … Continue reading Google Cloud Connect Add-in for Microsoft Office
Retain Text Formatting in MS Word
MS Word: How To Ensure That Your Formatting Is Kept When You Copy And Paste Text When you copy and paste text, do you ever find yourself wondering why sometimes certain formatting traits were pasted with the text and at others aren't? It can seem sort of random to most people... and random is frustrating. … Continue reading Retain Text Formatting in MS Word
Pictures and Shapes in MS Office
MS Office: A Picture of a Different Shape Today I want to point out a very simple and quick way to change the way pictures and graphics are displayed in your documents, presentations, worksheets, etc... We're going to take a look at how the fill of a shape can really make a difference in the … Continue reading Pictures and Shapes in MS Office
Adjusting Line Spacing in Word 2007
Rose from Coon Rapids MN asks: When I am typing a document in Word 2007, I get a wide space between the lines. How do you reduce that space? Rose, thanks for the question. The search for your answer helped me find an answer to a question I was too lazy to find for myself. … Continue reading Adjusting Line Spacing in Word 2007
Drag and Drop Table Rows and Columns in MS Word
MS Word: Manually Move Table Rows or Columns Without Copy and Paste Let's face it, there are just times when the table you've set up now seems to be "out of order". You find yourself wishing that the 3rd row was now the 5th row and that the 4th column should have actually have been … Continue reading Drag and Drop Table Rows and Columns in MS Word
Preventing File Overwrite in MS Office
We've all done it at one time or another... you need to create a new file that's pretty much identical to another one, so you open the file that you have, make the changes and then save it. In that very, very short time while you watch the file being saved you are struck speechless … Continue reading Preventing File Overwrite in MS Office
Copy Your MS Office Quick Access Toolbar to a Different Computer
How much time have you spent customizing the Quick Access Toolbar in your MS Office 2007 programs? If you're anything like me then it's quite a lot... When you move to a new computer - or maybe decide that you want the one at home to match the one at work - what do you … Continue reading Copy Your MS Office Quick Access Toolbar to a Different Computer