Video Tutorials

Creating a custom timeline in Excel

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Jessica, a reader from Miami, wanted some help with creating a custom timeline in Microsoft Office. Here’s the Excel-based solution I created for her.

How to put a different footer on the last page of a document

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It’s easy to have a different footer for the first page – just use the Page Setup function called “different first page.” But what if you need a different footer for the LAST page? Well, it may not be check-box easy, but it is possible. Here’s a video tutorial showing you exactly how.

Copying vertical columns of text in Word

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If you’ve ever needed to copy columns of text from a tabbed list and thought you had to retype them, think again. Try this trick instead.

Video: Configuring Rules in Microsoft Outlook to automate message handling

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Microsoft Outlook Inbox management is a lot easier when you use Rules & Alerts to automate common tasks. Here’s a video tutorial showing you how.

Using AutoText to deal with repetitive text

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Ever have the same phrase, sentence or even paragraph repeat over and over in a document you’re typing? Microsoft Word’s AutoText feature can help automate it!

Showing, hiding and printing tracked changes

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Once you know how to turn on Word’s Track Changes feature, you may want to be able to see the document in its original state and with all the changes without having to accept or reject changes. Here’s an easy way to do that (with some caveats)

Inserting a table of contents using styles

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Building a Table of Contents in Microsoft Word is ridiculously easy if you use Styles to format your document headings. Here’s the quick-and-dirty tutorial on inserting an easy TOC in your document.

Using sections to control page numbers, headers and footers

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This is part two of a tutorial on how to control page numbers and page number formats using sections in Microsoft Word 2002-2003. Useful for changing page number styles in appellate briefs or for having distinct headers and footers in different parts of a document.