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Weekly Roundup: More Word, Excel and Outlook Tips

by The Guru

This week’s Roundup of the reading file is an embarrassment of riches from the usual suspects: TechRepublic’s take on the most important Microsoft Word skills, how to put time values into Microsoft Excel, Vivian Manning tackles Microsoft Word’s mail merge feature, making it easier to switch between Word documents, and how to share your Microsoft Outlook calendar. Click the “Read More” link for the details.

Guest Post @ Attorney at Work: Four Microsoft Office Settings to Tweak

by The Guru

Here are four quick tips across a range of Microsoft Office applications: modifying the Status Bar, ensuring Excel sheets auto-calculate, improving full justification of text in Word, and starting Outlook in the folder of your choice. Click through for a link to the full article.

Weekly Roundup: More shortcut keys, faster Word page setup, Quick Print

by The Guru

From this week’s Roundup of the reading file: some more shortcut keys you need to know about (particularly if you’re an avid Outlook user), a faster way to reach the Page Setup dialog in Microsoft Word, and how to add a Quick Print button to enable one-click printing from Word.

The case of the shrunken comment balloon

by The Guru

Ever had one of your comment balloons in Microsoft Word suddenly shrink without warning and become unreadable? Admittedly, it’s a pretty obscure problem, but if it ever happens to you, you want to make note of this fix.

Weekly Roundup: Outlook Quick Steps and Best Practices, disappearing Word headers

by The Guru

In this week’s Roundup: doing the Quick Step in Microsoft Outlook, what to do when your Microsoft Word headers suddenly disappear, and Microsoft’s Outlook blog finishes up its “Best Practices” series.

Weekly Roundup: A neat Excel trick, customize Show/Hide, discounted Outlook tools

by The Guru

For this week’s Roundup: how to put zeroes in otherwise blank cells in Excel (and not the long way, either), how to pick and choose which formatting marks Word shows you with Show/Hide, and a heads-up on some hefty discounts on several Outlook plug-ins.

Document Cleanup Clinic: The Case of the Stretched-Out Line

by The Guru

If you’ve ever seen full-justified text in Microsoft Word that had a really stretched out last line in a paragraph, you don’t have to throw up your hands and convert it to left-justified text. There’s a quick and easy fix. Click through for the video demonstration.

Four ways to insert tables in Microsoft Word

by The Guru

If you ever want to insert a table in Microsoft Word 2007 or 2010, there are four (count ‘em, FOUR) ways to do it. Click the Read More link for detailed instructions, then pick your favorite!

How to do a Table of Authorities, Part 2: Defining, Formatting and Inserting the TOA

by The Guru

Part II of the continuing series on Tables of Authorities shows you – with video and screen shots – how to:

(a) Check over your citations for correct marking
(b) Insert the TOA in your document
(c) What formatting options are available to you (passim, dot leaders, etc.) and how to adjust them
(d) What to do if your TOA headings or entries aren’t formatting just right

Click the “Read More” link below for the full tutorial.

Reader Question: Type Once, Repeat Many?

by The Guru

A Legal Office Guru reader wrote in, asking for help with some forms she’d been asked to create to . “Is there a way to autopopulate a field?” she asked. “I’d like it to work similar to Adobe [Acrobat], where if you give the fields the same name, the text in one will automatically fill up in all of the others. I’ve read something about making each field an REF field, but I don’t understand how to do it, and I’ve tried tons of Google search results. Can you help?”

To achieve that Adobe-like effect, I’d choose Word’s Bookmarks feature. Click the “Read More” link below for the full illustrated tutorial.

When just the page number won’t do

by The Guru

When you have to have a page number formatted with text (like “C-1 of 3″), then you need a working knowledge of how to insert the various page number fields in Microsoft Word. Here’s a tutorial using a real-life situation: an appellate brief with a specially numbered “Certificate of Interested Parties” section.

How to do a Table of Authorities, Part 1: Marking citations

by The Guru

If the thought of doing a Table of Authorities in your next brief gives you the willies, you’ll appreciate this series of posts. In Part One, I tell you a little about the Table of Authorities feature and show you how to mark citations in your brief so they can be included (and correctly formatted) in your Table of Authorities.

How to modify a Table of Contents in Microsoft Word

by The Guru

If your automatically-generated Table of Contents in Microsoft Word isn’t to your liking, you can fix it. From changing fonts to adjusting spacing and indentation, it’s all about modifying the TOC Styles within your document. Click through to view the entire tutorial, complete with screen shots showing each step.

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