Word 2010

Printing Envelopes and Labels, Part 1: Envelopes

by The Guru

A WordPerfect Lover asked me to go “back to the basics” with some tutorials on essential Word functions, so I’m starting that effort with a tutorial on how to print envelopes in various versions of Microsoft Word from 2002 through 2010. Click the “read more” link for a complete illustrated tutorial.

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.

Weekly Roundup: Printing sections, moving text blocks, turning off annoying Paste options

by The Guru

For this week’s Roundup: How to print a Word document by section numbers, an easier way to move text around in Microsoft Word, a few Outlook add-ins to consider, and how to turn off that incredibly annoying Paste box that pops up every time you cut and paste text. Click the “Read More” link for more information and for links to the full articles.

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.

Weekly Roundup: Finding ‘Find’, 5 formatting shortcuts, and tricked-out TOCs

by The Guru

In this week’s Roundup, friend-of-this-blog Vivian Manning finds the now-hidden “Find” feature in Word 2010, and Susan Harking at TechRepublic gathers together the handiest shortcut keys for formatting and shows us how to create a Table of Contents from multiple documents (yes! it’s possible!).

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