This week: Stop wandering around Microsoft Word’s Ribbon looking for commands and do some strategic double-clicking instead, why putting an ampersand in your Excel header or footer yields a weird result (and what to do if you really, really want that “&” to show up in your header or footer), and more news about an exciting iPad application that lets you edit Office documents. That’s right … it’s the Weekly Roundup! Click the link to read the rest …
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Now that it’s past the annual holiday season here in the US, it’s back in the saddle again for the Weekly Roundup. This week: Microsoft Office blog does its own list of most popular posts (including a couple of issues that continually plague legal office users), a quick-and-dirty Excel tutorial on printing title rows, and an exciting rumor for iPad users.
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If you’re not anywhere close to having a paperless office, but you still want to save room in those bulging files of yours, here’s an option you might not have considered before: condensed printing. Think “travel transcript,” like those 4-up duplex printed deposition mini-transcripts you get. If some of your hard copies could just as easily be printed in “mini” form for your file, then click Read More to learn this trick in Microsoft Word, Adobe Acrobat, your default Windows photo printer, and virtually any other application you have.
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A reader wrote me recently with an interesting dilemma: She needed to be able to automatically increment numbers in a Microsoft Word footer. But she’d found that the otherwise trusty AutoNum field doesn’t work in headers or footers. So how was she going to put the correct “Exhibit [X]” at the bottom of her documents? Here’s the solution I came up with for her. Click the “Read More” link to see the demonstration video.
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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.
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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.
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One reader (an attorney) had a puzzling dilemma: he’d record macros, but they wouldn’t be there the next time he started Word. After a couple of suggestions didn’t solve the problem, we finally found one that did.
Read MoreThere’s more to selecting a block of text – to copy, delete, or format – than just dragging your mouse from one end to another. Click through to read about more text selection tricks that can make document editing easier (including how to copy vertical columns of data in Microsoft Word documents).
Read MoreHere’s how to change the footnote separator, the footnote continuation separator, and the footnote continuation notice in Microsoft Word.
Read MoreIf you need to sort text in Word, whether it’s within a table or just typed straight, here’s how.
Read MoreChanging character case (from uppercase letters to lowercase and vice versa) is easy. Here are instructions for Word versions 2002-2010.
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Ever want to go straight back to your last editing position in Microsoft Word? Use the “Go Back” feature. Here’s how.
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