Taming naughty footnotes, pt. 2 – separators
Here’s how to change the footnote separator, the footnote continuation separator, and the footnote continuation notice in Microsoft Word.
Here’s how to change the footnote separator, the footnote continuation separator, and the footnote continuation notice in Microsoft Word.
Don’t keep copying commonly-used blocks of text from old documents – that cut-and-paste routine will inevitably get you into trouble when you forget to edit out client-specific info. Instead, use Quick Parts to store generic text blocks like Certificates of Service, Signature Blocks, etc. Here’s a video to show you how.
Microsoft Word macros are NOT an advanced skill. Here’s some information to prove how easy it really is.
If you need to sort text in Word, whether it’s within a table or just typed straight, here’s how.
If you want to send your clients blind copies of your Microsoft Outlook 2007 or 2010 emails, here’s how to enable the BCC field.
If you’ve ever had to line up columnar data in Word along the right-hand edge of the column (rather than by the left-hand edge), you need to know how to use right tabs. Here are step-by-step instructions.
Got a humongous Excel spreadsheet that needs printing? Here’s a detailed tutorial (including video) on how to format it to print attractively so the data makes sense.
If you ever have columns of numbers (particularly currency figures) you need lined up in Word, you need to learn about decimal tabs. Here’s a quick video introduction to inserting and using them.
Upgraded to Word 2007/2010 lately? Then you may have noticed your default line spacing got expanded. Here’s how to restore single spacing by default in all new documents.
If you use email to send or receive assignments, requests, etc., you need an easy way to track what’s due from whom. Here’s how to use Outlook’s flag for follow-up feature for a one-click-easy way to organize those requests.
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.
If you love fully-justified text (with straight left and right margins) like I do, you hate when the spacing between characters gets messed up because of it. Here’s how to fix it.
Outlook, by default, starts up in your Inbox. For some folks, that’s a problem. Here’s how to solve it, courtesy of Vivian Manning at Attorney at Work.
There’s a whole host of ways you can make the various Microsoft Office applications easier to use. In fact, most users don’t take full advantage of the options for customizing these applications to make the Office suite work better for them.
Today, we’re going to talk about one of the easiest customizations: the Status Bar.
If you ever want to make SURE a potentially dangerous email is deleted from your Microsoft Outlook Inbox, here’s a quick keyboard trick that enables you to skip the Deleted Items folder and permanently delete an email.
If you use Microsoft Excel to organize data (say, a list of documents being produced), you may have run across The Cell That’s Too Small For Its Data. Fortunately, there are ways to get information to fit into a single cell. Here’s how to wrap text, insert manual line breaks, and control vertical alignment in a cell.
Changing character case (from uppercase letters to lowercase and vice versa) is easy. Here are instructions for Word versions 2002-2010.
Ever want to go straight back to your last editing position in Microsoft Word? Use the “Go Back” feature. Here’s how.
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.
Ever converted a WordPerfect document to Microsoft Word and discovered a watermark you couldn’t delete? Here’s how to fix it.
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