If you want special alerts for important emails – messages from a particular sender or with certain text in the subject, for example – then you’ll want to know how to set up Rules in Outlook. The Rules feature can examine your incoming mail and alert you to anything that you’ve told it is important, either with a special sound, a flag, or a pop-up box. Click through for the full illustrated tutorial.
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.
If you want one-click access to the Microsoft Office commands, you need to use the Quick Access Toolbar. Here’s a video showing you two easy ways to add commands so you have quick and easy access to them as you work.
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’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.
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.
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.
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.
Changing character case (from uppercase letters to lowercase and vice versa) is easy. Here are instructions for Word versions 2002-2010.
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.
If you send an email to a large list, the last thing you want is someone hitting “Reply to All.” Prevent a disaster with these two tricks in Microsoft Outlook.
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.
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.
Ever wonder why your straight quote characters get replaced by those curly ones in Word? Or why the “st” in “1st” gets superscripted automatically? Here’s the skinny on Microsoft Word’s AutoFormat As You Type feature … and how you can customize it.
Here’s how to use the Format Painter button to copy formats from one block of text to another in Microsoft Word.
How to insert multiple columns into your Microsoft Word document, plus navigating between columns and starting-and-stopping columns mid-document.
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