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MS-Office

November 3, 2009

QuickTip: Make Quick Links to Your Favorite Commands in Office 2007

Even though I've been working in Office 2007 for two years now, I'm still not sold on the ribbon model Microsoft created for it. With the original model, every command was quickly available from either the toolbars or the menus across the top of the window—they were always there and they were always the same. Now, I'm always having to switch back and forth between ribbons to access different features. I'm constantly forgetting where some of them are, like Word's Thesaurus, which I think belongs under References rather than Review. And it's really frustrating that you can't customize the ribbons at all, something you could do with toolbars and menus in previous versions.

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QuickTip: Finding an E-mail Needle in an Outlook Haystack

If you're one of those people who reads an e-mail, promptly acts on it, and then immediately deletes it, this post won't help you at all. But if, like me, you have dozens of folders full of thousands of messages, this post's for you.

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Four Tips for Keeping Your Outlook Inbox Under Control

If you're one of those people who follows the organizational mantra of "touch each piece of paper only once, then act on it," you may not be the type of person who will need these tips.

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F4: The Magic MS-Office Key No One Knows About

Okay, so I imagine there are some people who know about this key (say, a few developers at Microsoft), but anyone I've ever shown it to had no idea about its function. And it's not a key I use often but, when I do use it, I love it!

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Resize Images with Office’s Built-In Graphics Editor

Not all that long ago, the only people who had to know how to manipulate photos and other digital images were graphic designers.

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Four Formatting Tips for Excel

Although Microsoft Excel is designed primarily as a spreadsheet application for number-crunchers, I use it a lot to create various kinds of lists. I find it more convenient than creating tables in Word for certain purposes.

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Stop Word from Changing Your Formatting

Microsoft Word is one of those programs that people REALLY love to hate.

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Keep Track of Twitter Topics in Outlook 2007

Recently, I've heard a couple of people ask how you can keep track of topics that are being Tweeted about, wondering if there's something like Google Alerts for it.

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Create Different Headers in Word

One question I get asked a lot is how to create unique headers for different sections in an MS-Word document. For example, you might want to have different headers with each chapter name to help readers find the section they're looking for more quickly.

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Updates 02/02/09

Check out these updates to previous posts that came in over the last week.

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Saving Office 2007 Docs as Earlier Versions

If you've upgraded to Office 2007, or are planning to, you may run into a situation where you send someone a file he can't open because he has an earlier version of the program.

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