Archive for June, 2008

Where’s That Feature: Access

Microsoft has an interactive web site that shows you where a feature in Microsoft Access 2003 can be found in Microsoft Access 2007.  Just click on a toolbar button or menu item and the site shows you where that feature can be found in the new version.

Where’s That Feature: Outlook

Microsoft has an interactive web site that shows you where a feature in Microsoft Outlook 2003 can be found in Microsoft Outlook 2007.  Just click on a toolbar button or menu item and the site shows you where that feature can be found in the new version.

Where’s That Feature: Excel

Microsoft has an interactive web site that shows you where a feature in Microsoft Excel 2003 can be found in Microsoft Excel 2007.  Just click on a toolbar button or menu item and the site shows you where that feature can be found in the new version.

Where’s That Feature: Word

Microsoft has an interactive web site that shows you where a feature in Microsoft Word 2003 can be found in Microsoft Word 2007.  Just click on a toolbar button or menu item and the site shows you where that feature can be found in the new version.

Recent Documents

Here’s how to control your recent documents list in Word, PowerPoint and Excel.

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Outlook AutoCorrect

Customizing AutoCorrect is done differently in Outlook as compared to Word.  AutoCorrect changes you make should carry over between MS Office programs.

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Email Signatures in Outlook

Here’s a quick look at how to add multiple signatures and how to make sure that one of them will be your default signature for all new email.

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Customizing AutoCorrect

If you type one particular sentence or phrase over and over and want to make your life more pleasant AutoCorrect is one way to do it.  Sure, you can set it up so that it fixes your odd typos (for instance, if you type “fshi” every time instead of “fish”) but you can also make is so that every time you type in “CTLT” it autocorrects to “The Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology.”

Customizing Autocorrect

Access Database Locking Issues

 Sorry for the vagueness on this one, but I’m not quite sure how the database was set up previous to the Office upgrade.

With older databases that had a hide/unhide feature in order to edit and add records you might have some issues.  One way (and the best I’ve found so far) is to right click on the title bar of the window and click on “Design View” and then switch back to whatever view you were in originally.  You should now be able to edit records and add new ones (the “Add New” button is up in the ribbon on the Home tab).

Page Numbering in Word

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Here’s a quick tip on how to prevent the page number from showing up on the first page of a document.