Here’s how to control your recent documents list in Word, PowerPoint and Excel.
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Customizing AutoCorrect is done differently in Outlook as compared to Word. AutoCorrect changes you make should carry over between MS Office programs.
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.
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.”
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).
Here’s a quick tip on how to prevent the page number from showing up on the first page of a document.
Feeling nostalgic?
Here’s how you can change your default font to Times New Roman or whatever you’d like. You can also change your paragraph settings and a few other things if you’d like.
Word is like Prego, the good stuff is in there, but it’s going to take a little while to find until you get use to the new interface. Until then here’s a quick tip on how to find where to turn off password protection.
Here’s a quick visual to help you find the odd place where your Access macro settings have ended up.
10+ tips for boosting your Word 2007 productivity | 10 Things | TechRepublic.com
We’ve put together a collection of tips from our Office Suite newsletter that will help them acclimate to Word’s new functionality and show them how to perform their everyday tasks using Word 2007 tools and techniques. You can download the collection as a PDF or follow the links below to read the tips individually.