Category: Microsoft Office

To create a line break or blank line in a bulleted or numbered list in Word or many other word processor packages, just press [SHIFT]-[ENTER] instead of just [ENTER] at the end of the preceding line.

You may need to change the case of already typed text. Either you change your mind, pressed the wrong button, or just have “Caps Lock” enabled.
No matter how it happened, you now have text in the wrong case and you have to re-type it. Right? Wrong.

Let’s see what you can do in Word:

Select the text or word you want to change.
If you have a newer version of Word, look in the “Home” tab of the ribbon in the “Font” section for a button with an upper and lower case “Aa”. Click it and select your case.
In older versions of Word without the Ribbon choose Format, Change Case and select between sentence case, lowercase, uppercase, title case, and toggle case (Great for Caps-Lock problems). Select the case you want and click OK.

How about in WordPerfect?

Select the text or word you want to change. Choose Edit, Convert Case and click your choice.

There are a few ways to try to get an image out of a Microsoft Word document.
You can try the copy and paste method or even go as far as taking a screenshot of it.
It seems that the best method to get at the originally embedded image is to save the document as a webpage – html. Don’t use the .mht option in the save as dialog, but make sure to select the htm/html.
This will create the document as an html with a sub-folder that contains the image(s). The subfolder will often have other files and maybe even the image(s) in multiple sizes, but just pick the largest one and that seems to do the trick pretty well.

I just heard of an article over at PC World that can help making working with Microsoft Outlook less painful than it can be at times.
Head over to PC World and have a look at the article. Some things I knew, some were new to me, but if you haven’t done any tweaking (lately) in your Outlook setup, it could provide useful to you.

Continue reading “10 Microsoft Outlook Annoyances”

When working in Outlook, and especially when syncing with mobile devices, it can happen that you have duplicate items created. 10 items isn’t a problem, but 100 or more can get tedious to clean manually.
There is software available to help you sort through the duplicates quickly. I have listed four of them below. They range in price from $15 to $30 and differ slightly in operational modes and user interface. They all have trial/demo versions though so you can get a feel for which one you like best.
But don’t forget – always make a backup of yout Outlook .PST file before running any of these programs.

anti-dupe.com
nomoredupes.com
outlook.duplicate-remover.com
duplicatekiller.4team.biz

 Update: I just heard about a free program that may work for you: http://www.vaita.com/ODIR.asp

If you work with the Track Changes function in Word, you know that you can’t track the changes if it is not turned on – or can you? If you still have a copy of the original document, you can:

With the edited document open, choose Tools -> Track Changes -> Compare Documents. In the Choose a File dialog box that appears, navigate to the original unedited document and click Open. A new document will appear with every change made between the two documents highlighted or, in Print Layout view, commented. All you have to do now is work on that new document and choose Tools -> Track Changes -> Highlight Changes and be sure that you’ve enabled the Track Changes While Editing option so that any changes you make from now on are also tracked.

If you are thinking of buying Office 2007 for a computer that didn’t have it before, you may think you are stuck buying it at full price. You are not.

You can save some money by buying for example “Microsoft Works 9.0” and then the “Microsoft Office 2007 Upgrade” which is combined often much cheaper than the same suite without upgrade.

You may also qualify for the upgrade price with older Microsoft software you already own. Office 2007 can be upgraded from “Microsoft Works 6.0-10; Microsoft Works Suite 2000-2006 or Later; Any 2000-2007 Microsoft Office Program or Suite and Any Microsoft Office XP Suite.” according to the information on the Microsoft website.

Just make sure to compare the Office suite versions so you buy the one with the programs you want. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/suites/FX101635841033.aspx
Oh – and the same way you can save on many single components like Word 2007 if you don’t need the full suite.

Move the pointer over the table until the table move handle appears.
Click the table move handle to select the table.
Under Table Tools, on the Layout tab, within the Data group, click Sort.
Select the options that you want from the Sort dialog box.