The popularity of working with distributed teams has increased exponentially over the past several years, and speaking from experience, I can say that it’s the way to go. I’ve worked in a real office before, but for the last six or so years, I’ve done all of my work from home with companies all over [...]
Each page in Word is divided into an invisible grid. When you create an object, it is lined up against the nearest gridlines.
If you have a difficult time lining up drawing objects in Word, you can display the drawing gridlines to tweak positioning. The drawing gridlines are the thin lines that appear on your [...]
Microsoft Word is designed to make it very simple for us to create a word document because it corrects some of our spelling and grammar mistakes as we are typing along. This makes it easier for you to focus on content instead of so much on correcting what you type.
As with most things in Word, [...]
Word documents include scroll bars along the right side and bottom. The scroll bars let you control what part of a document you are viewing. For example, you can use the scroll bar along the right side to move to the end of a document.
If you rarely use a mouse when you are working [...]
When you use the Drawing toolbar, you have to click the same toolbar shape each time you want to add the same shape to your document. For example, if I want to add three rectangles, I have to click the Rectangle button each time I add a rectangle.
It would be much easier if you [...]
Readers are always sharing their favorite Office keyboard shortcuts with me. Given that I spend a lot of time working in Office applications, I find all these shortcuts very useful. Recently, someone shared another keyboard shortcut with me for centering a paragraph.
If you need to center a paragraph in Word, you would click the [...]
Keyboard shortcuts are a great way of performing little tasks more easily. Instead of having to reach for your mouse, you can press two or three keystrokes. You can use many different keystrokes when working in Excel. Below are some keystrokes used for performing common tasks.
CTRL+SHIFT+O — Selects all cells that contain comments
CTRL+P — Opens [...]
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could collect multiple blocks of text and then paste them into a Word document when you are ready, as opposed to continuously flipping between windows? It is possible to do with Microsoft Word. In fact, Word 2002 and 2003 let you copy up to 24 blocks of text to [...]
Since I’m self-employed, I work by myself on a lot of occasions, but there are times when I’m required to work with a group of people. This is difficult enough when you’re all in the same office, but when I’m one place and everyone else is somewhere else, additional challenges can come up. Of course, [...]
A distribution list (DL) is a grouping of contacts. It gives you a quick and easy way to send a message to a group of people. If you use Outlook as your e-mail client, you can create your own distribution lists. You may want to create a list that contains e-mail addresses of family members, [...]
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