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There may be times when you will find it necessary to sort a data list on something other than the alphabet. You can define a custom list of elements on which to base the criteria for a sort. Excel provides a built-in custom sort routine that lists ... months in their chronological order from January to December. Other lists can be created from an existing range of cells or simply entered on the Custom Lists tab of the Options dialog box. Follow the steps below to see how it works: Choose Tools | Options. The Options dialog box opens. Click on the Custom Lists tab. Choose New List in the Custom ... (view more)

Creating a document is as easy as starting Word and typing text. If you choose, you can work with Word's default settings. However, many documents require different layouts. It's important to know how to change the settings so that you can change ... the way the text looks on the page. If you haven't changed the settings in your Normal template, you'll find the defaults (in the U.S. version of Word) to include top and bottom margins set to 1 inch, left and right margins at 1.25 inches, header and footer margins at .5 inches, gutter position left, paper size is 8.5X11 inches, portrait page ... (view more)

Pdftk If PDF is electronic paper, then pdftk is an electronic staple-remover, hole-punch, binder, secret-decoder-ring, and X-Ray-glasses. Pdftk is a command-line tool for doing everyday things with PDF documents. Keep one in the top drawer of your ... desktop and use it to merge PDF Documents, Split PDF Pages into a New Document, Decrypt Input as Necessary (Password Required), Encrypt Output as Desired, Fill PDF Forms with FDF Data and/or Flatten Forms, Apply a Background Watermark, Report on PDF Metrics such as Metadata, Bookmarks, and Page Labels, Update PDF Metadata, Attach Files to PDF Pages ... (view more)

Smart Data Recovery Smart Data Recovery is a data recovery tool for Windows operating system that supports the FAT and NTFS file systems. The software easily recovers data from hard disks, digital cameras, and any type of storage media, including: ... flash drives, USB drives, memory stick, PC card, multimedia card, secure digital card and diskette. http://www.smartpctools.com/recovery/ Black Box Black Box is a steganography application hides a hidden message in plain sight. BlackBox makes use of a single Bitmap to hide any written message. This secret message can be concealed within the image ... (view more)

There are plenty of tools you can rely on to perform sophisticated or complex calculations, but MS Word offers a command that can be handy when you just need to sum a few numbers without opening another software application. The command is Tools | ... Calculate, and although it doesn't appear on any toolbars, it's very easy to add. Choose Tools | Customize (or double-click an empty spot on any tool bar) to open the Customize dialog box. Click the Commands tab and choose All Commands from the Categories list box. Click in the Commands list box and scroll down to select ToolsCalculate Drag the ... (view more)

The Paste Special command can also be used to link an Excel worksheet. In contract to embedding, linking sets up a link between the worksheet cells in the document and the original Excel worksheet source. The MS Word document holds an image of the ... Excel worksheet and a shortcut to it but not an actual copy of the worksheet. Because of the link, any changes in the original are automatically reflected in the MS Word document. The advantage to linking the worksheet is that if the source worksheet in Excel changes, the values are automatically updated in the Word document. If you make a change in ... (view more)

You can type today's date quickly by using MS Word's AutoComplete. Word's nifty feature that anticipates what you're trying to do and types it for you. You can also insert the date and time from the menu bar. If you can't remember the date, it's not ... a problem. The computer keeps track and inserts the correct date for you. The way you insert the date depends on whether you plan to print this document once or use it regularly. Need to put a time stamp on a document? There's no need to look at your watch and type it by hand. For a One-Time Use Follow these steps to type today's date in a ... (view more)

Although tables are used to present text that must remain in side-by-side columns, they would be clumsy to use when creating a newsletter. MS Word provides a different feature that lets you create "snaking" or newspaper-style columns, where the text ... flows down the page in a narrow column and then continues to the next column. To establish this multi-column format, you'd use the Columns button in Word. Newspaper-style columns are used whenever you have a lot of text to fit on a page, particularly a large page. If the pages were printed in long lines that ran the width of the page, ... (view more)

Are you looking for a great way to get a 'Yes' or 'No' decision from an end user using Excel? In that case, try presenting your question in the form of a Check Box. If the user selects the box, the answer is Yes. You can store the result of the ... decision as a value in a cell and use that value in your code or calculations. To see how the check box works: Open a blank worksheet Go to View | Toolbars, and choose Forms. Click the Check Box tool once, and click and drag in the worksheet to draw a check box. When you release, click the Forms toolbar's Control Properties tool, or right-click the new ... (view more)

Whether you're working at home or at a remote location, the steps below will make administrating MS Word a breeze by placing commonly used controls at your fingertips. In this lesson, you'll learn how to: Always show full menus Show the Standard and ... Formatting toolbars on two rows List Font Names in their own font Show Screen Tips on toolbars Below are the steps to make that happen: Open Word if you haven’t already done so and Click on Tools and select Customize. In the dialog box that opens, select the Options tab. Make sure there is a check mark next to Always show full menus. Check ... href="/news/1145/show-full-menus-and-organize-toolbars-ms-word" class="more-link">view more)