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If you ever have the need or desire to print several worksheets on one page in MS Excel, you can do it. Just follow the steps below. Choose Print from the File menu. Excel displays the Print dialog box. In the 'Print What' area of the dialog box, ... choose Entire Workbook. Click the Properties button. Excel displays the Properties dialog box for the printer. All printers are different so you will have to poke around a bit in your printer's properties to find the right place. With my printer, I select: Options. Paper Set Up. Then select Make Post or Many Pages on a Sheet. Set the Pages Per Sheet ... (view more)

After you insert a picture and have selected it, you can change it from colored to black and white, adjust the contract or alter the brightness of the image. You can use the toolbar or access the dialog box for more control. To use the mouse, follow ... these steps: To change a picture in one of the following ways, click the Image Control button and select one of the options: Automatic - Restores the picture's original colors. Grayscale - Shades of gray. Black and white - Changes your image to pure black and white. Watermark - Converts the picture to preset levels of brightness and color contrast ... (view more)

You have inserted a picture on your slide in PowerPoint and you can see straight away that although it is close to what you had wanted, it's not exactly they way you anted it either. Rather than repeating the process of searching for another picture ... and then inserting it, you can modify it to suit your specific needs. You can customize pictures and clip art in many ways. Below are some of the ways that you can do this: Resize to smaller or larger dimensions Scale or resize in proportion to the original Crop or trim off one or more edges Change to black and white or grayscale Increase or ... (view more)

One of the fastest ways to run a macro is to create a shortcut key for it. You don't need to put a button on your toolbar or even click anywhere. As a matter of fact, your hands don't even have to leave your keyboard! You can create a shortcut key ... to run a macro before you even record it. Follow the steps below to learn how. Choose Tools | Macro | Record New Macro or double-click REC on the Status bar. Enter the name for the macro. Click Keyboard to see the Customize Keyboard dialog box. Choose the macro name. Click the Press New Shortcut Key box. Press the key combination you want to use. If ... (view more)

You can customize Word by creating a button on a toolbar for a macro or command that you find yourself using more and more often. It is more efficient and much easier to use a toolbar button than to choose a macro from the dialog box or to choose a ... command from a menu, don't you agree? You can quickly create a button for a macro before you even begin recording. Follow the steps below to learn how: Choose Tools | Macro | Record New Macro or double-click REC on the status bar to begin recording a macro. Enter the name you want to call the macro. Click the Toolbars button to see the Customize ... (view more)

It's a fact: a clean install of Windows is *always* preferable to upgrading a new version over top of a previous Windows installation. Why is this so? The answer is three words: The Windows Registry. For example: when you install and uninstall ... programs to a Windows PC, things get added to the Registry -- the 'heart' of the Windows Operating System. The Registry is a complex database that keeps track of installed programs, program preferences, user data, operating system settings, and the like. However, over time, some programs may not install or uninstall properly, and the Registry becomes ... (view more)

Providing an indexed list of topics and terms along with the associated page number is a nice feature for books and some other documents that are longer than usual. Having said that, creating an index can be a pain! Luckily MS Word has made the task ... a bit easier because it keeps track of page numbers and sorts the entries for you. There are two steps involved in creating an index. First mark each index entry, the item you want to include in the index, and then compile the index. Doesn't sound so bad now does it? Your readers will love you because an index enables them to quickly find the ... (view more)

As you write a lengthy document, you may refer to the words or ideas of another person or company. So that the source for your facts, ideas and quotations in your document are evident, you should include some sort of citation. Sometimes you can do ... this briefly in the body of your document, by including the author and date of publication in parentheses, but sometimes footnotes or endnotes containing information are required. Footnotes are citations that appear at the bottom of the page above the margin, and endnotes are citations that are gathered to the end of the document. You can also use ... (view more)

After you've changed a picture into a floating object, you can further control how the text flows in relation to the picture. You can edit the wrap points to control how close the text wraps next to the picture. To do so: Click to select the ... picture. Click the Text Wrapping button and choose Edit Wrap Points. The picture is then surrounded with a red dashed outline with small black handles at each angle. To move the wrap point, click and drag it. To add a new wrap point, click anywhere on the red dashed line and drag. The text wrapping changes immediately. Click outside the picture to get rid ... (view more)

If you have a picture of your own, whether it's from a scanner, another clip art collection or from the Web, you can insert it into a document. Follow the easy steps below: Choose Insert | Picture | From File. Navigate using the dialog box until you ... see the file name. The dialog box resembles the Open dialog box. You may have to change folders or drives to the location where the file is stored. Click the file name to preview the image and double-click to insert it into your document. The picture is inserted into the document wherever the insertion point was located. Because the picture is ... (view more)