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Were you aware that you can select which symbols you use for outlines? No? Well you can even change them to your own symbols if you like. There are many default symbols that ship with MS Word for outlines that you can use, aside from the usual ... numbers and letters, but you can personalize your outlines so that they stand out! Follow the steps below: Click on Format | Bullets and Numbering. You will see a dialog box that allows you to select which symbols you would like to use. If you select any format except None, you will notice that the Customize button is enabled. Click Customize and you ... (view more)

Many times you make the same changes to multiple sheets in an Excel Workbook. Perhaps you would like to change the column widths or apply special formatting to a range of cells in several sheets. Creating a group of selected sheets allows you to ... perform the task just once, thereby saving time and narrowing the margin for errors. There are several ways to select several sheets to create a multi-sheet selection: To select contiguous sheets, follow the steps below: Click a sheet tab. Click Shift and keep it depressed while clicking a second sheet tab. Excel will select both clicked sheets and ... (view more)

Several people have asked me how to save all of their attachments at one time in MS Outlook. It really isn't as difficult as one might think. Of course you want to save all of your attachments in your e-mail, but it is a real pain in the neck to ... open each and every e-mail and save each attachment isn't it? Well I am going to tell you a way to speed up the process and eliminate the stress. . Follow the steps below to learn how: Select the e-mail that has the attachments you want to save. Click on File. Select Save Attachments from the menu. From the sub-menu that appears, click All Attachments ... (view more)

MS Word's Borders and Shading feature allows you to control exactly where to place a border in a document. For example, let's say you want only your title page to have a border along the left and right margins. Follow the steps below to make it ... happen: Select the title page. Go to Format | Borders and Shading. On the Page Border tab, select a setting. Decide on your formatting by making selections from the Line Style, Art, Width, and Color drop-down lists. In the Preview section, click the buttons to turn off the border at the top and bottom margins. Select This Section - First Page Only from ... (view more)

You may want to use Option buttons in MS Excel when there are a small number of options from which to choose. Option buttons are added by using the Forms toolbar. If the Forms toolbar is not visible, right-click on a toolbar and in the resulting ... shortcut menu, select Forms. Follow the steps below to learn how to add these buttons to your worksheet: From the Forms toolbar, click and drag the Option Button to place it in your worksheet. Select and delete the text in the box. While holding down your ALT key, drag the Option Button to the appropriate cell. Select the Option Button in edit format ... (view more)

Lord alone knows that I am forever correcting grammar in documents even though MS Word has tried to fix it for me! If you have that same complaint, I can show you how to pick and choose which grammar rules MS Word uses to check your documents! ... Follow the steps below: Click on Tools | Options. Click on the Spelling and Grammar tab. You can now select or deselect your options. You can use the drop-down list and choose to have MS Word check either Grammar Only or Grammar and Style. Click on Settings. If you select Grammar Only, you will only get the grammar portion and if you select Grammar and ... (view more)

Why would you want to set up Sheet1 in your workbook and have it set up perfectly the way you want it only to have to do it all over again for Sheet2 and Sheet3? Well of course you wouldn't want to do that! And the good news is that you don't have ... to! To quickly copy formulas, labels or formats from a single worksheet to a group of sheets within a workbook, follow the steps below: Select the sheet that contains the data you want to appear in each sheet. Use CTRL + Click or Shift + Click to select the group of sheets to which you want to add the data. Select the data itself and click the Fill ... (view more)

This tips sounds fairly innocuous but believe it or not, there is some information in here about selecting your text in MS Word that you may not have been aware of: Follow the steps below to see if there is something YOU didn't know about: To select ... a word, double-click your left mouse button on the word. To select a sentence, hold down CTRL and single click your left mouse button on the sentence. To select a line of text on the screen, single-click with your left mouse button in the left screen margin at the line you want to select. To select a paragraph, triple-click your left mouse button ... (view more)

When you enter text into your Word document other than English, chances are Word will not recognize it and will interpret it as misspelled. If it is necessary for you to have sections of non-English text within your English-language Word documents, ... then you know how annoying it is when Word checks the spelling of the non-English text using its English dictionary. Word is programmed to automatically proofread your document for the language version that is installed on your computer. If you purchased your licensed copy of MS Word in the United States, your text will all be marked as English (U. ... (view more)

Your boss has just dropped a memo on your desk with a note attached asking you to analyze information contained in a company database and create a report for him to use at the annual meeting later in the week. Only problem is, the report is an ... Access database and you don't have MS Access installed on your computer! Now what?? You don't want to tell your boss that he will have to ask someone else to take care of this, right? I have the answer for you! You don't have to own MS Access; MS Excel can step in and take care of this problem for you. That's right, you can use MS Excel to open the ... (view more)