Carol Bratt

Once you are finished editing your long document in MS Word, you will most likely want to delete any bookmarks you have created. Follow the steps below to learn how: Click the Insert tab on the Office Ribbon. In the Links section, click on Bookmark. ... Select the Bookmark you would like to delete. Click Delete. Poof! Your Bookmarks are now gone! When you become a member at CarolsCornerOffice.com, you have access to this and many, many more articles that include screenshots. Don't delay: visit us today! (view more)

In an earlier article, I covered creating bookmarks in MS Word 2007 . Today, I will cover opening those bookmarks that you created. Once you have inserted bookmarks in your MS Word documents, you can open them very easily, which will make document ... navigation a breeze for you. Follow the steps below to learn how: Click the Insert tab on the Ribbon. Click Bookmark in the Links section. Select the name of the Bookmark you would like to open. Click Go To. Your navigation will now be much easier in your long documents. When you become a member at CarolsCornerOffice.com, you have access to this and ... (view more)

When you are working on a long document in MS Word, it can be problematic trying to navigate to where you want to be. It can be difficult and time consuming when you want to return to a specific location in your document for editing purposes. The ... latest version of MS Word, 2007, however, allows you to bookmark specific parts of your document. Follow the steps below to learn how: Select the portion of your document where you would like to place a bookmark. On the Ribbon, click the Insert tab. Click Bookmark in the Links Section. Click Add. You will find that this feature saves you lots of time ... (view more)

Adding a new column to an MS Excel table is as easy as falling off a log! Follow the steps below: Place a formula, such as SUM, in the first cell of a new data column. That formula is then automatically applied to all the cells in that column, which ... can also be sorted and filtered. Add another column and use a different formula, such as AVERAGE, to create a column that leaves out the SUM totals you already added. Very simple isn't it? When you become a member at CarolsCornerOffice.com, you have access to this and many, many more articles that include screenshots. Don't delay: visit us today! (view more)

In the latest version of MS PowerPoint, you are able to view your presentation and edit it at the very same time. This is an extremely useful feature in my estimation. Sometimes you cannot really judge whether a presentation is effective until you ... see it in action. Follow the steps below to learn how to utilize this great 2007 PowerPoint feature: Click on the View tab and depress and hold the Control key as you click the Slideshow button. This will now display the presentation in the top left of the screen, allowing you to move between viewing your presentation and editing it. When you become ... (view more)

Not too long ago, a reader wrote to me asking if there was a way to quickly see if Keep With Next was in use in a paragraph in an MS Word document. I answered the reader with an article explaining how to have your Show/Hide feature activated to see ... the non-printing characters in a document so that you can see whether or not Keep with Next is in use. One of our cutting-edge readers has responded with a quicker, even easier method: In MS Word 2007, you can add the "Para Keep w/ Next" formatting command button added to your toolbar. If the specific formatting is in use, the ... (view more)

While doing some research for a reader's recent query regarding automatic recalculation in the MS Excel Status Bar, not only did I find an answer for the reader, I also found an alternative method of watching the recalculation without using the ... Status Bar in MS Excel 2007. Turns out you can take a picture link of a cell and place that picture link any place you like in your Workbook. When the cell changes, it will show the change in the picture link. You can use either of the two methods below: You can use the Paste Picture Link command after copying the cell of interest You can scroll ... (view more)

Recently a reader wrote to me with an inquiry: " I have an MS Excel 2007 workbook with multiple worksheets. As I go from sheet to sheet, I want the value of one particular cell on my front sheet to be displayed in the status bar so I can watch it ... re-calculate as I make changes in the other sheets. Is this possible? I have seen it before, but do not know how they did it. Thank you so much. " My Reply: I did not have a ready answer for your inquiry regarding an automatic calculation showing in the status bar in MS Excel. I did, however, consult some experts on your behalf and this is ... (view more)

A reader recently wrote in and inquired: " Is there a way to see if keep with next is checked without actually going into the paragraph menu? Are there any formatting marks for it? " My reply: Yes, there are non-printing characters that signify when ... text is designated as "Keep With Next." A bold square will appear next to the text that is to be kept together. Please note that you must have your Show/Hide feature activated to see the non-printing characters in your document, which I recommend to everyone to always have activated. To activate the Show/Hide feature, click on the pilcrow icon on ... (view more)