Carol Bratt

To read a note, you can double-click it to open the "Note" window or click the note and read the text under the icon. To change the content of a note, open it as just described and edit it the same way you would edit a text file. Keep in mind, ... however, that you have no formatting options; your notes are limited to plain text. To save your changes, simply close the "Note" window. Although you will probably create notes mainly for your own use, you might need to forward a note to a colleague. For example, a colleague might request a phone number or other contact information you have stored in a ... (view more)

Sometimes you create wide documents that you will print in Landscape mode in MS Word and then it is very bothersome that you have to keep scrolling left and right within your document all the time. You can try to overcome this inconvenience by ... following the steps below: From the View menu, click on Zoom. Word displays the Zoom dialog box. Make sure that the Page Width button is selected. Click on OK. This action will cause Word to reduce or increase the magnification that is applied to your document so that the entire width of your document will fit on the screen at one time. Depending on the ... (view more)

When you are working with a Chart in MS Graph, you may sometimes want to change how text appears on an axis, such as changing the text from horizontal to vertical. Fortunately, MS Graph has made it easy to accomplish. Follow the steps below: Select ... the axis where you want to change the text. You can do this by clicking on the axis with your mouse. You can also right-click on the axis and select Format Axis. Choose Selected Axis from the Format menu. MS Graph will display the Format Axis dialog box. Be sure that the Alignment tab has been selected. Specify an orientation for the text in ... (view more)

Microsoft Graph is a basic graphing program that is included with MS Word. It has the ability to view your graph data in both spreadsheet and graph formats. The graphs you create are capable of including gridlines if you wish. The grid lines make it ... visually easier to understand the data being presented in your chart. You are in control of how your chart grid lines are displayed. Follow the steps below: From the Chart menu, select Chart Options. Microsoft Graph will display the Chart Options dialog box. Make sure the Gridlines tab is selected. Use the check boxes to select which gridlines are ... (view more)

Sometimes when you are preparing a report you would like to add a chart to your document. The good news is that you can, and it is also very easy to do. Follow the steps below to create your chart in MS Word: On the Insert menu, click Object. Click ... the Create New tab. In the Object type box, click Microsoft Graph Chart. Click OK. To replace the sample data, follow these steps: Click a cell on the datasheet. Type the new text or numbers. If necessary, you can import data from a text file, a Lotus 1-2-3 file, or an MS Excel worksheet. You can also copy data from another program. To return to MS ... (view more)

Outlook stamps each note with the date and time you created it and displays this information at the bottom of the note window . This date and time remain until you modify the note by adding or removing text. Then Outlook replaces the original date ... and time with the date and time you modified the text and stores this information with the note. Simply opening and reading a note does not change its time stamp. If you need to modify the note but retain the original time stamp, create a copy of the note and modify the copy. Drag the note to another location in the Notes folder to create the copy. ... (view more)

You can analyze the data in Excel by creating high/low lines for your data charts, allowing you to easily view parameters in a given range. High/low lines are most often found in stock market charts. They help to point out how close actual values ... came to the goal points. You will need at least two data series to add high/low lines to connect the maximum data point in a category with its corresponding minimum point. For example, you can use high/low lines to compare actual expenses against projected expenses. Follow the steps below to learn how to add High/low lines in MS Excel: Open the line ... (view more)

The default behavior of the Enter key drives some Excel folks crazy. When you press Enter, some users would prefer that the cursor to move to the next cell on the right, while other folks prefer the cursor to move down. Fortunately, MS Excel can ... accommodate these preferences and more. To change the way Excel reacts after Enter is pressed follow the steps below: Go to Tools | Options. Select the Edit tab. Click the Move Selection After Enter checkbox to activate the Direction drop-down list. In the drop-down list, select from the following options: Down Right Up Left If you prefer that the ... (view more)

You can assign categories to notes, just as you can to any other Outlook item. Categorizing helps you organize your notes, particularly if you choose to view your Notes folder by category. You can assign multiple categories to each note. For ... example, you might assign a project category to a notes, a well as an Urgent category. Follow the steps below to assign categories to a note: Right-click the note and choose Categories, or select the note and choose Edit | Categories. In the Categories dialog box, select the applicable categories. If you do not see the categories you need, click Master ... (view more)

Beginning with Word 2002, Microsoft added the ability to quickly format a word as bold or italic. To format a word as bold while you are typing, simply start with an asterisk, type the word, and end with an asterisk: If you type "make this ... *bold*,"the word "bold" will become bold and Word will remove the asterisks. To format a word as Italic, use underscores instead of asterisks, as typed below. Make this _italic_ This feature is not turned on by default. To enable this automatic formatting feature, follow the steps below: Click on Tools | AutoCorrect Options. On the AutoFormat As You Type ... (view more)