Carol Bratt

When you move around in your worksheet, you most likely use the arrow keys or the Page Up and Page Down keys. Those keys get the job done, but you are selecting a different cell as you move around. To find out how to scroll and keep the current cell ... selected, follow the steps below: Press the Scroll Lock key Use the arrow or Page Up/Down keys. When you are finished, be sure to press the Scroll Lock key again to toggle this functionality off. Follow these steps to quickly return to your original cell: Use the Edit | Go To command (or Ctrl + G). Choose the Special button (or Alt + S), then ... (view more)

We all know that if we want to copy formatting from one paragraph to another, we simply Highlight the formatting we want to copy and click on the Format Painter and then drag it across the paragraphs where we want the same formatting. But if you ... double-click on the Format Painter icon, it extends the functionality and you can use it repeatedly without moving your cursor to that point from where we want to copy your format. The icon will remain "pressed." Once you are finished copying formatting, click on the Format Painter again or press Esc to turn off the function. When you become a member ... (view more)

One of my subscribers wrote to me recently asking: "How can I create an e-mail and schedule it to send to the recipient at a later time?" The answer is simple. Just follow the steps below: Launch MS Outlook if it is not already running. Create your ... e-mail message. With the message still open, click Options in the toolbar. Choose Do Not Deliver Before. Set the date. Click Close. Send the message. Take a look at the other options while you're at 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: ... (view more)

When you tab in MS Word you will notice that the default tab is set to 0.5 inches. You do have some leeway in changing your tab settings though. You can set your tabs by following the steps below: Click on Format | Tabs. Set your tab stops. Click ... Close. You can pretty much set your tabs the way you want using this method, without having to keep hitting 'tab' to get where you want to be. Having said that, you really do not have precise control of your tabs. That is to say, you cannot decide and set your tabs with a precise measurement. There is one way that I have found where you can achieve ... (view more)

When you uses Styles in Microsoft Word, you can see the style of the currently selected paragraph in the Style dropdown list on the Formatting toolbar. To see what style is applied to a paragraph, you may click the paragraph and look at the list on ... the toolbar. When you receive a document from someone else, whether it be someone in your office or someone from a remote location, wouldn't it be nice if you could instantly see what styles used for each paragraph in the document? Well you can, and I am going to tell you just how to accomplish that. I have been told by folks who work on Help Desks ... (view more)

Kim had a term paper due and it had forty end notes. Then her professor decided that he would rather have footnotes. Fortunately, Word is flexible when it comes to whether a note is a footnote or an endnote. You cannot convert all of them at one ... time, but convert them you can! The way you convert them is not really intuitive, but follow the steps below and you will learn: If you are working in Normal view, select Footnotes from the View menu. If you have both footnotes and endnotes defined in your document, Word displays the View Footnotes dialog box. Click your mouse on the type of note from ... (view more)

You've just graduated and it's time to send out the old resume and find a job. What to do?? Fear not. Microsoft Word software can take the work and worry out of this situation for you. If you have an Internet connection, you can choose from dozens ... of resume templates on the Microsoft Office Online Web site. You can also create your own resume using the Wizard. Follow the steps below to find out how to do both: Using a template from Office Online: Click on File | New. In the New Document task pane, under Templates, click Templates on Office Online. Search for resume. Using the Wizard: Click on ... (view more)

Sometimes you want to be careful to use gender-neutral words in your documents. Word's grammar checker offers an option that will underline words that violate this gender neutrality with a green squiggly line, similar to what it does for sentence ... fragments, run-on sentences, and other grammar misfits. To ask Word to check for gender-specific terms such as 'policeman', follow the steps below: In Word 2002/2003: Choose Tools | Options from the main menu. Go to Spelling ... (view more)

Have you ever wished that you could have a folder in Word with all of the envelopes that you use all the time so you could just click on it and print it out? Well guess what - you can! This is actually easier than you might have thought if you have ... tried it some other way. Type the information for your envelope and then highlight it and click on the envelope icon on your toolbar or click on Tools | Letters and Mailing and select the envelope tab. Next click on Add to Document. Now you will see the envelope on your screen with the sheet of paper below it on your screen. With the insertion ... (view more)