Carol Bratt

Many people utilize the Envelopes and Labels feature of MS Word to create their own envelopes. One of the most often overlooked features of this tool, however, is Word’s ability to print delivery point bar codes on your envelopes. The delivery point b ...arcode is used by the sorting machines at the United States Postal Service to help route mail more efficiently. Depending upon what you’re mailing, you can save money on your postage by printing the delivery point barcode on an envelope. To learn more about saving money using this feature, you may visit the US Postal Service website ...ref="/news/1148/print-delivery-point-barcodes-envelopes-ms-word" class="more-link">view more)

Whether you're working at home or at a remote location, the steps below will make administrating MS Word a breeze by placing commonly used controls at your fingertips. In this lesson, you'll learn how to: Always show full menus Show the Standard and ... Formatting toolbars on two rows List Font Names in their own font Show Screen Tips on toolbars Below are the steps to make that happen: Open Word if you haven’t already done so and Click on Tools and select Customize. In the dialog box that opens, select the Options tab. Make sure there is a check mark next to Always show full menus. Check ... href="/news/1145/show-full-menus-and-organize-toolbars-ms-word" class="more-link">view more)

When you click your Start button, Windows XP by default, displays two columns. On the left, you see programs, etc. Then you see a faint horizontal bar, followed by a list of recently used programs. On the right, you see locations – Microsoft Office, M ...y Documents and lots of other “stuff.” Now if you’re an advanced Windows user, you might know that you can put any program you want at the top of the left side of the Start menu by navigating to the program, right-clicking on it and choosing Pin to Start Menu. This works no matter how you get to the program. Any way that ..."/news/1134/start-menu-goodies-windows-xp" class="more-link">view more)

One of the most frustrating problems for Excel users is viewing all the information they need, especially because it often lives in different worksheets. Below is a simple way to view multiple sheets in one session. Launch Microsoft Excel (if it ... isn't already open). Choose New Window from the Window menu. If you don't see the Window menu, it just means that you have to use the down arrow because you aren't set up to see full menus. To correct that, click on Tools | Customize | Options Tab | and check Always show full menus. Repeat this process for each of the worksheets you want to display. ... (view more)

Here's a tip for all the legal secretaries and paralegals out there. Question: how many times has the attorney told you to prepare Interrogatories or Answers to Interrogatories? It takes a lot of time to type in the same word with a different number ... after it for each and every Interrogatory or Answer, doesn't it? Not any longer! Below are steps you can use to speed up this process and also give you an idea of how sequence fields work. Once you've mastered how to do this, I'm sure you'll find lots of different ways to use sequence fields in MS Word! Type Interrogatory and press the Spacebar. ... (view more)

MS PowerPoint has a feature called "Notes Pages", or "Speaker's Notes" (depending on which version you're using) that allows you to create printable pages that have notes or descriptive text associated with each slide. To view the Notes page for any ... slide, go to the View menu and select Notes Pages. You will see an image of your slide there, and a placeholder for adding your script, notes, or any other text you wish. You can cut-and-paste text from MS Word here if you like. To print these pages, bring up the Print dialog, and at the bottom of the dialog where it says ... (view more)

You've just started a new business and now you're going to be the keynote speaker at the Chamber of Commerce, trying to convince the townspeople to use your services. You then decide to put together a PowerPoint presentation with bullet points to ... convince folks that you're the best -- but how can you do it in such a way to show off your expertise? Of course! You need a Custom Template in PowerPoint -- one that will showcase your company logo, address, e-mail, phone number, and more! There are many reasons why you might want to have a custom template in PowerPoint. For example, you might want ... (view more)

Although sorting a list in MS Word seems like an obvious, simple task, many users aren't familiar with how to do it. Using the Sort Function, you can sort text, number, or date lists in Word. Here's how you can Sort a List in MS Word: Launch MS ... Word. Paste or create a list (of text, numbers, or dates). Highlight the entire list using the mouse. From the Table menu on the toolbar, click the Sort option; the Sort Text window will appear. Under the Sort By Field, make sure that Paragraphs is selected. Beside the type field, use the drop down arrow to select the type of data you want to sort. For ... (view more)

Have you ever needed to extract images from a PowerPoint presentation? For example: say you've been emailed a PowerPoint file with some bitmap (pictures) in it. You want to extract these images -- but more importantly, you want them in their ... original resolution. If you've tried copying the images to clipboard and pasting them into PhotoShop or PaintShop, then you probably know that the images won't appear the same as the original bitmaps. They are either too big or too small! Follow these steps to get the bitmaps in their original resolution: Select the image. Copy to the clipboard. Load ... (view more)

When you print a worksheet in Excel, do you find yourself adding the same header and footer and resetting the same print options every time? For example, suppose you require that all worksheets are printed with the company's custom header and set to ... print in landscape mode. Each time you create a workbook, you will need to change the default print settings, unless you create a custom template that will automatically give you the appropriate settings. Here's how to create a custom template: Launch MS Excel. Open a blank document; select all sheets. Go to File | Page Setup. In the Orientation ... (view more)