How to Select a Vertical Block of Text in Word
This week’s tips is one of those you may seldom use but on the rare occasions you need it it can be a real time-saver. Word has a useful feature …
How to Create Custom Dates Formats in Word
In some of the handouts I develop I want the month and year displayed on the cover of the document. So, for a handout I’m going to use this month, …
How to Zoom in when reading an Outlook email
Subscriber Jean K. asks ‘Is there a way in Outlook to zoom in to make the text in an email larger?’ If you have opened the message, as opposed to …
Keyboard shortcut to preview a file in File Explorer
As I’m working with File Explorer, or Windows Explorer as it is called in the earlier versions of Windows, I occasionally want to have a quick look at a file …
Use F4 to repeat the last command
If you occasionally find yourself in a Word document or Excel spreadsheet applying the same formatting to different parts of the file, then F4 will come in handy as it …
Print selected pages of a PDF
If you have a large PDF file you may occasionally want to only print some of the pages rather than the whole file. Maybe it’s a large report and you …
How to resize a Word table when changing a column’s width
As you likely know, you can change the width of a column in a Word table by dragging the column’s right border. When you drag the border, only the two …
How to prevent Word inserting the Copyright symbol in a document
Subscriber Cal J. asked ‘What to do when you want (c) rather than ©?’ You have couple of ways to approach this. If you sometimes want to use the c …
How to insert a Copyright or Trademark symbol in a document
Want to quickly add a copyright symbol, ©, or trademark symbol, ™, to a document? Just type (c) or ™ and Autocorrect will insert the symbols for you. This works …
Save your PowerPoint presentations as PowerPoint Shows so they are easy to launch
In last week’s tip we saw that you can use F5 to start a PowerPoint presentation once you have opened the file. While this works, I think a much better …