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 …
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 …
Use F5 to start your Slide Show in PowerPoint
Have you ever been in a business meeting and you see the presenter open a PowerPoint file and then struggled to launch the presentation. You can use the Slide Show …
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 …
How to Reduce the Number of Fonts Used in a PowerPoint Presentation
To make your PowerPoint presentation as effective as possible you want the formatting to be very consistent. If you have imported slides from other presentations or if several people have …
How to compress pictures to reduce the size of your PowerPoint presentation file
If you include a large number of pictures in a PowerPoint presentation you may find the size of the file balloons as each picture can be several megabytes in size. Compressing …
Keyboard shortcut to run a presentation in PowerPoint
Let’s say you are developing a presentation in PowerPoint and you want to see what the slides will actually look like when you run the presentation. No need to use …
How do I move a shape on a PowerPoint slide but keep it in the same vertical or horizontal plane?
If you have a picture or shape on a slide in PowerPoint, you may sometimes want to only move it in the same vertical or horizontal plane. How do you …