A quick way to change the font size in Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint
When working in Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint, I find I often want to increase or decrease the font size of some of the text by a size or two. …
How to bypass Cloud options when opening or saving a file in MS Office
In my experience, most organizations are still storing files on network drives rather than in the Cloud. In recent versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint, Microsoft has made the Cloud …
How to switch off the Start Screen in Work, Excel and PowerPoint
In the later versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint, Microsoft implemented a Start Screen which is displayed when you launch the program. The Start Screen has a list of recently …
How to add a Watermark to your Word document
In Word you can add a watermark, such as Confidential, Draft or Final Version, to your document. The watermark prints on every page in the document and it usually appears …
How to quickly select paragraphs in Word
Here’s a quick way to select paragraphs in Word. If you move your mouse pointer into the left margin it will change to a white arrowhead. As you probably know …
Use AutoCorrect to easily fix your common typos
AutoCorrect is a useful feature as it can fix common spelling and typing mistakes. It’s AutoCorrect that replaces hte with the and probelm with problem. What’s really handy about AutoCorrect …
How do you find out which colour is being used for a Font or Fill?
Sometimes I want to use a font or fill colour that is already in use in a document in other places in the document, so I want to find out …
Easily convert an older MS Office file format to the current format
A client recently sent me a word document with a list of attendees for an upcoming course. I was surprised to see the document was a .doc as this file …
What can you hyperlink to in a document?
As a follow-on to last week’s tip on creating a hyperlink to a web page, this week we are going to look at creating a hyperlink to another location in …
Quickly create a hyperlink in an email
If you often create hyperlinks to a web page, this week’s tip will come in useful. I use this the most in email messages but it works equally well in …