Insert a Screenshot in an MS Office document
I recently had someone email me with a question about one of the Weekly Tips. Helpfully, they included a screenshot so I could see what they were talking about. I …
Calendars from Office Online
With 2018 upon us you may be looking for a calendar to use this year. Rather than creating one yourself, I suggest having a look at the free calendars available …
My favourite tips of 2017
As this will be the last tip of the year I thought I’d highlight some of my favourite tips from 2017. If you joined the list part way through the …
Setting the default format when you paste in MS Word
When you paste text into a Word document you have options for how the text is formatted. The choices are: Keep Source Formatting – preserves the look of the original …
Using Word’s Selection Pane to manage multiple graphics on a page
While most Word documents are primarily all text, some may contain graphics such as SmartArt, pictures, shapes or screenshots. If some of the pages in your document contain several graphics, …
Open a file as Read-Only
Let’s say you have a budget in Excel that is the final version but you want to open it and do a few casual ‘what if’ projections with it. As …
Using Word’s built-in Thesaurus
As you work away in Word, do you find yourself sometimes mentally searching for just the right word? None of the words you can think of really capture the essence …
Repeat a table heading on subsequent pages in Word
Tables in Word are a great way to organize columns and rows of data. However, if a table spans more than one page, Word does not display the table headings …
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, …