Archive for the ‘Customize’ Category
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
Here the positive things about Quick Parts:
It can be anything you use repeatedly in Word documents, and can be made up of any document part, like graphics, text, tables or fields, or any combination of those things.
Nothing to remember, you can insert them through a menu.
Easy to create ...
Posted in Building Blocks, Customize, Fields & Quick Parts, Word 2007 | 5 Comments »
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
If you work on multiple Word documents at a time, having the Save All command easily accessible can be a terrific time saver. Save All will save all your open Word documents in one click. Using it to save everything you're working on before you exit out of Word will ...
Posted in Customize, File Related, Word 2007 | No Comments »
Monday, August 25th, 2008
In the Save As dialog box in Word, the left-hand navigation bar shows a few locations where you might save a file. This bar can be customized to display the folders you frequently save to with the following steps:
Use the Save In box to go to the folder you want ...
Posted in Customize, File Related, Word 2007 | 2 Comments »
Monday, August 11th, 2008
This is for those Word, Excel or PowerPoint users who find that they repeatedly make the same formatting changes to the Shapes (Insert tab, Illustrations group, Shapes) or the Text Boxes (Insert tab, Text group, Text Box) they use. These are the steps to change the default format for either ...
Posted in Clipart & Graphics, Customize, Excel 2007, Text Boxes & Shapes, Text boxes, Word 2007 | 2 Comments »
Friday, July 25th, 2008
If you are a frequent Word user, you probably have created some templates that you use on a regular basis. This article will outline a way to make your templates easier to open, without having to open Word first. What you'll do is create a shortcut on your Windows desktop ...
Posted in Customize, File Related, Templates, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Word 2007 | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
Here’s how to create a keyboard shortcut that will insert a symbol.
In the Insert tab, Symbols group, click Symbol, then More Symbols…
In the Symbol box, choose the Font: that the symbol is from (like Symbol or Wingdings). Find the symbol you want to use and single click to select it. ...
Posted in Customize, Shortcut Keys, Special Characters & Symbols, Word 2007 | 2 Comments »
Thursday, June 12th, 2008
Themes (found in the Page Layout tab, Themes group) allow you to apply a consistent look to Word documents, and to easily change the overall look if needed. Word 2007 comes with a variety of themes, extra themes can be downloaded from the Microsoft web site, and you can create ...
Posted in Building Blocks, Customize, Styles, Word 2007 | 3 Comments »
Friday, May 30th, 2008
I am a big fan of Word’s AutoCorrect feature: anything that can easily correct my common mistypes and spelling mistakes is my friend. In case you’re not familiar with it, AutoCorrect works by identifying characters you type, which are followed by a space, enter, or tab, and replacing what you ...
Posted in Customize, Proofing Tools, Word 2007 | 3 Comments »
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
AutoText can be a handy feature for when you have lots of boilerplate text to use in a project. It’s a lot like using Quick Parts, but AutoText can only be located on the Quick Access Toolbar, so it’s always visible with changing tabs (you could put a shortcut to ...
Posted in Building Blocks, Customize, Fields & Quick Parts, Word 2007 | 11 Comments »
