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Archive for the ‘Cut, Copy & Paste’ Category

Word 2007: How to Use the Format Painter

Friday, August 15th, 2008

The Format Painter is a tool that allows you to copy formatting from text to text, or from one graphic or table to another. You can copy formatting between documents, too. It will copy text and paragraph formatting. It's a tool I go to when numbered or bulleted lists don't ...

Paste Expandable Excel Data into Word 2007

Monday, June 16th, 2008

This is how to paste data from Excel into Word when you want the pasted data to expand when the original data does. When you paste a link to a block of cells in an Excel worksheet, the data in Word will update when the Excel data changes, but it ...

Word 2007: Keyboard Shortcuts for Cut, Copy, and Paste

Friday, June 13th, 2008

The easy way to remember which keys are for Cut, Copy and Paste is in their location on the keyboard: X C and V are all next to each other. Add Ctrl and you know all you need to. Add to those that Ctrl + Z is Undo, and you ...

Continuing Numbered Lists in Word 2007

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Creating numbered lists in Word is terrifically easy; click the Numbering button, start typing the list, Word automatically numbers each item after you push Enter, push Enter twice (or click the Numbering button) to stop numbering. But, you may occasionally need to create lists where the numbering needs to continue ...

New Paste Options in Word 2007

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

If you do much copying and pasting into Word from email or web pages, this is an option you'll appreciate. In all Word versions, the default action was to paste text in the format it was originally in, in the case of web pages and email that would be HTML. ...

Get More Control when Dragging and Dropping Files

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

Dragging and dropping files to move them from or onto a USB drive or from folder to folder is not hard to do. You can control whether you move, copy, or create a shortcut, by holding the following keys at any time while dragging, but before you release the mouse ...

New Commands in Word 2007

Friday, February 1st, 2008

Most everything on the Ribbon isn't new to Word 2007, but was redesigned to be more accessible. Here are a few useful commands that are on the Home tab, but could still be easily missed: In the Clipboard group: Paste special - very useful when pasting from web pages or email; allows ...