You can change the background color of Microsoft Word from White to Blue.
How to update the Date automatically when you open Microsoft Word 2003
How to update the Date automatically when you open Microsoft Word 2003.
Archive of posts filed under the Tricks category.
How to Add Special Effects to your Next Business Report
How to Animate Text in a Word Document
How to Improve Readability on Laptops and HD Flat Panel Displays
This free download from MS “delivers improved font display quality over traditional forms of font smoothing or anti-aliasing. ClearType improves readability on color LCD displays with a digital interface, such as those in laptops and high-quality flat panel displays. Readability on CRT screens can also be somewhat improved.
5 Tips for Keyboard Fanatics & Time Poor Tech Writers
Donationcoder continue their excellent series of products with TapTap Hotkey Extender, a tiny super-efficient tray-based utility (under <100k) for keyboard fanatics.
MS Office 2010, New Mini Translator feature
Microsoft have introduced a Mini Translator in Office 2010 that provides on-the-fly translation as you select a word or phrase and provides dictionary definitions of individual words.
New Wikipedia of Organization Charts
No Inc have taken AJAX and “Web 2.0-ness” to create CogMap, which is a terrific Wikipedia of organization charts.
Their own site is an organization chart wiki! This means that it is a collection of organization charts online that anyone can edit, add to, and help maintain.
How to Quickly Reduce Microsoft Word File Size – Secret #1
Ever had your Microsoft Word file explode from 1MB to 10MB in just a few minutes? In the tech writing world, Microsoft Word tends to get a bad rap.
One of the arguments put against Word is that its fairly unstable and prone to creating ‘horrors’, such as bloating in size until your (Microsoft!) operating system [...]
When is a Word document not a document?
When is a Word document not a document?
Review The Office 2007 UI Bible
Review The Office 2007 UI Bible
Visio Hyperlink Problem in Internet Explorer 7
Visio Hyperlink Problem in Internet Explorer 7
Word 2003 Tip – How to Zoom in and out of your documents
You know the feeling. You’ve been working hard on the computer all day. It gets hard to read anything. You could change the text size by using the Zoom control’s drop-down menu on the Toolbar… but even that’s too much hard work.
How to Change the Windows Desktop Theme
Like its brother-in-arms, the Screensaver, the Windows Desktop Themes eat away at your computer’s memory. Unless you really need them, uninstall! You’ll have a much quicker and more reliable machine.To change or remove desktop themes, follow these steps:
On the Desktop, right-click and click Properties.
Click the Themes tab.
3. In the Theme box, select the theme [...]
Word 2003 Tip – How to Change the Background Color in a Word Document
The bright white text area of most word processors can become a quite tiring on the eyes after a few hours. You can of course jiggle the brightness and contrast settings on your monitor but a far better solution is to give your blank pages a light grey tint.
Open Word so that you can judge [...]
How to Use Replace and Find in Word
What’s the quickest way to delete text?
Forget the backspace or delete keys. Instead, try this:
Select the block of text you want to delete and CONTINUE TYPING.
Word automatically deletes the text when you start to type.
