Making Email and Web addresses appear as Hyperlinks October 22, 2007
Posted by iawalsh in : Misc , add a commentQuestion: I used to be able to see e-mail and web addresses as hyperlinks when I used Word 2007. But now they are gone. What do I need to do to see these again.
Answer: Use Alt-F9 to switch between the two formats.
You probably did this by accident when using the Alt key for something else.
Word Eats My Text When Typing! October 18, 2007
Posted by iawalsh in : Misc , add a commentWord’s overtype feature lets you type over text you want to remove. Most people just delete the text and continue.
However, if you dont know about this feature what happens is this: as you type, the words you type delete the text in front of it. It eats up the words!
9 times out of 10 this is because Overtype was turned on by accident.
Overtype, as the name implies, types over other words.
You can tell if Overtype is turned on, by looking at the status bar (horizontal bar at bottom of screen) and seeing if OVR is turned on. How to turn off Overtype:
1. From the Tools menu, click Options, click the Edit tab, and then clear the Overtype mode checkbox.
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2. Double-click OVR on the status bar to turn it on or off.
MLA Style Essay Formatting Tutorial for MS Word October 16, 2007
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Use Diagnostics to Repair Microsoft Word September 18, 2007
Posted by iawalsh in : Misc, How do I ?, downloads , add a commentThe Diagnostics option replaces the Detect and Repair function you found in previous versions of Microsoft Office.
Use this to:
- Check for corrupt files and registry settings in MS Office.
- Check for hard disk issues.
- Verify your computer has latest service packs.
- Identify conflicting versions of Microsoft Office Outlook.
To run the Diagnostics in MS Word:
- Click Microsoft Office and then click Word Options.
- Click Resources.
- Click Diagnose.
- Click Continue and then click Start Diagnostics.
Before you do this, close all open programs, especially for memory and RAM testing.
MS Office Add-in: Microsoft Save as PDF or XPS September 18, 2007
Posted by iawalsh in : Misc , add a commentGet this download so you can export and save to PDF and XPS formats in eight 2007 Microsoft Office programs.
You can also send an e-mail attachment in the PDF and XPS formats in a subset of these programs.
Download from Microsoft site here
| Download Size: | 934 KB |
Most popular Word Tips in October March 27, 2007
Posted by iawalsh in : Misc , add a commentLooking at the site stats, the most popular searches for tips and tricks were these:
1. how to reduce file size
2. how to create boiler plate text
3. how to create drop caps
4. how to recover documents
5. how to automate writing and formatting
Let me know if you’ve got a question about Word and I’ll try to answer you.
Ivan
Does Technology Make Manager Lazy? March 27, 2007
Posted by iawalsh in : Misc , add a commentTechnology does not replace the need for good management.
Without such management, technology can create more problems than it solves.
It’s hard to resist the easy option. Buy this customer relationship management (CRM) software, and you will efficiently and cost-effectively be able to manage your customer relationships. Buy this content management software, and you will be able to efficiently and cost-effectively manage your content.
Software does not manage. People manage. Software is a tool that can help you manage better, but it is not a manager. It is not strategic. Before you can manage customer relationships, you have to have relationships with your customers.
A person recently told me that their CRM software was great for sending lots to email offers and other marketing material to their customers. To them, this was what CRM was all about:
cost-effectively deluging (spamming) their customers with marketing and sales pitches.
It amazes me the amount of organizations out there that still believe that to create a better intranet or public website, all they need to do is choose the right content management software.
These organizations are not thinking about the quality and effectiveness of the content. They’ll employ junior people to put up this content, and then a couple of years later they’ll wonder where it all went wrong.
I’ve yet to meet an organization that has successfully implemented personalization either for their intranet or their public website. This is not because the concept of personalization is wrong. Properly implemented, it is a very sophisticated and powerful way to give customers what they want.
There are many reasons it fails miserably, however. One of them is that organizations feel that all they need to do is install this fancy software, turn it on, and, hey presto, a wonderful website emerges. No need to worry about the quality of the content. No need to worry about how well it is structured and organized. The magic software looks after all that.
I once spoke with a consultant who told me about working with the British military. Years ago, if you were becoming an officer, you were sent on a course about managing your office.
Part of the course involved learning how to manage your filing cabinet.
Then computers came along and the course was scrapped. Think about it. A computer has at least 100 “filing cabinets”. You need training in managing content far more if you have a computer. But you don’t get it because of this irrational exuberance about what technology can do.
Modern organizations are not professionally managing their content. Senior management often abdicate responsibility. They think that the Web is a technology challenge that they can hand over to IT.
Content management will become one of the key management skills of the 21st century. That’s because we live in a content-driven world.
Technology can support strategy. It can support managers as they do their jobs. But technology is not a strategy, and it is certainly not management.
Gerry McGovern
mailto:gerry@gerrymcgovern.com
Content management solutions: Gerry McGovern
http://www.gerrymcgovern.com
Changing the Default Font in Word March 27, 2007
Posted by iawalsh in : Misc , add a commentWhen you open Word, it automatically chooses a font for you, usually Times Roman size 12.
But what if you want Word to start with a different font? How about Arial 11?
Well, the way to do this is to change the Normal.dot file, which is the template file that controls this setting. Normal.dot is Word’s default template.
1. Open Word.
2. Find the Normal.dot file. This is usually found in the Office folder.
3. Open Normal.dot.
Don’t open Normal.dot from Windows Explorer – it will simply create a copy of the template. Changing this will make no difference to Normal.dot’s settings.
4. Change the font type and size.
5. Save the file and close Word.
The next time you open Word, it will use the new fonts you selected.
Password Recovery Software for MS Office Files March 27, 2007
Posted by iawalsh in : Misc , add a commentAccent OFFICE Password Recovery helps recover lost or forgotten passwords for documents created in Microsoft Office applications, including Access, Excel, Word.
• Point and click mask configuration – Use the on-screen mask representation to specify the range of possible values individually for each position in the mask of password that will be generated.
• Smart dictionary-based attack – Specify parameters for modifying words taken from the dictionary, including changing the letter case, skipping characters, swapping neighboring characters, etc…
• Task Creation Wizard – Use the Task Creation Wizard to easily create a password search task The Wizard leads the user step by step through all stages of creating a task.
• Recover passwords to VBA macros – Instantly recover and restore passwords for VBA modules in any MS Office file.
Accent OFFICE Password Recovery runs on Windows 95-2000, NT4, and XP and is available up for $50 USD at http://www.passwordrecoverytools.com/register.asp.
More info is at www.PasswordRecoveryTools.com.
How to go back to your last edit March 27, 2007
Posted by iawalsh in : Misc, How do I ?, Writing, Troubleshooting, Cool Tricks, Tips , add a commentYou can tell Word to undo a mistake you’ve made and to change it back to what you wrote a few minutes ago.
If you’ve made a mistake when writing, for example deleted a few paragraphs by accident, the first reaction may be to panic. How do I get it back? Do I have to write it all again?
One way to do this is to use the Undo feature in Word. This lets you go back in time, step by step, until you find the first version of the text you wrote.
Here’s how it works: 
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In the Word document, press Ctrl and Z. This performs one Undo. It undoes the last edit you made to the document.
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Press Ctrl and Z. This performs another Undo. It undoes the second last edit you made.
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Continue to press Ctrl and Z to undo as many edits as you want.
When you’ve found the text that you were after, save the document, preferably with some naming convention that makes sense to you, for example, June Report Draft 2.
Rather than keeping one version of a document, especially one you’ll re-write many times, save it with a different version number as you work on it. This avoids losing all your work if the document crashes, which can happen if you repeatedly format a document and make changes to its layout.
At the end of the project, delete the initial drafts, then create a Gold Copy of the final draft and save it in the Archives.