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Work in Full-Screen Mode in Microsoft Office Apps

11:55PM Kevin Purdy | Dennis O’Reilly digs into the full-screen mode in Microsoft Office apps and shows how you can still keep your most-used options and tools close at hand, despite the lack of menus and toolbars. The two basic suggestions are to learn the Alt+letter shortcuts to your oft-used functions, or use Office’s custom toolbar creator to compile your must-haves into one side-mounted toolbar. O’Reilly’s a bit stuck on Office 2007, however, which doesn’t offer the same menu access from its full-screen mode—but maybe some of our uber-productive users have their own methods for getting the most from full screen. If so, share your tips in the comments, or head to the Workers’ Edge link for more tips on navigating and working inside full-screen mode. Broaden your view in Word, Excel, other Office apps [CNET blogs] More »

Scan Images to Text in Microsoft Word

9:30AM Gina Trapani | Tech help site Of Zen and Computing describes how to use Microsoft Office to do Optical Character Recognition (OCR)—that is, recognize text inside digital images (like scanned documents). The Microsoft Document Imaging application comes with Microsoft Office (who knew?) and can grok text from TIFF images. Haven’t tried this one myself, but after wrestling with various OCR apps several years ago, my expectations are low. What’s your favorite OCR application or method? Tell us about it in the comments. Read Text from a Scanned Document into Word with OCR [Of Zen and Computing] More »