If you’re sick of staring at that Microsoft Word or Excel splash screen every time you start up the program, this little trick will keep it from popping up before the main window. More »
Every year, Microsoft releases template updates for Word users to print current year calendars. Hyper-organised people will have been hanging out for the 2012 releases since at least last October, but they’re now available for download. More »
Microsoft Word is a handy text processor, but it also has often-forgotten design features built in. Office Expert Helen Bradley walks through how you can use SmartArt feature to create a timeline for project planning. More »
It’s been a long-standing feature but apparently many people don’t realise: if you’ve got a block of text in Word that’s all caps, you can use Shift-F3 to cycle between all caps, all lowercase and all initial caps. More »
Word 2010 is a capable word processor, but some of the default settings on a newly installed copy don’t make much sense. Here’s some recommendations to improve them. More »
Adding a scanned signature to a document is the easiest way to sign it. Tech blogger Helen Bradley explains how you can add your signature to the clip art collection in Word 2010, making access to your signature a simple search away. More »
There are free desktop alternatives (OpenOffice) and online alternatives (Google Docs), but Microsoft Word remains the king of the word-processing pack. Here’s five tricks for working with text in Word that you may not know about but that can help make your life simpler. More »
To add a tab in Word, you just hit the Tab key, but if you’re in a table, then Tab shifts between cells. To add a tab within a table, hold down Control while you’re hitting Tab. Result! [via Microsoft Office Blog]
If you’ve got teenage children, they probably want a mobile phone (and they probably want you to pay for it). Before coughing up the money, consider getting them to sign a contract for its use. More »
Sick of Word 2007 auto-completing dates for you? While there’s no built-in way to switch it off, you can kill it with a little macro magic. More »
