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Entries from October 2009

Paste Options and Customizing Paste Options

July 31st, 2009 · Filed under: Excel · Outlook · PowerPoint · Word

Posted by Holly Green

When you paste something in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and some of the other Office programs, a Paste Options button will appear.  (It is usually at the bottom of the pasted material, although with something really long, I sometimes see it appear at the top right.)  If you click on this button, you see different options.  [...]

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Send a Contact as an Attachment

July 22nd, 2009 · Filed under: Outlook

Posted by Holly Green

You are probably aware that you can send a file as an attachment in Outlook.  (If you were not aware of it, read the Training Team’s Outlook 2003 instructions.  If you have Outlook 2007, just click on the paperclip button and then follow the 2003 instructions.)
What you might not know is that you can also [...]

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Outlook Instant Search

July 15th, 2009 · Filed under: Outlook · Useful Web Sites

Posted by Jeff Hauger

We received an email about using the Instant Search feature in Outlook. Instant Search is a great way to effectively go through and find specific email, attachments, contacts or notes in Outlook. Never again scroll through months of email looking for that lost message with the one thing you need. Instead use Instant Search to [...]

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Make PowerPoint Handouts in Word

July 9th, 2009 · Filed under: Office 2007 · PowerPoint · Word

Posted by Holly Green

Last semester a student came to my office with a problem I had not encountered before.  He needed to make PowerPoint handouts, but they had to be included as part of a document that was going to be bound.  Because part of the left side of the page would be hidden by the binding, he needed [...]

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Are You Sure You Want to Send That? - Use the Document Inspector

July 2nd, 2009 · Filed under: Excel · Office 2007 · PowerPoint · Word

Posted by Holly Green

Your document tells people more about you than you think.  No, I’m not talking about when people look for double meanings in your words or calculate the average number of syllables you wrote to decide how smart you are.  There can be hidden information in your documents that a savvy user could access.
Office 2007 has a built-in tool, called the Document [...]

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