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Entries from October 2009

Insert a Line Break in a Cell

November 17th, 2009 · Filed under: Excel

Posted by Holly Green

Sometimes, when you’re working in Excel, you need to have more than one line in a cell.  I picked up this trick several years ago when I needed the street address and apartment number to appear on separate lines in the same cell.
Wrap Text isn’t the solution, because when you use Wrap Text, the location of the line [...]

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Flickr Creative Commons Photos

November 12th, 2009 · Filed under: Useful Web Sites

Posted by Jeff Hauger

Photo by DigitalART2 on flickr.com.

Flickr is a free web site that allows you to upload, store, and share your photos. For document and presentation creators, it is a great place to find photographs with Creative Commons license agreements. These agreements allow you to legally download and use the photos on the site. Search Flickr to [...]

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Clip Art

November 5th, 2009 · Filed under: Excel · Images · Office 2007 · Outlook · PowerPoint · Word

Posted by Jeff Hauger

We always look for good images. Pictures tell a thousand words, making them ideal additions to blog posts, class projects, presentations, emails, and other social media applications. Fortunately, Microsoft drastically improved their Clip Art galleries in the last several years, adding thousands of high quality photographs.  Using Microsoft’s Clip Art galleries while connected to the [...]

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