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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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If you’ve ever looked at Office 2007, then you know that things have changed significantly.  Most people I talk to are frustrated when they first switch to Office 2007, because they don’t know where to find the tools they used in earlier versions of Office.  Microsoft has put together videos, demos, and interactive guides to help [...]

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The other day I was working on page five of a document, and really wished I could refer to something on page one.  Going to page one, and then going back to page five over and over gets old really fast.  Fortunately, you can use the Split feature in Word to view two different parts of [...]

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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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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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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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I couldn’t possibly count the number of times I’ve accidentally typed teh and watched as Word magically rearranged the letters to spell the.  Nor can I count the number of times Word has made up for my inability to apply the i before e rule correctly.  Word is constantly correcting words like receive for me without my [...]

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Track Changes is a great feature in Microsoft Word that can be really helpful in editing and collaborating.  When you use Track Changes, any changes made to the document by you, or another person, will be marked.  Reviewers can also add comments.  All changes can later be accepted or rejected, and comments can later be deleted.
One not so [...]

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In honor of Earth Day, we decided to do an Earth friendly blog post.  In searching around for articles on how to be green with computers we stumbled across this article -  Living Green at the Office.
One of the suggestions is about cutting down on the number of pages you print.  Here are instructions on how [...]

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I can’t tell you how many times I’ve typed a few sentences, then realized that Caps Lock was on.  And then there are all the times I’ve typed a title in a document, then decided that I wanted to capitalize the first letter of every word.  In the past, I would retype the text, or [...]

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