Have you ever had a hyphenated word break lines when you wanted to keep the word together? Or had a name that you wanted on the same line, but the last name kept ending up on the second line of text? If you’ve run into a situation like either of these, then you’ll like non-breaking spaces and hyphens in [...]
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Using Dates in Excel When the Formatting Has Been Stripped
Behind the scenes, Excel stores dates as serial numbers. This means that you can take a cell with the number 1 in it, format it as a date, and you’ll get January 1, 1900. So generally if you get a spreadsheet with dates in it, and you see numbers in the date column, you can [...]
category: Excel
Show/Hide Formatting Marks (Dots and Arrows) in a Word Doc
Have you ever noticed paragraph marks, dots, and arrows in your document and wondered what they were? These are formatting marks. They denote where you have a space (the dot), a line break (the paragraph mark) or a tab (the arrow). They also show where page breaks and section breaks are. Viewing formatting marks in [...]
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The McCombs Technology Training Team helps UT Austin business students, faculty, and staff with their technology resources, and with Microsoft Office. The trainers are Holly Green and Ben Bond.
Jeff Hauger, a previous team member, contributed several blog posts.
