‘Word & Excel Tips’

Quick and easy ways to select text in MS Word

Sunday, April 5, 2009 14:41

Here are a few tips to save some time while working in a Microsoft Word document. Once you type out the text in Word, if you want to work on a portion of the text, like say apply some kind of formatting, you need to first select the text. The ...

Get the Find dialog box out of the way

Wednesday, March 18, 2009 19:37

You probably already know how to look for a particular word or phrase in a Word document or Excel worksheet using the Find feature. You can bring up the Find dialog box either from the Edit menu or you could use the shortcut ‘Ctrl+F’. There is one thing about Find that ...

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Using bookmarks in Microsoft Word

Using bookmarks in Microsoft Word

Wednesday, March 4, 2009 8:56

Almost everybody has worked with a document that is more than 10 pages long. When working with these long documents it can be extremely difficult to find the information you want. You can solve this problem by using Bookmarks in Microsoft Word, a feature that makes it easy to navigate through ...

Continue list numbering with a paragraph in between

Continue list numbering with a paragraph in between

Wednesday, February 25, 2009 6:16

You can take advantage of a nifty Word feature that allows you to easily pick up numbering where you previously left off. This is great for numbered lists that are interspersed with paragraphs that have a different format. For versions prior to Word 2007: Enter the first portion of your numbered list ...

Excel - How to configure the 'Move Selection After Enter' direction

Excel – How to configure the ‘Move Selection After Enter’ direction

Friday, February 13, 2009 13:33

When you enter information in a cell, and then press the Enter key, by default, Excel moves the selection to the cell below the one in which you entered the information. This the behaviour that we would want in most situations. But there could be times when we want the ...

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How to view two regions of a multipage Word document using split view

How to view two regions of a multipage Word document using split view

Sunday, February 8, 2009 15:38

Sometimes when you are typing out a multipage word document, you may need to frequently refer to an earlier page in the same document. Or imagine a situation where you have a table that spreads across multiple pages. The table’s header row appears only on the first ...