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Microsoft Excel 2010 – Change the Tab Color of a Worksheet

17 Mar

Tabs representing different worksheets in an Excel 2010 workbook can be colored for organizational purposes.

If you are editing a Microsoft Excel 2010 workbook containing multiple worksheets, you probably use the tabs at the bottom-left of the window to switch between them.

Instead of displaying all tabs in the same color, you might find it useful, especially if you have many tabs, to give them different colors. You might want to organize all worksheets related to a particular year in one color, or change tab colors representing P&L worksheets of particular quarters if the organization was in the red or black. You could also make every tab a different color for variety so you can tell people accounting is not boring….

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Microsoft Word 2010 – Gain a Few Extra Pixels; Disable the Vertical Scroll Bar

01 Mar

Turning off Word 2010’s vertical scroll bar may make it easier to view/edit documents without having to scroll horizontally.

If you have a smaller monitor or zoom past 100% to view and edit your Microsoft Word 2010 documents, you may be forced to scroll horizontally as the entire page width cannot be viewed onscreen.

If you need just a few more pixels to keep from having to scroll through your documents horizontally, how about removing the vertical scroll bar? If you don’t need it to navigate through your documents via the mouse (remember Page Up and Page Down work as well as your cursor keys), hide it by doing the following:…

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Microsoft Excel 2010 – Hide Recent Documents or Show More

08 Feb

Configure Excel 2010 to hide the list of recent documents for privacy, or show more of them.

As with other Office 2010 applications, Microsoft Excel 2010 keeps a list of recent workbooks, allowing you to directly access frequently-edited documents without having to navigate your computer or network drives. If you have workbooks located in a variety of locations, this Recent list may prove very useful.

While Excel 2010 by default displays the last 25 documents, if you work on many workbooks you may want to increase this number up to 50. On the other hand, if you are worried about privacy you may wish to disable this list altogether….

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Microsoft Visio 2010 – Make It Easier to Select Multiple Shapes

08 Feb

When using a selection rectangle in Visio 2010, select objects even if the rectangle does not completely surround them.

When trying to select multiple shapes in a Microsoft Visio 2010 diagram by creating a selection rectangle, you might find the process tricky as Visio requires you to completely surround each shape for it to be added to the selection. This can especially be true if you are editing a diagram on a laptop and using a touchpad / trackpad or other non-mouse pointing device.

By making a simple tweak, you can add objects to the selection by surrounding only part of them with a selection rectangle. While this may cause inadvertent selections in some cases, you might find the ease in selecting a large group of objects to more than make up for that in the long run….

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Microsoft Word 2010 – Finished With Your 2,000 Word Book Report? And Other Counting Features

31 Jan

Quickly display the number of pages, words, characters, paragraphs, and lines in your Word 2010 document.

For various reasons you might need to know how many words or paragraphs are in your current Microsoft Word 2010 document (school report or essay being a couple).

While the word and page counts may appear in the status bar, here are two ways to get the more detailed information:…

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Microsoft Publisher 2010 – Change an Image / Photo’s Brightness and Contrast

29 Jan

Tweak an image’s brightness and / or contrast in Publisher 2010 without loading an external image editor.

While Microsoft Publisher 2010 does not include a full-featured image editor, you can make a few simple adjustments to images inside a publication without having to open an external editor.

If you need to tweak an image’s brightness or contrast to better fit a publication, making these changes requires just a few clicks:…

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Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 – Force All Documents to Open in a Particular View

28 Jan

If you open many PowerPoint 2010 documents daily and every author saves them with their own view, force PowerPoint to start on one particular view.

If you work in an office environment requiring the opening of many Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 presentations from a variety of authors, you may have noticed that presentations get saved with a variety of views. Perhaps one person was working on Notes when they saved their presentation, another likes using the Outline View, and yet another forgoes notes and displays slides along with thumbnails.

Instead of opening every presentation in the view saved inside the file, you can force PowerPoint 2010 to open every presentation in the view you desire….

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Microsoft Visio 2010 – View Diagram in Full Screen

15 Dec

Quickly scan your Visio 2010 diagram in full-screen mode, hiding toolbars, status bars, and other onscreen elements.

Instead of constantly zooming in and out of your Microsoft Visio 2010 diagram when you need to see a “bird’s eye” view, a simpler option may be to switch to a Full Screen view. While you cannot edit a diagram in this view, it does hide all menus, status bars, the Windows Taskbar, etc., allowing you to completely concentrate on your opened diagram.

Here are a few ways to access the Full Screen view:…

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Microsoft Outlook 2010 – Show More Calendar Months in the Right Pane

30 Oct

Configure Outlook 2010 to show more calendar months in the To-Do Bar on the right side of the application window.

On the right side of the Microsoft Outlook 2010 window is the “To-Do Bar”. By default, this shows the current calendar month, upcoming appointments, and a list of Tasks.

If you would like to, at a glance, see the next calendar month as well in the To-Do Bar, perform the following tweak. You can add even more months, though this will require a higher resolution / window size to view them all. Also, simultaneously viewing more months may push the appointment and Task displays off the screen….

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Microsoft Word 2010 – Make Paragraphs Stand Out with Drop Caps

30 Oct

Drop Caps can make the first paragraph of a chapter or document section stand out, and they are easy to make and customize.

Many books and other documents incorporate the use of an initial at the start of a chapter or section; this is a stylized first letter that stands out from the rest of the text.

With Microsoft Word 2010 you can easily add an initial to the left of a paragraph, as well as a drop cap, an initial in-line with the text (see the screenshot to the right for an example). …

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Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft’

Microsoft Excel 2010 – Change the Tab Color of a Worksheet

Microsoft Word 2010 – Gain a Few Extra Pixels; Disable the Vertical Scroll Bar

Microsoft Excel 2010 – Hide Recent Documents or Show More

Microsoft Visio 2010 – Make It Easier to Select Multiple Shapes

Microsoft Word 2010 – Finished With Your 2,000 Word Book Report? And Other Counting Features

Microsoft Publisher 2010 – Change an Image / Photo’s Brightness and Contrast

Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 – Force All Documents to Open in a Particular View

Microsoft Visio 2010 – View Diagram in Full Screen

Microsoft Outlook 2010 – Show More Calendar Months in the Right Pane

Microsoft Word 2010 – Make Paragraphs Stand Out with Drop Caps

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