Underline text in a Publisher 2010 document with dots, dashes, waves, and more.
Underlining text in a Microsoft Publisher 2010 publication is easy – just highlight the text and press CTRL+U, or click the U button from the “Home” tab in the Ribbon.
Did you know, however, that you can change the underline style, including underlining text with dots, dashes, and waves? It requires just a few clicks:…
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If PowerPoint 2010’s Undo feature doesn’t remember enough edits, force it to remember up to 150.
While frantically putting together a presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 at the last minute, you’re bound to make some mistakes. Don’t worry – you can easily undo edits by pressing Ctrl + Z. In fact, PowerPoint by default remembers up to your last 20 edits, so if you make a mess of things you should be able to recover. (Of course, you should still save your work often, and perhaps create backup copies at different stages of your presentation editing.)
For many people 20 edits is enough. However, if you need PowerPoint to remember even more edits (up to 150), the following tweak should help:…
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Tired of every Excel 2010 workbook using 11 point Calibri as the default for cells? Change the default font for all new workbooks.
Just as in other Office 2010 applications, Microsoft Excel 2010 has a default font for new documents – 11 point “Body Text” (Calibri). While you can change the font for individual cells or groups of them, what if you grow tired of every new spreadsheet using this standard font? Maybe you want to use Arial or Verdana, or want cells a little larger so they are easier to read?
1. Select the “File” tab in the Ribbon….
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To help avoid embarrassing mistakes, configure Outlook 2010 to always spell check your e-mail before sending it.
Microsoft Outlook 2010 automatically corrects many common spelling errors via its AutoCorrect features, and words not found in the dictionary are marked with red squiggles. However, if you type up a quick e-mail and press the “Send” button, it can be easy to glance over possible spelling errors.
You can configure the software to automatically spell check documents once you hit the “Send” button, displaying dialog boxes as it finds possible misspellings and asking you how to correct them. While running a spell checker automatically won’t guarantee your documents will be free from errors, it probably won’t hurt. Plus, if you’re in a hurry and have to get an e-mail sent ASAP (errors or not), you can abort the spell check operation….
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Prevent Word 2010 from replacing dashes, fractions, and ordinals with characters that might not be desired or even viewable in all situations.
Microsoft Word 2010 has a habit of trying to make documents look better, features that many people normally appreciate.
For example, Word 2010 automatically changes dashes, fractions, and ordinals to characters that may appear nicer onscreen and on harcopy. However, sometimes you may wish to disable this behavior. For example, if you write text in Word 2010 and transfer it to an HTML webpage, these converted characters may look fine to you – but not to those running other operating systems who happen to visit your page. Thus, the following tweaks show how to turn these conversions off:…
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Or, create every Excel 2010 workbook with even more than 3 worksheets.
When you create a new workbook in Microsoft Excel 2010, it is automatically created with three worksheets. Depending on your needs, you may rarely use more than one worksheet in an Excel 2010 workbook, finding the extra worksheets gratuitous. Or, you may often create complex workbooks where many more worksheets are needed. Editing the default setting to create more worksheets may save you time in the long run.
1. Select the “File” tab in the Ribbon….
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Move objects in Publisher 2010 publications slightly without using the mouse, and fine-tune this nudging distance.
Instead of always using the mouse in Microsoft Publisher 2010 to move objects around a publication, you can click on an object and then press the arrow keys to move objects slightly up, down, left, or right. You may find this convenient when fine-tuning a document layout.
By default, nudging moves objects by a very small distance (1 pixel). Depending on your needs and layout you may wish the arrow keys to nudge objects a larger distance. To make this change:…
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Add a dual-color gradient to title or header cells in an Excel 2010 worksheet; several styles are available.
It’s easy to color the background of a cell in a Microsoft Excel 2010 worksheet. Just click the “Home” tab of the Ribbon, then in the “Font” section click the “Fill Color” button (the paint bucket icon).
However, what if you want to grab more attention than with a drab mono-color fill? Here’s how to add a dual-color gradient fill to a selected cell or group of cells in your worksheet. Note that this looks best on only the title and/or header text and not for cells containing actual data, though if you really want to, you can……
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Make text glow in a PowerPoint 2010 presentation in a variety of colors and sizes.
Still looking for more ways to make text stand out in an otherwise-drab Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 presentation? How about making it glow?
With a few clicks you can make text appear to glow in a variety of predefined colors or sizes. Or, go one step further and tweak to your heart’s content by adjusting the glow color, size, and transparency….
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