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Microsoft Word 2010 – Stop Selecting Entire Words!

16 Oct

When selecting text in a Word 2010 document, prevent the application from forcing you to select entire words.

If you use the mouse to select text in a Microsoft Word 2010 document, you may notice that after you select one word, preceding or following words are selected automatically as you move the mouse – you cannot select individual letter of the words.

If you tire of this behavior and want more fine-tuning in your text selection without having to use the keyboard to select text, do the following:…

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Microsoft Publisher 2010 – Start Publisher with Just a Blank Document

15 Oct

Stop showing the New Template Gallery when starting Publisher 2010.

Upon starting Microsoft Publisher 2010 you are shown a “New Template Gallery” inside the Office 2010 Backstage View. From here you can open documents, access recent files, create new documents, and more in the left pane. In the right pane you can choose from various templates that may include business cards, menus, newsletters, and postcards.

While some appreciate this feature, others would rather start Publisher 2010 with just a blank document. Then they can begin work on a new publication, open an existing file, or later choose to access the templates by creating a new document. If you fall in this category, a simple configuration change achieves this effect:…

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Microsoft Word 2010 – Stop the Not So Smart Quotes

09 Oct

Prevent Word 2010 from converting your quotes into those that don’t always paste well into other applications and documents.

Microsoft Word 2010 has a tendency to perform a great deal of correcting as you type, useful if you keep typing in teh instead of the (unless you really want to type in teh Internets, which in this case Word can be annoying). Among this happily-correcting behavior is the changing of quotation marks to “smart quotes”, ones where the quotes slant at an angle.

Unfortunately, if you copy and paste documents containing “smart quotes” into other applications, such as web page editors, these quotes may not appear as desired. Worse, you might paste them into an HTML document, notice that the quotes look fine on screen, but users with other browsers / operating systems may see strange characters instead of the quotes. Definitely not so smart… So, how can you disable them?…

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Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 – Stop Ending Slide Shows with a Black, Blank Slide

02 Oct

Remove the black, blank slide that PowerPoint 2010 adds to the end of slideshows.

After displaying a slide show, Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 ends with a black, blank slide with the text “End of slide show, click to exit”. Presumably, the reason for this is that slide shows may be shown on a projector or larger monitor. After a slide show is finished, you can use the black slide to “cut the feed” so participants will not see the raw slides in PowerPoint as well as your Desktop, Taskbar, etc.

If you do not care about your participants seeing these things, you might find this ending slide annoying and wish to just exit straight from a slide show back into the PowerPoint application. To remove this ending slide, do the following:…

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Microsoft Outlook 2010 – Use Your Own Reminder Sound

01 Oct

Configure Outlook 2010 to play a reminder sound of your choosing.

As tasks / calendar items become due in Microsoft Outlook 2010, it warns you by displaying a “Reminder” dialog box and playing an alert sound.

If you tire of this sound, why not insert your own? You can use virtually any sound file as long as it is in the WAV format….

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Microsoft Publisher 2010 – Grayscale, Sepia, or Tint an Image

29 Sep

For artistic reasons, convert an image in a Publisher 2010 document to grayscale, give it a sepia tone, or tint it another color.

If you’ve ever decided that to better blend in with a document design, a picture should be converted to grayscale, sepia tone, or given a different colored tint, you might have thought you needed to perform the operation outside of Microsoft Publisher 2010. Think again – you can alter images in a Publisher 2010 document with just a couple of clicks.

1. First, select the image you wish to modify….

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Microsoft Outlook 2007 – Request Receipts on Every EMail

28 Aug

Tired of recipients claiming they don’t receive your e-mail? Force all e-mail to come with a delivery and/or read receipt request.

If you’re concerned that your e-mail sent with Microsoft Outlook 2007 is not reaching its destination, you can configure the software to request read and/or delivery receipts on every e-mail sent.

Note that delivery and read receipts will only be sent by software programs that support them, such as Outlook and Outlook Express. Also note that some people may have receipts disabled in Outlook, so you won’t receive confirmations from them….

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Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 – Equalize Text Height for a Cartoonish Effect

26 Aug

Need another way for text to stand out in a PowerPoint 2007 slide show?

Picture this scenario – you need to perform a quick calculation in Windows but your Desktop is full and you don’t want to open a new window. Plus, you can’t find a calculator anywhere next to your computer desk / table. What do you do?

Desktop Calculator, an older application, may be what you need. This program adds a simple calculator directly on the Windows Taskbar that can perform basic math functions. It also handles percentages, square roots, inverses, flipping between negative and positive numbers, and can perform decimal to hexadecimal conversion….

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Microsoft Outlook 2007 – Display Week Numbers

26 Aug

Display every week’s number of the year in Outlook 2007’s Monthly Calendar, useful when scheduling certain types of appointments.

When scheduling appointments in Microsoft Outlook 2007, it might prove useful to display each week’s number (perhaps you need to schedule an appointment every 3 weeks or whatever). Making this change to the calendar view in the Month view, as well as the Date Navigator in the To-Do Bar, is easy.

1. Select “Tools” – “Options”….

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