Now that I’m starting to use Excel 2007 and Word 2007 (I haven’t gotten to Powerpoint and Access yet), I’m starting to like the new ribbon bar. To put that in perspective, you have to understand that I absolutely hated Office 2003′s design of displaying the few menu-bar items that I had recently used and [...]
Microsoft Excel – Navigating with Scroll Lock
If there’s ever been a program feature that made no sense whatsoever to me, it is the impact tha the scroll lock key has on navigation in Microsoft Excel. Hummmm… Did I say that strongly enough? Probably not, but I’m not going to write those words… We all know about the Num Lock key and [...]
How To Show Full Menus in Office 2003
I absolutely hate Office 2003′s design of displaying the few menu-bar items that I had recently used and then, if I hover long enough, changing the limited menu bar to the full menu bar. One of the first things I do in any Office 2003 program was to make the menu bar show the full [...]
HOWTO: Adding a Print-To Button to Word, Excel or PowerPoint
Last week, my HOWTO article was “Adding a SaveAs Button to Work/Excel/Powerpoint. This week, we’ll add another button that I find very useful — the Prit To button. Why do I want to add a "Print To" button to Word (or Excel or Powerpoint? In part, it is because I have three printers that I [...]
Microsoft Word Defaults
When I use Microsoft Word, there are a number of default options that I do not like — and immediately change when I get a new computer. First, there’s the lack of Save As and Print To buttons on the icon bar. While I _may_ want to print to my default printer, I often want [...]
Breaking the Microsoft Only Mindset
Whether we are talking about operating systems or office applications or games, there are a lot of people who “buy Microsoft,” for one reason or another. It is not always the best product, not always the easiest, and sometimes far from either one of those. Recently, however, the ice has begun to break. I think [...]
Hands-On Excel | Microsoft Office tutorial
Microsoft Office 2003 Professional | Microsoft Office 2003 Small Business EditionMicrosoft Office XP | Microsoft Office 2000Tutorial: Hands-On Excel, Intro Tutorial Description Excel is Microsoft’s version of a spreadsheet program. Find out what a worksheet is and why you might use one. Learn to create, edit, format, save and print a worksheet. In this [...]
Adding a SaveAs Button to Word, Excel or PowerPoint
Microsoft created all sorts of buttons on the toolbars of Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint — but they missed one that I use almost every time! I’m talking about the SaveAs button. I often load a Word file, but I want to edit it and save it with a new name. I have [...]
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