2007

Background colors and images will not print in Word 2007

May 31, 2010

It is so annoying when you have worked really hard on a document, but when you go to print it, the background does not print. For example if you press on print preview you will immediately see your background images or colors missing from the document. However there is no need to panic, because there [...]

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Type abbreviations and use autocorrect to finish words for you

May 31, 2010

If you write all the time like me you will love this little trick. Well its not a trick, I am just using autocorrect in Microsoft Word to my advantage. I am going to show you how to make Word translate your text abbreviations you use into finished words. Yes, Word is going to finish [...]

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How to use and show all keyboard shortcuts in Word 2007

May 31, 2010

There is a great little trick that I actually discovered by accident to use keyboard shortcuts in Word 2007. If you press the ALT key when you have a word document open, the shortcut keys appear over the button they apply to. Just try it for yourself. You will see that Alt-F = Office Button, [...]

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How to use a custom watermark on different pages in your document

May 31, 2010

When you add a watermark to a document in Word 2007, by default, it will be added to your entire document. Therefore if you add a watermark to your document it seems that you have no control over where it will appear. Sometimes this is not what you want. Having the words confidential or do [...]

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How to merge cells in excel

May 27, 2010

In this tutorial I am going to show you how to merge cells in Excel. In the screenshot below I have an example of why I need to merge cells. As you can see the heading “money earnt” is at the top of one column when I need it to be centered over all the [...]

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