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How to Select All or Part of a Table in Word

Just like selecting text and images in Word is a very common task in Word, so is selecting content in a table. There may be times you want to select a single cell, an entire row or column, multiple rows or columns, or an enti…

Lori Kaufman Aug 3rd, 2015

How to Select an Entire Section in Word

You can use section breaks in Word to apply different layout or formatting for part of your document, page numbers or page number style, headers or footers, etc. If you need to select all the content in a section, there is no…

Lori Kaufman Jul 31st, 2015

How to Show and Hide Cell Gridlines on All Tables in Word

By default, when you create a new table, all the cells have black borders that print with the document. However, there are also table gridlines that make it easier to see where each cell is located in a table if you turned of…

Lori Kaufman Jul 30th, 2015

How to Clear Formatting in a Microsoft Word Document

If you’ve applied various formatting changes to the content in your document, and they either don’t work or you want to start over, you can easily clear formatting from selected text in Microsoft Word. We’ll show you a couple…

Lori Kaufman Jul 29th, 2015

How to Enable Typing Slashes in Cells in Excel

By default, the slash (/) key displays the shortcuts to the commands on the ribbon in Excel. So, what do you do if you want to enter a slash in a cell? There’s a way to disable this setting so you can type a slash in cells….

Lori Kaufman Jul 28th, 2015

How to Set the Priority for an Email Message in Outlook

Most of us receive a lot of email and important messages may get overlooked in our long list of messages. If you’re sending a message that requires attention in a timely manner, you can set the priority for the message, all…

Lori Kaufman Jul 27th, 2015

How to Show and Hide Row and Column Headers in Excel

The headers (numbered rows and lettered columns) in Excel worksheets make it easy to view and reference your data. However, there may be times when the headers are distracting and you don’t want them to display. They are ea…

Lori Kaufman Jul 24th, 2015

How to Get the Page Counts for Multiple Word Documents at Once

Finding out how many pages are in a Word document is really easy when the document is open. However, what if you have a lot of documents in one folder for which you want to find out page counts? This is easily done in Windows…

Lori Kaufman Jul 23rd, 2015

How to Change the Default File Name Used When Saving Word Documents

When saving a file for the first time, you may have noticed Word suggesting a file name to you in the “Save As” dialog box. This file name is typically taken from the first paragraph in your document. However, this is act…

Lori Kaufman Jul 22nd, 2015

How to Set Paragraph Formatting in Word

Word provides default font formatting and paragraph formatting that is applied to content entered into new documents. However, you can change the paragraph formatting in the default Normal template for new documents as well a…

Lori Kaufman Jul 21st, 2015

How to Copy or Move a Worksheet into Another Workbook in Excel

There may be times when you need to copy or move a worksheet into another workbook in Excel or make a copy of a worksheet in the same workbook. Maybe you want to make changes but preserve the original worksheet….

Lori Kaufman Jul 20th, 2015

How to Print Document Properties in Word

We’ve shown you how to set the advanced document properties, or summary information, that are stored in your Word documents, along with the properties automatically maintained for each document. Printing this information, i…

Lori Kaufman Jul 18th, 2015

How to Print the Gridlines and Row and Column Headings in Excel

Gridlines and the row and column headings can be helpful when viewing data on worksheets printed in Excel. We’ll show you how to turn on a couple of settings to show the gridlines and row and column headings on your printed w…

Lori Kaufman Jul 17th, 2015

How to Change the Color of the Gridlines in Excel

You may not have thought about the color of the gridlines in Excel before, but if you’re bored with the default gray color or you want to use a color that’s easier on your eyes, you can change the color of the gridlines….

Lori Kaufman Jul 16th, 2015

How to Quickly and Easily Select Blocks of Content in Word

Next to entering text, graphics, and other content in Word, selecting content is probably the most common task you’ll perform. Just about every task begins by selecting something, whether it be text, an image, a table, etc….

Lori Kaufman Jul 15th, 2015

How to Force Word to Prompt Users to Open a Document as Read Only

If you’re sharing a document and you want to avoid changes being made to it, you can force Word to prompt the user to open the document as read only when they open the file. We’ll show you how to enable this setting….

Lori Kaufman Jul 14th, 2015

How to Use the Status Bar in Word

The Status Bar in Word is available at the bottom of the document window and displays information about your document, such as what page you are currently viewing, how many words are in your document, and whether any proofing…

Lori Kaufman Jul 13th, 2015

How to Delete Items in the Most Recently Used (MRU) List in Office

The Most Recently Used, or MRU, list in Office programs refers to the list of files you have recently opened. This list displays when you open an Office document without opening a document and on the “Open” screen, provid…

Lori Kaufman Jul 11th, 2015

How to Use the Proofing Panel in Word

Word 2013 now includes a new proofing panel. When you have a document open that contains spelling or grammatical errors, the Proofing icon on the status bar displays the “Proofing errors were found. Click to correct.” mes…

Lori Kaufman Jul 10th, 2015

How to Set the Default Font in Word

Word is a powerful application, but some of the configuration tools are not very intuitive. It’s easy enough to change the font for text in your current document, but that doesn’t change the default font that’s applied …

Lori Kaufman Jul 9th, 2015

How to Convert a Word 2013 Document to an Older Version of Word

Every new version of Word brings new features that are not available in the previous versions. In Word 2007, in addition to adding new features, Microsoft changed the file format for Word documents and the file extension chan…

Lori Kaufman Jul 7th, 2015

How to Convert Older Documents to Word 2013

Have you recently upgraded to Word 2013? Documents created in earlier versions of Word are compatible with Word 2013, but the new features in Word 2013 will not be available in your older documents unless you convert them to …

Lori Kaufman Jul 6th, 2015

How to Create a Clone of a Document in Word

There may be times when you want to make changes to a document, but not take the chance that the changes become permanent. To avoid affecting the original document, you can create a clone of the document, and we’ll show how…

Lori Kaufman Jul 3rd, 2015

How to Save and Close All Open Documents in Word

Word allows you to open multiple documents at once as well as view multiple documents at once. What if you make changes to all the open documents and then want to quickly save and close all of them? Easy to do and we’ll sho…

Lori Kaufman Jul 2nd, 2015

How to Create a New Item in Outlook Directly from the Clipboard

You’re working on a document and discover that you need to send part of it in an email to a colleague. Rather than manually creating a new email in Outlook before you can paste the text, you can simply paste it while in Out…

Lori Kaufman Jul 1st, 2015