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How to View Multiple Documents at Once in Word

If you’re working on multiple Word documents, it may be helpful to view some or all of them at once. There are a couple of different ways you can view multiple documents and even a way to view different parts of the same do…

Lori Kaufman Jun 30th, 2015

How to Count Pages, Words, Characters, Paragraphs, and Lines in a Word Document

Word includes a tool that allows you to view simple statistics about your document. These statistics include how many pages, words, characters, paragraphs, and lines are in your document. This is useful if you have to follow …

Lori Kaufman Jun 29th, 2015

How to Hide Comments, Formulas, Overflow Text, and Gridlines in Excel

We’ve shown you how to hide cells, rows, and columns and how to hide worksheets/tabs and entire workbooks in Excel. Additionally, you can hide items such as comments, formulas, overflow text, and gridlines. We’ll show you…

Lori Kaufman Jun 26th, 2015

How to Hide Worksheets/Tabs and Entire Workbooks in Excel

If you use a worksheet in your Excel workbook to hold values or formulas referenced on other worksheets, you may not want that worksheet visible on the tab bar at the bottom of the Excel window. The good news is you can easil…

Lori Kaufman Jun 24th, 2015

How to Show and Hide the Worksheet Tabs in Excel

If you’re short on screen space, you may want to hide parts of the Excel window, such as the ribbon and the worksheet tabs. We’ve already shown you how to hide the ribbon, so here we’ll show you how to hide the tabs….

Lori Kaufman Jun 24th, 2015

How to Hide Cells, Rows, and Columns in Excel

There may be times when you want to hide information in certain cells or hide entire rows or columns in an Excel worksheet. Maybe you have some extra data you reference in other cells that does not need to be visible….

Lori Kaufman Jun 23rd, 2015

How to Open Multiple Word Documents at Once

If you work on several different documents at a time, Word makes it easy to open multiple documents in different windows at once. It’s as easy as selecting multiple files like you do in Windows Explorer….

Lori Kaufman Jun 22nd, 2015

How to Open a Word Document as Read-Only

Opening a Word document as read-only helps prevent unintentional changes you make to the document from being saved. Read-Only mode does not allow you to make any changes to the document, preventing you from inadvertently savi…

Lori Kaufman Jun 19th, 2015

How to Remove Automatic Horizontal Lines in Word

Word automatically formats items like quotes, bulleted and numbered lists, and horizontal lines. When you type at least three dashes, underscores, or equal signs in a paragraph by themselves and press “Enter”, the charact…

Lori Kaufman Jun 17th, 2015

How to Assign a Shortcut Key to a Style in Word

Paragraph and character styles in Word are part of the basic structure of every document you create in Word. When you use either the built-in styles, or custom styles you’ve created, you might want to use the keyboard to qu…

Lori Kaufman Jun 16th, 2015

How to Customize and Use the Read Mode in Word

Word comes with some useful layouts for viewing your documents in different situations. These layouts include a print-friendly layout, a webpage layout, and a new layout as of Word 2013 called “Read Mode” that’s aimed a…

Lori Kaufman Jun 15th, 2015

How to Determine and Change Which Template is Attached to a Word Document

Every document in Word must have a template attached. If you’re using a custom template with the current document and you’ve forgotten which one it is, you can easily find out in Word. You can also easily change which tem…

Lori Kaufman Jun 12th, 2015

How to Show the Developer Tab on the Ribbon in Office Programs

As its name implies, the “Developer” tab in Office programs allows you to create applications to use with Office programs, write macros, run macros you previously recorded, use XML commands and ActiveX controls, use form …

Lori Kaufman Jun 11th, 2015

How to Insert Built-in and Custom Advanced Properties into a Word Document

Recently, we showed you how to set the advanced, or built-in, properties and create custom properties in a Word document. These properties can be inserted into your documents using fields. This is useful if you have common wo…

Lori Kaufman Jun 10th, 2015

How to Create Custom Properties in a Word Document

We recently showed you how to set the user information in Word. Word also stores several additional advanced properties related to your documents. Some of these are displayed on the “Info” screen and you can change these …

Lori Kaufman Jun 9th, 2015

How to Insert the Filename into the Header or Footer of a Word Document

Adding a header of footer in Word allows you to add information that’s displayed on every page. There may be various reasons for adding the filename to the header or footer, and we’ll show you how to do this….

Lori Kaufman Jun 8th, 2015

How to Add and Remove Authors in an Office Document

By default, the author of a document is set to the user name you entered when you installed Word. However, you can change the user name, thus changing the main author, as well as add authors to or remove authors from a docume…

Lori Kaufman Jun 5th, 2015

How to Limit Spell Checking to the Main Dictionary Only in Outlook

Recently, we showed you how to only use the main dictionary (not any custom dictionaries) when performing a spell check or automatically checking spelling as you type. You can do the same in Outlook, but it’s a slightly dif…

Lori Kaufman Jun 4th, 2015

How to Limit Spell Checking to the Main Dictionary Only in Word

Word allows you to add custom dictionaries to use when checking spelling. When you run the spell checker or when Word automatically checks spelling as you type, the words in your document are compared to the main dictionary a…

Lori Kaufman Jun 3rd, 2015

How to Collapse and Expand Parts of Your Document in Word

A new feature was introduced in Word 2013 that allows you to collapse parts of your document and expand them when you want to view that content again. This feature makes it easier to find and view only what you want….

Lori Kaufman Jun 2nd, 2015

How to Add a Header or Footer to a Word Document

Headers and footers are useful for adding things such as page numbers, dates, file names, and disclaimers to documents. Word allows you to add headers and footers with built-in, ready-made layouts or add your own custom heade…

Lori Kaufman Jun 1st, 2015

How to Set the Advanced Properties of a Word Document

Lori Kaufman May 29th, 2015

How to Add a Second Time Zone to Your Calendar in Outlook

Have you tried to schedule a meeting with people in another time zone and gotten the time wrong? It would be helpful if you could view both time zones on the calendar in Outlook so you can quickly see the corresponding time w…

Lori Kaufman May 27th, 2015

How to Insert the User Information into a Word Document

When you install Word, you are asked to enter your name and initials. This user information is stored in Word and you can automatically insert this information into your documents, such as into the return address of an envelo…

Lori Kaufman May 26th, 2015

How to Find Locations of Files in Word

Have you opened a document in Word but forgotten where it’s stored? You may need to access other documents in the same location or back up your documents. There are several ways to use Word to find the location of a file….

Lori Kaufman May 22nd, 2015