Learning new Microsoft Office tricks in "just a minute"
Some time and somehow over the last couple of days, my Outlook email started showing up with the Ribbon Bar tabs appearing but none of the commands underneath them. To do anything with my email, I had to click the Messages tab to get all the related commands. Since this had One Minute Office Magic tip written all over it, I decided to figure out what I did and how to fix it.
So have you ever been working away on a Word document or Excel file, only to have the power go out or your laptop throw the Blue Screen of Death? All your work… gone.
But not necessarily… if you have AutoRecover configured in your Office programs (specifically, I’m referring to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint), you will only lose a limited amount of work. Here’s how you do that…
Sometimes in Word, you need to generate some dummy text to fill in some part of the page until you get the actual content. It’s common to use a Lorem Ipsum generator to do that, but you may not know that Word has one built in. Here’s how you use it…
Displaying Formatting Marks in a Word document can help you resolve difficult formatting issues.
The Recent Files list is a great way to get back to your most important files more quickly.
You can create a PDF document directly from Word.
This is a great way to pre-format an email for people.
Try these various Paste options next time you have to copy into another document.
Centering pictures and objects on a page in Word is easy with this option.
