microsoft: 2009-05-03

Saturday, May 9, 2009

Daily Tips and Tricks Special Delivery

Making tomorrow more productive than today

Preview Slide Shows
For a quick preview of a slide show while you're editing a presentation, hold down the CTRL key while clicking View Show on the Slide Show ribbon. Instead of opening in full-screen mode, the presentation, starting with the current slide, appears in a small window over the slide being edited. To edit the slide and see your changes in real time, align the Microsoft Office PowerPoint window so that the preview slide is in view. Any modifications that you make appear in the preview window.

Register Your Regular E-Mail Contacts as Safe Senders
Here's how to designate anyone you send mail to as a safe sender:
1. Click Actions, point to Junk E-mail, and then click Junk E-mail Options.
2. On the Safe Senders tab, select the Automatically add people I e-mail to the Safe Senders List check box.

Now anyone you send an e-mail message to will be designated a safe sender.

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Friday, May 8, 2009

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Turn Your Data Range into a Table for Easy Data Management and Formatting
The new tables functionality in Microsoft Office Excel 2007 provides options for formatting and managing your data more easily and dynamically than ever before.

To convert a data range to a table:
1. Click anywhere in the range.
2. On the Home tab, in the Styles section, click Format as Table.
3. Click to apply a table style. The Format as Table dialog box appears, where you can confirm the data range and indicate whether your range contains headers. Click OK in this dialog box to convert the range to a table and apply selected formatting.

Notice that table headers automatically contain AutoFilter arrows. Additionally, when you click into a table, the Table Tools Design tab becomes available, from which you can edit the table style, add options such as banded columns or a total row, and perform other data management tasks.

Add Automatic Captions
Follow these steps to add captions to your tables, figures, and graphics automatically in Microsoft Office Word 2007:
1. On the References tab, in the Captions section, click Insert Caption.
2. Click AutoCaption.
3. Select what you want to insert from the Add caption when inserting list.
4. In the Options section of the AutoCaption dialog box, choose the display options that you want to use.
5. Click OK twice.

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Thursday, May 7, 2009

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Copying Content
You can easily copy content from Web pages or any content on your screen, such as a dialog box or your desktop: Right-click the OneNote icon in the notification area, and then click Create Screen Clipping (keyboard shortcut: Windows logo key+S).

Keep up to Date
Whatever your business, there are bound to be freely available Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds for relevant blogs and Microsoft SharePoint sites. In addition to using a browser, you can now subscribe to RSS feeds from Microsoft Office Outlook 2007. Here's how: Right-click RSS Feeds, click Add a New RSS Feed, and then enter the feed URL of your chosen site.