Posts Tagged ‘Formatting’

Print Multiple Selections in MS Excel

Tuesday, January 31st, 2012

Sometimes there is a need to print out a medley of selections from different worksheets and have them all on one sheet of stationery.

You can do this by setting up a “Print” worksheet that you use for printing.

Follow the steps below to learn how:

  1. Create a new worksheet to be used for printing purposes.
  2. Select the range on the worksheet that you would like to print.
  3. Click the shortcut key combination Ctrl + C  to copy your selection.
  4. Move to your new Print sheet and select the cell where you would like your copied data to appear.
  5. Click on Edit | Paste Special in version 2003 and in versions 2007 – 2010, click on the Home tab of your Ribbon and click the down-arrow under the Paste tool at the left side of your Ribbon and select Paste Special from the menu displayed.
  6. The Paste Special dialog box will open.
  7. Click on Paste Link. The dialog box will disappear and the linked information will appear in your worksheet.
  8. Repeat the steps above for any other ranges you would like included on your printout.

Then print your worksheet with the information.

The only problem you may encounter using this method is that if the worksheets from which you are copying have different formatting, you may not be able to merge them into a consolidated worksheet to your satisfaction. In that instance, you will need to adjust the formatting in your consolidation worksheet after you paste the different ranges.

Format E-mail in MS word Using AutoFormat

Thursday, January 5th, 2012

Many, many times I have received inquiries regarding the formatting of e-mail messages in MS word.  Folks receive an e-mail and they notice that each line in it has a hard return instead of text wrapping and they hate having to re-format it to save paper.  Well thank goodness that they care about wasting paper right?

My advice to these inquiries is that the easiest method for formatting an e-mail message is to use the AutoFormat feature in MS Word as it will format the information into regular paragraphs and remove extra spaces between the paragraphs unless you tell it to do otherwise.

If you should need to adjust how Word does the formatting, follow the steps below:

Versions 97, 2000, 2002, 2003

  1. Click on Tools | AutoCorrect Options to display the AutoCorrect dialog box.
  2. Select the AutoFormat tab.
  3. Make your adjustments to the options in the dialog box.
  4. Click on OK.

 You can, of course, always use the shortcut CTRL + Alt + K to open the dialog box too!

Version 2010:

  1. Click the Office Button | Word Options to open the Word Options dialog box.
  2. In the Categories pane, select Proofing.
  3. In the AutoCorrect options area, click AutoCorrect Options to open the AutoCorrect dialog box.
  4. Select the AutoFormat tab.
  5. Select your desired options.
  6. When finished, click OK.

 

Copy Formatting of Drawing Objects in MS Excel

Monday, May 16th, 2011

There are many reasons to use drawing objects and formatting in your MS Excel worksheets to create graphics.

So you create a drawing object and then you take lots of time to format it and tweak it until it fits your specifications. In the latest versions of MS Excel there are tons of colors, shadows and other cool effects that you can apply to your drawing objects.

So now you have your object exactly the way you want it and you want to create other drawing objects that will look just like it right down to the last detail. But whoa…that took a long time to do! Luckily you do not have to recreate the wheel!

You can simply copy your exact formatting from one object to another and it is fairly easy. Use the Format Painter!

Follow the steps below to learn how:

  1. Select your formatted object.
  2. Click the Format Painter tool in the Clipboard group on the Home tab.
  3. As you may recall, in earlier versions of Excel, the Format Painter resided on the Standard toolbar.
  4. Now click the object you want to copy your formatting to.
  5. To copy your formatting to multiple objects, select the formatted object and double-click the Format Painter toll in the Clipboard group on the Home tab.
  6. Now click each object to which you would like to copy your formatting.
  7. When you have finished, just click the Format Painter once more to turn it off.

It doesn’t get much simpler than that!