Posts Tagged ‘original’

How to Easily Create a Round Trip Fill-In Client Intake Form in MS Word 2003

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

I recently created a copyrighted tutorial article for Technolawyer entitled Create a Fill In Form in MS Word and they changed the title to that above and published it with only one or two of the step-by-step screenshots that are a signature of my tutorials.

I have found, after years and years of training folks in the intricacies of MS Office that there are many methods of teaching. Not everyone learns from the written word; some folks need to see what I am describing to them with words. I really did not want to have something published under my name without step-by-step screenshots but Technolawyer told me that they “couldn’t handle images.” 

So, I am just letting my loyal readers know that if you want to see the original tutorial that I created, complete with screenshots for every step, I cannot give you access to their article, but I can certainly make my original copyrighted article available to you.

My tutorial showing you, step-by-step, how to create a fill-in form in MS Word,  will give you the wherewithal to create any kind of fill-in form that you like in MS Word for any topic or need within your company. You can then e-mail your form to customers, family, etc. who can fill in the required data and e-mail it back to you. If you are a teacher, you can even create a test  for your students using a fill in form!

The sky is the limit!  Once you learn how to create a fill in form you can let your imagination run wild and I know you will find many, many uses for fill in forms.

SAVE YOUR REPLIES WITH YOUR ORIGINAL E-MAIL IN OUTLOOK

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

As you all know, I am all about saving time and keystrokes. You must be highly organized to run an efficient office and this little tip is but one more way to achieve that end.  This article will also be very well liked by law offices especially.

I am sure there have been instances when you go back and re-read an e-mail and you have to scratch your head and wonder what your response was when you originally received it. This little tip will show you how to never have that experience again!

In most law offices, folks create special folders for client specific e-mail.  You must have folders other than your Inbox for this particular trick to work, so that is a very good thing.

The reason law offices do this is so that when a client calls and they need to referencethe client’s  latest e-mail, they don’t have to scroll through hundreds of other of e-mails to find it.

Follow the steps below to learn how to save your repleis with your original e-mails.

  1. Make sure that you have a special folder other than your Inbox to store client specific mail.
  2. Click on Tools | Options.
  3. At the top of the dialog box that opens, under the Preferences tab, under E-mail,  click on E-mail Options.
  4. Once that dialog box opens, under Message Handling, click the Advanced E-mail Options.
  5. Under Saved Messages, select In Folders Other than the Inbox, save replies with original message.
  6. Click OK three times to exit and you are finished.

Now, when you open up a particular client folder, you will not only find your original e-mail from them, but also your reply to that e-mail.  There will be no more guessing!

You may want to take a look around at the other options available to you under the Advanced E-mail Options even if just to make yourself more familiar with them.

Duplicate an Entire Spreadsheet Quickly and Easily in MS Excel

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

There will be times in your life when you will have to duplicate the spreadsheets in a workbook and it can get pretty tedious when you do it by inserting a new spreadsheet and then copying and pasting everything into it.

You can accomplish the same thing in less than half the time.  As long as you have created your spreadsheet properly to begin with, you can duplicate it by simply holding down the CTRL key while dragging the sheet tab of the original.

While you are dragging it you will notice a small sheet icon with a plus sign, which indicates copying, and a small black arrow that indicates where the duplicated sheet will be inserted.

Release the mouse button and CTRL key and you will now have an identical copy of your original sheet.

Pretty cool eh?  Didn’t I tell you it would save you time?  Saves keystrokes too!

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