Posts Tagged ‘tab’

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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Word 2007 – Hide and Restore the Ribbon

Monday, October 6th, 2008

Yes, you can hide the Ribbon in MS Word 2007 if you want to free up some valuable real estate on your screen.

  • All you have to do is double-click the tab, and click on CTRL + F1, or right-click and select Minimize the Ribbon.
  • The Ribbon will now be treated almost like a menu; that is, it will remain hidden until you click the tab or use the Alt key to bring up keystrokes.

It’s nice to know that you still have some choices!

Word 2007 – Using Change Case & Clear Formatting Commands

Saturday, October 4th, 2008

There are a couple of ways to make formatting easier for you in MS Word 2007 and I am al about saving time and keystrokes!

It isn’t always intuitive where to find everything on the Ribbon in Word 2007 but this should help you out. You could change case and clear formatting in older versions of MS Word and now I will tell you how to accomplish the same thing in the latest version!

To change case in your document, follow the steps below:

  1. Open the Home Tab.
  2. In the Font group, click the Change Case command.
  3. Select the case that is suitable.
  4. You can also use the shortcut Shift + F3 to do the same thing.

The command Clear Formatting is very intuitive and does exactly what you think it would.

If, after you have made several formatting changes to a paragraph, you decide that you liked it better before you made the changes, you can reveerse it back to the way you want it very quickly.

Follow the steps below to learn how:

  1. Select the paragraph.
  2. Open the Home tab.
  3. In the Font group, click Clear Formatting.

Word will remove all formatting from the selected text, returning it to your document’s default formats.

Remember,  you do not want to use the Undo button because if you have added any text, you run the risk of undoing that as well!