[December 15, 2008]
I apologize that this newsletter is a bit late, but 'tis the season and I am as busy as a one-armed paper hanger with the itch! So, instead of our normal newsletter, this edition will be devoted to season things that you can do with MS Office. I think you will find it informative and most of all fun!
I know that my readers do not all celebrate Christmas but I do and I would like to share the joy, peace and happiness that is a party of my holiday with all of you. I would also like to thank you for your loyalty over the years and for the confidence you have always had in me and my abilities. So even though you may not celebrate Christmas I would still like to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas from me and mine to you and yours. No matter whether you celebrate Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanza or whatever, I know you will understand the sentiment involved.
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Let's get to the tips now!
Table of Contents
Holiday Newsletters - Catch the family up on all you've been doing!
Drag Text with your Right Mouse Button - That's right, use that alternate mouse button!
Don't Use Tabs to Indent - Save yourself some time and potential problems
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Holiday Newsletters
You can use MS Word to create really professional looking Holiday newsletters that your friends and family will love to read.
MS Office has many templates that you can use to create your own Holiday cards or letters, newsletters, invitations, etc. These templates can be found here and you can choose from Christmas, Kwanza, etc.
You will have lots and lots of fun downloading these templates and creating your own unique cards, letters, invitations etc.
You can also download all manner of free holiday clip art and other media. You can even download some holiday sounds to include with your holiday e-mails! Just click here and you will spend lots of time deciding what to download before you start having fun!
Just make sure that you save your templates as templates and not documents so that you can use them over and over again!
Whether you are a child or an adult, I guarantee that you will have fun creating these cards and newsletters, etc.
Drag Text with your Right Mouse Button
Too often the right mouse button is completely ignored. It can be used many, many times. I always teach my students: Use the left mouse button to select and the right mouse button for choices. It's a good rule to remember.
At any rate, dragging selected text with your left mouse button moves the selected text to where you want to drop it and deletes it from the original location. However, when you drag the text with your right mouse button, you will see those choices I was talking about above when you release the button.
A context menu will appear displaying the commands:
- Move Here
- Copy Here
- Link Here
- Create Hyperlink Here
- Cancel
Go ahead and try it - it's pretty nifty eh?
Don's Use Tabs to Indent
Many people use the tab key at the beginning of a paragraph as a first-line indent. I wouldn't necessarily recommend this practice. Not only will you have to press the Tab key at the beginning every paragraph you wish to indent, but you will have to manually delete the tabs if you combine consecutive paragraphs to form one.
Ah...I see that light bulb going off for you now, remembering the times you have had to delete indents when you combine paragraphs.
I always recommend using MS Word's built in first line indent feature by clicking on Format | Paragraph | Indents and Spacing.
You can also use the button on the upper left of your MS Word screen to set the First Line Indent if you so choose by selecting the First Line Indent and setting the indent on your ruler.
I know you will find this a useful tip!
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