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Monthly Archives: March 2020

Carol’s Ramblings

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Well here we are folks. What a difficult time we are having around the globe! A very scary time indeed, but please do not lose your sense of decency and kindness. It is especially important at times such as these.  Be considerate of others – wash your hands often and for 20 seconds each time – use bar soap when you do so. Only use hand sanitizer when it is the only thing available and then wash with bar soap as soon as you can. Keep your hands off of your face.  And stay away from other people. I know this is all common sense but I would remiss if I did not remind you.

Ok, I am off my soapbox now. I have what I think are very useful articles for you this month and I hope that you agree with me. If there is anything special you would like to see covered in the future, please let me know and I will do my best to accommodate you.

Until next time, please, please take care of you!!

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How To Replace Manual Line Breaks With Paragraghs

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As some of you know, I knit for relaxation and I like to donate some of my handmade goods to different charities, so I am always on the lookout for free patterns to use.  There are many available if you look. But it drives me absolutely mad when I find a pattern on the internet and copy and paste it in Word, and it turns out that it was created with manual line breaks instead of paragraphs.  I know I’m a wonk but we all have certain ways of doing things, and mine just happens to be the right way!

Now I just copy and paste and automatically fix this problem every time.

Follow the steps below to learn how:

  1. Highlight your entire document.
  2. Click CTRL + H to open Find and Replace.

 

find-and-replace

  1. On the bottom, click on Special.
  2. In the Find area, select Manual Line Break.

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  1. In the Replace box, use the same process as above and select Paragraph mark.
  2. Click Replace All.

Easy peasy and you now have a document that is easy to maneuver and you can set space before or after, etc.

 

How To Control Automatic Capitalization In Word

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Have you ever been  flying across your keyboard trying to get a document finished, and then you look up and notice that Word has  capitalized words for you that you didn’t intend to be capitalized? Good old Word is trying to help you and usually does this when it thinks you are starting a new sentence. I get it. This can be very aggravating – especially when you are in a hurry. So if this is a problem for you, you can make Word stop being so helpful if you like!

Follow the steps below to learn how:

  1. Press File | Options.
  2. At the left-hand side of the dialog  that appears, click Proofing.
  3. Click AutoCorrect Options to display the AutoCorrect dialog.
  4. Be certain  the AutoCorrect tab is displayed

auto-correct

  1. Delete Capitalize First Letter of Sentences .
  2. Click OK.

Problem solved!

Subscribers: How To Open Document At Specific Size

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As we age (we, being me) often our eyesight changes as well and we cannot see as well as we did when we were younger, Yes, there are medical options to correct this but if you just aren't at that point yet and you need to be able to see your documents there is some

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Subscribers: How To Quickly Move in Outlook

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As you all know, I hate wasting time and keystrokes and so I make it my business to learn as many shortcuts as possible when using Microsoft Office.  Below are are few of them that I find save me a lot of time when using Outlook. I'm hopeful you will find them useful as well.

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Subscribers: How Use Fast Shortcut to Search in Outlook

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Want to find a message from someone at lightning speed? Follow the steps below to learn how: Press CTRL + N, to open a new email. Your cursor will automatically jump to the Search box. Key in Carol to find all messages containing the word Carol. To find in email from Carol,  key in from:Carol.

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Subscribers: How to Change Text Case in PowerPoint

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Ever finish your PowerPoint presentation and then decide you need to change the case of a large swath of text?  It can be a real pain to try and do that in dribs and drabs and it also wastes lots of time and keystrokes - something you all know I loathe. So I am going

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Subscribers: How to Create a Web App In Access 365

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Hmmm, why would you want to create a web app?  Well, for starters, if you own a business you could see the possibility that it can keep your colleagues and employees connected to their workplace (especially nowadays), and it could keep your clients supplied with all the latest information regarding your products, customer service, etc.

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