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Monthly Archives: May 2023

Carol’s Ramblings

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Easter is over and most of my plants are blooming and flourishing. This is one my favorite seasons with so many beautiful flowers and trees and everything looks so brand new. It gives me hope that eventually everything will be alright again.

It is good to be outside again and able to meet with friends for lunch or take a walk together.  Everyone who knows me, knows I hate cold weather so I am really happy to have this season upon us.

I have some really good information for you in this month’s newsletter and I hope you agree. Some of these articles will certainly make your life a bit easier and we can all stand to have that happen right?

Please remember to be kind to each other and do what you can to help others. Be a somebody who makes everybody feel like a somebody. Let the folks you care about know!

Until next time, do take care of each other and yourselves.

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How to Edit a Template in Word

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To edit a file and make it our own, so that you can use it again later, you must first save it as a template.

Follow the steps below to learn how:

  1. Go to the File menu and select Save As.
  2. Give your template a name.
  3. From the type menu, select Word Template (*.dotx).
  4. Once you have selected Word Template (*.dotx) from the list of choices, Word will automatically change your save location to the Custom Office Templates folder or another default save location set in your Word options.
  5. If that is where you would like your template to appear in your personal templates area, keep this location.
  6. Click on Save to save the file as a template.
  7. Then, open that template.

If you look at the top title bar for that file, you should see the name of the template (instead of Document 1 .docx) and the file extension of .dotx at the end. If so, that means that you are now editing your template.

Now that your template has been opened, you can begin making changes to your template.

 

Subscribers: How To Use Flash Fill in Excel

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Flash Fill can be used in Microsoft 365, Excel 2021,  and Mac Excel 2019 What is Flash Fill? Well I am glad you asked. Flash Fill is a very helpful and it will allow you to fill your data when it senses a patter in Excel.  For instance, you can use a Flash Fill to

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Subscribers: How To Unlink Cross-Referenced Fields in Word

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One of my clients called me in a complete tizzy about a month ago. It seems they needed to find out how to unlink cross-referenced fields as well as automatic caption numbering. Now the real reason they were in a tizzy was their superior at work no longer wanted them and my client wanted to

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Subscribers: How To Find & Replace Spaces/Tabs Before A Pilcrow

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Recently I came across an article about just how to find and replace unwanted spaces and/or Tabs before a paragraph.  I found this interesting because many, many people have no idea just how powerful that Pilcrow (paragraph mark) is. If you copy the Pilcrow at the end of a paragraph, you are actually copying all

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Subscribers: How to Use Find and Replace Without Keeping Capitalization

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A subscriber contacted me recently and asked if they could replace an all caps acronym ( ie., NAACP), with another word without all caps. They said every time they used Find and Replace it was all caps and wanted to know if there was any magic fix for this. Well luckily for my subscriber, it

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