One of my readers wrote to me recently to ask me to update my web site regarding the delivery point barcode for envelopes and labels in MS Word 2007. He wanted to know if you can still use the delivery point barcode in the latest version of Word. Unfortunately Microsoft has chosen to remove that
Below, learn how to insert a character code in an Excel custom format to make a cell value use the degree symbol. Other character codes are advantageous in custom formats also. For example, Alt + 0010 adds a line break. We’ll use that fact to create a custom date format to turn a date into
If you’ve been using Word for a very long time like I have, you most likely remember a handy feature from the Tools menu; the Calculate command. It had the standard four functions, plus exponents and percentages, and could handle a lot of math that was needed for reports, etc. The Calculate command was removed
Have you ever wished that you could have a folder in Word with all of the envelopes that you use all the time so you could just click on it and print it out? Well guess what – you can! This is actually easier than you might have thought if you have tried it some
You’ve just graduated and it’s time to send out the old resume and find a job. What to do?? Fear not. Microsoft Word software can take the work and worry out of this situation for you. If you have an Internet connection, you can choose from dozens of resume templates on the Microsoft Office Online
Kim had a term paper due and it had forty end notes. Then her professor decided that he would rather have footnotes. Fortunately, Word is flexible when it comes to whether a note is a footnote or an endnote. You cannot convert all of them at one time, but convert them you can! The way
When you use styles in Microsoft Word, you can see the style of the currently selected paragraph in the Style dropdown list on the Formatting toolbar. To see what style is applied to a paragraph, you can click the paragraph and look at the list on the toolbar. When you receive a document from someone
Sometimes bulleted lists are difficult to read. When bullet items have more than two lines of text, which frequently happens when writing instructions, it would be nice to have bullets that have more space between them. I find that as I age, my ability to read items that are close together is lacking. You could
The traditional, rectangular box is what many Word users are familiar with when you mention a text box and let’s face it, we are all familiar and comfortable with that traditional text box. But let’s take a walk on the wild side and do something different that looks sort of snazzy! Follow the steps below:
Many times you find yourself doing the same task over and over and sometimes a task is very difficult for a new user or its a task that is used so infrequently that even an experienced user has to take the time to figure out exactly how it’s done again! Macros are automatically stored in
