Archive for September, 2005

Find and Replace Tips – Special Characters

September 28th, 2005

Finding special characters is a useful way to clean up a document. The special characters can be added from the Special button list or directly as codes.
See the Find and Replace Tips – Formatting for the general process. The only difference is that you enter the codes instead of text.
For example, suppose you wanted […]

Find and Replace Tips - Formatting

September 28th, 2005

In the 80’s, search and replace (as it was known then) seemed the second coolest thing about word processing. The first, of course, was never having to re-type a document. These days, with the use of templates, styles, and Word’s New From Existing Document, it seems less necessary.
However, for cleaning up documents and combining […]

Create Custom Lists in Excel

September 3rd, 2005

You can use this tip to automatically create a list of items that you use frequently.
For example, let’s say that you need to list the days of the week as follows:
S = Sunday
M = Monday
T = Tuesday
W = Wednesday
Th = Thursday
F = Friday
Sa = Saturday
You probably know that you can List the full name […]

Create an Excel Chart with One Keystroke

September 3rd, 2005

Here’s an Excel tip you can use to impress your friends (or boss)!
To quickly create an Excel chart:
Select the data to chart and press F11 (on the top row of the keyboard).
Voila! A chart!

Two Cool Windows Shortcuts

September 3rd, 2005

We try to mention both of these shortcuts in most of our classes because everyone seems to love them!
Both shortcuts make use of the Windows key, the one between the left CTRL and left ALT keys on most keyboards. It looks like this:

Show the Desktop
The first one lets you get back to the Desktop […]