Office Tips

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Keywords on MS Word:
Through Mouse:
Double-click (on a word) Select the word.

Single-click (anywhere in a sentence) + Holding CTRL Select the entire sentence.

Triple-click (anywhere in a paragraph) Select the entire paragraph.

Click, hold, drag, then release Select text from the click position to release position.

Click first position, hold SHIFT key, then click 2nd position Select text from the 1st position to the 2nd position.

Hold ALT key, then click and drag Vertical select text.

Hold CTRL key, then scroll wheel Zoom in/out.

Keyboard shortcuts
Ctrl + A Select all (including text, graphics).
Ctrl + B Bold.
Ctrl + I Italic.
Ctrl + U Underline.
Ctrl + C Copy.
Ctrl + V Paste.
Ctrl + X Cut.
Ctrl + F Find.
Ctrl + Z Undo.
Ctrl + Y Redo.
Ctrl + P Open the print dialog.
Ctrl + K Insert link.
Ctrl + L Left align.
Ctrl + E Center align.
Ctrl + R Right align.
Ctrl + M Indent.
Ctrl + (left arrow) Moves one word to the left.
Ctrl + (right arrow) Moves one word to the right.
Ctrl + (up arrow) Moves cursor to the beginning of the paragraph.
Ctrl + (down arrow) Moves cursor to the end of the paragraph.
Ctrl + Shift + F Change font.
Ctrl + Shift + * View/hide non-printing characters.
Ctrl + Del Deletes word to the right of cursor.
Ctrl + Backspace Deletes word to the left of cursor.
Ctrl + End Moves cursor to the end of document.
Ctrl + Home Moves cursor to the beginning of document.
Ctrl + Spacebar Reset highlighted text to the default font.
Ctrl + 1 Single-space.
Ctrl + 2 Double-space.
Ctrl + 5 1.5-line.
Ctrl + Alt + 1 Format text: heading 1.
Ctrl + Alt + 2 Format text: heading 2.
Ctrl + Alt + 3 Format text: heading 3.
F1 Help.
F4 Repeat the last action
F5 Go to .
F7 Spelling and grammar.
F8 then (left arrow) Increase selection to the left by one character

F8 then (right arrow) Increase selection to the right by one character
F12 Save as.
Ctrl + F1 Task Pane.
Ctrl + F2 Print preview.
Alt + Ctrl + F2 New document.
Shift + F3 Cycle between capitalized formats
Ctrl + Insert Copy.
Shift + Insert Paste.
Shift + End Select from current position to the end of the line.
Shift + Home Select from current position to the beginning of the line.
Ctrl + Shift + (left arrow) Select from current position to the beginning of the word.
Ctrl + Shift + (right arrow) Select from current position to the end of the word.
Ctrl + Shift + (up arrow) Select from current position to the beginning of the document.
Ctrl + Shift + (down arrow) Select from current position to the end of the document.
Ctrl + Shift + Page Up Select from current position to the beginning of the window.
Ctrl + Shift + Page Down Select from current position to the end of the window.
Shift + Page Up One screen page up.
Shift + Page Down One screen page down.
Shift + F7 Thesaurus check selected text.
Shift + F12 Save.
Ctrl + Shift + F12 Print.
Alt + Shift + D Insert the current date.
Alt + Shift + T Insert the current time.

Shortcut to Change Case in Word
This trick shows you how to create a Right-click Menu to change case on the selected text. When you select a text and want to change the selection to either all upper case, lower case, or sentence case, all you need to do is a right-click and pick!

The change case format option is actually one of the font options; howerver, you would have to open the font format dialog and select this option everytime you want to change case. Why don't we create a link on the Right-click menu.

Here's how
1. Open your Word document.
2. Select "Tools" on the top menu, then select "Customize".
3. Select the "Toolbars" tab.
4. On the list under "Toolbars", scroll down and check on "Shortcut Menus". Once this option checked, you'll see a small box called "Shortcut Menus" displayed.
5. On the "Shortcut Menus", click on the arrow next to "Text". Scroll down and select to expand "Text". We are going to place the new shortcut right under "Paste".
6. Back to the "Customize" window, move the window next to this expand menu to make it easy to drag and drop the menu icons. Select the "Commands" tab.
7. Select "Format" under "Categories", and select "Change Case" under "Commands"
8. Or you can select "All Caps" under "Commands". The "All Caps" is a quick convert to lower and upper case, but it doesn't have the ability to convert to sentense case.
9. Hold the mouse when you click on the command above and drag it to the text menu that we expanded on step 5. Drop it right under "Paste".
10. Close the "Customize" window and go back to the document. Hight-light a text on the document and right-click, you'll see the new option "Change Case" there.
11. How to Create Tables Quickly in Word 2007?
12. Word 2007 has many features that can improve the presentation of your documents. It perks up the way in which you exchange information with other people. Among these beneficial built-in features of Word 2007 is creating tables. You can create tables quickly in Word 2007 too but it is also a bit different than the previous version of Word. Other than that you might find it simpler to create as well as format tables in Word 2007. In fact, it is easier to create tables quickly in Word 2007.
13. There are numerous methods to create tables quickly in Word 2007, e.g. you can use the Insert table option or draw one by using the draw table option. But there is also another way to create tables quickly in Word 2007 that many people are not familiar with. Follow these steps to help create tables quickly in Word 2007 a very easy job:
14.1. Place the cursor where you would like to start the table.
15. 2. Type a “+” sign.
16. +
17. 3. Space or tab to where you would like the 1st column to finish.
18. + +
19. 4. Type a “+” sign again and press Enter. This will create a box.
20. 5. Repeat the steps for each column.
21. 6. Type a “+” at the point you would like the last column to finish.
22.7. A table will be created with your required number of columns and one row.
23. 8. In order to add rows, click at the end of the first row outside the table.
24. 9. Press Enter on the keyboard.
25. 10. Repeat the same steps for each row you want to add.
26.After you create tables quickly in Word 2007 using this method, you can modify its layout just like you can alter any other table you make in Word 2007. In order to alter the table, you can right-click on the four-headed arrow outside the table on the top left and click on Table Properties from the menu.

How to password protect a PowerPoint presentation?

Microsoft PowerPoint is a powerful tool to use for creative presentations. Today, the latest technique to present you is by using computer slides. You can say it is very attractive and proper way to present the ideas to others. In office network your computer can be accessed by any other user and made some undesirable changes to it. You can prevent this by protecting your document by applying password so that unauthorized person can not display as well as modify your document.

Some Owesome Tips By Experts:

1. Create and Use Building Blocks As Reusable Document Parts
Microsoft Word 2007 introduced a Building Blocks feature that lets you create standardized cover pages, headers, footers, and tables—a feature still available in Word 2010. A Building Block is a powerful, reusable tool. Once you create a Building Block, you can insert it into any new document. For example, to create a header for confidential documents, go to the Insert tab, click Header, and choose Blank from the gallery. Type "Confidential" into the header and format it any way you like (for example, press Ctrl-E to center it). With the text cursor in the header, press Ctrl-A to select the entire header. Return to the Insert tab, click Header, and then, from the foot of the gallery, click Save Selection to Header Gallery. In the Create New Building Block dialog, give your header a name (for example, "Confidential"), and click OK to save it as a Building Block. To insert this header in a new document, go to the Insert tab, click Header, scroll down through the gallery to the list of General items, and click on the name you gave to your header—"Confidential," in our example. When you exit Word, you'll be prompted to save your changes to the special-purpose Word file that contains your building blocks, BuildingBlocks.dotx, so you can reuse your new Building Block in future Word sessions.

2. Back up and Edit Word's Default Document Template
Many of the tips in this selection tell you to edit the "default template" (Normal.dotm) that Word uses to specify the formatting of new documents. Before you proceed, turn off the Windows option that hides most filename extensions like .dotm. To do this in Vista or Windows 7, enter Folder Options in the Start Menu's search box, open the Folder Options applet, and in the View tab, remove the checkbox next to "Hide extensions for known file types", and click OK. Then, from Word's File menu, choose Open. Next, in the sidebar, depending on your Windows versions, either click on Microsoft Word, then Templates, or click on Trusted Templates. This will open a list of files that includes Normal.dotm. Before doing anything else, make a backup copy of Normal.dotm. First highlighting the file, press Ctrl-C to copy it, then Ctrl-V to paste a copy into the same folder. The newly-created copy will be named "Copy of Normal.dotm," but you can rename the backup copy anything you like, as long as you keep the .dotm file extension—for example, "My customized Normal.dotm." When, when you've made a backup copy, double-click Normal.dotm to open it for editing

3. Create a default header or default page numbering

If you want all your documents to include page numbering by default, Word doesn't make it obvious how to do so. But, if you've read Tip number 2, above, it's not all that hard, either. Open your default template, Normal.dotm, as described in the previous tip, go to the Insert tab, choose Page Number, and choose a location and format for the page numbering. Close and save Normal.dotm, and all your new documents will use the page numbering you specified. But what if you want no page number on the first page of your document, or a number in a different location? Read on to the next tip

4. Create default page numbering that starts on the second page

Use this trick after setting up default page numbering in Word using the previous tip, you decide that you do not want a page number to appear on the first page of your documents, but you do want it to appear on all other pages. Open Normal.dotm, go to the Page Layout tab. In the Page Setup group, click on More Arrow (the diagonal arrow at the lower right of the group) to open the Page Setup dialog. Once that's opened, go to the Layout tab, and, under Headers and Footers, add a check box next to Different First Page, and click OK. Finally, close Normal.dotm. Any new document you create will have no page numbering on the first page, but will start page numbering on the second page.

Bonus tip: If you want a page number on the first page, but in a different position from the numbering that you already created for all later pages, then follow the instructions above, but after clicking OK in the Page Setup dialog, go to the Insert tab on the Ribbon, choose Page Number, and choose a position and format for the page number. The choices you make here will apply to the first page only of all new documents.

5. Delete Normal.dotm and Restore the Default Version or a Backed-up Copy

If you ever need to delete or rename Normal.dotm, you'll need to close Word and navigate to the folder that contains the template, because you can't modify Normal.dotm while Word is running. The location of that folder varies in different Windows version, so the quickest way to find it is to enter this string in the search or run box in the Start Menu:

%appdata%\Microsoft\Templates

Your Templates folder will open in Windows Explorer. If you simply delete Normal.dotm, Microsoft's original version of the file will be recreated the next time you launch Word. Alternately, you can take a backed-up copy of Normal.dotm that you customized earlier and rename this backed-up copy as Normal.dotm, and then Word will use it as your default template.

Bonus undocumented tip: In Word 2003 and earlier, the default template was named Normal.dot (not Normal.dotm as in Word 2007 and 2010). If you ever had Word 2003 or earlier installed on your system, then a copy of Normal.dot will be in your Templates folder; it may have been renamed Normal11.dot by a later Word installation. If so, make a copy of it in the same folder and name the copy Normal.dot (NOT .dotm!). Now, if you delete your Word 2007 or 2010 Normal.dotm, and your Word 2003 (or earlier) Normal.dot is present in the Templates folder, Word will automatically import the customizations and macros from the old Normal.dot file when it re-creates its new Normal.dotm. The newly-created Normal.dotm won't be the clean version of the file created by a fresh installation of Word 2007 or 2010—as it would be if Normal.dot were not present in the same folder—but will include your Word 2003 (or earlier) macros customizations. This is the easiest way to import your Word 2003 (or earlier) macros and customizations into Word 2007 or 2010.

6. Give Word a more readable default font

The default font in Word 2010 is Calibri, which looks elegant on screen but isn't very readable because it's a "sans-serif" type—in other words, it doesn't have the small horizontal strokes at the top and bottom of the letters that help guide the eye across the page. To change Word's default font to something more readable and appealing, press Ctrl-Shift-F to open the Font dialog. I recommend that you change the font to Palatino Linotype, 12 point. Click Save as Default, choose "All documents based on the Normal.dotm template," and click OK.

7. Change other layout defaults in Word

You can change other default settings the same way you changed the default font. Press Alt-O, then P to open the Paragraph dialog (or click the More Arrow in the Paragraph group on the Home tab). Set spacing and other options, and click Save as Default. Go to the Page Layout tab, click the More Arrow in the Page Setup group to open the Page Setup dialog. Set margins and other page-layout settings, and click Save as Default.

8. Put the Autoformat command on the Quick Access Toolbar


If you're a longtime Word user, you may remember the AutoFormat command, which was a great timesaver when someone sent you a badly-formatted document, such as an e-mail message with paragraph break) at the end of every line that you needed to turn into an easily-editable Word document. When Microsoft introduced the Ribbon interface with Office 2007, the AutoFormat command wasn't on it, but you can make it return. You can add it to the Quick Access Toolbar that appears above the Ribbon's tabs by clicking on the down arrow at the right-hand end of the Quick Access Toolbar, and then clicking on More Commands. In the dropdown menu under "Choose commands from," select Commands Not In the Ribbon. From the list that appears, click on Autoformat, the Add button, and then OK. Follow a similar procedure to put any other command on the Quick Access Toolbar that you want to access quickly.

9. Make Word warn you when you save or print a file with tracked revisions

If you ever use revision tracking in your Word documents, you've probably made the mistake of sending out a document with your revisions still present in your file, and easily visible to anyone who turns on the option to display revisions and changes. Word 2010 finally adds a dignity-saving security option that warns you whenever you try to save or print a document that contains revision information, or when you try to e-mail it from Word's menus. To turn on this warning, go to the File menu, then Options, then Trust Center. Click on Trust Center Settings..., then Privacy Settings, and add a checkmark next to "Warn before printing, saving or sending a file that contains tracked changes or comments."

10. Save and Restore Your Macros

If you want to share your Word macros with other users, or import them into other systems, but you don't want to share all the other customizations stored in Normal.dotm, save your macros to a file that contains just your macros and nothing else. Start by pressing Alt-F11 to open the Visual Basic Editor in the Project pane at the upper left, then click on the plus sign, Modules, and select "NewMacros." From the File menu, choose Export File to export your macros to a file. The file will have a .BAS extension, and, if you want to remove some macros or add explanatory

comments, you can edit the file in Notepad or any other text editor. To import your macros into another copy of Word, press Alt-F11, select Normal in the Project pane, and choose Import File from the File menu.