Tip #59 - Accessing Office Templates

Tip #59 - Why Work Hard - Use Office Templates

The hardest part of creating a document in any program is getting started. People feel that they can edit a document just fine but they don’t feel comfortable creating one. That’s where the Templates in Microsoft Office can help.

 

When you click the File tab, New, you will see the different categories of templates that are available from the Microsoft website. These templates were created by users just like you and submitted to Microsoft for inclusion. Of course, the choices will be different if you are in Excel, where budgets and timesheets are included, than they are in PowerPoint, where there are templates demonstrating special effects or designed for specific purposes such as selling or training.

In the Apple version of Office go to the File menu and choose New from Template.

When you find a template you would like to use, double click on it. You might have to confirm that you want to download the template from the Microsoft website. The template opens on your screen and you can save the document just as you would any document.

So the next time you need to create a resume, design a flyer or create a budget, look to see if there is a template that could help you get started.

Happy computing!

Diane

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Tip #58 - Format Painter

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Tip #58 - Format Painter

Many programs have included a Format Painter in both the PC and Apple environment. The Format Painter allows you to copy the format from one place in your document and “paint” the format somewhere else in your document. Using the Format Painter saves you time and duplicated effort when you want to format your document consistently. Instead of having to manually apply the font, font effects, paragraph alignment, and other formatting to each new section heading, you can quickly copy all of the formatting attributes by using one button.

 

To use the Format Painter you need to start by selecting the correctly formatted text. How much you need to select depends on whether the formatting is a character format or a paragraph format. Character formats include font, color, size and style (bold, italic, etc.). Paragraph formatting refers to alignment, indentation, bullets, line spacing, borders, etc.

• To copy both paragraph attributes and character attributes (such as font and font effects), triple click on the formatted paragraph to select it.
• To copy only character attributes, double click on a formatted word.
• On the Home tab, Clipboard group, click Format Painter – once for one use, double click for unlimited uses.
• Select the text you want to apply the formatting to. Don’t forget you can triple click to select a paragraph, double click to select a word. The text takes on the attributes of the new formatting.
• When you're finished, press ESC or click the Format Painter button once.

Be sure to look for the Format Painter in your favorite programs. It save lots of time and makes the formatting in your document consistent.

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Tip #57 - Free Anti-Virus Programs

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Tip #57 - Free Anti-Virus Programs - Yes for the Apple too!

Everyone is concerned about getting a virus on their computer, and they should be. Viruses can be debilitating to your computer and should be avoided at all costs. Speaking of costs, many of these programs cost a lot every year and often do more than you need. Here are two free programs you should consider using on your computer when your current anti-virus program subscription runs out.

If you have an Apple and are sitting smugly reading this thinking you are immune, you should consider downloading the programs too. In the Spring of 2012, more than 600,000 Apples were infected with a trojan from Russia and the conventional wisdom since then is that anti-virus programs are for everyone on every device, phones as well as computers.

Avast Free (www.avast.com) is available for PC and Apple users. Just download it and the software will be installed automatically.

Another alternative is AVG Free (www.avg.com). It is similar to Avast Free but is only available for the PC, although they do have a program for the Mac that will alert you if a website contains malicious threats.

Do not use more than one anti-virus program at a time. If you are currently using Norton Anti-Virus or McAfee Anti-Virus, wait until your subscription runs out and then uninstall that software before you install Avast or AVG.

Better safe than sorry.

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Tip #56 - Excel Conditional Formatting

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Tip #56 - Excel Conditional Formatting

For those of you who work with Excel, I think you’re going to really love today’s tip.

Conditional Formatting, as the name implies, allows you to automatically format a cell in a way that you design, based on the contents of the cell. When the entry in a cell meets the criteria that you have defined, then the format of that cell changes automatically.

I’m in charge of a yearly event and keep track of the responses in an Excel file. Some people send me checks, others want me to charge the event to their club account and still others will give me money at the door. Depending on which option they elect, I want the color of the cell to change. Here’s how I did this.

I select the column that is going to have the special format by clicking on the letter at the top of the column. From the Home Tab, Styles group I click on Conditional Formatting and chose New Rule… In Apple it’s on the Format menu. I choose “Format only cells that contain” at the top of the box and in the lower part of the dialog box choose “Cell Value” “equal to” and in the third box I typed “club charge”. Now the fun begins, I click the Format button.  I use the Number, Font, Border and Fill options to make my entry as distinct as it needs to be and click OK and then OK again. Suddenly all of the “club charge” entries conform to the format I specified. When I changed the entry to “at the door” the format changes automatically again. As you can see from the screen shot, a column can have many conditional formats assigned to it.

Can you imagine using this for an accounts receivable worksheet? When the elapsed time from the date of the invoice reaches 60 days it becomes one color, when it reaches 90 days it displays another color format. The applications for this are endless.

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Tip #55 - Extra Help for Microsoft Office

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Tip #55 - Extra Help for Microsoft Office

If you are a Microsoft Office user, you probably have needed some help to accomplish set tabs, create formulas, indent text, etc. Microsoft offers a new option in addition to the classic FAQ search.

On their website Microsoft has a page of Quick Start Guides for the 2013 version of its various programs in the office suite.  These are in PDF format for easy downloading and printing. Each guide runs about five to nine pages depending on the program and covers the changes made to the software from the previous edition. Tips for using the program are included, as is compatibility advice for working with people who do not have Office 2013. Even if you are not using the 2013 version of the software I would recommend looking them over. The programs changed very little from the 2007 or 2010 versions. You can find these Guides at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/support/office-2013-quick-start-guides-HA103673669.aspx

Free quick reference cards for PC and Apple for a wide variety of software and versions are also available from the folks at Custom Guide On-Line Learning. You have to fill in a form but I find that if you put in the comments box that you’re just looking for a resource for personal use they don’t bother you. Check out their guides at http://www.customguide.com/computer-training/quick-references

Another place where people forget to look for help is YouTube. Yes there are lots of crazy videos of dancers and the like there but if you, for example, want a training video on mail merge in any version of Microsoft Word, I guarantee you’ll find dozens on YouTube. Some will be better than others, to be sure, but you probably will find one that will help you get through your project.

A forth suggestion is to open any search page (Google, Bing, Ask, etc.) and in the search box enter your search term. If you were looking for webpages on mail merge I would enter, “Word 2007 mail merge”. I like to start my searches by entering the name of the program and version so the help is specific to what I’m seeing on my computer.

Remember, you’re not alone even though there may be no one else in the room. The internet is just a click away.

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Tip #54 - Automatic Bullets/Lists in Word

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Tip #54 - Automatic Bullets/Lists in Word

More than ten years ago Microsoft introduced AutoCorrect to the world. We talked in a previous blog post about how great this feature is. However, there is one aspect of this feature that really frustrates people…how Word automatically thinks you’re starting a bulleted or numbered list as you type when you start a paragraph with an asterisk (*) or with a number.

Microsoft is just trying to be helpful but I do agree this can be a little frustrating. But there’s an easy solution, all you have to do though is look for the little lightning bolt control menu that appears whenever the program automatically “corrects” something.  Move your mouse on the menu and click on what you want to do. As you can see from the screen capture you can undo Automatic Bullets, Stop Automatically Creating Bulleted Lists (forever) or Control AutoFormat Options…  The last of these choices will bring up the AutoFormat Options dialog box where you can review other options that you might want to change.

AutoFormat is not just a Word feature. Those of you who use Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and other Microsoft programs will recognize it too. Just look for the lightning bolt to control automatic changes.

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Tip #53 - Excel Lists

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Tip #53 - Excel Lists

You may have been introduced to lists by the Excel program. When you start to create what appears to the program to be a list, a window pops up asking if you would like Excel to convert your data to a list.

An Excel list provides features designed to make it easier to manage and analyze groups of related data in a worksheet. When you designate a range as a list, you can manage and analyze the data in the list independently of data outside the list. For example, using only the data contained within the list, you can filter columns, add a row for totals, and even create a PivotTable report, using only the data contained within the list.

You can have multiple lists on your worksheet, which allows you a great deal of flexibility for separating your data into distinct, manageable sets according to your needs.

 NOTE:   You cannot create a list in a shared workbook. You must remove the workbook from shared use first if you want to create a list.

If you already have entered information in an Excel worksheet but didn’t use the list feature, you can convert the data area to a list. To do this click any cell within the data area. From the Insert tab choose List. If your first row contains column headings make sure you have checked the “My table has headers” box, and then click OK.  Now your data is in a table. You’ll notice that you have access to the Table Tools tab at the top of the screen, which will include an option to add a Total Row. If you add a Total Row, you’ll see that each column has drop down choices for how you would like to calculate it. 

So the next time Excel suggests adding a List to your worksheet, consider clicking on OK.

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Tip #52 - Screen Captures

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Tip #52 - Screen Captures

While you were always able to take a screen shot (picture of your screen) by tapping the Print Scr key on your keyboard (or the Alt Print Scr key to take a picture of a dialog box) it took a picture of your entire screen which you then had to paste into a Word or PowerPoint document to crop it. If you wanted to annotate it with arrows you had to use a graphic design program such as Photoshop Elements. Starting with Windows 7 Microsoft included the Snipping tool. The Snipping tool (available for Mac and Apple) allows you to take a screen shot of a portion of your screen, helpful if you’re trying to show someone what you see on your screen, such as when you’re talking to technical about support computer issues.

To access the Snipping tool on your PC, click on the Start button in the lower left side of your screen. When you do that your curser will be in the “Search Programs and Files” box. Start typing “snip”. By the time you get those four characters in the search box you should see the Snipping tool listed in the program menu above.  Click on the Snipping tool.  A window will pop up on your screen with the Snipping tool visible. Click the New button (if it's not already selected) to take a picture of an area of the screen. Now drag your mouse on the screen to capture the picture. When you release your mouse another window will pop up with your screen capture. You can save it, edit it or copy it for use later.

In the Apple environment you can take a screen shot of your entire screen by holding down the Command and Shift keys and pressing the 3 key, but you can also zero in on just a portion. If you hold down the Command and Shift keys and press the 4 key, Mac OS X turns the cursor into crosshairs you can use to select whatever portion of your display you’d like to capture in a screen shot. Just as in the PC environment, you can paste the screenshot into a Word, PowerPoint or email.

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Tip #51 - Refining Your Internet Searches

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Tip #51 - Refining Your Internet Searches

Are you surprised by some of the results you get when you do an Internet search? The search engines try to identify for you the websites that best fit your search terms. If you were to search for “turkey burgers” your results will include pages that have general turkey recipes as well as information about burgers, not necessarily only burgers made from turkey meat.  To find pages devoted specifically to turkey burgers, enclose the term in quotation marks. This is particularly helpful if you’re looking for “John Q Public” or anyone else. By putting quotation marks around their name it will be looking for people with that specific name.

Here are some other, lesser known search modifiers:

intitle:admissions searches for the word admissions in the title assigned to the page by the programmer

inurl:admissions searches for the word admissions in the URL

related:www.nbc.com will show similar pages to nbc.com

minus in your search removes that word from the page “cats –dogs” results in finding pages that mention cats but not dogs.

Also, don’t bother putting “the”, “and”, “of” and so forth in web searches unless they are part of a longer phrase within quotation marks.

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Tip #50 - Double Click the Title Bar

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Tip #50 - Double Click the Title Bar

Well friends, we are half way through the 100 Computer Tips in 100 Days blog and I hope you have found a few tips that you've incorporated into your computer experience. Remember that the greatest compliment you can give it is to pass along the blog link to your friends who might enjoy learning something new.  Please feel free to comment on the blog entries, I’m getting lonely.

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Now, here’s today’s tip – Double clicking the title bar will toggle between “restore down” and Maximize  your window in the PC environment. In the Apple environment it will Minimize your window down to the docking area at the bottom right of your screen.

Remember the Title Bar of a window is that area across the top of the window that tells you the name of the window you’re looking at. The Title Bar generally includes the close button (Apple) or close X (PC).

This tip always works in the PC environment but might be disabled in the Apple world. If so, go to System Preferences...  > Dock and click the checkbox for Double-click a window's title bar to minimize.

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Tip #49 - Quick Hide Your Windows!

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Tip #49 - Quick Hide Your Windows!

So you have a bunch of windows open and you want to quickly see your desktop. You can hide all windows, revealing only what’s on the computer’s desktop, with one keystroke: hit the Windows key and d (for desktop) simultaneously in Windows, or press F11 on Macs (on recent Mac laptops, Command+F3).

This tip is great for when the boss or your spouse comes in your office and you’re checking your Facebook page or buying a special present for him/her. It’s also helpful when you want examine or delete something you've just downloaded to the desktop. Press the keystroke again to return to what you were doing.

That’s it-- a case of peek-a-boo! This tip might save a few jobs or marriages!

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Tip #48 - Filling In Forms On The Internet

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Tip #48 - Filling In Forms On The Internet

So there you are again filling in the form for your baseball/ballet/opera tickets and you have to give them your name, address, etc.  What you need to do is click in the first field and, after filling in that field, use the Tab key to move to the next field. No need to move your mouse and click, just Tab from field to field.

Oops, missed a field and need to back up? Use the Shift key along with the Tab key to go backwards through the form.

When you get to a field, like the state or country field , that generally has a pop up list, you can type the first letter of the state to choose it. This is easy if you live in Florida because there is only one state that begins with an “f”. If you live in Connecticut, you have to type the “c” three times to get through California and Colorado.

Remember to use the Tab key rather than clicking each box, it really is easier.

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Tip #47 - Finding Text

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Tip #47 - Finding Text

Using the search engine of your choice, you've finally found the entry you were looking for – the one with directions on how to plant daises. You click on it, but as you scroll down the page you see all kinds of information but none about daises. You scroll up and down and on the third pass, if you’re lucky, you finally find what you’re looking for. Whoa, let’s stop the madness now.

You need to know about Ctrl + f (Command + f for my Apple friends), which is the universal keyboard shortcut for Find. You can execute a find in almost every program and on every webpage.

Once you do your keyboard shortcut to start the find, just type the search term. You may not actually see a place to type but hit those keyboard letters anyway. The first occurrence in the document or on the webpage will be highlighted. Tapping the Enter key will move you through the document identifying more occurrences of the term.

Ctrl/Command + f, easy to remember and very helpful.

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Tip #46 - Excel AutoFit Column Width

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Tip #46 - Excel AutoFit Column Width

When you begin an Excel spreadsheet, all of the columns and rows start out the same default width and height. The default column width is 8.11 characters or 80 pixels. The default row height is about 14.4 characters or 24 pixels (it varies by version). As long as the information you put in the columns and rows fit in those constraints you are golden. Unfortunately the world isn't that organized and you will probably need to change the column and row sizes. That’s where Autofit comes in.

I recommend you input a row or two of information before you change the column width. This will give Excel some idea about the type of information you plan on putting in the columns and rows and enable you to use the AutoFit feature. The rows and columns will be resized to the widest/tallest entry in the column/row.

You can AutoFit one column or all of the columns depending on how many you select in the worksheet. To AutoFit one column, column C in the example (see screen shot) place your mouse on the vertical line that separates that column in the column heading from the column to the right,  and double click the mouse.  In the screen shot, column C would be adjusted.

If you needed to AutoFit all of the columns in the worksheet as you often need to when using imported data, you need to select the entire document. You can do this by using a keyboard method (Ctrl + a, Command + a for Apple users) or by clicking the select all box in the extreme upper left corner of the workbook, where the row numbers and the column letters intersect.  Once the worksheet is selected, move your mouse on the vertical line in the column header between any two columns and double click the mouse button.

Use the same strategies to resize the row height.

I have noticed that sometimes Excel resists the AutoFit double click. In those cases I select the entire document and manually drag the column width to make it very wide, much wider than the maximum size I need. I release the mouse button and then go back between any two columns and perform a double click. Magically Excel now knows that you mean business and reduces the columns to a best fit option. You might also have to double click the horizontal line between any of the rows to reduce the height of all of the rows.

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Tip #45 - Copying Pictures from the Internet

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Tip #45 - Copying Pictures from the Internet

This tip was requested by my sister who wanted to know how to download a picture from Facebook. This tip will work on virtually any picture you find on the internet. There are some protected pictures that the web developers have prevented you from downloading but this is a very small group.

When you see a picture that you would like to save to use in a program or document or just to have saved on your computer, click on the picture to bring it into its own window. This will get you to the best quality image available. You might have to click a few times or you might get lucky and one click will do it. You’ll know when you’re at the best picture when your mouse does not turn into a hand when it is positioned on the picture.

Once the picture is in its own window, click with your right mouse button (Ctr click for Apple users) and choose Save image as. Depending on the browser you’re using your choice might be Save picture as. The Save as dialog will appear allowing you to save the file wherever you would like.

Now you can save all of your friends Facebook pictures and more. I showed this to a friend and she never sends an email without including a picture…

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Tip #44 - Friend Lists in Facebook

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Tip #44 - Friend Lists in Facebook

A list in Facebook is a way of controlling who has access to posts on your Facebook wall. They are really easy to create and use. You already have, thanks to the Facebook people, three lists: close friends, acquaintances and restricted:

Close Friends: You can add your best friends to this list to see more of them in your news feed and get notified each time they post. You also have the option to turn these extra notifications off.

From your news feed, click Friends in the left column. You might have to click More to see the Friends section.

•  Click Close Friends to view the list.
•  Click the Notifications drop-down in the top-right corner.
•  Choose whether you want to turn off these extra notifications.

Acquaintances: This list is for friends with whom you don’t need to stay in close touch. People on your acquaintances list will rarely show up in your news feed. You can also choose to exclude these people when you post something, by choosing Friends except Acquaintances in the audience selector pull-down menu when you create a post. By default it says “Friends”.

Restricted: This list is for people you've added as a friend but don’t want to share with, like your boss. When you add someone to your Restricted list, they will only be able to see your Public content or posts in which you tag them. Public includes anyone on the internet --people who are not your friends on Facebook, as well as people who are not in your school or work networks, whether or not they have Facebook.

To see which list someone is on click the More link in the Friends section on the left of your screen and then click the See All Friends button at the top. All of your friends will be listed with an icon indicating which primary list they are on. You can also add them to additional lists here.

Let’s create a new list. 

• Click the Home link (along the top-right of every Facebook page)
• In the left column click the More link next to Friends
• Select the list you want to edit or click Create a List
• Search for your friends in the search bar at the top of the page, or add people from the List Suggestions on the right

Now when you post an update, choose the group who can see it from the list menu.

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