Outlook: Sending a Text Message from Outlook

 

You don’t have to grab your cell phone to send someone a text message – you can send one from your computer…within Outlook.

 

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Categories: Outlook

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EXCEL: Copying Only VISIBLE Cells

You’ve just done a DATA-SUBTOTAL to a large spreadsheet list – to summarize the data and make it more readable. The individual data rows are hidden – great. But you’d like to COPY the summary rows (and only those rows) to another worksheet.

 

If you select the results – and copy and paste them elsewhere – the hidden data rows still show up. Ugh.

 

What to do?

 

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Categories: Excel

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EXCEL: Quicker Data Entry

Pretty dinky little tip today – but hey…don’t whine…it’s a tip.

 

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Word: Setting the Default Paste Format

Scenario: You often copy then paste information from other sources (websites, other documents, etc) into your Word documents. You find yourself more-often-than-not using the PASTE-KEEP TEXT ONLY option so the incoming data blends seamlessly with your existing document text. Why do you have to do this? Because, the default paste option in Word is “Keep Source Formatting”.

 

To change your default paste option to KEEP TEXT ONLY…

 

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PowerPoint: Sharing Slides

Scenario: You need to create a presentation and find that a slide from another presentation could be useful in this new presentation. Why re-invent the wheel?

 

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Office: Drag n’ Drop

An often-quicker alternative to cut (or copy) and paste…

 

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WORD/EXCEL/POWERPOINT: Storing and Using Multiple Clipboards items

Haven’t you heard the rumour that you can store up to 24 items in the Windows Clipboard?

 

Yet, any time you copy or cut a second item – the first one (you copied or cut) is lost? What if you want to paste something you copied an hour ago? Or, what if you want to alternative back and forth between pasting a few different items? How is it possible that the Clipboard can hold more than one item? Easy-peasy – just display the CLIPBOARD PANE!

 

Full tip: Microsoft Office tip

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Google Chrome: Grabbing Web Images

First of all….you are only supposed to copy and/or use images off the web for PERSONAL use – not business use. So…we’ll just assume that’s what you’re doing…

 

When come upon a website that displays a graphic image that you would like – don’t just RIGHT-CLICK it (and choose SAVE PICTURE AS) right away. You want to make sure you’re getting the best quality copy of the image before you save it.

 

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Categories: IE

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Excel: Prest-o Chart-o

Get ready….this one’s pretty darn exciting….

 

Next time you need a chart…

 

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Word and PowerPoint: Great graphic tools

For those of you who let me know how exciting  the last (Excel) tip was…Thank You. But…fasten your seat belts…this one is even more exciting. I kid you not!

 

This tip comes in two parts – it’s just too long for one tip. I’ll cover the second part next week. No whining, please.

Scenario: I want a different picture for the top of this week’s eTip. But the only one that is close to what I want to use has me with my background displayed behind me.

 

What to do? Remove the background!

 

Full tip: Word_and_PowerPoint tip

Categories: PowerPoint Word

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