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Tip #061 – Word and PowerPoint
Word and PowerPoint : Great graphic tools – PART 2
This continuing tip will deal with CROPPING and LAYERS.
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Tip #062 – PowerPoint
PowerPoint: Uniform Graphic Duplication
When you have a graphic image on a slide – and you’ve made it the perfect size and shape, etc…and you’d like a second (identical) shape…rather than COPY and PASTE it…you can DUPLICATE it.
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Tip #063 – Windows
Windows 10: Keyboard shortcuts
Sometimes reaching over to grab the mouse, after you’ve been typing, is just too darn much work! Not to mention too slow.
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Tip #064 – PowerPoint
PowerPoint: Borrowing Design Themes from Other Presentations
When is this especially handy? If you have presentations that:
- You’ve made (and saved) from past versions of PowerPoint – using a theme that is so longer available in the newer version of PowerPoint; or
- Were created specifically for your company or agency and you would like to use the same theme – but don’t know where to access it.
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Tip #065 – iPhone
iPhone: Making Your Own Voice Ringtones (super cool)
These ringtones can be applied to calls AND text messages. When my Nanna phones me I hear her 98-year old British voice say “Ring, ring, it’s Nanna!” . If my sister sends me a text, I hear her voice saying “Hey Jannie, read this”. And when my husband phones me on my cellphone, I hear his voice proclaiming “You’re right Janet” (my personal favourite).
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Tip #066 – Word
Word: Fast formatting tricks
PART A: Quickly cleaning up formatting you don’t want
Normally, to remove formatting you select the text that has been formatted and then proceed to toggle off any formatting features that had been applied – and choose different format settings for options that do not toggle on and off. But if you applied a lot of formatting options – this can be time consuming.
Read MoreTip #067 – Outlook
Outlook: A More Comprehensive Inbox Search
The SEARCH function in all components (mail, calendar, contacts) of Outlook has dramatically improved.
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Tip #068 – Excel
Excel: More Ways to Play with the Fill Handle
Yet another use for the ever-flexible Fill Handle…
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Tip #069 – Outlook
Outlook: Quick TO/CC/BCC recipient retrieval
You know when you start a new email – and your cursor is sitting in the TO box…and you start to type in the first few letters of the person’s name…IF you have written to them recently their email address will pop up (along with others) so you can click on it. Nice and fast.
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