Archive for 2007

Big news from the folks at Microsoft today is that Microsoft Office 2007 will be available to purchase and download from Windows Marketplace on January 30!

Along with most versions of Windows Vista, Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007, Microsoft Office Professional 2007, and Microsoft Office Standard 2007 will be available online. 

No more messing around with shrink wrap, no more paper cuts, no more scratched CDs/DVDs!

Don’t have broadband… well the download will take a while.  Why not purchase Windows Vista or Office 2007 from Amazon.com?

[tags]Office 2007, Download, Purchase[/tags]

Signatures mean different things to different people, depending on where you work, and what job you are in.  Some companies have very strict guidelines on what you can and can not include in your signature, even telling you exactly what font and font size you have to use!  And then there are other organisations that don’t care, so you can add your personal touch.

Whatever your situation, chances are you need to know how to add a signature to your outgoing email in Outlook 2007.  It is easier than you think!

To create your signature in Outlook 2007

1. Click “Tools”, then “Options”.  This will open the “Options” dialog box (shown here).  Click on the “Mail Format” tab, then click on the “Signature” button, about 3/4 of the way down the dialog box.  This will open the “Signatures and Stationery” dialog box.
2. Click “New”, then give your signature a name.
3. In the text area, type your signature.  To change fonts or font sizes, add bold or italics etc, simply use the buttons and drop down boxes above the text area.
4. Click “Save” when you are finished.
5. [OPTIONAL] You can set up more than one signature if you like.  Simply click “New”, name your new signature, and type your new signature.

To make your signature automatically appear when you type a new email, or reply to an email in Outlook 2007

1. Again, in the “Signatures and Stationery” dialog box, you can select your favourite signature for new messages, or replies and forwards.  Simply use the two drop down boxes in the top right hand corner of the “Signatures and Stationery” dialog box.

One last tip for anyone creating their own signature.  No signature looks good if you use LIME GREEN as a font colour – let this be your last warning!

’till next time

TNP

[tags]Outlook 2007, Signature, Tutorial[/tags]

… everyone who has ever worked in an office knows that Blind Carbon Copy (or Bcc as it is usually referred to) is how most organisations operate.  Without Bcc you could not spread rumors, embarrass your colleagues… whoops I mean you could not inform others of important business communications whilst protecting their identity.

The problem is that by default, you will not find Bcc when you start a new email.  Bcc is turned off.  But it is simple to turn Bcc on and get back into the most important part of the work day… the office politics.

To turn on Blind Carbon Copy (Bcc) in Outlook 2007…

All you need to do is:

1. Start a new email
2. Click on the “Options” tab in the Ribbon
3. Click on the “Show Bcc”

Simple as that.  If you get to the stage of your career that you don’t care about office politics anymore, and want to turn Bcc off, simply got to the Options tab again, and click Show Bcc.  This will remove the Bcc field when you write your email.

The final result

’till next time

TNP

[tags]Outlook 2007, Bcc, Office Politics, Tutorial[/tags]

So you have just purchased a version of Office 2007 (or your boss just made you upgrade your PC at work!), and want to get up to speed quickly on exactly how to use Word 2007.  No sweat – here is the ultimate list of great posts to help you get your head around exactly how to use Word 2007 – fast!

I would start with the first couple, and as you build your confidence, start tackling some of the more advanced tutorials.

When you first start using Word 2007 – read…

1. What happened to the File Menu? Help with the new user interface in Office 2007
2. Screencast: Introduction to the New Ribbon UI in Word 2007
3. Word 2007: Undo
4. What are Galleries in Office 2007?
5. Printing in Word 2007

Once you are comfortable, move on to…

1. Need more Clip Art in Word 2007?
2. Inserting a Table in Word 2007
3. Find and Replace in Word 2007
4. Word 2007: How to add page numbers to your documents
5. How to Change your Page Orientation (Portrait vs Landscape) in Word 2007
6. Breaks in Word 2007 – Page, Column, Text Wrapping and Section Breaks
7. Word 2007: Page Layout Deep Dive Tutorial
8. Word 2007: What is the Prepare Menu? Deep Dive
9. How to Superscript text in Word 2007
10. Show and Hide Codes in Word 2007
11. Insert a Drop Cap in Word 2007
12. Track Changes, and Comments in Word 2007
13. How to save your Word 2007 document as a PDF
14. Word 2007 – Send your Document, Share it with the World!

And once you are an absolute power user of Word 2007…

1. Word 2007: Start Word 2007 without the Splash Screen
2. Shortcut keys in Word 2007
3. Word 2007: Minimise the Ribbon (Minimize the menu)
4. More than just word count – All the document statistics you want in Word 2007 using Status Bar Configuration
5. Word 97 Look and Feel, with Word 2007!
6. Lorem Ipsum and other random filler text in Word 2007, PowerPoint 2007, and Excel 2007
7. Screencast – Extending the Office 2007 UI with a Custom Ribbon

And to keep track of the latests posts on Word 2007 at The New Paperclip, simply check out the Word 2007 Category 

So there you have it – remember if you have trouble with anything in Word 2007, post a comment and I will try to write a tutorial especially for you! 

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