Written by The New Paperclip on April 19, 2008 – 1:51 pm
Do you want to pretty up your spreadsheets just a little? Why not add a picture in the background! It could be a company logo, a nice relaxing beach landscape or a picture of your kids… whatever it is… it is really simple to add a background image to your spreadsheets in Excel 2007
Open up […]
Written by The New Paperclip on April 19, 2008 – 1:42 pm
Are you like me and tend to write lots and lots in your cells in Excel 2007? It might be a good idea to make the text wrap.
What does wrapping text mean? Basically it is where you take one long line of text, and make it "wrap" around onto a number of lines instead. That […]
Written by The New Paperclip on April 15, 2008 – 8:30 pm
Yesterday I told you all about how you can use Merge and Center to get some text to run across a number of columns, rows, or both.
Well Jon Peltier quickly got onto the comments box and let us know about an alternative to Merge and Center in Excel 2007 called "Center Across Selection". It’s just […]
Written by The New Paperclip on April 14, 2008 – 9:24 pm
Wonder how your favourite accountant/analyst/spreadsheet guru makes those cool looking headings that go across a number of columns and rows?
Chances are they are using a great feature of Excel 2007 called "Merge and Center". What does merge and center do? Exactly that - it merges all the cells you have selected, and then centres the […]
Written by The New Paperclip on April 14, 2008 – 8:38 pm
Want to be a desktop publishing great, spreadsheeting wiz or PowerPoint guru and help the environment at the same time?
Guess what - you might be already!
Microsoft have released an extra section on Microsoft Office Online called Lighten up: Reduce your carbon footprint and workplace costs.
Obviously they left one tip for reducing your impact on the […]
Written by The New Paperclip on April 14, 2008 – 8:24 pm
Have you ever noticed if you select some text in Microsoft Excel 2007 you get a little pop-up menu. You know the one, it lets you change the font, the font size, the font colour and a lot more.
Some people think it is great. Some people think it is annoying.
I think it is great, but […]
Written by The New Paperclip on August 19, 2007 – 4:44 pm
Want to know lots of in depth techincal stuff about Microsoft Office? Well if I can’t answer it, there are plenty of people at Microsoft who know their stuff!
One of them is Alistair Speirs, a Office Technology Specialst at Microsoft Australia. If you want to dive deep into everything office (beyond the tutorials from yours […]
Written by The New Paperclip on August 19, 2007 – 4:36 pm
Have you ever seen those spreadsheets or charts where the text isn’t normal? You know the ones where the text is diagonal, or vertical, or on its side? It is a pretty nifty trick you can use to display more information in less space. And in Excel 2007 it is really easy to do.
How to […]
Written by The New Paperclip on May 6, 2007 – 12:33 pm
A lot of organisations have had a chance to play around with Office 2007 for a while now, and are now walking down the road of deployment. But where to start? Deployment has changed a little from previous versions of Microsoft Office, so it might be a good idea to brush up on a few […]
Written by The New Paperclip on May 3, 2007 – 6:27 pm
So you have a worksheet with some numbers, but they are not your standard type of number… maybe they are a dollar figure, maybe they are a date or time, percentage or fraction. To make sure Excel 2007 interprets them the way you interpret them, you need to format the number properties the cell.
How to […]