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 – 8:20 pm
Have you ever poured your heart and soul into absolutely awesome background in your word doc? Maybe you coloured it bright yellow, or purple, or ‘mother of pearl’?
It looks great on the screen, but when you print it… you can’t see it!
Did you know by default Microsoft Word 2007 that background colors and images […]
Written by The New Paperclip on April 14, 2008 – 8:10 pm
How many times have you lost everything in your document? Word crashed? Maybe the power went out? Whatever it was that happened… I bet it happened just before you were going to save, right?
By default, Word 2007 makes an Auto Recover save every 10 minutes. But if you are clumsy like me, or don’t trust […]
Written by The New Paperclip on April 14, 2008 – 7:50 pm
Have you ever noticed if you select some text in Microsoft Word 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 – 6:52 pm
Ever wanted to put some colour behind your text in a word document? Not just highlight something, but add color to the entire paragraph? It’s pretty easy in Word 2007.
1) Type your text into your document. Generally it is easier to work with all your text, rather than formatting it as you go
2) Look on […]
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 June 11, 2007 – 3:00 pm
When you are writing a document, you need to make it easy to read. Professional writers sometimes talk about things called “Entry Points”… points where a reader can quickly and easily start reading your document and pick up what you are trying to say.
Bullet points do exactly that!
Bullet points allow you to quickly structure information […]
Written by The New Paperclip on June 8, 2007 – 10:15 pm
Do you have a message that you want to send to multiple contacts, but you don’t want to do the old BCC trick? Better yet… do you want to actually personalise the message for each recipient?
Instead of “Hi all”, what about “Hi Bill”, “Hi Jane” etc?
You can, with email merge in Word 2007.
Email merge works […]
Written by The New Paperclip on May 20, 2007 – 4:48 pm
Everyone has their favourite line spacing! Some like as much information as possible crammed into a page and go for single line spacing, whilst others like their white space and go for double (or even TRIPLE!) line spacing. Line spacing can make a document easy to read, or can make it an absolute nightmare 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 […]