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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/05/30
With most software, most of the time you don’t use the majority of the features.
So when you need a part of that majority, it is always hard to find.
For Excel, most of my printing is standard (if I print at all), so these two are particularly hard to remember:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/05/26
Boy, wish I had known these two Word keyboard shortcuts a long time ago:
- Ctrl + Up: Go To the start of the previous paragraph
- Ctrl + Down: Go To the start of the next paragraph
–jeroen
via: Move Around – Microsoft Word.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/16
This is one of the things I tend to forget, as you do it once per machine, and the place to do it is not logical to me.
I mainly use it to quickly record a Macro (boy, I wish Office had a TemporaryMacro feature like Visual Studio had. Alas no more: Macro Recording/Playback has been removed in Visual Studio 2012).
The logical place for me would be to have a context-menu on the ribbon where you can enable the Developer tab.
Anyway, this is how to enable the Developer tab in Word 2007/2010/2013: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/31
One particular weakness of Microsoft is maintaining support for document formats they have come up with the past.
MDI is one of such formats, and I had quite some old scans and document exports (back when TIFF wasn’t common place, and Microsoft was advertising MDI as a “portable” way of sharing digital print similar to PDF that wasn’t commonplace either).
I’ve exported it to PDF now.
So here is to get it working in Office 2007; it probably works the same in Office 2010 and 2012:
- installing Microsoft Document Imaging Writer and its corresponding support for the file format.
- Go to Control Panel, select “Uninstall a program” link under Programs section.”
- High Microsoft Office 2007 (it may show Ultimate, Enterprise, Professional, Small Business, Home and Student, etc).
- Click on “Change” located on the navigation link near the top of the window.
- Select “Add or Remove Features”, then click “Continue”.
- Expand “Office Tools” section.
- Click on the drop down list for “Microsoft Office Document Imaging” and select “Run all from My Computer”.
- Click “Continue”.
- Click “Close” when installation done.
- A new virtual printer “Microsoft Office Document Imaging Writer” is created and allows you to print to MDI format (a TIFF variant). And from now onwards you should be able to open any MDI files by simply double click on them. If you still can’t, try to restart your computer.
–jeroen
via: How to Open MDI (Microsoft Document Imaging) Format with Office 2007 « My Digital Life.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/07/08
After having used the “classic” office since Office 95, there are still a few features that I can access blindly in Office 2003 and before, but have a hard time remembering in Office 2007 and beyond.
Most of those are the ones you rarely use, but the “classic office way” somehow made it in the autonomous nervous system.
It doesn’t help that the corresponding keyboard shortcuts fail to work in the “modern” Office versions any more either.
A few links on some PowerPoint features:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/02/15
A while ago, I salvaged the Windows Mail *.eml files from a broken Vista machine of a friend to a new machine running Outlook. The Vista machine was so broken that it wouldn’t boot any more (now he knows that porn comes with truckloads of viruses).
Naively I assumed this was a straightforward process (hey, it’s all Microsoft, and they have great interoperability, right?).
Well no (:
- *.msg files are for Outlook, which does not support *.eml files
- *.eml files are for Outlook Express and Windows Mail, which supports exporting to Exchange (which is wrong, they mean “Export to the message store that Outlook uses)
So as soon as you have all mail in Windows Mail, then you can export it to Outlook.
You can do the same with *.dbx files from Outlook Express: use Windows Mail as an intermediate store as described here: Importing DBX files into Outlook 2007 – Windows Software.
But first things first.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/03/16
Unlike most tools where you use Shift-Enter to add a line break character (ASCII 10: line feed), Excel is different:
Sometimes it’s necessary to have more than one line inside a worksheet cell, which is easily done with a line break.
Add a new line by holding down the Alt key while you press enter. It’s the keyboard shortcut Alt+Enter. In Excel 2008 and 2011 for Mac use Cmd+Option+Enter.
–jeroen
via: Start a New Line Inside a Spreadsheet Cell in Excel | Excel Semi-Pro.
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