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Classic Menu for Office 2010 and 2013 Programs

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/11/04

As with Office 2007 and up, quite a few features – including menus and keyboard shortcuts – have been removed or changed.

Microsoft has many posts on them, some of which are here:

The menu part can be remedied with ease: Bring Back Classic Menus and Toolbars to Outlook 2010 and 2013 [WayBack].

Works like a charm, and you can purchase for individual Office programs, or for 3 suite combinations [WayBack].

–jeroen

Posted in Excel, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Office, Power Point, Power User, Word | 1 Comment »

vSphere 5.1 (ESXi 5.1) can run any hardware level since ESX Server 3.5

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/17

Last year, I missed this tiny sentence:

So in plain English, any VM that was generated on VMware ESX Server 3.5 or later can run atop ESXi 5.1 unchanged.

Which means it is a snap to move your VMs from older ESX / ESXi / vSphere versions as long as they are ESX 3.x or later.

In fact hardware version 7 has the widest compatibility amongst ESX/ESXi/vSphere/Fusion/Workstation/Player versions (see the table at the bottom).

The free version still has a 32 gigabyte physical RAM limit (people are still confused by the vRAM / Physical RAM distinction, especially since vRAM is not limited any more). Read the rest of this entry »

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Office 2010/2007: Ribbon minimize mode: maximize space by “Auto-Hiding” the Ribbon in Office (via: How-To Geek)

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/06/08

The ribbons in Office 2010/2007 take up a lot of sceen estate.

Luckily, it is easy to maximize space by “Auto-Hiding” the Ribbon in Office 2010/2007: put the Ribbon in “Minimize Mode”.

The Ribbon will un-hide when you:

  • click on one of the Ribbon tabs
  • press the Alt key followed by a letter corresponding to a Ribbon tab

How-To Geek explains (with screen shots) how to put the Ribbon in “Minimize Mode”:

To put the Ribbon into minimized mode, just right-click an open area on the Ribbon and choose Minimize the Ribbon.

Edit:

In addition to that (thanks Matthijs!) you can switch the Ribbon to/from auto-hide behaviour by double-clicking on a ribbon tab.

–jeroen

via: Maximize Space by “Auto-Hiding” the Ribbon in Office 2007 – How-To Geek.

Posted in Excel, Office, Power User, Word | 2 Comments »

Excel 2010/2007: Convert text to a table or vice versa (via: Word – Office.com)

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/05/21

The introduction of the Ribbon in Office 2007 and 2010 often makes me ask “why are things so complicated now, that were so easy until Office 2003”.

One of the things that were very close together in Word 2003, was converting text to and from tables: they were in adjecent menu items.

Not any more, as you can see in the Convert text to a table or vice versa  topic on the Microsoft site. There is even a Dummies article on this topic.

Summarized:

Convert text to a table

  1. Tab Insert,
  2. Group Tables,
  3. click Table,
  4. then click Convert Text to Table.

Of course the keyboard shortcuts are “easy” to remember: Alt, N, T, V

Convert a table to text

  1. When you have a (portion of a) table selected, you get a new contextual tab set called Table Tools.
  2. Tab Layout,
  3. Group  Data,
  4. click Convert to Text.

Of course the keyboard shortcuts are “easy” to remember: Alt, J,L, V

Word 2007/2010: Convert Table to Text

–jeroen

via: Convert text to a table or vice versa – Word – Office.com.
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Ref: Microsoft Word Help FAQ. How to create heading numbering and outline numbering in Microsoft Word

Posted by jpluimers on 2010/03/16

I’m always fighting with numbering and formatting headings in Word. Legal documents, manuals, etc, all benefit when the headings are numbered and formatted right.

In Word, I love styles, so the best thing to get this right is to modify the styles of your headings.

Shauna Kelley wrote a great reference titled Microsoft Word Help FAQ. How to create heading numbering and outline numbering in Microsoft Word on this topic.

No need to add anything to that :-)

–jeroen

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