Carol Bratt

Sometimes there are tracked changes in a document even after you have turned off the Track Changes feature. The reason behind that is that you must accept or reject the changes that have already been made in the document. Follow the steps below to ... find out how to accomplish this task: On the Review tab, select Accept all changes in document. Make sure that you take care of this before you circulate your document to anyone else. When you become a member at CarolsCornerOffice.com, you have access to this and many, many more articles that include screenshots. Don't delay: visit us today! (view more)

If you are experiencing difficulty in keeping track of your business appointments and meetings, Outlook 2007 makes life a lot easier for you! In this latest version of Outlook, you can use different colors to easily differentiate one meeting or ... appointment from another. Follow the steps below to find out how: Click on View | Current View | Customize | Current View. Add Automatic Formatting to colorize your meeting or appointment. Pretty slick isn't it? When you become a member at CarolsCornerOffice.com, you have access to this and many, many more articles that include screenshots. Don't delay ... (view more)

In past versions of MS Word there was no way to compare documents except to have two windows open and switch back and forth which can be very tedious and lead to many errors. Thankfully, in MS Word's latest version it is very easy to compare two ... different documents. Follow the steps below to learn how: Click on Review | Compare. Click Compare again. Enter two document names. Now you will see just how easily you can compare your documents! When you become a member at CarolsCornerOffice.com, you have access to this and many, many more articles that include screenshots. Don't delay: visit us ... (view more)

This is a really simply task and it will help to keep your email organized in Outlook. A personal folder resides on your local drive and not the server, meaning in your office where you have a server, the personal folder will reside on your computer ... that sits in front of you on its hard drive. Follow the steps below to create a personal folder: Click on File | New | Outlook Data File. Select Personal Folders File. Click OK. Your personal folder will now appear in your Outlook Folder List. When you become a member at CarolsCornerOffice.com, you have access to this and many, many more articles ... (view more)

You can learn mouseless control of everything in MS Office 2007 -- it's true! All you have to do is tab the ALT key while in any 2007 Office application and you will notice that the Ribbon is instantly populated with small letters indicating the ... keystrokes necessary to accomplish whatever task you choose! Just type the letter for the different ribbon tabs such as H for Home, N or Insert, etc. to access the individual ribbon controls and more mouseless shortcuts! When you become a member at CarolsCornerOffice.com, you have access to this and many, many more articles that include screenshots. ... (view more)

Not all older versions of MS Office will always have the PowerPoint 2007 default fonts such as Calibri, Corbel and others, so why not save yourself some hassle by not using them for presentations that will be widely distributed. When you have a ... PowerPoint presentation that will be making the rounds to many different people and computers, you may want to use fonts like Verdana, Times New Roman or Arial so that those fonts will be available to all viewers of your presentation. Lots of folks will be thankful for your courtesy! When you become a member at CarolsCornerOffice.com, you have access ... (view more)

Sometimes within your worksheet, you may have different, non-standard numbers. Perhaps you have dates and times and currency numbers. If you want MS Excel 2007 to interpret these different, non-standard numbers the way that you do, you will need to ... format the number properties in the cell in which they appear. Follow the steps below to change the number formatting of a cell in MS Excel 2007: On the Home tab of the Ribbon, find the Number group. In the Number group, there are various different options you can use to quickly format the numbers in your selected cells. The first option you will ... (view more)

When you turn on automatic hyphenation, MS Word will automatically insert hyphens where they are needed in your document. If you later edit the document and change the line breaks, Word will re-hyphenate your document for you. When you select manual ... hyphenation, Word searches the text to hyphenate and will ask you to confirm each proposed optional hyphen (which can be a pain) and then will insert the optional hyphens. If you later edit your document and change the line breaks, Word will display and print only the optional hyphens that still fall at the ends of lines. It will not re-hyphenate ... (view more)

MS Word 2007 has a great new feature that will save you time and keystrokes. You all know how much I love that! If you have ever wished to use the Find feature in MS Word to search for a particular word and have it highlight each instance and leave ... it highlighted even after you close the Find feature, then this is for you. That is exactly what this feature will do for you. When you use the Reading Highlight feature, the highlighting of all occurrences of a word or phrase in your document will remain active until you clear it. You can even select the color of your highlighting! Follow the ... (view more)