Carol Bratt

Wouldn't it be annoying to make lots of changes to a picture and save it and then you discover that it isn't what you wanted at all after you're finished? Well the good news is that in Word 2007, it is possible to preview a change before you ... actually apply it. Suppose you would like to see how your photo will look with rounded corners. Follow the steps below to discover how to accomplish this task: Launch MS Word if it is not already open. Click the photo that you would like to enhance to select it. Under Picture Tools, click the Format tab. In the Picture Styles group, click the down arrow ... (view more)

Don't like the default font in Outlook 2007? Well the good news is that you can change it fairly easily! Follow the steps below: Click Tools |Options. Select the Mail Format tab. Click Stationery and Fonts. Once the Signatures and Stationery dialog ... box appears, be sure that you are on the Personal Stationery tab Click Font You can then select your choice of font, style, size, color, and effect. Click OK until you exit. That's it! You're finished! 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)

You can put color behind your text in a word document: not just highlight it, but add color to the entire paragraph! It is fairly straightforward to do in Microsoft Word 2007. Follow the steps below to learn how: Launch MS Word 2007 if it is not ... already open. Key in the text to your document. In the Home tab on the Ribbon, in the Paragraph group, you will see a button that looks like can of paint. This is the Shading button. Click on the down arrow and on the resulting menu you will see a palette of colors that you can choose from to shade your paragraph. Select your color of your choosing. ... (view more)

You have no doubt seen spreadsheets and charts that had diagonal or vertical text, I am sure. If so, I am sure that you will agree that it is very impressive. It also will allow you to display more information in less space. You will be pleased to ... know that it is very easy to accomplish in Excel 2007. Follow the steps below to learn how: Launch MS Excel 2007 if it isn't already open. Type your text into a cell. Select the cell. On the Home tab of the Ribbon, find the Alignment group. In that group, you will see a button with an a and b and an arrow all on an angle. That is the Orientation ... (view more)

There are a number of predefined watermarks that ship with MS Word 2007 that you can add to your document without any additional formatting. When you want to distribute draft copies of the document you are working on, you can add the draft watermark ... to each page. Follow along by following the steps below: Click the Page Layout tab. Click the Watermark command in the Page Background group. Select Draft 1 under Disclaimers. You may want to create your own watermark. After your document has gone through the draft review process, you will most likely want to distribute a final copy showing the ... (view more)

This is a tip about Outlook Express. Please do not mistake it for Outlook which is a part of the Microsoft Office Suite. You can back up your mail files in Outlook Express and you should so that you will have them just in case of a meltdown. Follow ... the steps below: Start by opening your Outlook Express Store in Windows Explorer. Select Edit | Select All from the menu in this folder. Select Edit | Copy from the menu to copy the files or us the shortcut CTRL + C. Open the folder where you want to keep the back up copies in Windows Explorer. Select Edit | Paste from the menu, or use the shortcut ... (view more)

There is little more important than your contacts in Outlook Express. Backing them up is always a good idea in case you ever decide to switch to a different e-mail client. You can do this in Outlook Express but it may involve editing your registry. ... Before you do anything to your registry, you should always back it up. If you do not and go mucking about with it and make a mistake, you could end up with a very expensive doorstop! So, before you follow the steps below, make sure that you back up your registry somewhere so that you can access it. This pertains to Outlook Express and not MS ... (view more)

There are a couple of ways to make formatting easier for you in Word 2007 and I am all about time saving and fewer key strokes! It isn't always easy to find everything on the Ribbon in Word 2007, but this should help you out. You could change case ... and clear formatting in older versions of MS Word and now I will tell you how to do it in the latest version! To change case in your document, follow the steps below: Open the Home tab. In the Font group, click the Change Case command. You can also use the shortcut Shift + F3 to do the same thing. The command Clear Formatting is very intuitive and ... (view more)

I think we all know that to create a copy of an object on a PowerPoint Slide, in an Excel worksheet or in a Word document, you use copy and paste from the menu or a keyboard shortcut. But what most of you may not know is that there is a smarter way ... to make a copy and align it at the very same time! To copy an object using keyboard shortcuts and the mouse, select the object you would like to copy by clicking on it. Now, depress and continue to hold down the CTRL key as you click and hold the left mouse button and drag the object to a new position. PowerPoint, Excel, and Word add a copy of the ... (view more)

Of all Outlook features, notes are by far the easiest to use. The following explains how to create notes. You can create notes in the Notes folder. To open this folder, click the Notes icon on the Outlook bar. After you have opened the folder, ... follow the steps below to create a note: Right-click in the Notes folder and choose New Note or simply double-click in the folder window. Either action opens a blank note window. Type your note directly in the window. Click the Close button in the upper right corner of the note window to close and save it. Outlook uses the first few dozen characters in ... (view more)