Carol Bratt

How many times have you received a forwarded message and you have to keep opening each e-mail until you get to the one that actually has the forwarded message? It can be very irritating and time consuming to go through several e-mails to read the ... intended message and then backtrack to answer the person who forwarded it to you. When you receive a forwarded message as an attachment instead of inline, you can drag and drop the attachment into your Inbox or other mail folder to read it. You can then reply directly to the original sender. When forwarded e-mails are nested, as they are many times ... (view more)

Using MS Word for your correspondence is usually so easy you don't even have to think about it. Some folks actually make it easier for themselves by using their Outlook Address Book. When you write letters in MS Word, Outlook automatically inserts ... the country that matches your computer's regional settings in the Country/Region field for that record. As a result, when you click the Insert Address button in the Envelopes and Labels dialog box and choose Outlook as your Address Book, Word automatically inserts the full address, including whatever country is in the Country/Region field. This has ... (view more)

You never know when an emergency could necessitate a backup copy of your contacts. How would you ever remember them all?? Fortunately, you don't have to rely on your memory should you lose all of your contacts in MS Outlook. Follow the steps below ... to create a backup copy: You will need to export your Contacts folder to a file in Personal Folders (.pst) On the File menu, click Import and Export. Click Export to a file. Click Next. In the Create a file of type list, click Personal Folder File (.pst). Click Next. In the Select a folder to export from list If you have subfolders below the ... (view more)

One of our subscribers sent me an e-mail telling me that they had received a document from someone that had an automatically generated Table of Contents and they wanted to unlink it because they were in a hurry and lacked the know how to work with ... it. Luckily, it's very easy to unlink a Table of Contents in MS Word. Follow the steps below: Select the Table of Contents (TOC). Press CTRL + SHIFT + F9 That's it - your 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: visit us today! (view more)

You can use the ruler in Word to easily set tabs exactly where you need them, which is what I almost always use. It may be easier sometimes though, to use the Tabs dialog box if you find that you need to set leader tabs, which you cannot apply on ... the ruler. Suppose you need to set two left tab stops at 1.5" and 3.5" from the left margin and a right leader tab stop 5" from the left margin. I will show you how to set them all at one time! Follow the steps below: Position your cursor where you want the tabs to be set. Click Format | Tabs. In Word 2007, click Page Layout tab | ... (view more)

You have learned in the past how to set a print area within a worksheet. This area is used to define exactly what range you want to print. Sometime later, you may want to delete this print area. To clear up any confusion, I am talking about getting ... rid of the special area designation, not the information contained within that area. Follow the steps below to clear the print area: Select Print Area from the File menu. Excel displays a submenu. Select Clear Print Area from the submenu. If you are using Excel 2007, you clear the print area following the steps below: Display the Page Setup tab of ... (view more)

When you use the Caption feature in Word, a label and number can be assigned to each figure in your document. By default, Word assigns each figure a number starting with 1, 2, 3, and so on. However, if you don't want to use this number format for ... figures, you have the ability to change it. Follow the steps below to change the number format for a caption: Launch MS Word. Select the caption you want to change. Click Insert | Reference | Caption. From the Caption dialog box, click the Numbering button. Use the drop down arrow beside Format, and select the number format you would like to use. For ... (view more)

Using line numbers in Word can help your readers find a particular section or paragraph. When secretaries sometimes have to do a "read against," which is when one reads a document and the other follows along with the same document to make sure that ... the two documents are the same, or when you have a business meeting and you're all grouped around the table following the reader while looking at a document, you want to be sure that you're all at the same place in the document. To make the task easier, follow the steps below: Go to File | Page Setup and click the Layout tab. Under Preview, click ... (view more)

When you want to show the data represented by your Excel chart, you can add a data table to the chart by selecting the Data Table tab in the Chart Options dialog box. You cannot though, use data tables with XY charts, pie charts, doughnut charts, ... radar charts, bubble charts, or surface charts. Data tables' formatting options are also limited compared to actual data cells. To overcome these limitations, you can include a picture of the actual data cells in your chart. Follow the steps below to insert a picture: Select the data range you want to include with your chart. Click to Edit | Copy. ... (view more)

The predefined layout features in Access 2007 can eliminate a lot of the manual work and trepidation involved in designing forms. You can now group, align and format your controls, all from the Forms Design Tools Ribbon with a few clicks of the ... mouse. The example below shows you how to design a customer contact form from your Customer Records table. Follow along with the steps below: Launch MS Access. Open the Customer database and click the Customer Records table in the Navigation pane. Click the Create tab. Click the Form Design command in the Forms group. Click the Add Existing Fields ... (view more)