Carol Bratt

Have you ever wanted to send an email to a group of people -- but need to prevent the individuals in the group from seeing each other's email addresses? You can do this by sending an email to "undisclosed recipients". To do so: Launch your email ... program, and click the button to create a new email message. In the 'To' address field enter 'Undisclosed Recipients' followed by your e-mail address in braces. For example: 'Undisclosed Recipients ' Side note: If you leave the TO: field blank, the email may bounce as some service providers may filter mark the mail as spam. In the BCC (Blind ... (view more)

If you have a few documents that you work on regularly, you can add the "Work Menu" to your Menu Bar. The Work Menu allows you to save a reference to your most frequently used documents for quick retrieval. Launch MS Word. From the Tools menu, ... choose Customize; then, click the Commands tab. From the Categories heading, scroll down and select Built-In Menus. From the Commands heading, drag the Work menu to the Menu bar (next to Help near the very top-right of the screen). Close the Customize dialog box. Load a frequently used document into MS Word. To add the document to your Work ... (view more)

Creating a Table of Contents ("TOC") for a Microsoft Word requires a lot of steps and can be really confusing. But it doesn't have to be difficult! In this tutorial, I'll explain how simple it is to create a TOC from any keyword or phrase in your ... document. Note: Your document does not need to have formatted Headings in order for Microsoft Word's Table of Contents feature to work. Word can build a TOC from any phrase or keyword in your document. For example, you might place a subject heading, keyword(s) or italicized phrase before each paragraph in your document and would like to use ... (view more)

Have you ever needed to add directions (like a map) on top of a graphic in MS Word? There are a couple of ways to achieve this, but one method in particular can produce a clean and uninterrupted line. To do so: Launch MS Word. Display the Drawing ... toolbar (hint: click View -> Toolbars -> Drawing). Choose either the 'Line' or 'Arrow' tool, and then draw the first segment of the line with your mouse. For the next step: rather than using multiple line objects to draw the rest of your path, simply expand this first line by right-clicking on the line and choosing 'Edit Points'. Now when you ... (view more)

Most folks know the agony of having to resize column widths in Microsoft Excel when you move data from one formatted spreadsheet to another. Thankfully, Microsoft Office 2002 and 2003 offers you some relief from this painstaking chore! Prior to ... Microsoft Excel 2002, you had to use the Paste Special menu to retain the column width settings of the source file. However, if you use the 'Smart Tags' function in Excel 2002 and 2003, your column widths will be reformatted in just a couple of mouse clicks! Simply follow these steps in Excel 2002 or Excel 2003: Copy the data that you want transferred ... (view more)

Need an effective and visually appealing way to make text stand out in MS Word? By adding picture bullets, you can add uniqueness and creativity to your documents. Unfortunately, it's not always as easy as one might think. For example: to create a ... custom bullet from a picture, you would normally have to go through the Bullets And Numbering menu, and add the picture to the Picture Bullet gallery. Then, you follow the menu prompts to insert the picture bullet into your text. The problem is that this method takes quite a bit of navigation through the menus. And if you're only going to use a ... (view more)

Did you know that you can create special symbols (such as fractions, etc) by pressing the ALT key on your keyboard and entering a number? It's true! Here are the steps: Make certain that the "Num Lock" key is turned on (hint: it's most likely ... located near the numeric keypad of your keyboard). Press and hold the ALT key. While the ALT key is pressed, type in a number. You can refer to this page or try a few numbers using the samples below. Release the Alt key. The character should appear. Here are some of the symbols and fractions you can create: Alt + 171 = ½ Alt + 172 = ¼ Alt + 0174 = ® Alt ...href="/news/979/alt-number-special-characters" class="more-link">view more)

Have you ever had a list in Microsoft Excel -- (such as a "products list", for example) -- where you need to display a photo next to a record ... but the photo needed to be small enough to coincide with the list? In that case: consider using hidden ... comments to display your photos! Hidden comments work *great* for lists in Excel. Once the photo has been placed inside the hidden comment, simply move your cursor over the comment cell to see the picture! It's as easy as pie! Here is how to do it: Select a cell that contains a Comment, right-click, and from the shortcut menu, select Show Comment. ... (view more)

A hanging indent is created when the first line of the paragraph starts at the start of the left margin, but the second and subsequent lines are indented. Hanging indents are a very common format used in many documents because it coordinates ... information. In MS Word, you can initiate a hanging indent by pressing CTRL+T on your keyboard. This "hangs" a paragraph to the next tab stop. If there are no previously defined tab stops in the paragraph, Word indents to the next default tab stop (typically in one-half inch intervals). Each press of the shortcut (CTRL+T) indents the paragraph one more ... (view more)

By default, Word's normal template is set to single-column format; thus, when you type a paragraph, you are typing in single-column format. You can mix column with paragraph formats in the same document by simply changing the column format. For ... example, you may want to have your document open with an introductory paragraph or two, while the rest of the text is formatted in three columns. To do this, follow these steps: Type the opening paragraphs. Put your cursor where you want to begin the multi-column text. Go to Format | Columns. Enter 3 for the Number Of Columns, and make any necessary ... (view more)