Carol Bratt

The Work menu is one of the oldest and most obscure features supported by MS Word. The Work menu is basically a Word specific list of your favorite or most often used documents that remains hidden in the Customize dialog box until you drag it out of ... there and place it on your toolbar. The Work list will hold as many as nine document shortcuts. It is a handy place to store those documents that require regular access. Follow the steps below to put the Work menu in its place on your toolbar: Click on View | Toolbars | Customize. Select the Commands tab. Scroll to the bottom of the Categories ... (view more)

Folks who do not use MS Word tables all the time often become frustrated because they are stymied as to how to resize one cell without changing all the other cells in their table. You know the drill -- you need a large cell for Names and a small ... cell for a numerical list but every time you change one cell, the rest follow suit in the other rows! It is really a very simply process once you know how: Select the cell you would like to resize. Position your mouse on the border of that cell. Now drag your cell border either right or left until it is the desired size you want. To be even more ... (view more)

Here is another nifty little tip to use in tables in MS Word. Pictures! Yes, it's true, you can place a picture in a table in MS Word and it is super easy to do so! Simply click in the cell where you want to place your picture. Click on Insert | ... Picture. Navigate to the picture you want and double-click it. That's all there is to it! Pretty nifty eh? 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)

The MS Office Clipboard allows you to copy text and graphics from all manner of Office documents and programs and even the Internet. You can then go back to MS Word and paste any or all of the items that you had previously copied. In order to copy ... items to the Office Clipboard, it must first be open in the Task pane of an Office program. You can open the Office Clipboard by clicking on Edit | Office Clipboard. Alternatively, the Office Clipboard will open automatically when you do one of the following: Copy or cut two different items consecutively in the same program. Copy one item, paste the ... (view more)

Sometimes you want someone to select only from a list that you offer in your worksheet. This is very easy to do in MS Excel 2007. Follow the steps below to learn how:Select row or column cells you will not be using. Place one list item in each cell. ... Where you would like the drop-down list to appear, highlight the cells -- they need not be contiguous. Click on Data | Validation. Under Allow, select List. Check In-cell dropdown. Left-Click the Source box and highlight the cells containing your list. Click OK. Not difficult at all! When you become a member at CarolsCornerOffice.com, you have ... (view more)

Fonts are not the only customized or customizable items in MS PowerPoint 2007. You can give shadows to pictures, new shapes, styles and effects as well! You can also crop your pictures as needed. Follow the steps below to learn how: On the Insert ... tab, click Picture to add an image. Select the image and the Format tab will become available to you. You can now experiment with Picture Styles or make up your own custom styles! 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)

The Research panel in both version 2003 and 2007 of MS Word includes an option to translate selected text or an entire document. I find that this feature is more useful when you are trying to figure out what a foreign language document actually ... means rather than when you would like to express your thoughts in another language for those who do not speak English. Go ahead and play around with the Translator and you will see what I mean. Translate a few sentences from English to another language and then back to English. When you become a member at CarolsCornerOffice.com, you have access to this ... (view more)

Your documents contain a lot more information that you realize, such as tracked changes, comments, and hidden text, etc. If you distribute your documents containing this information you may find yourself quite embarrassed. To make sure that you are ... not going to embarrass yourself or your company, there is a great feature in MS Word 2007 called Document Inspector. Follow the steps below to learn how to use it: Click on the Office button. Select Prepare. From the resulting menu, click Inspect Document. MS Word 2003 does not have the same equivalent but you can try to keep your face becoming red ... (view more)

Ever gotten your table just perfect? Everything is just the way you like it, cell height is perfect and you have text wrap working, every other row is highlighted...then you decide you would like to save it but you have it all full of data! Rest ... easy, this is a no-brainer and can be done with ease!Just select your entire table and depress the Delete key -- that's it! All the text and data is gone and you are left with your perfectly formatted table. Note: Do not use your backspace key as that will delete your entire table. Now that you have that perfect table saved you can use it for any ... (view more)