Wednesday, April 4th, 2007

Vertical text in Word

Ever been confused about how to create vertical text in Word. You deserve to be. There is this neat looking Text Direction tool that never seems to be active so you can use it. Fact is – it works on text in a table, but what if you don’t have text in a table?

Luckily it works just great on text in a text box. So, to make a vertical block of text, drag a text box (Insert, Text box) onto your page. Now click inside it and type your text. Click in the box and choose Format, Text Direction and choose one of the two vertical options – Voila! instant vertical text.

Helen Bradley

Monday, April 2nd, 2007

Checkboxes in Word

Stuck and need a checkbox in a Word document? Simple!

Click where the checkbox is to go and choose Insert, Symbol, Symbols tab. From the Font list choose the Wingdings font. You’ll see at character positions 113 & 114 are two checkboxes. Click the one you want and choose Insert and then Close. If you’d use it a lot, create an AutoText or AutoCorrect entry for it so it’s only a word away.

Helen Bradley

Sunday, April 1st, 2007

Snap an Excel range

Did you know you can take a photo of an Excel range? Well you can and it’s one cool way to get around the problem of needing to print bits of two worksheets on the one piece of paper, something as smart as Excel is, it just can’t do.

To do this, right click a toolbar and choose Customize, Commands tab. From the Categories list choose Tools and from the Commands list click and drag the Camera icon up onto a toolbar. Now select a range on a worksheet and click the camera. Then click where the ‘photo’ should go.

Repeat this to assemble bits of lots of worksheets onto one page for printing. And the best bit? the photos are ‘live’ if the data in the worksheets changes, the photo does too!

Helen Bradley

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