Tuesday, May 21st, 2013

Word 2010 & 2013 Tip – What Format is THAT?!

Learn more about the formatting applied to text in your document with this handy Keyboard Shortcut

If you want to quickly find out what formatting has been applied to any piece of text, click in the text and press Shift + F1. A task pane will open in the right of Word window. This Reveal Formatting task pane displays details about the text format being used for the word that your insertion point is closest to.

With this task pane open you can click on any piece if text to learn more about its formatting.

Helen Bradley

Monday, July 30th, 2012

Create an Outlook task from an Outlook email

When you’re reading an email message in Outlook, often you will realize that you need to create a task in relation to that email’s contents. To do this, with the email open on the screen, click the Message tab and click the Follow up icon.

From the list select a task date for managing that email task. If you click Custom, you can select an appropriate flag for the email such as Follow Up, Forward or Reply and set the Start Date and Due Date for completing the task. Enable the Reminder checkbox and you can set a reminder time for the task. Click Ok to enter the email as a task.

Helen Bradley