Thursday, May 24, 2012

MS Word Lesson of the Day.

Today learned some things that I did not know and some refreshers. 

Today's Class Topics:
  • Putting information into Excel (remember the spelling of Excel).
  • Creating Forms
  • Converting text to tables.
New Keyboard Shortcuts:
  • Control + "R" arrow will take you to the end of an Excel Row (XFD is the last row in Excel).
  • Control + Down Arrow will take you to the end of an Excel Column (1,048,576 cells in Excel).
  • Control + Spacebar will return to "unformatted text".
New Things I Leaned Today:
  • Learned that when working in Excel and you need a list of the days of the week for a schedule, type in Monday and while left clicking on the mouse, Excel will put in the rest of the days of the week.  How to do that is:  Put your mouse cursor on the bottom right corner of the cell that contains "Monday" and it will turn into a solid black + sign.  While holding down the mouse key drag either up or down and you will see that Excel is putting in the days.
  • Converting a text into a table in MS Word.  So easy when creating forms, lists, and so forth. 
  • Forms are used everyday in offices; they are used for getting personal information.  There is an easier way than drawing lines across the paper in Word--will be keeping this little secret to myself for now.
  • Learned that MS Word has many Templates that can be used to create anything from a Resume to Invoices.
New MS Word Ribbon Item:
In MS Word you can restrict editing of documents when sending them to recipients of E-mail.  On the "Review" ribbon you can protect your documents by allowing only certain individuals or none to edit a document that you have sent them.  You may allow them to leave comments and then you can make the changes when you receive the document back.  Very useful when writing a report and you would like to have someone else proof-read the document and they do not work in the same office; you can send it to them and they can make comments in the margins and send it back with any suggestions for changes. 

Screeshot of My Work:
Form created by using tables in MS Word.

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