One of the nice features introduced with Office 2007 and 2010 is that of Live Preview. With Live Preview, gone are the days of making formatting changes to your document, hitting ‘Apply’ and hoping for the best. Now with Live Preview you can see the effects of your changes before they happen. First you will […]
Category: Office 2010
With the introduction of Office 2007 Microsoft made some pretty extensive changes to the file formats used across the whole suite. If you have sent someone a document created with either the 2007 or 2010 versions of Word and they say they can’t open them then they are probably using an older version of Word […]
As with the majority of all Windows based applications, the only way to efficiently work with your document is to master some of the most useful shortcut keys. Word has over 150 different, shortcut key combinations, so listing and expecting users to remember them all is impractical. However by remembering and using the most common […]
Note – This article refers exclusively to Outlook 2007 / 2010, if you want to create a template for Outlook 2003, please click here. If you regularly send out emails that are the same or very similar in content, then you will almost certainly benefit from the email template feature available for Outlook that will allow you […]
If you have been using a previous version of Outlook (or Outlook Express) then importing your data should be fairly painless as Outlook is very good at detecting the necessary files, and importing them. However, don’t despair if your data is in another format as Outlook contains some very good tools for converting and importing […]
If you’re someone who spends a long time looking at boring black and white Microsoft Excel spreadsheets you’ll appreciate this top to add some colour to your sheets. In Microsoft Office 2007 it is possible to use any picture you want as the background for all your spreadsheet data thus adding a bit of spice […]
For the 2007 release of Office Microsoft have completely redesigned the Office user interface and have done away with all the different menus and dialogue boxes in favour of a whole new interface that is commonly referred to as ‘Pick & Click’ This new Office user interface does away with all the searching through various […]
With the release of Office 2007, Microsoft have taken the opportunity to overhaul the Office file formats for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The new Office file formats are known as the Microsoft Office Open XML file formats, and are themselves derivatives of the XML (Extensible Markup Language) file formats commonly used in Web applications. The […]