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Office 07 – Pin a document to “Recent Documents”

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

I can’t even believe how silly I feel about this post.  I have previously noticed the little gray tack on the recent documents list in all of the Office 2007, but I had no idea why it was there.

So what’s it for?  To PIN the document there.  DUH!

Like when you have a steady stream of documents, the older ones disappear, right?  Not if you pin it… :-)

Click the Office Button in the upper-left corner of your Office program (Excel, Word, or PowerPoint).

Your Recent Documents will be displayed on the right side of the menu.

Locate the desired document (if it’s not there, click Open and browse to the document so it will be added to the list).

Select the corresponding Pin (to the right of the document’s name) so that it turns green.

Green = Pinned.

GENIUS!

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Offisync – Google Docs on Steroids

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

If you aren’t using Google Docs to safely store your important documents, you should be – but that’s another post.

This is for you smarty-pants who are already using Google Apps, and more specifically Google Docs.

It’s no secret that Google Docs doesn’t have quite the same functionality as the MS Office Suite of products.  But with Offisync, you can easily save a file in Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, and with OffiSync set up, it will save simultaneously to your Google Apps space. You get the feature-rich editing services of Office and the easy sharing and peace-of-mind storage of Google, all at once.

Did I mention the price tag?  FREE!

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MS Word: Change the Default Font

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

In the new version of office, the default font in word has been changed. Here is how to change the default font to whatever you wish.

In the 2007 version of Office, the default font in word has been changed – to Calibri.

What the heck is Calibri (Body)? You can change your default font for Microsoft Word if you wish.

1. Open Windows Word 2007

2. Make sure you have the Home tab selected

3. Open the font dialog box.

4. Once the font dialog opens, change the default properties you wish. Press the Default button when you are done.

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