Printing in the reverse order to put things in the right order

February 5, 2009 3 comments

Most laser printers are designed such that after printing, the pages emerge face down. So, for a multipage document, this puts the pages in the right order when the stack is turned over. On the contrary, most inkjets print pages face up, resulting in the first page being put on the bottom of the stack. [...]

Recover text from any file using Microsoft Word

December 16, 2008 2 comments

There is one great feature in Microsoft Word that most people are not aware of. Word can recover text from virtually any file. For instance, you can recover text from an Excel spreadsheet or a Word document with an error or a doc from another office suite which you would normally not be able to [...]

Office 2007 – 6 tips to get you started quickly

May 10, 2008 1 comment

Never leave the key board Using keyboard shortcuts to choose options is definitely faster than reaching out for the mouse everytime. Office 2007 makes it easy. Tap the Alt key while in any Office 2007 application and the ribbon is instantly covered in small letters indicating the keystrokes. Type the for the different ribbon tabs [...]

Get things done fast with keyboard shortcuts for Windows, Word, Excel and Outlook

February 21, 2008 0 comments

Keyboard shortcuts are definitely great time savers. Here is a list of shortcuts for Windows, Word, Excel and Outlook for you to use. Of course, it wouldn’t be possible for an average person to remember all the shortcuts but then you wouldn’t need to. It would be enough if you remember the ones that you [...]

Insert your signature using Autocorrect in Word

December 2, 2007 0 comments

Most of us who have used Microsoft Word would also know about it’s AutoCorrect feature. Normally we use it to replace certain long text with a shorter form to reduce key strokes. For example you can set the AutoCorrect to replace ‘yf’ with ‘Yours faithfully’. This is how most of us use it. But few [...]

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