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Try this. Open up word, make sure automatic spellchecking is on, and type in the names of some star wars characters: I love it. They're in the dictionary... except, for some reason, for Leia. For the ones it does know, it even capitalizes
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If you're like me and do a lot of copying content from other applications into Word and Outlook, you're probably very accustomed to using the paste smarttag to choose whether or not to use the source or destination formatting on paste. If you're tired
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While ego surfing I just ran across this handy list of cheat sheets that I wanted to share. Covers topics from HTML to networking to office apps to keyboard shortcuts to SCSI to math. Handy.
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This has happened to me a couple of times, and I don't know how, but I got into a state where when in Word, when I selected text and pressed the backspace key, it would move the cursor to the front of the word instead of deleting the text. The delete
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By default, when you click on a link to an Office doc (such as on a sharepoint site), IE will open the doc in-frame. For just viewing docs this is usually OK, but it can get annoying as not all features work in this manner. So if you'd rather have IE
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When you type ":-)" in Word, it automatically corrects it into a smiley ( J )[1], which is the letter J in the Wingdings font. If you look at the HTML, you'll see: <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:maroon'>J</span>
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We recently had a debate on the internal bloggers distribution list about how MSDN bloggers need to play nice and not hard-code their font faces, colors and sizes. I admit that I'd been guilty of this myself, so I've since resolved to stop doing that,
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This is one of those features that a lot of people love to hate, where you have to wait a few seconds or go to the little chevron on the bottom of the menu to expand it: It doesn't bug me too much - except when it hides the MRU (most recently used) list
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A few months ago I posted about [what I think is] a neat way of using Outlook's ability to save as HTML . Today when compiling a powerpoint presentation , it occurred to me that there are a lot of formats that Office applications can save into that I
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In certain Office apps that support it, such as Word & Outlook, I have “Show shortcut keys in screentips” enabled (right click on a toolbar, choose customize, and it's on the Options tab in certain of the apps). Normally, this displays
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In powerpoint, I like how when I open up a PPT presentation in IE, it loads it inline and I can page through the presentation and see the exact url to individual slides. So if I want to show someone else just one slide, I can point directly at that slide.
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Brian Alvey points to a Word HTML cleaner , as well as explains why Word puts all those extra tags into HTML when you save a word doc as HTML, or copy from Word into another HTML editor. Also see my previous post about reducing the size of the HTML that
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For the last few versions of Outlook, the setting to enable Word as the e-mail editor has been enabled by default. While some people like using Word as an email editor due to the advanced features available, others dislike it because of Word's tendency
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