Tips & Tricks In MS Word Tips

Putting Voice Comment in Word File

You can add voice comments to your document.To do this,you are required to have multimedia computer and a microphone.

Do it this way:

1.Choose Insert + Comment.

2.In the Comment pane, click the button with the picture of the cassette tape on it.

3.In the Sound Object dialog box, click the Record button (with the reddot) and speak into your microphone.

4.Click the Stop button when you're finished.

5.Choose File + Exit & Return from the Sound Object menu.

A little speaker icon appears in the Comment pane--click it to hear your recorded comment.

Note: You should use this facility with care as Sound files, even short ones, require a lot of disk space and can bloat your document file.

Some time Caps lock remain on and you keep on typing as a result everything typed in capital letters. You can make it in normal case by following the method.

1.Select the offending text.

2.Choose Format + Change Case + Sentence Case.

Or

1.Press Shift-F3 till you get the right caps. Note: Sometime, you have to be more careful for the nouns and other thing  you need inappropriate case. After applying the format,check for such things.

Try this:

1.Select the word you'd like an antonym for.

2.Choose Tools + Language + Thesaurus (OR press Shift + F7).

3.Near the bottom of the Meanings list, look for the word Antonyms (you may have to scroll down the list). If you don't see it, sorry--no antonyms.

4.If you do see the word Antonyms, click it. The entire Thesaurus dialog box changes to provide opposites of the selected word! Using Windows Keyboard effectively If your key board has the window keyboard then you can use the following keyboard short cuts.

Windows-E to open Windows Explorer.
Windows-F to open Find .
Windows-M to minimize all open windows (or Shift + Windows + M to undo this command).
Windows-R to open the Run window .
Windows-F1 to open Help · Windows-Tab to cycle through the Task bar buttons·Windows-Break to open the System Properties dialog box.

If you want to create a series of numbers,type first two-three numbers in the cell and then mark them and pick the bottom left or bottom-right corner and then drag the series.This is even true of any arithmetic series too.

Intelligent move in Excel

Before making any table in excel,go to page setup option in file menu and select appropriate paper size and orientation.After doing this, excel will show actual page size into the sheet itself. This gives an idea of how many cell could be fit into one page otherwise after creating all data in excel this very time consuming to re-set the columns and rows to fit.

Tips & Tricks In PowerPoint
Short cut to Power Point Show

To run a power point show to present in front of group of people on large screen, the faster way is to create a shortcut of the show before presentation. This will reduce your time in finding power point, opening the show and then  running it.

Follow the steps -

Run Windows Explorer and locate your slide show datafile.
Use the right mouse button to drag the file's icon to the desktop
Release the mouse button and choose Create Shortcut(s)Here. To begin a slide show, just right-click the shortcut icon and choose Show. PowerPoint opens, displays your show, and then closes too.

More Bullets in Power Point.

In addition to predefined bullets in power point, you can use symbols as bullets. Follow the procedure -

First select all the bulleted text you'd like to change.

Choose Format, Bullet.
When the Bullet dialog box opens, click the arrow at the right side of the Bullets From list box to expand the list.
Scroll through the list and locate Symbols, or Wingdings. Select Wingdings.
Click the symbol you would like to use as a bullet.
Click OK to add the symbol to your slide
Close the dialog box.

General Tips

So,what's the difference when you download software? None,really. The browser looks at the file extension, and if it 

doesn't recognize it, it will ask you if you want to configure a viewer (tell the browser about this type of file),or save the file to disk. In this case, you would save to disk.
There is an easier way to download files to your computer. Click on the link to the file with your right mouse button, and select Save to Disk.In some cases, you may simply be prompted to save the file somewhere on yourhard drive.The file may also automatically download to your desktop, dependingon your browser configuration.
More often than not, you will be downloading files that havebeen compressed. These may be individual files or groups of files that havebeen compressed into one file to save downloading time and disk space. If thefiles you download have been compressed then you generally need a separatesoftware utility to decompress them. The exception to this is the files with a exe (DOS/Windows) extension which are self-extracting. These files do notrequire a separate piece of software to run.Because many of the files your download will take time to be transferred to your computer, you will want tosave yourself the headache of discovering, after the fact, that you downloaded a file that won't work on your computer.

Organizing E-mails

As on date, E-mails are the most used feature on Internet. Due to increasing business on Internet, all kind of emails are received by you. Now managing e-mails has become a big issue and If you do not manage emails, the entire thing becomes a  mess.Please follow the tips to manage your e-mails.

Check e-mails minimum twice a day.
Organize emails into folders. Almost every e-mail client like Eudora, Netscape, Outlook Express provide facility to create folders where youcan put your emails.
You should create sufficient number of folders to manage your mails.Spare a minimum of 10 minutes for this task.
Delete unwanted e-mails immediately.
If emails regularly come to you as a member of some emailing list and you do not want to subscribe it further.Use a given method to unsubscribe it.
Never subscribe to an email listing about unless you are sure of its reliability.
Nowadays some e-mails contain viruses. Make a mental note of information that you get time to time. While opening  your e-mails ensure NOT toopen doubtful emails,specially the attachment files.