You're working in a long document, but you have to leave for the day. When you come back tomorrow, wouldn't it be nice to open the document, and then quickly return to the spot where you stopped? Press Shift-F5 and you're there! In fact, you can repeat the key combo to go to the last three places in the document where you made changes.
The dialogue box for adding page numbers is found under Word's Insert menu with the Page Numbers option. This box lets you choose where you want the numbers to appear on the page and how they should look. Click into each section to adjust the page numbers for that chapter.
Uncheck the box next to "Show number on first page" in the Page Numbers box. This will remove the page number from the first page of your document. Handy if you've got a cover page.
When you click Excel's AutoSum button from a cell next to a row or column of numbers, Excel automatically sums those numbers.
You don't have to type a formula (=sum()) or drag through the cells. Excel figures out what's needed and adds the precise summing you need.
Now here's the really nice part. There's a keyboard shortcut that lets you do this without having to change your focus from the worksheet to the toolbar.
In Windows, just press the Alt key and = (the equal sign).
How do I change the default font for things like page numbers, headers, footers, footnotes, and endnotes?
These are all styles. You can change the attributes of any style for the current document or for all documents based on the current template. If the current template is the Normal template and you select the Add to template option below, all of your ordinary new documents will reflect the style changes that you make.
You can use the scroll button on your mouse to zoom in and out of documents quickly. Just hold down the Ctrl key and roll the scroll wheel forward to get a closer view of the document, or roll it back to shrink it.
In newer versions of Word, the default view for opening documents is something called the Reading Layout. For those of you who don't like this view, here's how you turn it off.
While in Word, click on Tools - Options.
Click on the General tab.
In here, uncheck the box for Allow starting in Reading Layout
It used to be, you were limited by what came with Word for your clipart and images. There are now several quality royalty-free image sites. I'll go over my favorite, stock.xchng. They do require registration, but it's free and spam free.
Go to http://www.sxc.hu and search for a topic (for this example, I'll do 'science'):
You no longer need to buy expensive software to resize and crop images. I've found a great online tool called Snipshot that does it free, and very easily. I'll show you how.
Go to the Snipshot website and click on the Choose File button.
