Almost all of us support Word users. What issues and problems do you get the most calls for? If you don’t see it on the poll list, please add a comment below.
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Almost all of us support Word users. What issues and problems do you get the most calls for?
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Office poll: What’s your most common support call on Word?
The usual routine for entering a text box into a Word document is to select the spot where you want the text box to appear, choose Text Box from the Insert menu, drag the insertion point until the text box is about the right size, and then enter the text. This method is a bit inefficient, because you usually have to resize the text box a bit. It’s difficult to get the size just right before you actually enter the text.
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An efficient method for adding a text box to a Word document
The usual routine for entering a text box into a Word document is to select the spot where you want the text box to appear, choose Text Box from the Insert menu, drag the insertion point until the text box is about the right size, and then enter the text.
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An efficient method for adding a text box to a Word document
Most of us use Word’s Find feature to locate specific text, often so we can change it. You might not know that you can use this feature to highlight all the occurrences of a specific word for phrase for the entire document at the same time.
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Use Word’s Find feature to highlight all occurrences of a word or phrase
You probably know that you can use Excel’s AutoFill handle to fill a range with the elements of a series. For instance, to fill a range with the days of the week, simply enter Monday into a cell.
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Excel makes it easy to set up a system for tracking time. Follow these steps to create your own or download our sample timesheet template and customize it to fit your needs. The process of tracking time is unique to every employee or position, so there’s no one-size-fits-all sheet that will do the job
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Build a simple timesheet in Excel
Word offers a couple of features for entering the current date and time, but they can confuse users. With just a little training, you can eliminate that confusion. Or you can provide a couple of macros that do exactly what your users need, without the confusion the built-in features sometimes cause.
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Automating dates and times in a Word document