I’m failing at blogging big time at the moment. I’ve had several ideas for posts recently but I seem to start them and can’t finish them. Anyway, this one seemed to write itself so hopefully it’ll be a bit of a kick start! I took a call earlier in the week as someone wanted to
Category: Word
Changing Symbols in Word 2007
Just learnt something new! I’d inserted the following symbol into various parts of my document I wanted to change one of them and for some reason I double clicked it which displayed the symbols dialog This is much easier than having to delete it and insert a brand new one again I’m not sure
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Opening Excel During a Mail Merge
It’s weird how people panic when something is slightly different to how they expect I client called me this morning as she was trying to do a mail merge but it was behaving differently to how her other mail merges work Basically when she opened the Word document with the mail merge in, Excel also
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Date formats incorrect after mail merge using Word 2007
I was asked to look at something by a friend yesterday She was doing a mail merge using Word 2007 with an Excel spreadsheet as the data source One of the fields was a date and was in the British DD/MM/YY format on the spreadsheet but when she did the merge it was in the
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Disable Reading Layout in Word 2003
I know Office 2003 is “sooooo last season” but i get asked about this quite a lot thought i’d stick it on here When you open Word document attached to an e-mail the reading layout is displayed. Some users don’t actually realise the view is supposed to help them read the document on screen. What