Tag Archive | "Word"

How To Quickly Zoom In/Out In Mac Office (Word, etc)

Sunday, October 25, 2009

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In Windows, you’d use Ctrl+Scroll Up or Scroll Down to zoom in or out of your Microsoft Office documents. I tried doing this in Mac Word, but Ctrl+Scroll does nothing. I tried all the other modifier keys, such as Option, Shift, Command, Fn, but to no avail. Then I tried mixing it up, and I [...]

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How To Convert Open Office document (.odf) to Microsoft Office Document Format With A Converter

Monday, April 27, 2009

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If you have an Open Office document and want to convert it to Word or other Microsoft Office formats so that you can read it, then this is for you. Sometimes you might get a document in ODF format, which is the Open Office document format. This is a problem for some people because they [...]

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Insert a Tick or Check in Excel / Word

Sunday, January 25, 2009

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Quick tip! You can insert a check or a tick in Excel or any other application with any keyboard by switching to the Webdings font and typing “a”. Tags: alt, check, checkmark, Excel, Microsoft, office, powerpoint, Tick, unicode, Windows, Word

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How To Insert a Tick in Excel, Word, Etc

Sunday, August 10, 2008

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Sometimes in programs like Excel when you can’t find a shape that you want, a possible workaround is to use a font. Webdings and Wingdings offer shape-based fonts, so you get shapes instead of the usual characters. For instance, if you want to get a tick in Excel, you can use the “a” character of [...]

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