Monday Microsoft Tip

by Erin Banister

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Here’s a new ritual to help your week - Monday Microsoft tips - 30 seconds to increased productivity in the MS Office Suite. Let’s begin!

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AutoFormatting 101

I love auto-formatting - I attribute my speediness in word to auto-formatting. There are quite a few you can begin using right now so you can stop wasting your time searching for special characters:

Characters Symbol

(c) ©

(r) ®

(tm) ™

You can also create arrows - by typing < -- <== <=> –> ==> you’ll get different arrows.

You can create unordered (or bulleted) lists by beginning a line with an * (asterisk) and ending the line by pressing the Enter key. Alternatively, you can create a numbered list by typing 1. at the beginning of a line, and ending the line by pressing the Enter key.

You can create a table by simpling using plus signs and hyphens. Try it by entering a plus sign, then a few hyphens, then a plus sign, another few hyphens, and ending it with a plus sign (+—+—+) and pressing enter. This will give you a lovely table with the cell borders where the plus signs were. (In my example, a one two-column, one row table). And, since this is word, you can add rows easily by going to the cell on the right and pressing tab.

More next week!

~E

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