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Build an Access form that allows HR to access applicants' resumes
Techguide You can add a control on the form to let the HR managers access each applicant’s resume without having to search through the paper or electronic files.
Tags: Microsoft Office
Photoshop update set for May
News A prematurely posted press release gives details of the new version of Adobe's image editor and related applications.
Tags: Business applications
Print gridlines and headings in Excel
Techguide A printout of data can be more useful if you print gridlines and column and row headings. The gridlines help keep you on track.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Excel 2007, page layout, Microsoft PowerPoint, printing, Microsoft Excel, spreadsheet, Microsoft Office
Set a print area to keep Excel from printing what you don't want
Techguide Follow these steps to define a print area for your worksheet.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Cell, Tool, check box, page layout, printing, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word 2007, Microsoft Access
Print a graphic in an Excel header--sort of
Techguide Excel doesn't make it easy to use graphics in the header/footer section, but don't let that stop you. Use Excel's Print Titles feature to create a pseudo header.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Graphic, Microsoft Corp., Tool, Microsoft Excel 2007, File Menu, page layout, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Office
Rival browsers gain on Internet Explorer
News Firefox's gain is responsible for the bulk of IE's loss in the worldwide browser usage changes from July to August.
Tags: Web browsers, Web Browser, Mozilla Corp., Web Application, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, Mozilla Firefox, Web, Web browsers, HTML
Move text to the next column permanently
Techguide Word may not be a full-featured layout program, but it does offer some tools that let you control the position of text on a page. Here's how to use a column setting to get text where you want it.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Column, Box, C, Database, check box, phone, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word 2007, Microsoft Access
Add a watermark to your Word 2007 document
Techguide Word 2007 includes a number of predefined watermarks that you can add to your document without any additional formatting.
Tags: Microsoft Office
Change the default margins of Word 2007 documents
Techguide If all your documents require the same formatting, such as margins, you don't need to set the specs each time. Here's how to set a default for each of your Word 2007 documents, so you won't have to do it again with every new file.
Tags: Microsoft Office
Microsoft starts testing Office 2008 for Mac
News The new version, due out later this year, is the first to run natively on Intel-based Macs and also supports new XML-based file formats.
Tags: Mac OS, Microsoft Office
Control text flow in Word with linked text boxes
Techguide When working with columns in Word, you can wind up spending a lot of time making sure the text flows evenly from one column to another. You can avoid much of this formatting by replacing columns with linked text boxes.
Tags: Office suites, Microsoft Office
Office 2008 for Mac to come this year
News Revamped Office for Mac, slated for second half of this year, will run on both Intel-based and PowerPC-based Apple machines.
Tags: Personal Computers, Mac OS, Microsoft Office
Create professional-looking page borders in Word 2007
Techguide Whether you're creating a flyer for your company bulletin board or the cover page for your quarterly department report, adding a professional-looking page border can help attract attention to your work.
Tags: Microsoft Office
Vista graphics to reach Mac, phones
News Microsoft to release user interface design software for operating systems other than Vista in the first half next year.
Tags: Smart phones, Microsoft Windows, Longhorn, Mac OS
