Create and format picture bullets in Word
Thursday, September 22, 2005 10:19 AM
Microsoft Word
Are you looking for an effective and visually appealing way to set off text in your Word documents? Then check out how easy it is to create and format picture bullets using Word's AutoFormat feature.
An effective and visually appealing way to set off text in your Word documents is to use picture bullets. However, if you want to create a custom bullet in Microsoft Word from a picture, you have to go through the Bullets And Numbering menu and add the picture to the Picture Bullet gallery. Then, you follow the menu prompts to insert the picture bullet into your text.
This method takes quite a bit of navigation through the menus. If you are only going to use a bullet once, it probably doesn't warrant all the work involved to add it to the gallery. A faster method may be to let Word's AutoFormat feature create the bullets for you.
Follow these steps to quickly insert a picture from your clip art:
- Position the pointer on the line where you want your first bullet to appear.
- Insert | Picture | Clip Art. Click the picture you want to insert.
- Resize the picture to a height only slightly larger than the font size of the bulleted text.
- Press [Tab], type the text following the bullet, and then press [Enter].
Now, each time you press [Enter], your custom bullet will be inserted on the next line.
Microsoft Excel
Copy column widths along with the data in Excel
Any IT pros who have worked with Microsoft Excel are familiar with the time-consuming chore of reformatting column widths when you move data from one spreadsheet to another. Find out how Office 2002 and 2003's Smart Tags can significantly lighten your reformatting load.
Most IT support pros know the agony of having to resize column widths in Microsoft Excel when you move data from one formatted spreadsheet to another spreadsheet. Microsoft Office 2002 and 2003 offers you some relief from this painstaking chore.
Before Microsoft Word 2002, you had to use the Paste Special menu to retain the column width settings of the source file. With Word 2002 and 2003's Smart Tags, you can have Excel reformat the column widths for you with just a couple of mouse clicks.
Follow these steps in Excel 2002 or Excel 2003:
- Copy the data you want to paste to a new worksheet.
- Click on the cell in the new worksheet where you want to place the data, and then click the Paste button.
- Click the Paste Option Smart Tag button and select Keep Source Column Widths.
Excel will automatically adjust the column widths to match the width of the columns of the source worksheet.
Microsoft Access
Send e-mail to contacts with Access 2003's Smart Tags
If you're looking for new ways to delight your clients and save your employees time, then check out this simple trick. You'll learn how Smart Tags make it a snap for customer service reps to respond to client e-mail or schedule a client meeting.
With Microsoft Access 2003, you can embed Smart Tags into any field so that you can link your Access applications with other Microsoft Office applications.
For example, with Office 2003's built-in Smart Tags for Outlook, you can build Access applications that link to Outlook 2003's e-mail and calendar functions. Suppose you develop a form that allows customer service representatives to search for contact information in your clients' database. By linking the Customer Name field to a Smart Tag, the representative will be able to send an e-mail or schedule a meeting with the client directly from the information they find on the form.
To link the Customer Name field to the Smart Tag, follow these steps:
- Open the client database table in Design View.
- Select the Customer Name field row.
- Click the Builder button next to the Smart Tags field property in the field properties window.
- Click the People check box and click OK.
Now, when the customer service representative uses the form to look up a client, a Smart Tag icon will appear next to the client's name. By clicking on the Smart Tag's icon drop-down box, the representative can add the client to his/her Outlook contacts, send the client an e-mail, or schedule a meeting with the client.
Create and format picture bullets in Word
Do I need to somehow turn the AutoFormat in Word on? I followed the steps, but when I hit [Enter], it only takes me to the next line. It does not insert a new bullet.
Posted by anonymous on Thursday, April 23 2009 05:20 AM