This web page is meant to serve as a central communication point for HCPS Office Professionals. You’ll find-
HCPS Overview of Word 2007 (click link to download)
Click here to download the HCPS handout “An Overview of MS Outlook.
Click here to download an “Outlook for Organization” handout
Click here for a zipped folder of handouts on MS Outlook 2007
Here’s how to control your recent documents list in Word, PowerPoint and Excel.
Customizing AutoCorrect is done differently in Outlook as compared to Word. AutoCorrect changes you make should carry over between MS Office programs.
Here’s a quick look at how to add multiple signatures and how to make sure that one of them will be your default signature for all new email.
If you type one particular sentence or phrase over and over and want to make your life more pleasant AutoCorrect is one way to do it. Sure, you can set it up so that it fixes your odd typos (for instance, if you type “fshi” every time instead of “fish”) but you can also make is so that every time you type in “CTLT” it autocorrects to “The Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology.”
Sorry for the vagueness on this one, but I’m not quite sure how the database was set up previous to the Office upgrade.
With older databases that had a hide/unhide feature in order to edit and add records you might have some issues. One way (and the best I’ve found so far) is to right click on the title bar of the window and click on “Design View” and then switch back to whatever view you were in originally. You should now be able to edit records and add new ones (the “Add New” button is up in the ribbon on the Home tab).
Here’s a quick tip on how to prevent the page number from showing up on the first page of a document.
Feeling nostalgic?
Here’s how you can change your default font to Times New Roman or whatever you’d like. You can also change your paragraph settings and a few other things if you’d like.
