February 17, 2012
One of the most frustrating parts of working with VBA inside specific applications, is that it’s not always easy to get two applications to “talk” to each other. You can try for very quick transactions of information between applications is passing data to the clipboard, and then reading that information from the other application.
February 9, 2012
During your work week, there are probably lots of times that you find yourself copying and pasting information from Excel into Word, or the other way around. This is how people often produce written reports based on data that’s accumulated and updated in an Excel spreadsheet. In this article, I’m going to dive a little more into the background VBA scripting that allows you to actually program connections between data in Excel and Word.
December 30, 2011
Brainstorming your ideas visually helps with clarity and allows you to connect ideas and interlink them together. That’s where mindmapping took off. You might know zilch about it, but even age old habits of doodling your ideas is better than a blank page. But you don’t have to draw aimlessly because MS Word offers you a few free templates to structure your ideas and sharpen your thought process.
November 8, 2011
Several days ago we reported that a nasty new Windows bug had been found. It is particularly nasty for two reasons – it involves a previously unknown exploit, and it may be the brainchild of the same group that developed Stuxnet. Now, Microsoft has released a temporary fix. The fix is not a patch, but rather a workaround.
November 4, 2011
A new virus is making the rounds, and this one has the potential to be very serious. The Duqu virus has source code similar to Stuxnet, which was believed to have played havoc with Iran’s nuclear program. Everyone is looking to unlock the secret behind this serious virus, but for now it looks like it is being linked with a piece of software downloaded from corrupted Microsoft Word documents.
October 12, 2011
If you are not a power user on MS Word, I am assuming that you haven’t heard about the Document Map. The Document Map is one of those little features tucked away in MS Word. The Document Map helps you navigate through a long Word document and access different parts of it.
August 29, 2011
Some people choose to bookmark all the pages that they find temporarily useful for whatever project they may be working on, while others go through the long, common processes. Going to the page in Firefox, copying it, opening Word, pasting the content into Word, and then saving it. You can shortcut this process by using Notesaver, a Firefox add-on.
August 19, 2011
We have seen quite a few ways to tweak MS Office 2010 for our own productive ends. Granted, the whole MS Office suite is a productivity tool to begin with, but there’s still some spanner work you can do to make it more personalized. In this Word tutorial, we improve our workflow by adding a favorites tab to the Ribbon with all our frequently used commands.
August 5, 2011
The Quick Access Toolbar has been a part of MS Office since the 2003 version, but it has come to the forefront since the introduction of MS Office 2007 and more prominently with MS Office 2010. You can enhance your productivity with two quick and easy changes to the Quick Access Toolbar.
July 25, 2011
As every day users we usually treat MS Office in a rather half-baked way. It’s only later that we realize we could cook up so much more with tools available under MS Word, MS Excel, and MS PowerPoint etc. This is a very basic tutorial on how to easily put together an interactive form with the help of Microsoft Word 2010. The feature of MS Word forms has been a constant feature from the early days. Most of us missed it because either we don’t need it or we found it too difficult to wrap our heads around it.
