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MS
Office 101
Temporarily
Stopping The Word Wrap
Have you ever had
a phrase, date, title or some other group of word that you don't want
MS Word to split apart when it wraps around to the next line?
You know, for example,
the annoying month and date on one line and the year on the next. (Looks
bad, hard to read and really annoying.)
So, what do you do?
Hit the enter key in the middle of a paragraph? Or worse yet, the space
bar?
I hope not. That will
cause all kinds of trouble every time you edit the document. You'll be
forever adding and removing that manual break with every addition or deletion
of words in the paragraph. This is not the most efficient way to go.
Instead, as you're
typing the words use Ctrl+Shift+Space Bar.
The words on either
side of a space put in this way will stay together. If they don't all
fit on the first line, then all words will be put on the next line.
Now if only it were
so easy to keep other things in life together
or at least to fix
the broken things.
Office
Tip of the Day
Never
Loose All Your New Excel Work Again
Ever have the power
go out while you were in the middle of something big?
Or, and I know we've
all had this happen, you're happily working along and the system or program
crashes, almost always booting you out without ever having an option of
saving your work.
How many times did
you loose data in Excel because you didn't remembered to save frequently?
Would you like to
reduce the amount of lost data? (Now I know the answer here is yes - who
wouldn't want to reduce the amount of lost data?)
Well, what we need
to do is to turn on your AutoSave feature.
AutoSave is an Add-in
feature of MS Excel that can be set to save your workbooks at whatever
interval you set. (For example, you could set it to save all open workbooks
every 10 minutes or only the active workbook every 15 minutes. It's all
up to you.)
But the big question
here is how to turn on the AutoSave feature.
To begin with you'll
need to load the AutoSave add-in.
Go to the Tools
menu, Add-Ins choice.
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From the Add-ins in
the available list, you'll need to locate and then check AutoSave.
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**Note: If the AutoSave
add-in isn't listed then you may need to install it from the original
Office CD. You can ask the online office assistant for help with the installation
- try the phrase "Install or remove office components."
At any rate, once
you've located and checked AutoSave in the add-in list, click OK.
Now that you have
the AutoSave feature turned on, we need set our preferred rules for the
AutoSave's behavior.
Go to the Tools
menu again. This time you should see the AutoSave choice in the
list.
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Once you've chosen
AutoSave from the list, you should get the AutoSave window.
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In this window you
can select what will be saved and how often.
The first line allows
you to set how often Excel will save your files. Make sure the box is
checked and set the number in the minute box to your preference.
The Save Options
section allows you to decide what is saved, the active worksheet or all
open worksheets. It's all up to you.
The bottom box should
be checked if you want Excel to prompt you every time it AutoSaves. Checking
this gives you the option of not overwriting the original file as you
make changes (just in case you want to revert to the original instead
of keeping the changes) but can be annoying if your time interval is a
short one.
Of course, if you
want to keep the original file - just in case - then I would make a copy
of the file before begriming. This prevents the AutoSave from being able
to overwrite the original data. Once again - it's all up to you!
When you've made all
your choices, click OK.
You'll be returned
to your worksheet where you can work to your heart's content - minus the
lost data concerns.
Here's to worry-free
data crunching! (Ok, maybe not worry-free, but at least a little less
worry
)
~ April
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