BITS & BYTES: Unearthing Word's Save All and Close All features

By April Miller Cripliver Times Business Columnist

Q: In the versions of Word before 2007, I could hold down the Shift key as I clicked the File menu, and Word would helpfully change the Save command to Save All and the Close command to Close All. This is no longer available in Word 2007 or W…

BITS & BYTES: Getting two Excel files to appear on two monitors

By April Miller Cripliver Times Business Columnist

Q: I have a system that uses dual monitors. I want to have one Excel workbook appear on one monitor and another Excel workbook appear on the other. I can do this only if I open two instances of Excel. The problem is I can't easily copy and pa…

BITS & BYTES: Creating a shortcut to frequently–used items in Windows 7

By April Miller Cripliver Times Business Columnist

Q: How do you create a Shortcuts link at the lower right of my Windows 7 taskbar for those tasks I use the most? How do I add items to this list?

BITS & BYTES: Shortcuts increase efficiency in all Microsoft applications

By April Miller Cripliver Times Business Columnist

Q: A couple of weeks ago you wrote about some shortcuts to speed common editing tasks. Do you have any more if these jewels?

BITS & BYTES: Insert the size of a file within a Word document

By April Miller Cripliver Times Business Columnist

Q: I received a PPS (PowerPoint Slideshow) file from a friend with some beautiful photos in it. How can I use these pictures as a changing screensaver?

BITS & BYTES: Troubles with Excel's charting feature

By April Miller Cripliver Times Business Columnist

Q: In a previous column, you said I could press F11 in Excel to get a chart. How come it's not working for me?

BITS & BYTES: Get the most from your new Kindle

By April Miller Cripliver Times Business Columnist

Q: I also received a Kindle for Christmas. Do you have any tips for using it?

BITS & BYTES: Amazon Kindle changes the way you think about reading

By April Miller Cripliver

Q: My wonderful parents bought my wife and me Amazon Kindles for Christmas. Can my wife and I share our books?

BITS & BYTES: PDF vs. PDF/A: Is there a difference?

By April Miller Cripliver Times Business Columnist

Q: I know that Word can save a file to PDF (portable document format). I was recently asked to supply a file in PDF/A. Can Word do this? What's the difference between PDF and PDF/A?

BITS & BYTES: Control Excel's text-wrapping feature

By April Miller Cripliver Times Business Columnist

Q: I formatted some Excel cells to wrap text. Even though the text in the cells wraps, Excel won't automatically adjust the row height to show all the wrapped text. Is there is a way to reset the row so that Excel will adjust its height based…

BITS & BYTES: Return to the last active Win 7 window

April Miller Cripliver

Q: The default Microsoft Windows 7 behavior when dealing with a set of single–app stacked windows in the Taskbar is to display the set as thumbnails when you hover or click the icon. But I find myself almost always wanting to return to the la…

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