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August 2012

How can I shrink text to fit a page in Word 2010?

Thursday, August 9th, 2012

Written by Jane Hames

I deliver a lot of Microsoft Office upgrade training and I have been asked this same question several times recently: “From the Print Preview, in older versions of Word, I used to be able to shrink the text in a document onto one page. The option doesn’t seem to be available in Word 2007 and 2010.”

Love ’em or hate ’em: Automatic Formatting Features in Word

Thursday, July 5th, 2012

Written by Jane Hames

Last week, during a Microsoft Word course, one of the participants asked me the following question:

“I typed some dashes/hyphens in my document. Word then extended the dashes to make a line going all the way across the page. I have been trying to delete it, but neither backspace nor delete gets rids of this line.”

Software Secrets: My process for Word headers & footers in sections

Thursday, May 31st, 2012

Written by Jane Hames

In Microsoft Word, Headers and Footers are a great way of being able to set the same information to appear at the top and bottom of every page in the document. Common examples of this are the page number, date, company name, copyright, titles or file location.

Tip for working with tables in Word

Thursday, May 24th, 2012

Written by Jane Hames

I often get asked this question: “I’ve inserted a table at the top of my Word document but now I can’t seem to get above the table: how can I click above the table to type my heading?”

How-To Guide: Reduce document size by compressing pictures

Thursday, May 10th, 2012

Written by Jane Hames

Do you insert pictures into Word Documents, PowerPoint Presentations (or even Excel Workbooks)? Do you need to email those documents? If so, it is worth learning how to use the very simple Compress Pictures feature which will reduce the file size. It only takes a minute and works a treat!

Quick & easy tips to gain you more time & greater control

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012

Written by Jane Hames

I am a great believer in being as efficient as possible when using Microsoft Office and Windows to maximise the time I have to spend doing other things. In case you missed Glide Training’s Microsoft Office tips on twitter, here they are again to help you to become quicker and more efficient.