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Showing posts with label MS Office Tricks. Show all posts

Thursday, September 8, 2011

How to set the Office 2007 color scheme with a Registry hack?

Using Manual Registry Hack
We all get bored of the same old default blue color of Office 2007. There are many ways to set the Office 2007 color scheme. One of these ways is to set the Office 2007 color scheme with a registry hack. Other than this method you can set it by using the GUI or by using a Group Policy template. You can set the Office 2007 color scheme with a registry hack by following these simple and easy steps:

In order to set the Office 2007 color scheme with a registry hack manually, use the Start Menu Search box or the Run box to open regedit.exe. 
Navigate to this key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common
Select the key named Theme from the right-hand side of the window.
Set the Theme to one of the following values to get the color of your choice: 
For Blue color scheme: 1 
For Silver color scheme: 2 
For Black color scheme: 3 

To edit the computer registry, first you should log onto your computer with administrative rights.
Click Start button and type regedit in Run option then press Enter for next.

Now close the registry editor and restart your computer after any changes to go into effect. You have successfully changed the color scheme of Office 2007 to suit your wish.

How to create Business Letterhead in WORD 2007 and 2010?

A letterhead is the heading at the top of a letter paper. It usually consists of a company name and the company address. It can also contain a company logo and other contact information.
Microsoft Word offers the ability to create a letterhead. Furthermore, it allows you to create the font and style of your choice. The letterhead can be saved as a template so that it can be reused for additional letters. In this step-by-step picture tutorial, you will see how to create a letterhead in Microsoft Word 2007.
What you will need for this tutorial?
รจ  Microsoft Word 2007
Step1:  Open Microsoft Word 2007
Step 2:  Enter the information that you want to include in the letterhead. Let's create a letterhead for a company named XYZ.
Step 3:  After you have entered all the information you wish to include in the letterhead, you can now format the information so that it looks like a letterhead. You can format the letterhead according to your requirement. 


Select all or part of the entered text that you wish to format.
Now choose the font style and size according to your requirement.
You can further choose to align the text according to your requirement. You can choose to keep the font to the left of the page, or center-text it or you could even choose to right-align it.
If you wish to remove the spacing between the lines, then you can simply change the style and select No Spacing from the Styles box.
If you wish to separate the letterhead from the rest of the body such that a line stretches across the page just below the letterhead, you can easily do that from the Paragraph box in the Home tab as well.
Simply click on the Borders drop-down button and select Bottom Border from the drop-down menu.
Here is how your separated letterhead should look like after the inclusion of that border line.
Step 4:  Microsoft Word gives you the option to save you letterhead. Once you have formatted the letterhead according to your requirement you can save it as a template and simply open the template again when you want to reuse it.
The instructions that follow explain how to save the letterhead as a template, so that it can be reused in the future as well.
1.     Click on the Office Button on the top left hand of the Microsoft Word window.
2.     In the menu, hover your mouse over Save As
3.     In the right pane of the menu, click on Word Template.
Once the Save As window opens, enter a name for your letterhead template. Be sure to select the Templates folder from the left pane of the window. Click on Save to save your letterhead.
Step 5:  Although we are done creating the letterhead, this step is included to illustrate how to access the letterhead that we just saved as a template.
Open Microsoft Word 2007. Click on the Office Button, and click on New. From the left side of the New Document Dialog, click on My Templates.
Now choose the template you just created and click on OK.
You will now have a new document based on the letterhead template that you just created. Nowadays, some business letterheads include links to company profiles, as Tom Mower demonstrates. 

How to create a auto summary of a Word 2007 document?

It is a time-consuming task to create a summary of a lengthy Word document. Among the many useful features of Word 2007 is the AutoSummary Tool to create a summary of a Word 2007 document. It gives scores to the sentences consisting of words which are repeatedly used. The sentences which score the maximum points are used to create a summary of a Word 2007 document. You can also utilize the Auto function to create a summary of a Word 2007 document.
You have to start by adding the AutoSummary Tools to the quick access bar. This is how you will achieve that:
Click on the Office Button on the top left corner.
Click on the Word options button at the bottom of the menu


Select Customize from the left hand side of the dialog box that appears.
Select All Commands from the drop-down menu of Choose commands from and scroll down to select the AutoSummary Tools.
Click on the Add button in the middle.
Click on the OK button.

The AutoSummarize icon will now appear on the quick access bar.  
In order to create the summary, follow these steps:
Click on the AutoSummarize button from the quick access toolbar and select AutoSummarize from the menu.

The AutoSummarize dialog box will appear. Select from among the four given options.

Click on the OK button. 
The option Highlight key points can be used to get the words as well as phrases which are frequently used. You can then create the summary by yourself. 

If you choose one of the other three options, Word 2007 will auto generate a summary which can be put on the top of the document, on a new page or just display the summary and hide the rest of the document depending on the option you choose.

How to apply animation on text or objects in Power Point 2010?

It is very easy to apply animation on text or object in Microsoft Power Point 2010. Animations are applied to emphasize certain things, other objective is to avoid boredom of audience and keep their interest intact through whole presentation. It also helps you to control flow of information, for example if you are explaining a certain point and you do not want your audience to get distract by next points then by help of animation you can stop next points.
You can apply animation on not only text but also on shapes, tables, pictures and other object. The visual effects that are included in Power Point 2010 are exits, entrance, changes in Font Sizes and Colours.  You have the option to apply one or multiple animation on one object. Both methods are described below.
Four types of animation effects are available in PowerPoint 2010.
Entrance
Exits
Emphasis
Motion Paths
Applying Single Animation
Instructions:
1.     Open your desired Power Point Presentation, to which you want to apply animation.
 
2.     Highlight / Select the text or object you wish to animate'
3.     Click on the Animation tab, from “Animation” Group, apply your desired animation.
     
 
4.     To see more Animation Styles, click Red Highlighted Button
 
And you will see a range of different animation listed under the categories mentioned above that is Entrance, Exit, Emphasis and Motion Paths. To access detailed animation choose “More” options, as shown in the bottom of the picture.
 
 Applying Multiple Animation to a Text or Object
If you wish to apply “Multiple” animation that is more than one, to a single text then perform steps listed below.
Instructions:
1.     Click on the animation tab
2.     Under the “Advanced Animation” Group, click on More Animation. A list of Animations will be opened; you can apply your desired one.
     
 

How to accept Track changes in Microsoft Word 2010

"Track changes" is wonderful and remarkable tool of Microsoft Word 2010. The feature allows editing your documents without making the changes permanent. It means if you have deleted a word, Track back highlights it, though the word is deleted but until final changes are accepted, it remains there. A track change is very helpful when you are working on draft that needs extra care. For Example you are working your project and you are not sure whether changes you made are right and you want to take your professors/superiors opinion.
Today the world has become global village, now virtual teams sitting in different parts of world are working on same projects. They need to communicate, they suggest prose and finalize things, track changes help them to make changes or send suggestions to other members.
One can delete, add, comment or make formatting changes by using it.
Instructions
1.       Open desired word document you wish to apply track changes.
2.       Go to Review Tab, under "Tracking" Group, click on track changes. It will change to orange colour, that means feature has "turned on" 
     
3.       Take the cursor to where you want to save changes and type, you will see colour of the text will different. It means that changes you are making are not permanent.  
     
4.       Go to "Tracking Group" and click on "Show Markup", choose "Balloons" and Click on your desired settings how you want to show your changes. Either you want to show your changes/Revisions in Balloons, with in your document or show only comments and Formatting in Balloons. 
     
5.       Go to "Comments" Group, under Review tab, click "New comment" where you want to insert a comment, leave a note or ask question.  
     
6.       Go to the Review Group, click on the Reviewing pane and choose either vertical or horizontal settings to carefully go through your document. OR go through them one by one by choosing "Next" or "Previous" from "Changes" Group.
     
 
7.       Click on "Accept or Reject" from "Changes Group" to tell programme whether you want to keep or permanently delete a change.  
     
Go to the "File Menu" and "Save" all changes that you made in your document.

How to make Greeting Cards with Word 2007?


You can make homemade cards for your friends and family on any occasion if you don't get time to buy cards from the shop. You can make greeting cards with Word 2007. You can make greeting cards with Word 2007 for many occasions and events as well as the Get Well, Friendship cards etc. As you decide to make greeting cards with Word 2007, you can make one card for everyone or a customized one for every individual. You can later print them on a greeting card paper or just the regular one. Follow these steps in order to make greeting cards with Word 2007:
Click on the Office Button from the top left corner.
Click on New. The New Document window will open.
From the list under Templates, click on Greeting Cards.
You can choose the option you want from under the Greeting Cards section.
You will be connected to the Microsoft Office Online site. You can select from hundreds of templates or you can go to this website in the browser and download the templates from there.


You can preview every template in Word and then click the Download button.
The Office Genuine Advantage validation dialog box will appear. You might also have to download the updated version of OGA to be capable of downloading a template.

You can customize the downloaded card by changing the colors, fonts etc or adding  your message before printing it.

Now you can print the card. 

You can make the holiday card even more personal by adding your own photos to it. You should always have greeting card paper by the side of your printer for ceremonious events.