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Office 2003

  • Crabby + Accessibility: What is it?

    10 Jan 2011
    Since I'm going to be writing some accessibility-related posts in the coming weeks and today is the first of that series, I want to refresh your brains about (or maybe tell you for the first time) what "accessibility" means in the context of computing. First let me tell you this (and yes, I've said it...

  • Remembering those good old tips (oops, I did it again)

    3 Dec 2010
    For the last 12 months, I've provided you with ideas, tips, tricks, a bit of humor, shopping ideas, comments on popular and inane American culture, and ways to get out of working with difficult people. Since everyone seems to be in shopping list mode—except perhaps our Jewish friends who've already...

  • Dear Crabby: Turn it off! Turn it off!

    12 Nov 2010
    This week's Dear Crabby post is about turning things OFF that were ON by default. See, sometimes the developers and other creators of these features try to imagine what you want. Sometimes their magic works...and sometimes it doesn't. A few of you wrote to ask how you can disable the little floating...

  • What's a macro and why should you care

    28 Sep 2010
    Now, about that robotic vacuum I had: Perhaps I expected more than I should have from it. Perhaps the fact that the company advertised it as a "robot" made me think it could do more than just go in circles and further neuroticize my dog. Perhaps I expected it to act like a macro. A macro is the shortcut...

  • Dear Crabby: Celebrating the control freak in all of us

    27 Aug 2010
    So...speaking of security, a fellow named Mike wrote to me this week and asked me the following question. It seemed like something many people maybe have wondered about so hopefully this will be helpful to the lot of you. "Hey Crabby, How can I lock templates to ensure that those who use them, do so...

  • Crabby's Thursday tip: I know what I mean! (AutoCorrect)

    26 Aug 2010
    AutoCorrect is one handy feature that I use a lot; so much in fact that I'm usually not even aware that its little engine is scurrying about, sort of hidden beneath my typing, and fixing errors as they pop up without me even knowing. My AutoCorrect knows what I mean because I trained it to do my bidding...

  • Get a load of this: Earn a certificate, & prove your Office prowess

    24 Aug 2010
    I don't need to tell you that it's a tough job market out there; many of you have experienced that yourself. Some of us can't find a job while others are worried that they'll be losing theirs. Sometimes you just need that little extra something on your resume to give you that edge when you're applying...

  • Crabby's tips for surviving performance reviews

    19 Aug 2010
    Chances are that if you work for a living, you're going to experience the joy of being reviewed on the work you do (and how you do it). There are ways to make performance reviews—for the giver and the receiver—a little less overwhelming. Keep track of your work using Search Folders (available...

  • Microsoft answers you—come visit the forums with Crabby

    9 Jul 2010
    When you have a question or a problem dealing with an Office program, you want a solution NOW. But sometimes, even though we ("we" being us here in the customer assistance department) do try our best to make sure you have the support you need, going through the regular assistance routes (the Office web...

  • The poor, underused Office pushpin—Crabby's favorite weekly feature

    6 Jul 2010
    Many Office programs display the last few files you opened in that program. This is so you can access the files you're working on quickly. In Excel, mine looks like this: It's a handy feature, called the recently used files list that's turned on by default, but you can turn it off, turn it back on, or...

  • Crabby's underused feature of the week: Office Training

    29 Jun 2010
    Free training on Office.com is not new; it's been around for several years. It's also just about the quickest, easiest, and most definitely the cheapest way to learn about an entire program or a single feature, increase your knowledge, and boost your efficiency and know-how. There are training courses...

  • Get to know your Office MVPs

    22 Mar 2010
    Last month, I attended the MVP Summit in Redmond. MVPs (Most Valued Professionals) from all over the world were there: I met a Word MVP from New Zealand— a boisterous Kiwi wearing jandals in the middle of February (well it IS summer down there); a delightful Visio Fräulein MVP from Germany...

  • Office Ribbon: Where are my $*#(@)!*? commands???

    2 Feb 2010
    Where did everything go? To see where many Word 2003 commands are located in the new Microsoft Office Fluent user interface, you can use the Interactive Word 2003 to Word 2007 command reference guide . The guide is a visual, interactive tool that helps you quickly learn where commands are in Word 2007...

  • Crabby's Daily Tip: Get rid of the Drawing Canvas

    28 Jan 2010
    Ah, the bane of Word 2003 users: The Drawing Canvas. What it is: When you insert a drawing object in Word 2003, a drawing canvas is placed around it.It's an area on which you can draw multiple shapes; it helps you arrange a drawing in your document since the shapes within it can be moved and resized...