The spirit of Clippy is back Remember the olden days of the Microsoft “Clippy” character in Microsoft Word? If you started to create a document that looked anything like a letter then it popped up a totally useless box with a totally fatuous and infantile piece of clipart, and a caption saying “It looks like …
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Category:IT Products
Posts relating to specific IT products. This might include general functionality and also specific information regarding using the product.
Use “Quick Parts” in Word to re-use pieces of text
You can save pre-defined pieces of text for re-use in different Word documents I have described in other blog posts how you can use “autocorrect” in Word to correct your oft-repeated spelling mistakes automatically, and also to replace several words with just a few keystrokes. You can find these posts here: Re-setting Word Options Autocorrect …
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Outlook Search – Where Did it Find the Results?
Outlook Search may be good at finding things – but it’s not so good at telling you WHERE it found them Simple search in Outlook To begin with, a bit of clarification about “Outlook” This article is about the version of Outlook that is part of Microsoft 365 (or Microsoft Office, as it used to …
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Sort on two or more columns in Outlook and Explorer
Sorting on one column in Outlook and Explorer In Outlook, you can sort the display of emails on any column simply by clicking on the column name – eg clicking on “Subject” above the column of the email subject headings will sort on that column. Clicking on it again will sort in the opposite direction …
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Trusteer Rapport – more trouble than it’s worth?
A security tool that your bank may be encouraging you to use may be giving you grief Trusteer Rapport (which is installed on your computer under the name of “Trusteer Endpoint Protection”) is a piece of security software from IBM that is intended to make your online banking safer by spotting fake banking websites, …
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