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Courtesy of the Crabby Office Lady (who’s name I like to think is ‘Grizelda’), comes ten great insider clues to using Office more effectively.
My two favs:
Feature #5: I know what I mean: AutoCorrect
- I type "Crabby Office Lady" a lot; all day long, in fact. But since I’ve created an AutoCorrect entry for it, all I have to do is type "COL" and my Office program detects what I really mean and fills in the full phrase for me.
- I can also use AutoCorrect to automatically detect and correct typos, misspelled words, grammatical errors, and incorrect capitalization. See, I tend to type fast and quite erroneously. I often type "teh" instead of "the" and "nac" instead of "can." Since I’ve set up the AutoCorrect to note that, it changes the words back to what they should be. Does this make me lazy? Perhaps. But it saves me time, too.
More information about AutoCorrect
- AutoCorrect options In Office 2007
- Turn on or off AutoCorrect options In Word 2003
- Add an AutoCorrect entry in Office 2003
(This topic refers to PowerPoint but you can apply it to any Office program.)- Troubleshoot automatic corrections
Feature #8: Leverage someone else’s work: Use a template
When time is of the essence (and when is it not?), no one is a better friend to you than a template. In a nutshell, a template is a pre-designed document, spreadsheet, presentation or any other type of Office document that’s been created by a template elf. It has all the colors, layouts, bullets, fonts, and whatever else you want to make your Office document sparkle. All you have to do is plug in your content and away you go. A template saves you the burden of having research and design skills, and it saves us the burden of reminding you that you need to brush up on your research and design skills.
More information about using Office templates
Grizelda’s blood’s worth bottlin’, as we say here in these parts…
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