Business Computing Tips

By K&K Fainges kfainges@...

The next tools have been covered before:

Mail merging
http://www.users.bigpond.com/sagatech/mail_merging.htm

and Macros
http://www.users.bigpond.com/sagatech/macros.html

Customise lets you add some extra flexibility to word, mainly to the
toolbars. Toolbars are set up with all the normal things that people
do, but there are times when you find yourself doing the same thing
over and over, but it's not on the toolbar.

Marcos allow you to add a button, but there are a lot of macros that
have already been added that you can chose from the list.

TOOLS=>CUSTOMISE on the Toolbar tab, allows you to add a whole new
toolbar by clicking on the NEW button. if you click on the Command
tab, there is a list of common commands you can add on. you do this
by clicking and dragging them up to the toolbar you want them on.

For example, say you are always swapping font over to ARIAL. Then you
can add that font to your Formatting toolbar and make it all so easy.

You can also add keyboard shortcuts that let you do things without
having to reach for the mouse. Just click on the Keyboard button. Be
careful not to use a shortcut that is already being used though.

The Options tab, lets you chose some of the ways you want things set
up. The big one for me is that you can chose to have menus show all
commands and get rid of those silly double arrows that drive me mad.

Next issue: The last Tool - Options

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Karen Fainges holds a Bachelor of Business, and a Grad. Cert of
Vocational and Educational Training. All this is nice but it's the 14
years of having to make sales or starve that makes her think she has
really learnt what does and doesn't work. A tutor for all ages, she
specialises in helping people get started on the long road to
technology.

"It has to be practical, it has to be cheap, and it has to work."