Microsoft Word

If you copy text from the internet or another document and paste it into your document bad things can happen.  The fonts and text colors may not be the same, the background could be a different color, etc.  

A clipboard will appear just below the information you pasted.  Click on the clipboard and select the second option, match destination formatting.  Now your new information is formatted like the rest of your document.  

When writing an essay or entering a contest you often need to know you word or character count.  Microsoft Word makes this easy to track.  In Microsoft 2007:

1. Click on the review tab
2. Go to the Proofing section
3. Click on the icon with ABC 123
4. The Word Count popup box contains the information you seek

hAVE YOU EVER TYPED A DOCUMENT IN THE WRONG CASE? or just missed the capitalization at the beginning of a sentence.  Do you need the text in all uppercase or all lowercase?

All these problems can be easily fixed in Microsoft Word or PowerPoint 2007.  On the home tab, navigate to the font section and on the bottom row click the arrow next to the “Aa”.  This will open up the Change Case menu.

If you prefer shortcuts you can use ALT+O+E to open the menu, or highlight your text and use Shift+F3 until the appropriate effect is applied.

Like most people, I occasionally click something and the Microsoft Office Ribbon vanishes.

The ribbon is at the top section of the page and looks like this in Excel.

When the ribbon is minimized Excel looks like this.

Lovers of older books may recall the ornate capital letters that started each chapter of a book.

Here are the steps to recreate that effect in a Microsoft Word 2007 document.