Admit it; you’ve done this more than once. You open an Office application like Word or Excel and type out your next great novel or number-crunching masterpiece. Then, in a state of haste, you start closing windows and accidentally close the one window you intended to leave open. One second later you realize, this was the one windows you shouldn’t have closed. All is lost… or is it?
Microsoft Word
Rename Files Fast with the Tab Key
If you scan documents from a network scanner (like the giant printer down the hall) and have the scan sent to your email, you are probably less than thrilled with the name that the scanner gives the file. The name is usually something generic and uninformative like “Scan0001.pdf” or a combination of the date and the time like “07182015-100855.pdf”.
Microsoft Word – Replace Multiple Spaces with a Tab Character
Let’s set the stage:
You receive a file from your co-worker where data has been arranged into multiple columns to create a table-like format.
Upon careful examination, you notice that the column alignment is just a little bit off. To discover the cause you press your Show /Hide button in Word to reveal the formatting codes.
Selecting Objects in Word with the Selection Pane
If you have ever inserted an object (like a picture, shape, or clipart) into a Word document and then made the unfortunate move where you pushed it behind your text… …and now it seems forever trapped behind a sea of impenetrable words. No matter how …