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How to capitalize a paragraph in Microsoft Word?

Tue, 05 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Q. Is there a way to capitalize a paragraph or perhaps all the text written in Microsoft Word 2003?

A. The answer is yes, you can capitalize or put selected text into uppercase without rewriting everything in uppercase
There are 3 possible solution and we will start with the most convenient answer:

Highlight your text that you want to covert and press SHIFT and F3. This will make every letter a small letter. Press it again it'll capitalize the first letters. Press it again it'll capitalize everything. That SHIFT+F3 saves so much time!
Select/Highlight text that you want to capitalize
right click on it
select Font
select All caps tick box
Select/Highlight text that you want to capitalize
Click on Format > Change Case. (If you don't see Change Case in the Format menu, click the down-pointing arrows at the bottom of the menu to reveal all the commands there.)
Make sure UPPERCASE is selected, and click OK

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Excel: How to Copy Formatting from One Cell to Another

Tue, 10 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Q. How can I copy formatting from one cell or range to another cell or range of cells ?

A. To copy formatting from one cell to another cell or range of cells, use the Format Painter feature.

1. Select the cell or range that has the formatting you want to copy.
2. Click the Format Painter button on the Formatting toolbar. Excel will change the cursor to a brush and display an outline around the cell or range that
contains the copied formatting.
3. Select the cell or range, to which you want to apply the formatting.

After applying the formatting, Excel restores the normal cursor. If you need to
apply the formatting to multiple cells or ranges, double-click the Format Painter button to lock it, when finished click the Format Painter button again to unlock it.
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What is a SMTP connection?

Wed, 02 Mar 2005 00:00:00 +0000

Question: What is a SMTP connection?

Answer: SMTP is an acronym for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. It is an Internet standard outlined by Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to be used for sending email messages.

All internet providers nowadays use this protocol to send email. When using SMTP, there should be a client sending the messages and the server receiving them.

Your email program utilizes this protocol and acts as SMTP client to distribute email messages to recipients. In most cases you will configure and use any email client the same way you do with your regular email client like Microsoft Outlook.

You will specify the SMTP server that Internet provider gave you. When the SMTP Client sends email messages, it connects to the SMTP server you have specified and communicates to it using SMTP protocol.

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Excel: How to change Excel’s number of Undo levels?

Wed, 05 Jul 2006 01:00:00 +0100

Q. Is there a way to change Excel's number of undo levels/numbers.
In Excel 2003 the maximum No. of undo actions is 16 and I would like it to be at least 50

A. The answer is yes you can change Excel’s number of Undo levels.
To change the number of Undo levels, follow these steps:

1. Close Excel
2. Click Start, Run and type REGEDIT
3. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office.0\Excel\Options.
4. Right-click in the right pane and choose New, DWORD Value.
5. Name the new entry UndoHistory and press ENTER to apply the name.
6. Edit DWORD Value dialog box
7. In the Base group box, make sure the Decimal option button is selected.
8. In the Value Data text box, enter the number of Undo levels you want (0 to 100)
9. Click OK.

Now you shoul be able to undo your actions in Excel as many times as you like.
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Word: Letterhead problem in Microsoft Word

Tue, 01 Aug 2006 01:00:00 +0100

Q. I have a Microsoft Word letterhead template with a top margin of 2.13.
Most of the time I need only one page, but when I do need a second page I want my top margin set at 1. Is it possible to set up a custom top margin for page two on a template? I realize I could set up two different templates, one for one-page letterhead documents and one for two-page documents, but I would prefer to avoid that if at all possible.

A. When you’re using preprinted letterhead paper, you have to set a larger top margin, or you’d print right over the company information, logo, and so on. But of course, on succeeding pages you’ll use plain paper, with a smaller top margin.

The easiest way to handle this is to set the top margin for all pages to the smaller value and “push” the first page’s text down with an empty header.

Open the template, choose File > Page Setup, and set the top margin to 1 inch on the Margins tab. Now click the Layout tab and check the box labeled Different first page. If your printer has two paper trays you may want to click the Paper tab and set the first page to come from one tray and the rest from the other. That way you can load one tray with letterhead and the other with blank sheets.

Click OK to accept the page setup changes.
Select Header and Footer from the View menu. Click inside the header area and press Enter six or seven times•enough to push the start of the text down a bit over an inch•and then save the template. Now you can easily print single- or multiple-page letters using preprinted letterhead for only the first page.

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Word: How to change the default font in Microsoft Word?

Fri, 01 Sep 2006 01:00:00 +0100

Q. I am simply fed up and tired of Times New Roman in every single document I create in Microsoft's Word processor. Is there a way to set Verdana or Arial to be my default font for all new documents I create? John Ralph

A. Here's how to change the font that word uses by default.
Every word document in this word seems to use the same font. Why? Because that's the font that Microsoft picked!
Change the font that Microsoft Word uses for new documents:

1. Open Word
2. Click the Format menu
3. Select the font, style, and color you wish you use by default
4. Click the Default button
5. Confirm
6. Click OK

Now when you open word, your default font will be different and stay different, no more ugly Times New Roman. Nenad Rajsic