Author: betty

If you want to send a copy of your document for review but you want to protect it from unauthorized editing, Microsoft Word has a convenient tool to restrict editing. Here is how to prevent people from editing your Microsoft word document: Step One: Open your document in MS Word. Select “Review” on the top…

If you want to use just a part of your photo, you don’t need any professional tools. You can easily crop and adjust the photo using Microsoft Office Picture Manager. Here is how to cut out the unwanted part of your photo: Step One: Open your picture in Microsoft Office Picture manager: Step Two: Click…

If you want to create art and add a bit of sepia flavor to your photos, you can use Photoshop. However, not everyone has professional software on their computer. So here is a simple way, using Microsoft Office Picture Manager, do modify your photos and make them vintage-looking sepia ones. Step One: Open your picture…

A document is always easier to read if it has pictures in addition to the text. You can use your own images (photos or drawings) to add to a document in Microsoft word. Here is how to your own pictures in your document: Step One: Open your document in MS Word. Select the place where…

Together with your black&white text document, it is a good idea to insert some pictures or photos connected to your descriptions. You can use both your own images or pre-installed images in Microsoft word (called ClipArt). MS Word has a good library of images which you can easily use. Here is how to pre-installed (library)…

Once you have many photos or images in a document, you may decide you want to edit them. However, you don’t have to open again the photos to edit in a different software and insert again in Microsoft Word. MS Word offers a neat feature which allows you to do simple editing on a photo…

Microsoft Word has a neat embedded feature which lets you create Table of Contents for your document in a quick one-click way. However, to take advantage of the automatic Table of Contents creation, you must prepare your text by doing the following steps: Step One: Open your document in MS Word and identify the headings…

Sometimes when typing too hastily, you could end up putting small letters on all your text. Or when editing someone else’s text, you could notice they mistakenly did not capitalize beginning words in sentences. Microsoft Word offers a quick one-click way to correct the lettering and make the sentence capitalization correct. Here is how to…

If you want to organize your work you may want to keep your emails sorted and classified in folders. This is an easy way to find things quickly, by topic or by sender’s name. Here is how to create a new folder in Microsoft Outlook: Step One: Open Microsoft Outlook and select “Mail” tab from…

To keep your diary up to date, it is a good idea to enter your appointments and meetings. Microsoft Outlook offers neat functionality in the calendar which includes reminders before any appointments and a list of attendees, among others. Here is how to create an event in Microsoft Outlook: Step One: Open Microsoft Outlook and…

If you are receiving too many emails and have trouble sorting them, you may want to add an automatic filter which sorts all incoming mails for you. This is very handing to keep all the important emails in a separate folder, all family communication in another folder, and so on. Here is how to sort…

When sending an email, it may become cumbersome to sign your name, phone number or any greeting you want to end with (such as “Sincerely” or “Best regards”). To make it easier for you to compose your emails with a ready greeting at the bottom, you can use the email signature feature in Microsoft outlook.…

If you want to create art out of your beautiful photos, you may want to consider making them Black&White, vintage-looking ones. You could do that in Photoshop, but not everyone has professional software on their machine. In Microsoft Office Picture Manager, you could do it with one click. Here is how you can easily make…

When you are browsing through your photos, it is difficult to remember which numbers or names of photos refer to which location or event. Many browsers show by default only the file names and dates of pictures Windows explorer allows you also to view the photos in your computer as little thumbnails, similar to the…

Many new digital cameras take photos which are very large. It works great for printing large photo frames but most often you just need to send the photos by email or upload them to an album. Microsoft Office Picture Manager offers you a quick one-click option to reduce the size of photos so they can…

When you need to install a new program, save some big video files or just see the status of your computer’s memory, you need to check how much the available space is (in MB or GB). It is also good to check the available free space in your hard drives because once the disks are…

Synchronizing your computer clock to an internet time server will ensure that your computer never shows you the wrong time. It is important to keep your computer clock up to date because event notifications and alerts for meetings and important appointments all work on your computer clock. To make sure your computer clock is correct,…