Print your Word document on one page

If you have a letter or some other document you typed in Microsoft Word 97 or 2000, and you want to print it on a single page then this tip will save you some time and frustration. Before I discovered this feature, I would adjust the margins, shrink the font and make other formatting changes to make my letters fit on one page. Thankfully, one of the more useful additions to Word 97 and Word 2000 is the ability to shrink a...

Microsoft Word Users: Learn to Turn Off the Squigg...

If you have ever used Microsoft Word, you are familiar with the little red and green squiggles that crop under your words. The red squiggle represents a misspelled word and the green arrow represents a grammatical error of some kind. The purpose of these lines are to call attention to your miscues. In my opinion, they break up the flow of your thoughts as you type. I prefer getting my thoughts on paper (or the screen) and...

Disable or Change Clippy

Who is ‘Clippy’? He’s the little paper clip guy that pops up in Microsoft Word, Excel or any other Microsoft Office program in their 97 and 2000 versions. In the computer world, he appears to be like the Dallas Cowboys…people either love him or hate him. If you are on the dislike side of the fence, follow this procedure to disable him once and for all: 1. RIGHT Click on Clippy 2. Click on Options...

Become an (Word) Artist

Microsoft programmers provided users of their products a fun little tool called WordArt. WordArt transforms your text into…well, works of art. If you use Microsoft Publisher, Word, PowerPoint, or even Excel and need to spruce up a document, learn to use WordArt. The headline on today’s tip is an example of WordArt. WordArt can be used as headlines in newsletters or headings for a chart in Excel and of course in...