Category: Basics
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Rotate an Image
There are two ways to rotate an image: Fixed rotation: Use the Rotate option found in the Picture Format tab Arrange group. From the menu, you can choose to rotate the image 90 degrees to the left or right or to flip the image horizontally or vertically. Free rotation: Use the mouse to grab the…
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Cropping an Image in Word
You’re likely already familiar with the terms “crop” and “cropping” an image. It’s when you make an image smaller by eliminating content rather than sizing the image down. Like when you have to remove your cheating-scumbag ex from all your pictures or just because there’s too much space around the subject. See examples below. To…
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Resizing an Image in Word
As graphics programs go, Word is not among them. However, there are some basic adjustments you can perform within the program. For any major editing Illustrator, Photoshop, PowerPoint, or even MS Paint are better performers. Yeah, I said it, Paint. For this section, you will frequently use the Picture Format tab, which only appears when…
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Formula Basics, Sums
For the next week, I’ll be discussing common formulas and when to apply them focusing on the Sum feature. I chose this simple formula because the basics apply to most of the other common functions. If you simply want to see the end results of the formulas and learn how they work later, skip to…
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Remove a Placeholder
Today is a quick post. If there’s a Placeholder on a source slide you no longer want, click the placeholder and press Delete on your keyboard. Yep, it’s that simple. You can do this on a regular slide or in the Slide Master. If you delete while under the Slide Master you’ll change the layout.
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A Place for Your Stuff
If you don’t know about Layouts please go back and read the last post. As discussed, those little boxes with dashed outlines on each layout are called Placeholders. They can contain text, one picture per box, a chart, a video, a sound clip, and other objects. They are boxes designated for content and used on…
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Lord of the Slides
This month I’ll be covering the purpose of source slides known as the Slide Master. What is the Slide Master? Is it a view or a deck? In truth, both. It’s the information (fonts, colors, images, shapes, effects, backgrounds, footers, and more) that controls your layouts for all your slides in a given presentation. Say…
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Commenting in Comments – the Badness
Now that you’ve learned how to isolate reviewers so that you can skip through a specified user’s changes and comments, it may seem obvious why it’s bad to leave notes in someone else’s comments. In the example below, you’ll notice Laura (LB) has responded to my comment within the same bubble. If we were to…
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Changing View Options
As people make changes, such as deleting content, Word automatically strikes through the text and changes the color of the text. When a user changes the font options such as making something bold or italic, a balloon will appear at the right margin of the window. If markups such as these get to be too…
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