IT Manager at Barriston LLP, a Barrie, Bracebridge and Cookstown Ontario, 30 lawyer Law Firm; paleo/primal and fitness enthusiast; fair weather gardener who hates gloves; cold weather knitter.
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Uncertain about absolutely everything
Last week saw some early arrivals, this week they're taking over the garden. Not that I'm complaining.
Not my favourite iris, but it grows on me a little more each year.
Foggy posed a question in our Outlook Forums, asking about linking to a message in drafts. While it is possible to link to Outlook messages, it's less useful to link to a draft, as the draft disappears once it is sent, rendering the link dead.
I am **so** trying this tip - what a great idea! Click at the link above for the full instructions to creating a link to a reusable draft Outlook message.
UPDATE: I tested this out this morning on my Windows 7 workstation, with Outlook 2010 installed and it worked brilliantly! I now have a number of 'draft' saved to my desktop and pinned to my Outlook icon on the task bar. Just click and go.. and click and go... as many times as I like!
Well that sure was a marathon! I should have known that when I started this series – Word has **a lot** of Options (and not all of them are to be found in ‘Options’ – go figure!).
I thought it might be helpful to have a final post rounding up all the links from the Options series ‘Troubles and Solutions Start Here’, so here it is: (always best to start at the top)
I wasn't going to do this again this year, but who am I kidding? I love the garden and I grew to like taking pictures of it. This seems as good a place as any to chronicle the flowery progression.
Here's the promise:
And here's the delivery - spring blooms and a yard filled with the scent of Daphne and Viburnum
Back on April 3rd, I wrote about setting up Word 2010’s Copy and Paste option, showing how to set up the desired default paste option (retaining the ability to change paste actions when desired). These defaults apply to copying and pasting text in Word. But did you know that there are slightly different options available when pasting text from one cell of a table to another cell? No? I didn’t really know either, until I was asked a question about it and had to pay some attention to this Word feature. An assistant here at Barriston was working with a Word table, trying to move some text from one cell of a table to another (the cells were formatted differently) and even though she had her Paste Options set for the past action she wanted, cutting from one cell and pasting to another wasn’t giving her the results she was looking for. So she asked me to take a look at it.
When pasting copying text with a right-click, Word presents you with the available choices. Assuming you have all your options set to do so, hovering your mouse over each choice will cause Word to display how the paste will look for that choice.
The assistant was seeing this behaviour, but all she wanted was the default choice she had set, and that didn’t seem to be happening on pasting.
So we set to looking at it.
First, I noticed that she was working with her non-printing symbols turned off. So we turned ‘em on (and I know that I sound like a broken record here, but you should too: The Horror of bad formatting in Word (or: Why to keep your Non-Printing Symbols turned ON))
And we saw that when she selected the text in the table (using a click and drag to select), the selection did not include the end cell marker:
So the formatting in the cell was not included in the selection, because it’s in the end of cell marker (similar to the non-printing paragraph mark). And we needed that selected too.
There are two ways to get that end of cell marker included in the selection. One is to select the text and then, holding down the Shift key, using the cursor right key:
The other way (probably a bit easier), is to place the cursor in the far left side of the cell you’ll see it to into a black right-pointing arrow) and click. This will automatically select the entire cell:
Now on a right-click in the cell where you want to paste the contents of the copied cell, you’ll see a slightly different set of Paste options – Cell paste options. Hovering your mouse over each choice (again, assuming you have your options set properly), will display the results if that paste option is taken. Depending on what you want, one of those options will give you your desired results.
Go ahead and give it a try and see if this works a bit better for you when working inside a table.
Oh, and don’t bother looking to set a default here – I pored all over Word looking for these options – didn’t find a thing.
This pdf article goes way, way, beyond Tech (it includes tech ideas too), but it's so packed full of goodies that I wanted to pass it along for your reading and reflecting pleasure. Click on the image below to open the .PDFin your brower. Then save it and browse at your leisure - you're sure to find an idea, or 101 ideas, that tweak your fancy.
IT Manager at Barriston LLP, a Barrie, Bracebridge and Cookstown Ontario, 30 lawyer Law Firm; paleo/primal and fitness enthusiast; fair weather gardener who hates gloves; cold weather knitter.
smallcitylawfirmtech@gmail.com
IT Manager at Barriston LLP, a Barrie, Bracebridge and Cookstown Ontario, 30 lawyer Law Firm; paleo/primal and fitness enthusiast; fair weather gardener who hates gloves; cold weather knitter.
smallcitylawfirmtech@gmail.com
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