Word: Collapse All in the Navigation Pane

I like the Navigation Pane in Word 2010, but there is one problem: Word defaults to showing all of the headings expanded (meaning that it shows all heading levels), and if you have a lot of headings it makes it hard to find the right one. Shouldn't there be an easy way to collapse all the headings? And then also an easy way to expand them all?

Well, there is. Just right click on any topic and then choose Expand All or Collapse All.

Word: Dropped Capital

To create a big letter at the beginning of a paragraph (called a dropped capital), try this:

1. Click anywhere in the paragraph
2. Click the Insert tab on the Ribbon
3. Click the Drop Cap icon in the Text group

[Source Yahoo Answers]

HowTo: Conditional Formatting Emails in Outlook

If you gets lots of email, then this tip is for you. 

It would be nice to have emails that are color coded for specific categories. For example, emails that are only to you are one color and emails from some group distribution list are another color. Do accomplish this task, one can set up conditional formatting.

First, click on: View -> View Settings -> Conditional Formatting

Second, Add a new rule, which should be easy to figure out.

For all the details and screen shots, refer to this link.

[Source here]

Macro: Remove Spacing Between Table Cells

I received a document that had hundreds of tables, all with a nice 3D border. Then somebody said that the border looked ugly so I started writing a macro to change all the borders to something more plain. Changing the borders was simple, but the cells had space between them which resulted in a double border. Getting rid of this space was not so simple.

Finally, I found this little macro at the Egghead Cafe:

With Dialogs(wdDialogTableTableOptions)
   .AllowSpacing = 0
   .Execute
End With

A second method (that I did not try) is to use this:

Selection.Tables(1).Spacing = -1

The full macro follows:

PPT: Applying the Footer to All Slides

Sometimes you need to reapply the footer to all of your slides to get back missing page numbers and other footer-type information. To do this task:

1. Click on Insert -> Slide Number
2. Check the Footer box
3. Click Apply  to All

[Source Microsoft]