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Turn off auto replace of hyphens with dashes in Word 2010

December 14, 2011 By Ravi Shankar 1 Comment

AutoCorrect in Word 2010 has a feature which automatically converts two consecutive hyphens in em dash (__). For example when you have words connected with hyphens like June—December (with two hyphens) will be changed to June—December (with em dashes). This feature is by default enabled on Microsoft Word 2010.

Turn off hyphens with dash feature

Users can turn off the auto replacement of hyphens with dashes using the option available as part of AutoCorrect settings. Click the File menu –> Options link and navigate to Proofing Option screen then click the AutoCorrect Options button in the Proofing screen.

In the AutoCorrect window, click the AuoFormat As You Type tab and navigate to Replace as you type section.

Now unmark the check box with label as Hyphens (–) with dash (—) and click OK button to confirm and save the changes.

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How to turn off ordinals with superscript in Word 2010

December 12, 2011 By Ravi Shankar Leave a Comment

Microsoft Word 2010 has a feature that automatically replaces ordinals with superscript. But if you do not want this feature then you can turn off using the option provided as part of AutoCorrect settings.

Example of ordinals with superscript

1st displayed 1^st

2nd displayed as 2^nd

Disable ordinals with superscript

Click the File menu then options link. In the Word Options window, navigate to Proofing section and click the AutoCorrect Options button.

Click the AutoFormat As You Type tab in AutoCorrect window and navigate to Replace as you type section. Now to disable ordinals with superscript feature, un mark the check box with label as Ordinals (1st) with superscript and then click Ok button to confirm and save the changes.

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How to remove automatic hyperlink in Gmail Signature

December 12, 2011 By Ravi Shankar Leave a Comment

In Gmail, any websites addresses in signature are automatically converted in to hyperlinks. For example, if you have added signature with web address and when you do a compose new message, it will automatically display the web address as hyperlink.

There is no settings that is currently available in Gmail that would turn off these hyperlinks. But there is a work around which can be done for each individual email message.

Clicking the Compose Mail button would open a new compose mail window populated with signature. Now click the Pain Text option above the message text area to remove the hyperlink. In case if you plan to use other formatting option for writing the email then click the Rich formatting option. By this way you can manually remove the hyperlink from the web address in Gmail.

How to turn off hyperlinks in Keynote on Mac OS X Lion

October 30, 2011 By Ravi Shankar 1 Comment

This tutorial provides the steps to turn off the hyperlink feature in Keynote on Mac OS X Lion. Click the Keynote menu and select Preferences from the menu list.

In the Preferences window, click the Auto-Correction tab and un mark the check box with label as Automatically detect email and web addresses.

Now if you type in any email or web addresses, keynote will not display the hyperlink.

How to insert watermark in Word 2011 Mac

October 21, 2011 By Ravi Shankar Leave a Comment

It is always recommended to insert watermark in your confidential document and this article explains how to add watermark in Word 2011 for Mac.

Click the Layout menu and navigate to Page Background section.

Click the Watermark option to launch the Insert Watermark window.

If you want to add your company logo as Watermark then select Picture radio option then browse and select the the logo using the Select Picture button. Picture Watermark also provides Washout and Scale option.

If you want to add text as a Watermark for the document then select Text radio option and enter the watermark text. Text Watermark provides user with different options such as Font Style, Transparency and Orientation.

Insert slide number in Keynote on Mac OS X Lion

October 19, 2011 By Ravi Shankar Leave a Comment

In this short tutorial we will see how to insert slide number in Keynote on Mac OS X Lion system. Keynote users can insert slide number using the option available as part of the Slide menu.

Click the Slide menu and select Show Slide Number on All Slides. This would display the number at the bottom of the slide. And if you do not want to display the slide number then again click Slide menu and select Hide Slide Numbers on All Slides.

How to password protect workbook in Excel Mac 2011

September 29, 2011 By Ravi Shankar Leave a Comment

Excel for Mac 2011 users can password protect the workbook using the option provided as part of the File menu. Click the File menu and select Passwords from the displayed menu list.

This would display the following File Passwords window with different password option.

You can set a password for opening the excel workbook using the Password to open field. Similarly to set a password for modifying the content in the excel workbook, you can use the Password to modify. If you want to make the workbook as readonly then mark the check box labelled as Read-only recommended.

How to recover deleted folders in Outlook 2010

September 29, 2011 By Ravi Shankar 34 Comments

In this tutorial we will see how to recover a deleted folder in Outlook 2010. Let us take the following example to show recovery of deleted folders. Let us say you have deleted a folder named “resources” under Inbox by right clicking on the folder and select Delete Folder from the menu list.

Now to recover the deleted folder, navigate to Deleted Items folder under your email account and expand it. This would display the deleted folder “resources”along with the outlook items.

You can drag and drop the folder to your inbox and restore to place where it was before.

From the right click context menu, if you have selected Delete All menu option then it deletes only the outlook items inside the folder and leaves out the folder. To recover the deleted outlook items, navigate to Deleted Items folder and restore the individual items.

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