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Show or hide scroll bars in Word

October 10, 2015 By Ravi Shankar 5 Comments

In this tutorial we are going to see how to show or hide scrollbars in Word 2016, 2013 & 2010. Microsoft Word users can use the settings available as Word Options to show or hide vertical and horizontal bars.

Display Settings – Horizontal and Vertical Scroll bars

Click the File menu –> Options, this would display the Word Options window.

In the Word Options window, click Advanced tab and scroll down to Display section. Now you can show or hide scroll bars using the check boxes with label as “Show horizontal scroll bar” and “Show vertical scroll bar”. After making changes to the required check boxes, click OK button to confirm and save the changes.

Turn off display of hyperlinks in Outlook 2013 & Outlook 2010 messages

September 18, 2015 By Ravi Shankar Leave a Comment

Outlook 2013 & Outlook 2010 by default displays any Internet address as hyperlinks. This is pretty useful feature and by clicking the hyperlink would quickly launch the website. But if you want to disable this feature while reading as well as composing mail, then you turn off this feature using Editor Options.

Turn Off display of hyperlinks when reading messages

Click the File menu –> Options link then navigate to Mail Options.

Click the Editor Options button available under the Compose messages section. In the Editor Options window, click the AutoCorrect Options button available under the Proofing section.

In the AutoCorrect Window, navigate to Replace section under AutoFormat tab and un tick the check box with label as Internet and network paths with hyperlinks.

Turn Off display of hyperlinks when composing messages

In the AutoCorrect Window, navigate to Replace as you type section under AutoFormat as You Type and un tick the check box with label as Internet and network paths with hyperlinks.

Insert PDF file in to word document in Word 2013 & Word 2010

September 15, 2015 By Ravi Shankar Leave a Comment

This tutorial provides the instruction for inserting the content of PDF file in to a word document in Word 2013 & Word 2010. Please note that this feature in Word 2010 has limitation and will insert only the first page of the PDF file in to Word document.

Click the Insert menu in Word then navigate to Text section. Click the down arrow available for Object and select Object from the drop down list.

In the following Object dialog, navigate to Create from file tab.

Then click the browse button and select the PDF file that needs to be inserted and click the OK button.

This would insert the first page of the PDF document in to the Word document.

If you want a link to be created to PDF document then mark the check box with label as Link to file. Checking Display as icon would insert an icon with link to the PDF file a shown below.

Type fraction numbers in Word 2013 & Word 2010

June 13, 2015 By Ravi Shankar Leave a Comment

If you are preparing any word document that requires you to type fraction numbers then you can use the Insert Equation feature available in Word 2013 and Word 2010. Let us say you want to type the fraction numbers 3/15 + 8/15 = ? then you can do the following Word 2013 or Word 2010

Click the Insert menu and navigate to Symbols section.

Then click the Equation option available under the Symbols section. This should insert the Equation place holder in the document as shown below.

Now type the fraction number in the Equation text box and press Enter. This would display the fraction number in the default format.

If you want to change the fraction format or any complex fraction needs to be entered then you can use the Fraction option available under the Structures section.

How to hide date and time when viewing notes in Outlook

October 12, 2014 By Ravi Shankar Leave a Comment

Microsoft Outlook notes displays the date and time at the bottom of the note. And outlook also provides option for displaying as well as hiding the date and time information.

Listed below are the steps to turn of display of date and time when viewing notes in Outlook 2013, Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2007.

Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2010

To turn off the display of date time in Outlook 2013, Outlook 2010 notes, Click on the File menu –> Options. Navigate to Notes and Journal tab and under Notes options

un tick the check box Show date and time that the Note was last modified. Click Ok to save this change. Now the notes will be displayed with out the last modified date and time as shown below.

Disable display of date and time in Outlook 2007 notes

In Outlook 2007, this option is available under Tools –> Options –> Other tab –> Advanced Options.

In Advanced Options window under Appearance options, a check box “When viewing Notes, show time and date” is available. By selecting this checkbox, the time and date will be displayed when viewing notes.

If the checkbox is unselected then time and date information will not be displayed when viewing the notes

Also See: How to change notes colour, size and font in Outlook

How to display email size in Yahoo Mail account

March 31, 2011 By Ravi Shankar 5 Comments

Yahoo Mail account provides option for the users to display the size of an email. By default if your Yahoo Mail does not display this column then you can use the options link to change this behaviour.

On the right hand side of the Yahoo Mail account, click the drop down arrow available next to Options link

Select Show from the list of available menus and then followed by Selecting Size Column.

Now the email list would include a new column which displays the size of each email as shown below.

How to unhide menu bar in Safari

March 21, 2011 By Ravi Shankar 11 Comments

The Safari browser has a menu bar with menus such as File, Edit, View, History, Bookmarks etc.. and it is available on the top of the browser as shown below.

But if your Safari browser does not display the Menus then you can un hide menu bar using the Safari General Settings menu option.

Click on the General Settings menu available at the top right hand side of the browser. From the list of displayed menu, select the menu with label as Show Menu bar.

This would display the Menu bar at the top of the Safari browser.

How to change the number email messages displayed in Yahoo mail

August 10, 2010 By Ravi Shankar 8 Comments

The number of email messages displayed per page in a Yahoo email can be changed using the Mail Options. Click on the Options link available on the top of the right hand side. Select Mail Options from the menu list.

In the General Page, using the Messages/results per page field you can increase or decrease the number of email messages displayed per page.

The list of available values are

After selecting the required value, click on the Save Changes link available on Top of the General section. By this way you can change the display of email messages per page in Yahoo Mail.