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Contents
- 5 Essential Microsoft Office 2010 Tips for Everyone
- Use Office's Supercharged, High-Capacity Clipboard
- Open Recently-used Files With Two Keystrokes
- Do Everything With the Keyboard
- Customize the Ribbon
- Open Documents that Office Wants to Block
Love it or hate it, Microsoft Office is here to stay. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and even now Outlook, have become de facto software across most industries, as well as in education, government, and non-profit organizations, too. The problem with software that becomes a standard is that many people learn only what they need to know to get by day to day. When it's time to expand their skill set and savvy, they find workarounds using tricks they already know.
Even if you're self-taught, becoming more proficient takes requires that you know the right terminology (you can't search for "tricks with macros" if you don't know what a macro is) or have someone nearby to show you, whether a friend, co-worker, or instructor. There are certain tricks that could potentially save you hundreds of hours of trouble-shooting or crafting new workarounds, that you'll just never come across unless someone points them out to you. If you've ever wasted time trying to open a document that was created with an older version of Word ("I thought this software was backward-compatible!"), you know exactly what I mean.
The five tips we've collected here aim to introduce you to some essential tricks that you can do in any program that's part of Microsoft Office. From learning about keyboard shortcuts to understanding "the ribbon," to opening up documents that were created in prior versions of Word or Excel, these five functions are the kind of things that, once you learn them, you'll find come in handy often. You can either read our tips in the slideshow below or page through them in the Table of Contents.—Next: Use Office's Supercharged, High-Capacity Clipboard >
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• 10 Essential Microsoft Excel 2010 Tips for Beginners
• 14 Essential Microsoft Outlook 2010 Tips for Beginners
• 14 Essential Microsoft Excel 2010 Tips for Intermediate Users
• 10 Essential Microsoft Word 2010 Tips for Advanced Users
• 5 Essential Microsoft Excel 2010 Tips for Advanced Users
• 8 Essential Microsoft Outlook 2010 Tips for Intermediate and Advanced Users
• 9 Essential Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 Tips
• 10 Essential Microsoft Access 2010 Tips for Beginners