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It’s a melodramatic subtitle, we’ll grant you, but it’s the only explanation for why Microsoft Word on the Mac has only recently added support for right-to-left languages. If you want to change the text direction from right-to-left to left-to-right in older versions of Word on an Apple computer, you’ll need to cheat using this workaround. As I mentioned in the beginning of this article, Microsoft Word can compare the documents, so you won’t have to do it yourself. Follow these steps: Open the two documents. Make sure you’re on the Review tab. Click Compare. The Microsoft Word Compare Documents dialog opens. Select the Original document by browsing your hard drive.
Office 2011 for Mac is going to be released in a couple of days, and we got our hands on the latest version already. Here’s a quick tour of some of the new features in the latest version of Office.
This new release brings many features from Office for Windows that have been missing or have not worked the same—for instance, Office now includes the Ribbon interface, and replaces Entourage with Outlook.
Mac Office Integrates the Ribbon
Microsoft has brought the Ribbon UI to the Mac and has done it in a way they think Mac users will appreciate—they have taken their research of user’s experiences and grouped the most used tools together to allow for a better experience when working with your documents.
You’ll notice that they did a really good job of combining the Ribbon with a more Mac-like feel. Here’s part of the Ribbon for Microsoft Outlook, which has all the most common tools on the toolbar.
Here’s the full Ribbon for Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Outlook—click through to show the full-sized view for each one.
You’ll also notice that the “Save As” key command of Command + Shift + S has been brought back to the suite, allowing cross-platform users to have the ease of use they may have missed in Office for Mac 2008.
Collaboration Tools without a Plugin
Office:mac 2008 did have the ability to share your documents though the plugin that was available, but now you can use your companies SharePoint servers or share your documents with others using Microsoft’s SkyDrive.
To save to your SkyDrive, you will enter your live account information.
And choose the location for the file to be stored.
Now you can view the file just like any other Office Web App document.
Word 2011 Is a More Fluid Experience
If you are using Office, more than likely you will use Word. The popular word processing application has some noticeable enhancements, the most noticeable of which is the quickness of launching the app—compared to Word 2008, the new version opens in a snap.
The Ribbon adds a more familiar experience.
Excel 2011 Has Sparklines
One of the features to find its way to Excel is Sparklines, which let you graphically show off data within a cell.
PowerPoint 2011 Has a Rearrange Tool
A cool new feature in PowerPoint is the full screen layer rearrange tool. The tool also has the option to view only those images that overlap.
Outlook Finally Comes to the Mac
Exchange users have reason to be excited, since they no longer have to use Entourage. This Outlook version has most of the same features that the PC version has, including Rules, Calendar, Contacts, and support for Microsoft Exchange.
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Conclusion
With Office:mac 2011 due to be release later in October, the Mac Business Unit of Microsoft boasts their best version of the popular productivity suite. With just a taste of the new features shown here, the new version will be a great tool for Mac users who appreciate the MBU’s outlook on making Office:mac a more OS X aimed experience.
Creating tables in Microsoft Word used to be so annoying that most people just did it in Excel, then imported it into Word. It's worth giving Word 2013's table tools a try, though, because the process is easier, and there are some new graphical options.
Seven ways to create tables
Microsoft now provides five different methods for creating tables: the Graphic Grid, Insert Table, Draw Table, insert a new or existing Excel Spreadsheet table, and Quick Tables, plus an option for converting existing text into a table. To start, open a blank Word document from the Home/New page. Position your cursor in the document where you want the table inserted.
Graphic Grid/Select Table from Graph
Under the Insert tab, click the Table button. The Insert Table dialog box will open, showing a basic grid pattern as well as traditional menu options below it. Place your cursor on the first cell in the grid and slide it down and over until you highlight (for this example) four columns and five rows, then click once.
Notice that once the table is created, a new option called Table Tools appears on the Ribbon bar with two new tabs: Design and Layout. See the Layout and Design section below for details regarding these options.
Insert Table
Click Insert > Tables > Insert Table from the dropdown menu. In the Insert Table dialog box, enter the number of columns and rows you want in this table (four columns and five rows). In the AutoFit Behavior panel, select Auto, or click the down arrow to choose a specific size. You can also choose AutoFit to Contents (produces narrow columns that expand as you add data) or AutoFit to Window (expands the table to fit the document size). Check the Remember Dimensions for New Tables box if you want the sizes you’re entering now to become your defaults for future tables.
Draw Table
Click Insert> Tables > Draw Table. The cursor turns into a pencil, which you drag down and across to draw a box. Don’t worry about the exact dimensions; you can modify it any time.
Once the box is created, position the cursor inside the box and draw lines over and down for the columns and rows (one at a time). Don’t worry about crooked lines, either—Word straightens them as you draw.
To add or remove columns and/or rows later, click anywhere inside the table, then select the Design tab under Table Tools. Click the Draw Table button to add or continue drawing lines with your pencil cursor, or click the Eraser Geka 55a manual. button to remove lines with the eraser cursor. To remove a line, just touch the line with the eraser cursor, and the line disappears.
Excel Spreadsheet (create In Word)
Click Insert > Tables > Excel Spreadsheet. An Excel spreadsheet inserts at your cursor location. You can continue using Excel and its menus and commands, but after you enter your data it converts to a non-editable graphic.
If you want to add, delete, or modify the spreadsheet, right-click anywhere inside the worksheet graphic, select Worksheet Object from the dropdown menu, then click Edit. The original spreadsheet reappears for editing. Notice the top menu has changed to an Excel menu for edits.
Also from the Worksheet Object dropdown menu, you can click Open to open the spreadsheet in Excel, so you can manipulate it in that program. Or click Convert to view a Windows dialog box that lists file-conversion options.
Huawei e1550 firmware update 11.608 download. Excel Spreadsheet (copy and paste existing worksheet)
In the old days, Excel spreadsheets had to be imported into Word. Now you can just copy and paste. Open Excel, highlight the spreadsheet, and copy it. Then open Word, position your cursor at the desired location, and select Paste > Keep Source Formatting.
The other options on the Paste dialog menu are Merge Formatting, which changes the text format to match the file into which you pasted the spreadsheet, and Keep Text Only, which pastes the text without the Excel grid, meaning you will likely have to realign your columns with tabs.
Quick Tables
Quick Tables are Word’s table templates. In addition to the nine templates provided, you can create your own designs and save them to the Quick Tables Gallery to use later. Click Insert > Tables > Quick Tables. Select a table template from the Quick Tables menu, then modify it to fit your project.
Convert Text to Table
The table tools can also make lists a lot easier to customize and even reorganize later. For our example, we'll turn a classic contact list into a table, using a list of names—first, middle, last—plus the city, state, region, and profession of each person on the list.
For eons, people have used tabs to separate the fields, adding a tab or two to accommodate longer strings of data. But if you do this, when you convert the table to text, it misplaces all the data.
With the Convert Text to Table feature, you can separate the fields (Name, City, State, etc.) with paragraphs, tabs, commas, or other separator character, but use only one separator between each field.
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