Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' Computer Select, back when CDs were new-fangled, and IBM's PC XT was wowing the crowds at Comdex. He spent more ...

Do you find yourself typing in the same familiar text into your business documents again and again? Whether it’s boilerplates, executive bios or directions to your store, two tools in Microsoft Word — ...

To change Straight Quotes to Smart Quotes in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook apps, follow these steps: To learn more about these steps, continue reading. First, launch a Microsoft Office ...

Autotext allows users to insert words, phrases, and whole paragraphs into the document without having to type them again and again. It is an important feature of MS Word for users who do a lot of ...

Q. I am using Outlook 2007. I don't want to create a signature for my e-mails because I don't want every e-mail to use a formal signature. What would be better is if I could quickly insert my name, ...

Managing uppercase and lowercase text in Word can be a challenge. Sometimes Word automatically tries to correct a word based on capitalization but makes the wrong assumption. Other times you might ...

It's an autocorrect option, you can disable the behavior there. Also, at least in 2000, when you right click on the cell one of the options is "remove hyperlink".