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Access 2010: Change the Error Indicator Color

contributed by Lê Hoàng on February 4, 2012 under Microsoft Office

In Access 2010 if there are errors in your database object, the error indicator will appear in green. As the green color has a tendency to blend in with other elements, you may have trouble finding these errors. Luckily, you can change it. Continue reading to find out how.

Excel 2010: Change the number of sheets in a new workbook

contributed by Lê Hoàng on November 25, 2011 under Microsoft Excel

By default, when you create a new Excel workbook, the program will create three new sheets for you. If you usually work on only one sheet, the rest will be unnecessary. Or if you always have to work on a big workbook, then three sheets may be not enough and you have to manually create new sheet. For your convenience, you can change the program’s setting to make it include the number of sheets that you usually have to work on right at the start.

Outlook 2010: How to Set Up a Short Delay for All Messages You Send

contributed by Rob Rogers on November 23, 2011 under Microsoft Outlook

One of the benefits of email is that it’s quick, but sometimes this isn’t such a great thing if you hit Send and then remembered that you didn’t attach the intended files or include vital information. By setting up a short delay of only a few minutes, you will give yourself adequate time to catch these shortcomings prior to the message going out.

How do I set the default action when sending notes to OneNote 2010?

contributed by Lê Hoàng on November 22, 2011 under Microsoft Office

Every time when you send items like email messages, meeting notes, task notes from Outlook to OneNote, the program will ask you where you want to save them. If you always send each type of items to a particular notebook, then this feature may not be necessary. This tutorial will show you how to configure locations for each type of items when sending them from Outlook to OneNote.

OneNote 2010: Search audio and video for words

contributed by Lê Hoàng on November 19, 2011 under Microsoft Office, Windows

By default, OneNote does not allow you to search for words in audio or video notes. Therefore, it can be very time-consuming when you have many audio or video note files and you want to search for a specific one. Luckily, you can configure OneNote to enable this feature. Here is how to do it.

Access 2010: Set the default format for datasheets

contributed by Lê Hoàng on November 13, 2011 under Microsoft Office

If you usually use only one format for all of the datasheets in your Access 2010 databases, you can tweak the settings inside the program to make the datasheets appear in that exact format to save your time changing the formatting options each time a new datasheet is created. This tutorial will show you how.

Word 2010: Use both Portrait and Landscape orientation in one document

contributed by Lê Hoàng on November 9, 2011 under Microsoft Word

When creating a document, you may need to use both portrait and landscape orientation since document content does not always fit in one orientation. Here is how to use both of them in your document in Word 2010.

Office 2010: Embed fonts in documents

contributed by Lê Hoàng on October 29, 2011 under Microsoft Office

When you share your documents with others, there may be times that your documents’ texts will not display properly. This is because the font type in these document are not installed on the current machine. To prevent this problem from happening again, you can embed the font to the document. This tutorial will show you how to do it in Microsoft Office 2010.