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Thursday, February 5, 2009

How to Create Your Own Keyboard Shortcuts keys in Word?

· How to Create Your Own Keyboard Shortcuts keys in Word?
Today tip will help you to create your own keyboard shortcuts keys in MS Word. Before reading this tip, may be you are using only the default shortcuts keys which are available in MS Word application. You can select any specific key combination that you want to use to perform a particular task.
If you are not an expert user then you can take many clicks and lot of menus navigations to perform a basic task. With shortcut keys, you can speed up your working pace without lifting your hands on the keys; otherwise require a conventional mouse to select menus and buttons options. You can create your own keyboard shortcuts for every word command. For example, if you are using Word Count feature constantly then you can assign any key combination like Alt+Z to run Word Count command.
Follow the given steps to create your own shortcuts keys for your favorite command:
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First click on Start button, go to Program then click on Microsoft Word to run the word page.

Now go to Tools menu and click on Customize option.

Here a small dialog box will appear with title Customize, now click on "Keyboard..." button.

Now again a small dialog box with title Customize Keyboard, the list of all the categories of commands with appear on the left side of the dialog box. You should click on the category that contains the command which you want to assign a shortcut keyboard.
Choose the command you want to assign a keyboard combination on the right side of the customize keyboard dialog box and then click the key you want to create shortcut.

Now click on Assign button to final the shortcuts key combination then close it.

In future whenever you type the keyboard combination, word will work according to that command you have assigned this shortcut.

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How to enable Autosave feature in MS Excel?
Microsoft Excel includes a powerful feature of saving your document automatically after some specified time intervals. By default, Excel automatically saves your current document after every ten minutes intervals but you can change this time. This Auto save feature save the data in the same file. However, AutoSave protects your data in the event that Excel unexpectedly quits. It is also good idea to create a backup of your files using any removable devices, because in this global network a computer can crash, a virus create problem, or a hard drive failure can wipe out everything
Follow the given steps to change default save time and enable auto backup feature:
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A small dialog box will open, here select the Save tab in the dialog box.
Now click the "Save AutoRecover info every" check box and enter the time in minutes under "Settings" area.

Here you have choice to modify the location of saving your document automatically under "AutoRecover save location" option.
Click the Ok button of dialog box to finish the process.


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How to configure speech recognition in Microsoft Office XP?
Microsoft Office XP has working with built-in speech recognition features. The main purpose of this feature to understand the speech and then coverts to text file. You can run this feature in any Office XP applications, for example Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Word.
Follow the give steps to install the speech recognition features in office XP:
First click on Start button, go to Control Panel then click on Add or Remove Programs.
Now find and select the "Microsoft Office XP Professional with FrontPage" option in Add or Remove Programs list, then click on Change button.
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Here select the option "Add or Remove Features" Change which features are installed or remove specific features", and click on Next button.

Here expand the "Office Shared Features"> Alternative User Input > Speech. Now click on Speech option and select "Run from My Computer" from menu and click on Update button to start installation process.

Now system will takes some time to install this feature.

After you have installed, open Microsoft Word > Tools > and click on Speech option.

Now click Next on welcome page.
If you are running it first time, then system will ask you for voice training, you can skip it but the voice training increase the chance of accuracy.

If the training is over, now try to speak "File" to open the File menu and check speech recognition feature has been working or not.

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