MS Office Tips & Tricks

If you ever have a serious error with Office 2003, there is a backup of the work that appears in the Recovery Pane when the application stats up again. You can choose to delete or save the files so that you can spend more time on creating documents, not recreating them.

Macros are automated programs embeded in Office documents that are designed to speed up your work. They can be included within commands like AutoExec which will make them run as soon as an application is launched.

Although very useful, it is sometimes desireable to switch this function off.

To load an Office document with its macros disabled, press and hold the Shift key while the document loads.

Instead of closing or saving all your files one by one, you can do this in one step by holding the Shift key whilst clicking on the File menu.

You will then see a Close All and Save All option in the menu.