Update your document's date automatically in Word 2000!
When creating a template or form letter that should always be
printed with the current date, insert the date as a field rather
than as text to avoid having to retype it with each printing.
Follow these steps:
1. Position your cursor where you want the date to appear in your
document or template.
2. Go to Insert | Date And Time.
3. From the Available Formats box, select the date and time format
you want to use.
4. Click the Update Automatically check box, and then click OK.
The date is inserted as a field. (To view the field code,
right-click the shaded area and click Toggle Field Codes.) Each
time you open or print your form letter, or create a new document
from the template, the current date will appear automatically.
To make the date permanent, before saving the document, select the
date and repeat Steps 2 through 4 above to clear the check mark
from the Update Automatically check box.
Conditional Formatting in Excel 2000!
Conditional formatting is one of Excel's better features. It
allows you to preset certain font styles, colors, and
cell-background colors based on cell values. This can be very
useful for highlighting important information and values outside
an accepted range or providing a visual cue to associate value
ranges with color codes.
The best part is that conditional formatting is very easy to set
up. Just click the cells you'd like to format and select Format |
Conditional Formatting. The Conditional Formatting dialog box lets
you set up the conditions by which the formatting of the cell will
occur. You pick the operator (between, equal to, less than, etc.)
and the value or range of values. Click Format to open the Format
Cells dialog box, where you can select the colors and styles to be
used.
Each cell can have several conditional formats. For example, you
might say that if a certain cell's value is between 20 and 50, the
text should be blue on a yellow background. But you can format
that same cell to exhibit red, bolded text on a green background
if it contains a value between 51 and 100.
A PowerPoint Intermission Animation (2000)
When you're presenting a PowerPoint slide show, you might want to
use an animated slide during the intermission period. You can set
this up to run continuously until you start the next part of the
show.
As an example, suppose you create a slide that contains only the
title of your presentation using WordArt (choose
Insert/Picture/WordArt). With the WordArt in place, right click it
and choose Custom Animation. Click the WordArt object to select
it. Next click the arrow at the right side of the "Entry animation
and sound" list box and select Swivel from the list. Now click the
Order & Timing tab and select the "Automatically" radio button.
Leave the timing at the default of 00:00 and click OK to close the
dialog box and apply the settings. Click Slide Show/Set Up Show.
When the dialog box opens, select the "Loop continuously until
Esc'"check box and click OK to close the dialog box. Next choose
Slide Show/Slide Transition and select the "Automatically after"
check box. Set the time to two seconds and click Apply to close
the dialog box and save your new selections. Now press F5 to view
the animated slide.
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