Want Your Very Own Bullets?

Microsoft Word allows you to easily add bullets to any list of items. You can simply highlight the list of items and click on the Bullets button. You can select from several bullet types by clicking on the Format pulldown and selecting Bullets and Numbering. But did you know that you can create your own bullets from Clip Art or other graphics images. It's easy. Try this;

Click on the Format pulldown and select Bullets and Numbering
Click on one of the existing bullet types
Click the Customize button
Click the Picture button
Click the Import button
Browse to and select the picture or graphic you want to use
Your picture or graphic will now be added to the bullet selection list

Of course, due to bullet size limitations, some pictures or graphics will look better than others . The bullet size will change with the size of the font in use. Give it a try!

A Very Simple MS Word Trick

How do you draw a simple line across the page in Word? Hold down the underline key until the line is drawn? You're so old fashioned! Try this.

Place the cursor at the beginning of a new line
Push the hyphen key 3 times (-)
Hit the enter key

Cool, you now have a line across the page. Want more? Follow the directions above substituting these characters for the hyphen

underline (_) = thick black line
equals sign (=) = double line
asterisk (*) = dotted line
tilde (~) = wavy line
number symbol (#) = thick line with a smaller line above and below it

These functions work in Word 2000, 2002 and 2003. Now get to work creating some cool looking documents!

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Some users have asked if the default font used to read email in Outlook can be changed. The answer is yes, but....

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