Posted by: abbascom | January 27, 2012

Creating Charts in Excel 2007

Charts are added in documents to explain the data information more comprehensively and clearly. Adding charts is Excel 2007 worksheet is quite easy and fun. Insert Ribbon provides the options to create chart using different styles. You can choose any style which is appropriately fit to the type of your data to make best presentation and understanding. If you change your data, your chart will be automatically updated accordingly.

Once you have created your chart data in Excel worksheet, you can quickly create your chart in few steps.

1.    Select the cells containing data you want to be charted.

2.    Click on the Insert tab to open Insert Ribbon bar with Chart options.

3.    Select your required chart type in the Charts group. It will automatically generate the chart for you.

4.    You are able to apply any style or design to your chart and edit it at any time you require. Clicking on the chart area displays all the available design tools for your selected chart, or you can go directly on the Design tab to change the look of your chart.

5.    Click on the title of chart to edit any title you want it to be.

By default, the series become the x-axis and elements become y-axis of the chart.  Design and Format tabs provide more tools to edit look of your chart.

Posted by: abbascom | January 15, 2012

Making the Desktop Icons Transparent

It is s fun trick that you can perform on your computer. It changes the interface of your computer screen when you set the icons transparent.

You can make your desktop icons transparent by following these steps:

  1. Click on Start menu button.
  2. Select Control Panel. (Set your option to display in Category View, for this click Switch to Category View on let top corner of window.)
  3. Select System to open System Properties window.
  4. Select Advanced tab.
  5. In Performance section, click Settings button.
  6. Here in Performance Options window, choose Visual Effects tab.
  7. Here in list, uncheck the option Use drop shades for icon labels on the Desktop.
  8. Click Apply and Ok buttons.
Posted by: abbascom | January 10, 2012

Changing Paper Size in MS Word 2007

MS Word 2007 documents settings are on letter-sized paper for printing by default. Though it is appropriate for most of the documents you print but not for all kind of documents. Your needs may differ for some specific purpose for which you can make a little changing in settings.

Follow the steps to change paper size in MS Word 2007:

  1. Activate the page for which you want to change the size of page.
  2. Click on the Page Layout menu.
  3. Click Size button arrow in Page Setup section. It shows the available sizes of page. That you can select for your page.
  4. You can also choose More Paper Sizes in the bottom of list or click on right corner arrow sign that opens Page Setup window if you don’t see your desired size in the list.
  5. In Page Setup window, select Paper tab.
  6. In Paper Size area, select the type of your document for which you want to change the paper size, i.e. Letter and customize any size in Width and Height text box.
  7. Click Ok button.
Posted by: abbascom | December 26, 2011

Printing Background Colors of Webpage

While printing a webpage, you may or may not be willing to print the background color and effects on your print page. Sometimes you need a blank colored text-only print but sometimes you need to take a print including all background effects. By default, Internet Explorer has the setting Print background colors and images disabled.

Though it saves your printing cost if you set this option disabled (it saves the printing ink and increases the speed of printing with stronger quality), but it may not be your choice every time you take print. You can change your default setting in accordance with your requirement.

To set the Internet Explorer print background colors every time, make the following changes in settings:

  1. Open Internet Explorer.
  2. Navigate through Tools menu to click Internet Options.
  3. Select Advanced tab.
  4. Scroll down to find out Printing option.
  5. Check the option Print background colors and images.
  6. Click Apply and Ok button.
Posted by: abbascom | December 25, 2011

Adding Sound File in MS Word Document

Almost all of us use MS Word in our daily work on computer to perform different tasks. Some of us are very expert for it and other may not be very skilled to use MS Word for all of its features. Like MS Word 2007, all versions of MS Word also offer to add audio sounds in the text documents. These sounds and audio files are very helpful to explain the points where written text is unable to explain.

You can add sound files to make your text document speak by following these simple steps:

  1. When you are in the document, put the cursor where you want to place the audio file.
  2. Choose Insert tab from menu.
  3. In Text section, click Object button.
  4. It opens the Object window. Select Create from File tab.
  5. Brows your desired sound file by clicking the Brows button.
  6. Click Ok button.

Sound file appears in your Word document with an icon of Speaker. You can edit or change this file anytime.

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