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Use Word to type on your printed forms without a typewriter

There's no need to manually scrawl your way through a paper form. Convert it to an online image you can fill out using Word. Read more

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Office poll: Are you comfortable using PowerPoint to deliver presentations?

Take part in this week's poll on PowerPoint: Rate your comfort level using PowerPoint to create and deliver presentations. Read more

Don't mark Outlook messages as read

Ordinarily, Outlook marks a message as read when you view it in the Reading Pane. If you'd rather retain the unread status, you can configure Outlook so it won't mark a message as read until you actually open it. Read more

Use Excel's Text to Speech feature to do your proofreading

No time to proofread? Get Excel to do it while you enter data. Read more

Office challenge: Why can't I add comments to this document?

In this week's challenge, test your expertise on Word's comments feature and discover the solution to last week's challenge on Outlook contacts. Read more

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