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MLA, APA, Chicago — Microsoft Word formats bibliographies for you 

<p>Did you know that it's easy to create a bibliography based on common citation formats in Microsoft Word? A few months ago, we were asking students about how they write a research paper. Jon, a freshman at a local community college, had just completed a huge term paper that counted for a large percentage of his overall grade in a class. While describing how he wrote this paper, he told me he hated writing bibliographies because he couldn't remember the proper format for citing sources. Unaware that Word has a built-in solution to his problem, he had turned to an online alternative. When I told him about the citation generator in Word he said, "Word does what? Where's that at?" Check out my full blog post to learn how it's done.</p>
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Shrink to fit in Word 

<p>If your document is just a little bit longer than one page, how can you shrink it to fit? We've seen customer questions asking where this feature is in Word 2010. Answer: It's in the command well. And you can pluck it from there and add it to the ribbon.</p>
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True or false, IF provides the answer 

Today’s post is brought to you by Frederique Klitgaard. Frederique is a writer on Office.com It’s easy to understand why the IF function appears in the top 10 list of popular Excel functions. It’s a versatile function that can be used for all sorts of tasks. For example, this function can save you a lot
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Test yourself with paperless OneNote flashcards 

<p>Sure, school is only just slowly getting back in session. And yet, before you know it, one of your teachers will spring that first pop quiz on you. Memorization drills aren't exactly a ton of fun right after summer, but did you know that you can create quick and easy flashcards using the built-in outlining features in OneNote? Flashcards are a great way to test your knowledge when you're learning a foreign language, studying historical facts and dates, or when you need to learn and memorize anything else that can be tested in a question-and-answer format. Read my full blog post to learn how you can create and keep all of your flashcards in OneNote, where you can easily use, reorganize, or modify them.</p>
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You Asked: What the heck is Scroll Lock 

This week’s post is written by Amy Miller. Amy is a writer for Office.com. She’s written and edited content for Excel, Access, OneNote, and InfoPath. Imagine you’re working in a spreadsheet and you innocently press the arrow keys on your keyboard to move to another cell, but instead of moving to another cell, the entire
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Word of the week: Close (the header or footer, and get back to your document) 

<p>We get a lot of comments from people who have added a header or a footer and can't get back to the body of their document. You have a couple of options. You can double-click in the body of the document. You can also use the Close button. This works the same way in Word 2010 and Word 2007.Here's what it looks like: You can find more header and footer details in for Word 2010 in  Add or remove headers, footers, and page numbers. For Word 2007, see Insert headers and footers.</p>
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How PowerPoint font embedding and replacement can save your presentation 

<p>No doubt about it, fonts can add significant visual appeal to a presentation. As long as they make it onto the screen for your audience to see, that is. If you created your presentation on one computer, but deliver it from another (say, in a conference room), you could be stuck without the very fonts you were counting on, causing some possibly acute pre-show panic. But not to worry. Font embedding in PowerPoint could be the answer to this stealthy little issue. We'll show you how to do it, and also show you an easy way to remove and replace fonts while we're at it.  --Erik Jensen</p>
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Ready for widescreen? How to manage aspect ratios in PowerPoint (16:9 vs. 4:3) 

<p>Widescreen, with its 16:9 aspect ratio, is taking over video screens faster than Godzilla in a scale model city. And that's a good thing, with PowerPoint. As the name implies, widescreen brings wider, more beautiful images onto your TV and computer screens. So why does your PowerPoint presentation suddenly look terrible? Possibly because you copied slides that contain graphics between one presentation created in 16:9 and another created in 4:3. Here are five tips for moving slides and graphics between presentations that use the 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratios.... </p>