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Address labels and more 

<p>Last week, we took a look at printing envelopes. But often people want to print labels--and then put the labels on envelopes, shipping boxes, CDs, file folders, jars of apricot jam, or whatever can be labeled.How you make your labels depends on what kind of label you want to make...</p>
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Crabby’s Monday tip: Change where the cursor moves after entering data in Excel 

<p>I tell you, I learn new things—sometimes even elementary things, that even typing monkeys already know—about Office programs every day and today I'm offering the newest one.  I'm going to make this short and sweet today. You can thank Kathy, a Crabby reader who posed this question: "In Excel, when I hit enter the cursor moves to the right, which is what I want (most of the time).  How can I change it to move down?" I just figured that there was a default setting and that the user couldn't change it. Boy was this old dog wrong. Time to learn a new trick...  </p>
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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