June
2004 Tidbits
- Display text vertically in a cell (MS Excel)
- Is that really an email from Microsoft? Be careful!
- Librarian and Information Science News (LISNews blog)
- Adieu
Display text vertically in a cell (MS Excel)
This is for all of you Excel geeks who actually have time to make a worksheet look nice as opposed to just functional.
Some table layouts might benefit from having captions displayed vertically, especially if you have one row label caption that could apply to several adjacent rows. This could save you room if you're having difficulty fitting your table on one printed page. To display text vertically in a cell, follow these steps:
- select the appropriate cell
- select FORMAT > CELLS from the menu bar
- select the ALIGNMENT tab
- click on the preview text box on the left side of the ORIENTATION panel
- click OK
You may need to merge some cells together to have the text span across them and display correctly. Here's how to merge cells:
- select the cells you would like to merge
- click on the MERGE
AND CENTER button
on
the Formatting Toolbar
You can then go to FORMAT > CELLS to change how the text is aligned within your newly merged cells.
Here is a very crude example of how vertical text in merged cells would look:
Is that really an email from Microsoft? Be careful!
From Element K Journals:
"In recent months, hackers have been using fake emails saying they're from Microsoft. These emails warn the recipients that their computers are at risk by some terrible security problem and urge them to download a file to fix it. Of course, this file is a virus or some sort of malicious code, and before the unsuspecting recipients know it, they've been infected. Microsoft has released a guide to verifying if a Microsoft security-related message is legitimate at www.microsoft.com/security/antivirus/authenticate_mail.asp. If you've gotten these messages before, it's a good idea to check out this guide so you're better able to judge the validity of any email message from Microsoft."
Librarian and Information Science News (LISNews blog)
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Adieu
Farewell until next time from the library system where all the computers are fast, all the books are worth reading, and all the librarians are above average!
This issue of Tidbits was written by Beth Carpenter, Web Services Manager for the Outagamie Waupaca Library System. Please send any comments or questions about this issue to Beth.
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