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Frequently Asked Questions - MacOS

• How do I use the OSU_Access or OSU_Secure wireless network in Forestry?

• Office: Is there an easy way to make sure I'm drawing a straight line in Powerpoint, or Word, or Excel using the Office drawing tools?

• Excel: How can I find the number of days, excluding weekends, between two dates?

• Microsoft Office: How do I change the default location to which files are saved in the Microsoft Office Suite?

• Office: Is there a way I can Save (or close) ALL documents I currently have open in an office application, like Word or Excel? I don't want to save them one at a time.

• Excel: After using AUTOFORMAT in EXCEL is it possible to turn this option off?

• Excel, Pivot Tables: As soon as I add a pivot table to an Excel worksheet, the XLS file size grows enormously. Is there anything I can do about this?

• Printing, Excel:How do I print more than one graph on a page?

• Where can I find the College of Forestry graphics that I can use on my web page?

• Excel/Word 97: I've created a chart in Excel and I'd like one part of the chart to be shaded in a different color to highlight differences in the data. What can I do?

• Microsoft Word: How do I make the paragraph symbols disappear when typing in Word?

• Excel: I've never used a spreadsheet before and would like to learn how to use Excel. Can you point me to a good beginner's tutorial?

• Excel: How do I get the Title bar back in Excel?

• Excel, error bars: I have time series of veg plot data collected by landscape parameters and I am interested in ploting the avarage and error bars in line graphs. I've found the error bars menu but I'm interested in having different error bars for each time period. Do you know of a way to do this?

• Excel: How do I wrap text in Excel?

• Word:I'd like some of my text on the page to be printed sideways (landscape) and some of my text to be normal (portrait). Is this possible?

• Excel, Pivot Tables, Charting: I've summarized my data using pivot tables. The pivot table has two columns, one is the date and the other is the temperature. When I graph the data, the dates are treated as ordinal values, and the periods for which I have no data do not show up in the graph: I would like to have the missing dates show up in the graph.

• Excel: I want a couple rows (or columns) to always stay visible in my window even when I scroll far down (or to the right). How do I do this?

• Excel 97: I'm doing an X-Y chart of some data calculated using an IF formula. In some cells I want the value to be zero or blank or nothing and then to have no point show up on the chart for that cell.

• MS Word: How do I create and use a document template in Word?

• Excel: Cell Referencing Formulas

• Excel: I want to copy data to another sheet. The original cells have formulas, but I want just the resulting values. How do I do this?

• Excel: Is there a way to have my spreadsheet print out "double-spaced?"

• Excel: I'm entering some data in Excel and my quadrant references, e.g. 5-20, look like dates, May 20, to Excel. How can I get Excel to treat these as text when I enter them?

• Excel: I am making a line graph. I have a column of data, that I want to be the labels for the x-axis data. (ie, a column of dates, that I want to be the labels, rather than 1,2,3...) How do I do this?

• Powerpoint: With the slide style I've chosen in Powerpoint all my fonts have a shadow effect. BUT, when I go into Format/Font and turn off the shadow effect my font is still shadowed. What's up?

• Excel: I have one file in Excel, and it won't let me insert a column because it claims there is data in the next column. Are you familiar with this? For some reason, it's just doing this in that file.

• Word: I've imported some text into my Word document and all the lines have returns at the end (so I have a bunch of one line paragraphs). Is there a good way to get rid of all the returns?

• Word: Excel: I'm editing a Word document that includes many charts from Excel. The document looks fine on the screen but when I print my charts appear in random order throughout the document. Not how I want it! Is there anything I can do?

• MS Word: Tables: Is there a way to center a table in Word rather than having it lined up at the left hand margin of the page?

• Excel: How do I get a linear regression line plotted in Excel?

• How do I automate formatting of cells in Excel using an if/then condition?

• Excel/Office 97: I'm using the trig functions in Excel but my answers aren't coming out right. Any idea what the problem is?

• Excel: Chart editing in Excel is a pain. I need to make data series specific edits but my data series are on top of each other and I can't click on the data series I want. What can I do?

• Excel: How do I write a formula that references a cell in another file/workbook?

• MS Word: Changing Tab Defaults How do I change the default tab stops in MS Word?

• Excel: What is the command to copy long parts of an Excel spreadsheet?

• MS Word: I saved my Word file as a Word document but it's opening as only text. What's the problem?

• Microsoft Word: How do I insert text in another column of a document with two columns or more?

• Word: Whenever I enter an e-mail address or Web page URL in my Word document Word automatically formats it and makes it a blue, underlined link. How can I stop this?

• Excel, print, chart: I chose the option to print my chart in Black & White. It did exactly that, one piece of my pie chart is black and all the others are white. How can I fix this?

• Printing, Excel: How do I print a spreadsheet landscape?

• MS Word: I underlined a word in a Microsoft Word document and whenever I print, it underlines the entire document. How do I fix it?

• Excel, data series: I've created a chart in Excel and now I want to add another series of data to the chart. What's the easiest way to add a data series?

• Word: I'd like to select a rectangular block of text rather than the usual selection of lines or partial lines. Can this be done in Word 97?

• Word: When I deal with tables in Word I'm never quite sure what's going to happen when I use the mouse to change the width of a column in my table. Are there any tips?

• Word 97: I would like to be able to open my Word document and begin editing at the point where I was when I saved the document.

• Word: Does Word have anything like Word Perfect's Reveal Codes feature?

• Macintosh How do I transfer files between my Macintosh hard drive and the Forest Service-Unix/IBM environment?

• Macintosh: I can't get my Macintosh to connect to the network. I can't see any of the network drives either.

• Macintosh: Is there any Macintosh help on the network?

• Mac: How do I find out the card id number on my Macintosh (ethernet address)? They say I need it to connect to the internet.

• How do you connect from a Mac to the user account space and software that is located on Myrica through NFS?

• Mac: How can I tell if a Macintosh is using Open Transport? How can I tell what version of Open Transport is being used?

• What is the forestry\webuser account used for?

• Mac: How do I determine a user's Macintosh internet name.

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