Follow these steps:

• Select the chart title.
• Click the Format tab under Chart Tools.
• In the WordArt Styles group, click Quick Styles and then select Gradient Fill, Accent 4, Reflection from the list.
• Click the Text Fill button and select Green.
• Click the Text Outline button.
• Point to Weight and click the 2-1/4 line.
• Click the Text Effects button.
• Click Full Reflection, 8 Pt. from the list.

In addition to the Text Fill, Text Outline, and Text Effects buttons, you can access more WordArt options by clicking the Word Art Styles button to launch the Format Text Effects dialog box.

Normally of course, I’m not supposed to be there listening or viewing their presentations, especially for such an important one, but somehow they usually treat me as their own and do not guard against me. Which of course makes me feel good on one hand, but feel kinda not that comfortable on the other hand. Did they know business espionage usually happens from insider or sorta insider job? Anyway, I’m cleaned, so no worries.

Why I’m mentioning this incident here is because while I was setting up the network, I overheard one of the managers claiming that he can’t see the figures on the screen and the others begin to concur with him. I raised my head and take a look at the screen and yeah, seriously, unless you put on a pair of binoculars, you really can’t see the figures.

They begin to adjust the monitor resolution, the projector resolution, the projector distance and this and that, until I tell them why not let me give it a try. They agree and step forward to the laptop, do a few mouse click and voila, the figures are enlarged and the figures clearly presented.

At least this incident helps them to lighten up a little.

Every one of the managers start to laugh and smack their head as to why they are wasting 15 minutes of their precious time fooling around the non-essentials. At least this incident helps them to lighten up a little. Without wasting much time, they asked me how I did it, and this is what I do:-

1. Select the range of cells you want to fill the window.
2. Click the drop-down arrow on the Zoom tool in the standard toolbar and click Selection. Excel will instantly resize and reposition the selection to fill the worksheet window.

To return to normal view, select 100% from the drop-down Zoom list. That’s it.

Tips On Using Microsoft Excel 2007 Zoom Feature To Enhance Your Presentation

I’m going to show you here how to create a typical header with the title “Invoice” in the center, your company’s logo at the left margin and the date inserted at the right margin. Just follow these steps below:-

1. Click the View tab and then click Page Layout in the Workbook Views group.
2. Click on the word Click to Add Header above row 1.
3. Type Invoice (for your title)
4. Click outside the box to the left of the title.
5. In Header & Footer Design Ribbon, click Picture in the Header & Footer Elements group.
6. Browse to the file containing your company’s logo, and then click Insert.
7. Click any cell in the worksheet.
8. Click on the logo.
9. In Header & Footer Tools Design Ribbon, select Format Picture in the Header & Footer Elements group.
10. Format your logo size and alignment as you like, then click OK
11. Click to the right of the worksheet title near the right margin.
12. Click Current Date in the Header & Footer Elements group of the Header & Footer Tools Design tab.
13. Click in any cell to exit the Header/Footer mode.

You can perform similar operations to create a footer for your worksheet. To access the footer area of your worksheet, click anywhere in the header, then click Go To Footer in the Navigation group of the Header & Footer Tools tab.

How To Create Custom Header For Excel 2007

I’m writing this because recently I’ve just blown one deal for multiple licenses of Adobe Acrobat, and though yes, I felt the pain in my heart when I do so, but the matter of fact is, if I don’t blow the deal, I will feel that I’m not doing my job well.

So what happen?

Actually, it’s just that this customer had asked me to quote them 5 licenses of Adobe Acrobat and when I presented them the quote, they were kinda shock at the price and was asking me for any other alternatives. So, I dived in further with them and in the end of the day, all they need is just to save their document into PDF formats so that they can email to their suppliers and/or their customers and that’s all.

They don’t need to edit the PDFs, they don’t need to add more pages or remove any pages from any PDFs, they don’t need annotating their PDFs and basically, they just don’t need Adobe Acrobat!!

Their operation is very simple and in their systems, they only have some basic software and Microsoft Office 2007, which they purchased from me. They just need to generate the PDFs from their Microsoft Office 2007 and that’s all.

I told the boss if that’s the case, why not sign up a maintenance contract with my company and in return, I’ll teach him how to produce these PDF files without spending a dollar on any software, and of course, legitimately. He agrees and the bet is on.

I show him how it was done, and he sign the contract with us

I show him how it was done, and he sign the contract with us

Actually, he had wanted to sign the contract with us already but just that he thought he need to purchase the Adobe Acrobat, the contract have to be postponed to a later date. When I managed to show him my trick, the money is saved and our contract is done. So, by helping him save the money and lost the deal for Adobe Acrobat licenses, I managed to make more for my company by having the contract signed. Not a bad deal after all.

So, how do I do it? Simple, just follow the steps below:-

• Open Microsoft Word 2007 (Microsoft Excel 2007 also can)
• Press F1 to go to Help and type PDF in the search box and press Enter
• Scroll to and click Enable Support For Other File Formats, Such As PDF And XPS.
• Under “What Do You Want To Do?” click Install And Use The Publish As PDF Or XPS Add-In From Microsoft.
• When the Web page displays, click Microsoft Save A PDF Or XPS Add-In For 2007 Microsoft Office Programs.
• Follow the instructions to download the add-in.

Of course, to do the above, your computer MUST be connected to the Internet.

Now, to save any documents as a PDF file, follow the steps below:-

• Open the document
• Click the Microsoft Office button, move to Save As, and click PDF Or XPS.
• Click the Options button to set Bookmarks, choose whether you want to save a part of the document or the entire document, and/or exclude document elements from the file. Click OK.
• Click the appropriate button for Standard or Minimize optimization.
• Click Publish.

You only need to download the support once and you can use this method for your Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 documents too.

Neat huh

For example, say you are creating a list of all of your company’s products and their prices. Follow these steps to add your own autonumbering for the list:

1. In A1, enter this formula: =TEXT(Row(A1),”000-000″)
2. Enter the name of the first product in B1.
3. Enter the price of the first product in C1.
4. Copy cell A1 to A2.
5. Enter the name of the second product in B2.
6. Enter the price of the second product in C2.
7. Select A1:C2.
8. Go to Data | List and select Create List. (In Excel 2007, press [Ctrl]T, then click OK.)

Now when you type the name of the next product in B3 and press [Tab], Excel will automatically fill in the next number for you.