If you want to keep up to date on how much progress you have made on a project, follow these steps to track your progress using Microsoft Project 2007:

1. Click on View
2. Select Gantt Chart
3. This will open up the Gantt Chart view
4. Then click on Tools and go down to Tracking
5. Select Update Project
6. This opens up the Update Project dialog box
7. Make sure the Update work as complete through option is checked
8. In the date box, select the date you want to start tracking your tasks
9. Click OK

 
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Shortcut keys can save you a lot of time in Microsoft Excel; instead of going through all the settings you can just press a few buttons. Here are 10 useful command shortcut keys. 
 
Ctrl + A – Select all contents on the worksheet

Ctrl + B – Bold highlighted selection

Ctrl + I – Italic highlighted selection

Ctrl + K – Insert Link

Ctrl + U – Underline highlighted selection

Ctrl + 5 – Strikethrough highlighted selection

Ctrl + P – Open print dialog box

Ctrl + Z – Undo last action

Ctrl + F9 – Minimize current window

Ctrl + F10 – Maximize current window
 
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If you want to add animations to your PowerPoint presentation in 2007, then just follow these simple steps:

 
1. Click on the object you want to animate i.e. Text or Picture
2. Click on the Animation tab on the Ribbon
3. Click on the Custom Animations Button
4. This opens up the Custom Animations Dialog Box
5. Choose the Animation you want
6. It will automatically set it
7. Click on Remove if you want to delete the animation

 
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Have you ever recieved an email with really small writing? Microsoft Outlook 2007 can increase and decrease the size of the emails font so you can read them more easily. There are two ways of doing it:

 
1. Open up the email you want to read
2. Hold down CTRL while turning the scroll wheel on your mouse Up to increase font size or scroll Down to decrease the font size
3. Or you can click on Other Actions on the Ribbon and select Zoom
4. This opens up the page size dialog box
5. You can then Increase or Decrease the email size by a small amount
6. Click OK

 
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