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If you’ve ever tried to organize a dropped stack of documents, you know the importance of chapter and page numbering. In this tip, Mary Ann Richardson tells how you can automatically add chapter numbering to your Word documents.

When working with tables in Word, your text may disappear, but it’s not gone forever. Mary Ann Richardson teaches you how to get around this irritating feature by recovering disappearing table text.

Mary Ann Richardson explains that when concatenating date and text cell data in an Excel formula, you need to convert date cells to text to avoid unexpected results.

Easily convert your Access information to a server-ready Web page using Data Access Pages and the page wizard. Mary Ann Richardson walks you through the process.

Your Excel spreadsheet may look great onscreen, but when you go to print it, headers and footers may be a problem. Mary Ann Richardson explains how to increase margins and include all your data, while maintaining your document’s pertinent information.

Gray lines are going to clear up! If you use footnotes in your Word documents, you aren’t confined to the same old gray separator line. Here’s how to change the color and thickness to something more your style.

You can link your documents together—hyperlink, that is. Mary Ann Richardson explains how you can create hyperlinks to refer your readers back to information in different Word documents.

Don’t have access to Access? You can use Excel to open the database you want, using the MS Query Wizard. Here’s how to multitask using Office’s versatile spreadsheet program.

Why re-invent the wheel? Here’s a way to make consistent Access reports from similar data, while allowing your users to set their own data parameters.

If you’re combining pictures or graphics in Microsoft Word, you don’t want the effect to be jarring. In this tip, learn how to blend objects into backgrounds while maintaining the integrity of the original design.

Maintaining bullet formats can be tricky—especially when more than one person handles the same document. In this Word tip, Mary Ann Richardson explains how to adjust the bullet indents to a consistent document style.

Brighten it up! You can adjust the color and spacing of your data markers to organize and codify your Excel charts. This explanation will show you easily you can make the data easy on the eyes, too.