Have you ever encountered text that wouldn't change colour?
When you tried to delete it, Word just put a strike through it, but left the original text?

Your document had the Track Changes feature turned on.

Track Changes is a handy feature of Word, used for reviewing and editing a document. Once the document has been created, the author can turn on Track Changes before sending it to others for review. Track Changes will highlight each change made to the document, so the author can see exactly what the editor has entered, deleted, changed or reformatted on the document, and then choose to accept or reject each change. These changes will appear with an underline, a strike-through, a highlight or a different colour, depending on the settings.
To view a document normally, with all thee changes incorporated, just change the view to final, with the following steps:

1. Click the Review tab on the ribbon
2. Click the drop down box in the tracking section
3. Select [Final]

Now your document should appear normal to you, but will still keep track of the changes that have been made to it to date, and the future changes as well.

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Have you ever come across a cell or text within a cell in a spreadsheet that wouldn't change colour, regardless of how many times you clicked the paint bucket?

Your spreadsheet had Conditional Formatting applied.

Conditional Formatting tests selected cells for particular criteria, then reformats those cells according to the pre-set rule. This can be a handy tool if you wish to highlight all cells that have a certain value or are above or below a certain value.

To remove or change Conditional Formatting:

1. Go to the Home tab on your ribbon
2. In the Styles section, click Conditional Formatting
3. Select [Manage Styles] from the drop down list
You can then choose to edit or delete the rule to return your cells to normal.

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Have you ever wanted to play a slide show, then skip to slides
that aren’t part of the show without stopping the presentation?

The answer is a hyperlink

Hyperlinks to either hidden slides or a separate presentation can be a handy addition to any presentation. For example, you’re making a slide show for a meeting, but one of your presenters is running late and you don’t have time to re organise the slides to move their part of the presentation.

1. Save the slides for the late comer as a separate presentation
2. In the primary presentation, insert an invisible hyperlink to the new presentation

When the slide show is being presented, you can skip to the alternative presentation any time by clicking the hyperlink, then return to the same slide you were up to in the primary presentation once your late comer has finished presenting.

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Have you ever wished outlook would automatically forward certain emails on to another recipient, based on what the
e-mail is about?

You need to set up a mail rule

Mail Rules in Outlook can cut the amount of e-mail you need to
sift through, by forwarding, deleting, filing or printing your emails based on predefined criteria.

Perhaps you’ve recently changed roles and all e-mails pertaining to a certain account need to be addressed by someone else.

To automatically forward received e-mails that contain key words

1. From the Menu bar, select [Tools], then [Rules and Alerts]
2. Select [New Rule]
3. Follow the on-screen prompts to create your rule, whether
it’s to forward, print, file, delete, or mark as read.

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