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Since disabling comments on this site, I'm actually hearing from more of you with questions ... so, as it seems people prefer to email rather than comment, I'm going to leave comments disabled. As always, you can ask me any Office-related questions you have. If the question is outside of my expertise, I'll try to direct you to where you can get an answer.

Hi, all! I am so busy with work right now, it's downright silly :) So, I thought I'd do a quick post to let you know what tip topics I'm planning to post next and when you can expect to see them. These are based upon recent request from readers. Please feel free to add to this list by posting a comment to request a tip... particularly if you requested something that I've not responded to.

1 - My next technical post will be on advanced tips for generating reference tables that fall under the Index and Tables features in Word 2003 -- particularly creating an Index. This post is overdue, as it was requested weeks ago, while my site was going through transition. I will get a substantitive post about this up by the end of the coming week.

2 - Recently, I started working on a macro as a workaround for law firms to use to compensate for limitations in the table of authorities feature. Specifically -- that will enable custom category headings to be saved across workstations when multiple users are editing the same document. I haven't had time to go back to it in a bit -- but hope to do that soon and will post the code when it's ready. Please give me a couple of weeks on this one.

3 -- A reader who watched a recent Excel webcast asked for steps for a few of the advanced tips I demonstrated (such as customizing the number format of axis labels or dragging data points to actually change data). You can always review a previously recorded webcast to watch a tip again and get the steps. I won't promise to step out all of the tips in my Excel webcasts because that would be redundant to a lot of good content already available on the Web that I've previously provided links to. However, I think it is a good idea to have some of this in written steps consolidated in one place, so that will come next after those topics above.

After that, I will start posting some Office 2007 tips -- but happy to break into that to answer questions and post info on topics for which you can't find help. So, let me know.

Meanwhile - thanks for your patience - and happy Sunday! :)