Q I’m beginning to handle international business, which means I need to be able to use foreign currency symbols in both Word and Excel. How do I create a shortcut for various symbols? In Excel, it’s a ...

Although it may not be entirely obvious, Microsoft Word offers quite an extensive library of symbols (such as copyright signs and fractions) and special characters (such as the em dash and the ...

Replacing all instances of a symbol with another symbol in a Word document sounds like it would be a straightforward task; unfortunately, it's not. Here's a quick way to work around the glitch that ...

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This week's Boot Camp was prompted by an unusually large number of letters and emails to the Faqs! facts! fax! techno-trauma column. They were in response to a series of questions and answers about ...