Thanks for joining me again. I've got some tips this week that I think you will enjoy. Isn't it amazing, there seems to be no end to the things you can do with Excel.

Happy Thanksgiving Day to my American subscribers on Thursday. In Canada, we celebrated Thanksgiving on October 11th. And I just learned that the first North American thanksgiving event occurred in Newfoundland (my home province) in 1578.

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To your success,
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Having trouble drawing a perfect circle or perfect square with AutoShapes?

Do you find it tricky to draw horizontal or vertical lines? Here are a few tricks that will help you create perfect AutoShapes.

• Hold down the Shift key to easily make lines vertical, horizontal, or angled in increments. Rectangles become squares and Ovals become perfect circles.
• Hold down the Ctrl key and the AutoShape is drawn from the inside out. Try it, you'll see what I mean.
• Holding the Alt key will ensure that the AutoShape is aligned with cell borders when moving or resizing the it. This is a great tip.

Here's a cool trick. Add comments to cells in your worksheet that display pictures rather than text. How many new uses could you find for this trick?

1. Right-click a cell and select Insert Comment for a new comment or Edit Comment for an existing comment.
2. Clear any text from the comment.
3. Click on the border of the comment, to select it.
4. From the Format menu select Comment
5. On the Colors and Lines tab, click the first drop-down arrow for Color.
6. Click Fill Effects
7. On the Picture tab, click Select Picture...
8. Locate and select the picture
9. Click Insert, click OK, click OK.

There are tens of millions of other Microsoft Excel users all over the world. The vast majority of them have a very limited knowledge of Excel's capabilities. My goal is to share this information with everyone I possibly can and help them to benefit from Excel's amazing capabilities.

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You have probably noticed that, in Windows Explorer, the way files and folders are displayed on your computer may not be the same as you've seen on other computers.

Often when I work on other people's computers, the files and folders are displayed as large icons. I prefer to see them in Details view because it gives me detailed information about my files, including name, type, size, and date modified. From the View menu, select Details.

Here are some of Explorer's other view options.

Windows XP...

• Thumbnails (this is great for viewing graphics in a folder)
• Icons (Large icon with just the filename)
• Tiles (Large icon with more detail info)
• List (Small icon with just the filename)
• Details (gives you the most info about the files and allows you to see more files on your screen)

• Large Icons
• Small icons
• List
• Details