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MS Word music hack: Automatic sharps, flats, and naturals (Updated 2019)

Nov 5, 2019

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Ten years ago in 2009 I wrote a blog post about how to set up auto-complete sharp, flat, and natural symbols in Microsoft Word 2007 running on Windows Vista. Here’s an update for Word 2016 on Windows 10. Thanks to Ariel Detwiler for calling my attention to the need for an update. How it will …
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MS Excel music hack: Sort musical instruments by score order

Oct 22, 2009

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For today’s Stupid Microsoft Office Trick, we will be teaching Excel how to sort musical instruments into score order. This has lots of uses for musicians and music educators: Inventories of instruments, sheet music, CD’s, you name it Rosters of students, orchestra members, sub lists, and so forth For example, suppose I have a list …
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MS Word music hack: Automatic sharps, flats, and naturals

Feb 22, 2009

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in Musicianship

[This is an old version. Check out my newer post for instructions for Word 2016.] Here’s how to set up Microsoft Word to automatically insert sharp, flat, and natural signs for you. Instructions are for Word 2007 running on Windows Vista, and may need to be adapted slightly for your setup.
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