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Monday, August 29th, 2011MS Excel: Sort Direction Choices
Sunday, August 28th, 2011Is your Excel data set up “backwards” for the purposes of sorting? Don’t transpose your data – take charge and make Excel change its sorting direction to meet your needs. Continue reading
MS Office: Customize Your Hyperlink Screen Tips
Thursday, August 25th, 2011If you’re going to see a screen tip when you hover over the link, then it might as well be something more useful than the old “Click to follow link”! Learn how to customize your hyperlink screen tips here. Continue reading
OpenOffice.org: Import and Export GoogleDocs
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011Here’s an OpenOffice.org extension you can use to import and export GoogleDocs, Zoho and WebDAV files right from inside your OpenOffice.org program suite! Continue reading
MS Word: Misspellings – Right Click to Fix Without the Click
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011Learn to “right-click” correct your spelling errors in Microsoft Word without running the Spell Check or using your mouse! Continue reading
MS Excel: Change a Chart’s Location
Monday, August 22nd, 2011Unknown to many, once a chart has been created it is not locked into that location. Learn what your options are and how to make a chart move locations here. Continue reading
OpenOffice.org Impress: Design Your Presentation Handouts
Friday, August 19th, 2011Handouts are often a necessary element of a presentation… keep your audience from frantically copying everything on each slide with handouts designed to meet your specific needs. Continue reading
MS Office: Switch SmartArt Layouts Without Starting Over
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011Let MS Office transfer SmartArt information from one layout to another. Continue reading
OpenOffice.org Writer: Exceptions to AutoCorrect Rules
Tuesday, August 16th, 2011Learn to add exceptions to OpenOffice.org Writer’s AutoCorrect settings for abbreviations and two capital letter words. Continue reading
MS Word: Creating an Index for Your Document
Monday, August 15th, 2011Learn to create an index for your Word documents in a fraction of the time you’d think. Continue reading
OpenOffice.org: Removing or Disabling Extensions
Friday, August 12th, 2011Learn how to disable or remove the OpenOffice.org extensions that you don’t use. Continue reading
MS Outlook: Customizing the Navigation Pane
Thursday, August 11th, 2011Do you really use all the buttons located at the bottom portion of Outlook’s Navigation pane? I know that I don’t and yet they are visible, taking up space… Learn how to design a Navigation Pane that works best for you. Continue reading
MS Word: Table of Contents
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011It’s not uncommon to use a table of contents or to dread the work it takes to create one manually. All the formatting involved can be the stuff of nightmares for weeks on end. Here’s what you need to know in order to avoid those nightmares for good. Continue reading
MS Excel: Disable Fill Handles and Drag-Drop Abilities
Tuesday, August 9th, 2011Accidentally grabbing and dragging the fill handle? Find yourself staring at a piece of data you didn’t place in the cell and have no idea how it got there? Here’s an idea to try… Continue reading
MS Word 2010: Navigation Pane = Document Map + More
Monday, August 8th, 2011Out with the Document Map and in with the Navigation Pane.
Use the Navigation Pane in Word 2010 to rearrange the sections of your document. Continue reading
OpenOffice.org Impress: Prevent Hidden Slides From Printing
Friday, August 5th, 2011Learn how to make sure that hidden slides do not end up in your printed handouts with this easy-to-follow Open Office tip! Continue reading
OpenOffice.org Calc: Filter, Copy and Paste Your Data Simultaneously
Thursday, August 4th, 2011Often when we filter data it’s to use that data subset somewhere else… so we filter, select the set of data, copy it, move to the new location then paste. Learn to do all those steps via a single dialog box. Continue reading
MS Outlook: Block Senders From Your Inbox
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011We all have them… the messages that come in over and over but we don’t want them and no matter what we do they still keep on sending them. If you’re looking to have them bypass you Inbox then here’s what you need to know. Continue reading
OpenOffice.org: Could You Explain That A Little Bit More?
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011Feeling overwhelmed by the sheer number of buttons on your tool-bars? Here’s a quick and easy way to temporarily get a bit more information about a specific button without actually using it and then regretting the choice. Continue reading
MS Word: Open the Last File Worked On Automatically
Monday, August 1st, 2011If you find yourself frequently going back to edit the last Word file closed, then I’m sure that you’d find it extremely helpful to start Word and that last file at the same time… Learn how to create a shortcut to do just that. Continue reading
OpenOffice.org Calc: Removing Blank Rows From Your Data
Sunday, July 31st, 2011Much to our dismay it’s not uncommon to have blank lines throughout a long, long list of data. Removing them manually can be a very time consuming, headache generating and all around frustrating experience, but what’s the alternative? Continue reading
MS Office: Finding the Close All Command
Wednesday, July 27th, 2011Tired of closing each Word document separately? Learn where to find the Close All command in the newest versions of Microsoft Office. Continue reading
OpenOffice.org: Paste Button Options
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011Looking for a quick way to complete a “Paste Special” in an OpenOffice.org program? No problem… here’s a super-quick tip that you’re going to love. Continue reading
OpenOffice.org Presentation: Modern Impress Templates
Friday, July 22nd, 2011Looking for a few more modern looking templates to use in OpenOffice.org Impress? Here’s the tip for you! Continue reading
