Often I find myself writing a sum formula in MS Excel. It’s not difficult and with Excel’s Formula AutoComplete it really is simple to do, but today I have a technique that can improve our efficiency when it comes to this particular formula. Continue reading
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MS Excel: Sum It Up Super Quick
Wednesday, July 20th, 2011MS Excel: The Quick Way to Turn Formula AutoComplete On or Off
Tuesday, July 19th, 2011Learn to turn Excel’s Formula AutoComplete feature on or off without going all the way into the programs options. Continue reading
MS Excel: Align it Top, Bottom or Middle
Monday, July 11th, 2011Need to smooth things out in a too-tall row on an Excel worksheet? Give this alignment trick a try… Continue reading
MS PowerPoint: Animate Multiple Items the Same Way at the Same Time
Friday, July 8th, 2011Setting identical animations multiple times on a slide is a pain… If you agree, then you’ll want to take a look at this tip on how to avoid all the repetitious work. Continue reading
MS Excel: The F6 Key – Worksheet, Ribbon, Zoom, Worksheet, Ribbon, Zoom
Wednesday, July 6th, 2011Reach virtually any command in MS Excel with this incredibly quick keyboard shortcut! Continue reading
MS PowerPoint: Reducing File Size
Monday, July 4th, 2011We’ve all done it… created an awesome presentation and found that when finished that the file size was huge!
While disk space my not be a huge issue for you, these monstrous files can be a pain to move from place to place.
Numerous pictures in a presentation will definitely inflate the file size, but the concept of
MS Word: Keep With Next vs Keep Lines Together
Friday, July 1st, 2011Here’s a tip for those of you who have fought with MS Word to keep certain lines of text together… tired of using things like page breaks and blank lines to force the issue? Then here’s the tip for you! Continue reading
MS Excel: When You Need a Calculator But Don’t Feel Like Writing a Formula
Wednesday, June 29th, 2011It happens to all of us – we’re working on a spread sheet and we find that we need to calculate something but we just want to quickly get the information we need without all the formula writing nonsense. Thank goodness there’s a calculator! Continue reading
MS PowerPoint: Selecting the Things That You’ve Covered
Monday, June 27th, 2011I find that often I will cover objects on my presentation slides so that the animations or whatever will work correctly. However, when I need to select those hidden items, it can be quite a painful experience. There is an easier way, and it’s right here! Continue reading
MS PowerPoint: Saving Placeholders as Pictures
Friday, June 17th, 2011Sometimes you’ve got a placeholder in your presentation that contains a SmartArt, table, text or whatever that you want to use elsewhere. The problem is that when you copy then paste the item it shows up in the other program a total mess! Learn the easy way with this tip! Continue reading
MS Excel: Extending Your Sequential Pattern
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011Most Excel users know that if you have data in a cell you can use the fill handle to increase the selected cell range down a column or across a row. Well, what if that range is more than one? April explores. Continue reading
MS Excel 2010: See Your Trends With Spark
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011With the release of Excel 2010 we have another quick, easy-to-use and powerful tool to take a graphic look at the trend found in a set of data… Sparklines. Continue reading
MS Excel: Cells to a Table – No Mouse Required
Monday, June 13th, 2011By now we’ve all found the Format as Table button on the Home tab of the Ribbon will take a range of selected cells in turn them into an easily and beautifully formatted table, but did you know there’s an easier way? Continue reading
Fix Send and Receive in Outlook
Monday, June 13th, 2011If you’re having trouble sending and receiving email in Outlook, this tip describes a couple methods for addressing possible causes. Continue reading
MS OneNote: Transferring Your Notes to Another MS Program
Sunday, June 12th, 2011There are times when we need our OneNote notes transferred to MS Word, PowerPoint or Excel. Maybe we’re sending them to someone who doesn’t have OneNote or maybe we need to incorporate them into a document. Whatever the case, here’s how you do it! Continue reading
MS PowerPoint: Search for Templates Without Using a Web Browser
Thursday, June 9th, 2011Sick of your web browser opening up when you’re looking for PowerPoint templates? Well, it doesn’t have to be that way! Check out this awesome office tip now! Continue reading
MS PowerPoint: Bulleted Lists, Where You Click Can Make a Big Difference
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011Like the title says: When it Comes to Bulleted Lists, Where You Click Can Make a Big Difference. Learn the secrets by checking this MS Office article out! Continue reading
MS Office 2010: Resize and Rotate Pictures With Your Keyboard
Monday, June 6th, 2011Looking to change the size of a picture, Clip Art or drawing shape that you’ve inserted into an Office 2010 file? Use your keyboard! Continue reading
MS OneNote: Creating An Outlook Task From OneNote Notes
Thursday, June 2nd, 2011Here’s a useful MS OneNote tip that will teach you how to create an Outlook task from OneNote Notes. Give it a look! Continue reading
Blank MS Word Document by Default
Thursday, June 2nd, 2011Check out this handy MS Word tip that will show you how to make it so a blank document opens by default every time you start the program. Continue reading
MS Office: Your Files To OneNote – No Copy / Paste Required
Wednesday, June 1st, 2011Learn a quick, no copy-and-paste method to get stuff into OneNote without all the added rigmarole! Continue reading
MS Outlook 2010: Keeping Your Conversations Clean
Sunday, May 29th, 2011MS Outlook 2010 gives you some pretty cool options when it comes to redundant e-mail conversations. Check it out here! Continue reading
MS Excel: Insert and Paste In One Step
Wednesday, May 25th, 2011Here’s a super-helpful MS Excel tip that will teach you the painless way to insert and paste rows and columns. Continue reading
MS Word: Copy Style Features From One Document to Another
Wednesday, May 25th, 2011Here’s an interesting little gem that will allow you to copy formatting such as headers, footers and paragraph settings from one file to another without a whole lot of hassle. Continue reading
Resetting Spell Check in Word
Monday, May 23rd, 2011If the spell checker in MS Word has stopped working, this tip describes methods for getting it back up and running. Continue reading
