Microsoft has changed its mind about Office 2013. The company had previously announced that if you purchased Office 2013 and the computer it was installed on failed, you were just out of luck. But thanks to angry consumers, that policy is changing. Continue reading
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Microsoft Changes Its Mind – Office 2013 Now Transferable
Monday, March 11th, 2013Advanced Office Password Recovery
Wednesday, March 14th, 2012If you’ve forgotten your Microsoft Word document password, recover it for free with the Advanced Office Password Recovery program. Continue reading
iPhone Calendar Sync: Syncing Outlook and Google to the iPhone
Wednesday, February 29th, 2012Simplify your life by bringing in your Outlook and Google calendars onto your iPhone in one step! Continue reading
MS Office: Close, Move and Re-size Task Panes Using Your Keyboard
Friday, November 4th, 2011Learn to control task panes in your Microsoft Office Programs with just a few keystrokes. Continue reading
MS Word: Watermarks in Under a Minute
Monday, October 10th, 2011Learn how to quickly insert ready-made or custom watermarks into your Word 2007 & 2010 documents. Continue reading
MS Excel: Your Inserting Options
Monday, September 26th, 2011Do you know your options when you insert a row or column into and MS Excel worksheet? No? Then here’s what you need to know when it comes to some fast formatting choices for those new rows and columns. 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
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
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
How to Use the Insert Key
Sunday, July 24th, 2011Is the Insert key completely useless? Actually, it isn’t. In Microsoft Word it has a couple of functions you may be surprised to learn about. Continue reading
MS Excel: It’s All About the Right and Left of the Thing
Friday, April 29th, 2011Ever found yourself staring at a column of data trying desperately to figure out how you’re going to peel out the portion of the data in each cell that you actually need? With the right formula anything is possible! Check it out! Continue reading
How to Password Protect Worksheets in Excel
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011MS Excel: A Locked Cell is Not a Cell Protected From Changes
If you’ve ever found yourself nosing around the Protection tab in the Format Cells dialog box then you’ve probably found that the Locked check-box was selected and possibly thought that your worksheet was safe from changes made by others…
Controlling Spell Check in PowerPoint
Friday, April 15th, 2011When the wavy red line became a part of the Spell Checker feature, I fell in love with it. I like that I know immediately when and where there is a problem.
On the other hand, I also know that I spend more time actually composing my writing, since I frequently stop, go back and fix those errors as they occur. It takes
Inserting Pre-Designed Text Boxes in Word
Thursday, April 14th, 2011MS Word: Insert Text Boxes That Come With Their Own Pizzazz
I often find myself using text boxes in Word for a variety of reasons… often it’s something that needs to stand out from all the rest of the text, or needs to be very mobile… and let’s face it, moving plain text around is just a pain.
MS Office: Add Your Locations to the My Places Bar
Friday, April 8th, 2011Some people have one central location where they open Office files from on a regular basis… but others have several locations, and it’s a bit of a pain to constantly navigate from one location to another.
The more files you open, the bigger that pain becomes until it’s an all out headache.
You’ve got to be
MS Excel: Customizing Worksheet Defaults
Thursday, April 7th, 2011There are certain things that we’d all like to have when we begin a new Excel workbook… such as number of worksheets, font, font size, etc…
For many people, this seems like an elusive process, since there are so many places to investigate looking for the old Default button.
Fortunately for all of us, a few
Converting PowerPoint Presentations to Video
Tuesday, April 5th, 2011Here’s a tip that I recently found and put to immediate use… so I thought I’d share.
My sister had a birthday not too long ago, and a couple of friends and I decided to take her away for a few days on a getaway – no kids – no husband… only “the girls” were going on this one!
MS Word: Color Backgrounds for an Entire Paragraph
Friday, April 1st, 2011There are times when I’ve found myself working in MS Word, and I’ve needed a title or header for a page or section that was more of a title bar… something like this:
To create it, I could choose a text box and then format it appropriately but the reality is that it’s not
MS Word: Location and Text Wrapping in One Setting
Thursday, March 31st, 2011It’s not uncommon for us to find ourselves dragging a picture or drawing object around a document to place it where we need it, and then to turn around, go back to the Ribbon to set the word wrapping.
Let’s face it, sometimes it feels like a good 10 minutes before we’re done tinkering with these basic things, after inserting a picture
Get Your Screenshot Without Leaving Word 2010
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011Many of us use the Print Screen button to capture screenshots… basically it’s a copy of whatever was on the screen when you hit the button and then it’s available to paste into your programs.
You may also know about the advantage of combining the Alt key with the Print Screen – it captures only the active window or dialog box.
Choose Which Formatting Marks to Display in Word
Friday, March 25th, 2011MS Word: Pick and Choose Which Non-Printing Characters to Display
If you’ve ever used Word’s ability to display the non-printing characters in a document, you know how helpful it can be to visually verify information such as the actual number of spaces, tabs or paragraph marks present.
However, when you use that feature you
Using a Spreadsheet within a Word Document
Friday, March 18th, 2011MS Word: Using a Spreadsheet Within a Document
On more than one occasion, I’ve found that within a document I’ve needed to present data that really should be set up in Excel.
Don’t get me wrong, Word’s tables are great, but when it comes to calculations and numeric data displays, Excel wins hands down.
Paste with the Enter Key in Excel
Thursday, March 17th, 2011If you’re anything like me, you believe that there’s only one option when using the keyboard to paste in MS Excel – Ctrl+V.
While that obviously will paste your copied or cut information as it always has, you do have another option if you’re only looking to paste in one location.
Numbering Tables in MS Word
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011MS Word: Stop Numbering Table Rows Manually, Word Can Do That for You
It’s not that uncommon… you’ve got a table in MS Word where you need the rows numbered, so you find yourself manually keying them in.
…1 – down arrow – 2 – down arrow – 3 – down arrow – 4
MS Excel: Format Cells Dialog Box
Thursday, March 10th, 2011MS Excel: Finding a Long Lost Friend… the Format Cells Dialog Box
Let’s be honest, there are times when faced with the Ribbon and all its tabs, groups and buttons, that we miss our old friend the Format Cells dialog box.
It was our “one-stop”
Retain Text Formatting in MS Word
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011MS Word: How To Ensure That Your Formatting Is Kept When You Copy And Paste Text
When you copy and paste text, do you ever find yourself wondering why sometimes certain formatting traits were pasted with the text and at others aren’t?
It can seem sort of random to most people… and random is
