2 PowerPoint video tips from an expert
Can you have a video of the speaker on a slide? … I want to use a video in my presentation but record my own audio. Is that possible?
Category: Office Technology
Managing change dynamically in Word
Q. Inevitably, I end up with pages with too much white space at the bottom or diagrams separated from their text. Is there an easy way to get things to fit on pages without using hard page breaks?
3 tips for exporting Google and Outlook Calendar data
Exporting Google Calendar data, and your own and others’ Outlook calendar data.
Excel: Wrangling rogue dates
Q. In a spreadsheet with a date column, some dates look fine, but others are left-justified for some reason. What might be causing this and how do I fix it?
Outlook quandaries: Clear out your junk email fast
Q. Other than marking particular senders with Block Sender in the junk mail settings, is there an easy way to get rid of a lot of junk mail all at once from anyone using that domain?
PowerPoint: No more font conversions
Do you use specific fonts for branding? After others contribute to the presentation, do you notice that your custom fonts have been converted back to standard ones? Here’s how to solve this problem.
A stress-saving autocorrect tip for Microsoft
You may know the annoyance of typing (c) and getting ©. Whether this happens in Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook, you can fix this in one place and have it work everywhere.
Excel: Get rid of those green error triangles
Sometimes Excel tries to help, but it’s not helpful. For example, if you have numbers stored as text strings (preceded by an ‘), Excel will try to warn you about that. If the warning is unnecessary because you intended this, you can easily turn off those annoying green triangles.
PowerPoint tips and tricks for faster navigation
Q. How can viewers of my PowerPoint presentation get to different places in the presentation and back to a main screen?
Outlook tips: Favorites, Quick Steps and templates
A new way to use Favorites … Quick Steps: Beyond Move to Folder … Give templates a try