Category: The Office Tech Pro

Here is the problem … You are trying to filter using multiple AND and OR criteria in Microsoft Excel or one or more columns in your list have more than 10,000 unique items (think employee numbers, serial numbers, transactions).

Did you ever see a slide whose background was a photo that took up the whole slide? Perhaps it was washed out like a background with bullet points in the forefront. Or, maybe the photo was the main message and was accompanied by just a few words. It looks slick, but it’s really easy.

With Headers/Footers you get easy Page Numbers. With your document in Print Layout view (default), double click at the top of the page to access the header. Do the same at the bottom of the page to access the footer.

It is three days before the event. You are frantically trying to gather attendee lists, catering orders, room arrangements, speaker itineraries, agendas, presentation slides and meeting notes. Some are in documents on your hard drive. Other information is available on a website. Countless documents and notes are in your email inbox, somewhere. Sound familiar? You may have an application already installed on your desktop that can rescue you from all that insanity. It’s called OneNote.

The Navigation Pane, Find/Highlight tool, and Bookmarks will have you manuevering around your text and adding polish to it in no time.

There are some powerful math features in Excel that can help you with your date data. First, let’s take a look at how Excel interprets dates …

PDFs can be deconstructed relatively easily. If you have a legitimate reason to edit PDF content in another application, there are some tools you should know about.

A successful SharePoint implementation has three characteristics, while other approaches to the project of making it your company’s intranet solution can end in doom. Here’s how to make SharePoint work for users and teams.

When most people think about creating handouts for a PowerPoint presentation, they think simply about printing copies of their slides, 1, 2 or 3 per page with note-taking lines. There are other options for creating handouts. Consider one or more of these suggestions.

There are plenty of groups for geeks, but what about end users of Microsoft Office tools? Well, it turns out there are lots of groups around where Microsoft Office users network and get help from one another, both online on platforms like LinkedIn and in person.