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Archive: 08-2011

• Use Excel's conditional formatting feature to display simple icons

  Understanding your data and how Excel’s conditional formatting works is the key to accurately using icons to represent data.

  Posted by Susan Harkins | August 31, 2011, 7:34 AM PDT

• Use Word 2010's Navigation Pane to quickly reorganize documents

  Use Word 2010’s new Navigation Pane to quickly move sections in a document; it’s much quicker and easier than trying to select and move all that content manually.

  Posted by Susan Harkins | August 30, 2011, 7:10 AM PDT

• Office challenge: Why is Word displaying graph paper?

  In this week’s challenge, help a Word user who’s seeing graph paper! Where did they come from and can you help him get rid of them?

  Posted by Susan Harkins | August 25, 2011, 1:26 PM PDT

• Office solution: Here is how you inhibit formats when using the fill handle

  Read the solution to last week’s Office challenge: how would you inhibit formats when using the fill handle?

  Posted by Susan Harkins | August 25, 2011, 1:25 PM PDT

• Five keyboard shortcuts for inserting arrows into a Word document

  Susan Harkins shows you five keyboard shortcuts that allow you to quickly insert arrows into a Word document.

  Posted by Susan Harkins | August 24, 2011, 7:19 AM PDT

• Five of my favorite Excel worksheet tips

  If you’re not using these worksheet-related tricks, you’re working harder than you have to! Susan Harkins shares five of her favorites.

  Posted by Susan Harkins | August 23, 2011, 6:56 AM PDT

• Three tips for working with bullets in PowerPoint

  If you think you don’t have the skills to create a bullet-less PowerPoint presentation, take a look at these three easy tips.

  Posted by Susan Harkins | August 22, 2011, 12:52 PM PDT

• Solution: How would you print index cards in Word?

  Read the solution to last week’s Office challenge: how do you format and print index cards in Word.

  Posted by Susan Harkins | August 18, 2011, 8:20 AM PDT

• Office challenge: How would you inhibit formats when using the fill handle?

  In this week’s Office Challenge, test your Excel skills with an simple fill handle trick for inhibiting formats.

  Posted by Susan Harkins | August 18, 2011, 8:15 AM PDT

• How to create one table of contents from multiple documents

  I is possible to create a single table of contents for multiple Word documents, it just requires an extra step or two. Susan Harkins explains how.

  Posted by Susan Harkins | August 17, 2011, 10:48 AM PDT