Susan Harkins

Use Microsoft Excel’s TODAY() function in simple expressions to highlight the current date and past and future dates.

After years of struggling with Microsoft Excel’s internal conversion feature, users can now disable Excel’s internal data conversion feature.

Discover 87 Excel tips and tricks that will take you from a beginner to a pro. Improve your efficiency, productivity and skills with these helpful Excel techniques.

Learn how to create a summary slide that you can add to the end of a presentation to support a Q&A session with your audience using older stand-alone versions of PowerPoint and Microsoft 365.

Learn how to use MID() and FIND() and then combine them to parse substrings from inconsistent data.

To use Microsoft Lists data in Power BI, you can use a SharePoint connector for quick access. I’ll show you how.

If you receive a picture of data, don’t panic: You don’t have to enter it by hand. Microsoft Word can convert the image into text for you.

This step-by-step guide will show you how to quickly turn a list of words into a word cloud using the Pro Word Cloud add-in for Microsoft PowerPoint.

Microsoft Word supports section breaks, so you can easily change document level formatting from one group of pages to another. Learn how to use section breaks with our quick step-by-step guide.

Learn how to use Excel Power Query’s extract and split column features to extract delimited strings into their components with this step-by-step tutorial.

Learn how to use Microsoft Lists with Power Automate. Enhance your productivity with this easy to follow, step-by-step guide.

Power BI quick measures can return a simple running total and a year-to-date total with little effort on your part.