Susan Sales Harkins is an IT consultant, specializing in desktop solutions. Previously, she was editor in chief for The Cobb Group, the world's largest publisher of technical journals.
If you label images in PowerPoint, you might have noticed that it’s difficult to change the size of the text label and the image at the same time, unless you know this quick trick.
Spaces and tabs might be the quickest way to indent a paragraph in Word, but you might be sorry. Instead, use built-in indents to avoid random spaces and tabs rearranging your content unexpectedly.
Fields that don’t update automatically pose a problem with many users because they don’t remember to update them manually. When you need this functionality, use this VBA procedure.
Highlighting or even deleting duplicate records in Excel is simple but listing them isn’t as easy. Fortunately, you can use Power Query to easily display a list of duplicate values or records.
Lots of documents are full of acronyms; some are defined, some aren’t. If you need to review acronyms in a Microsoft Word document for any reason, here are three approaches.
Large Word documents are often sprinkled with references to information throughout a document. You can enter them manually, but they’ll be hard to maintain later. Instead, use this simple technique.
If you’re missing the mark when creating 3D shapes in Microsoft PowerPoint, you might be skipping a step. Learn how to apply simple 3D effects by creating a few arrows.