Susan Harkins

Microsoft Excel users, follow these two easy methods to reduce data entry time and errors when customized features aren’t available.

Returning the last value based on a condition seems like a difficult problem to solve unless you try one of these easy-to-implement solutions.

Averaging in Microsoft Excel is easy, until you start excluding specific values. Here are three ways to average a data set when giving special consideration to the highest and lowest values.

Avoid using hard page breaks when you can use a style instead in Microsoft Word.

If you’re a slow or inaccurate typist, consider turning on Windows’ predictive text feature. It will help you reduce spelling and grammar errors.

Use this zooming effect to draw attention to a small or important detail in your next PowerPoint presentation.

Understanding how text interacts with an inserted object in Word is the key to getting the look you want.

If you have to work with a date stamp in Microsoft Excel that includes date and time, you can use these simple expressions to extract both components, making them easier to work with.

If you need a monthly or yearly balance for revenue transactions in Microsoft Excel, you’re in luck because both are easy! Here’s how to find the totals you need.

You can delete multiple paragraphs in Word by relying on a style—a benefit that you might not have considered.

Averaging values in an Excel sheet is easy. But perhaps you want to ignore zeros or include multiple sheets. Knowing how each averaging function works is the key to choosing the right one.

There are two ways to get text to stay together on the same page in Microsoft Word: use a one-instance setting or create a style that works in the entire document.