Susan Harkins

Learn how to use Excel’s PivotTable feature to generate meaningful reports that summarize data.

You can reuse slides and combine presentations to save a bit of time and trouble. Susan Harkins explains.

Using Publisher’s merge feature to grab numbers from an Excel workbook, you can quickly number documents, such as event tickets or labels. Susan Harkins shows you how.

Summarizing data is a common task in Excel, and there’s usually more than one way to do so. Susan Harkins explains three ways to return averages for multiple groups.

Stop avoiding Word styles. Instead, learn how to manage them, so you can put them to work for you.

If you don’t like the font type and size for Outlook’s interface components, you might be able to change them. Susan Harkins explains how.

If you insert a lot of pictures into PowerPoint slides, you’re going to love the new layout placeholders in PowerPoint 2007 and later.

Susan Harkins explains how to add an index to a Word document using index tags.

Susan Harkins explains how to populate an Access list control instantly by setting properties at the field (table) level to create a lookup field.

Use these tips separately or together to force overflowing Word content onto a single page.

Susan Harkins shows you two easy ways to populate an Excel UserForm, and neither requires a single bit of VBA code.

Not everyone is familiar with Excel. You can protect the data input process by using Excel’s UserForm object to collect data. Susan Harkins explains how.