Susan Harkins

Categories are one of the best organizing tools Outlook offers. Here are some tips to help you master category basics, plus some creative ways to put them to work.

Susan Harkins shares Office solutions for three readers. Find out how to hide control tags, use conditional formatting, and display a two-week calendar.

Office expert Susan Harkins teaches you two ways to highlight the lowest and highest values in an Excel row or column.

Although zero values are valid, you might need to hide them. Here are three methods for hiding zero values in an Excel sheet.

Office 365 can be a good fit in certain circumstances. If you’re thinking about it, here are the basic facts you need to know before you buy in.

Use a formula or a series of conditional formatting rules to display ordinal indicators in Microsoft Excel.

Blank cells can spell trouble. Here’s an easy way to fill in those blanks and protect the validity of your data.

Creating Word building blocks to efficiently reuse content is easy. Sharing them can be difficult, unless you know where Word stores them.

When you think VBA code is your only hope, try combing built-it conditional formatting tools. You might just find an easier solution than writing code.

Use a built-in rule or a formula rule to compare two lists of Excel values.

Setting up numbering within your text requires a little ingenuity. The trick is to take advantage of Word’s SEQ field.

Want a numbered list but no automatic indents? Learn two ways to work around Word’s automatic list indent.