Susan Harkins

Learn the many ways to insert entire and partial rows and columns in Excel, including a fill handle method.

Use Word’s STYLEREF field to create dynamic links that more efficiently reuse text.

Use these simple techniques to get a mirror image of text in Microsoft Word.

One of the simplest ways to make a page more attractive and easy to read is to place the text in columns.

You can waste a lot of time trying to get a document to look right. These power user tricks will help speed your formatting chores.

Use these two paragraph formats in Word to keep text from breaking across pages and losing its heading text.

Your worksheets will be more polished and easy to read if you learn a few sophisticated formatting techniques.

Excel’s Auto Outline feature quickly hides detail noise so you can view just a summary of your data.

If your Excel lists repeats values and you need help finding changes, try this easy conditional format.

There’s more to Excel’s Subtotal feature than you might realize. You can add multiple subtotaling functions to the same row, and you can add multiple rows.

Using a little VBA and Word’s form features, you can set up a template to quickly enter address info into your letters.

When you have too many data points to display in a dashboard chart, add a scroll bar so users can still view all the data.