Susan Harkins

PowerPoint will let you animate chart elements, but the option’s not easy to find. If you don’t know about it, you might not even go looking for it.

You don’t have to live with sluggish workbooks. Try these tricks for a noticeable boost in performance.

This week, learn about string comparison from the discussion that followed last week’s Office challenge: When an IF() returns FALSE, when it should return TRUE.

This week, show your PowerPoint prowess by showing us how to change defaults for text boxes.

This week, learn why Word headers sometimes take a header, and disappear from view, and what you can do to get them back.

If you’re working with a long list of Outlook folders, try this quick keyboard trick for finding just the folder you need.

The typical unhiding techniques don’t work everywhere in Excel. Learn an easy to remember method for unhiding row 1 and column A.

There’s no obvious way to print the sections of a Word document, but you can still do it! Susan Harkins reveals the secret.

When you need to select several cells with a similar attribute, you can use Excel’s Find feature to make the process eaiser.

Understanding your data and how Excel’s conditional formatting works is the key to accurately using icons to represent data.

Susan Harkins shows you five keyboard shortcuts that allow you to quickly insert arrows into a Word document.

If you’re not using these worksheet-related tricks, you’re working harder than you have to! Susan Harkins shares five of her favorites.