Susan Harkins

When Word insists on putting more space between paragraphs than you want, take control! Remove the spacing for individual paragraphs or all paragraphs.

Keeping track of those billable hours is tedious but essential. So IT consultant Susan Harkins built a little automated tool to make the task a bit easier.

The highlight Outlook uses to for the current day in Month view is often too subtle. Fortunately, changing the Calendar color can help.

Transposing a list of names is a fairly easy task for Word’s Replace feature. Susan Harkins shows you how it works.

You can’t use a SUM() function to sum a filtered list, unless you intend to evaluate hidden and unhidden values. Here’s how to sum only the values that meet your filter’s criteria.

To format a heading row properly and consistently, use table properties, not empty paragraphs.

Susan Harkins shows you how to use Microsoft Word’s gridlines settings to position text and objects in your documents.

Susan Harkins shows you how to restrict users to the working spreadsheet by disabling, or appearing to disable, empty cells.

Open one, two, three, or all the Microsoft Word files in a folder at the same time. Susan Harkins explains how to do it.

Learn how to draw a big red line around important text for emphasis on a PowerPoint slide.

If you’ve ever been outfoxed by Word’s page numbering options in a multiple-section document, here’s good news: Controlling how the pages in each section are numbered is actually pretty easy. Susan Harkins demystifies this Word feature.

Hiding duplicates values in a report might have unexpected consequences, but there’s an easy fix! Susan Harkins shows you how.