Susan Harkins

Access offers only one check box control; WingDings offers several. Don’t limit yourself!

It’s easy to turn an Excel chart into a visually compelling object. Susan Harkins walks through the steps for jazzing up data points with a simple formatting trick.

You don’t need Excel to calculate values in Word. Just drop your values into a table, insert the right formulas, and you’re done!

This quick tutorial steps through the process of creating a Word toolbar to consolidate particular commands or execute specialized tasks.

Duplicates in the same column are easy to find by sorting or filtering. Duplicates that span multiple columns require a bit of setup, but the solution’s not difficult to implement.

If you can’t include your company logo in a presentation because of its unsightly background, use this PowerPoint trick to make that background disappear.

The next time you need to configure the Page Setup options for a new worksheet, try this quick copy trick.

If you want to incorporate automatic numbering in your document headings, the quickest and most foolproof route is to create a custom style.

This technique lets you build an Excel chart that shares supportive information in series form.

Tired of erasing holes in your graph paper or having to start over from scratch? Here’s an easy way to create your own custom graph paper in Excel.

Now you see it, now you don’t. Learn how to remove hidden text from a Word document.

Excel restricts the amount of text you can place into its headers and footers. Here’s a quick way to outfox it.