Susan Harkins

Don’t wrestle with column width and alignment formats when you want to add a title above multi-column text. This trick lets you add it as you would any other title.

Word’s Find feature locates text, but you can also use it to highlight all occurrences of a word or phrase in a document.

You can shave some time off your email tasks by creating a desktop shortcut for sending messages to the people you contact most often.

Letting Word enter a date or time for users is easy, but that can lead to frustration when Word doesn’t perform as expected. Teach users about the less obvious aspects of these features or give them a macro.

If you don’t use My Documents to store your files and you’re tired of working around it, try one of these tips for quickly accessing your frequently used files.

Sometimes, Word won’t let you delete a page break. The fix is usually simple — although the cause might surprise you.

You can’t export slides within PowerPoint, but you can still work with individual slides outside it.

When written words just won’t do, provide a personal touch by inserting a voice comment into a Word document.

Handling dates in Access is often a little tricky and nonintuitive. These tips will help you avoid the most common date-related headaches.

When you want to produce the neat alignment of a table without a visible grid, create the table and turn off the border lines.

Splitting your Access database offers numerous advantages, including increased flexibility, security, efficiency, and scalability.

Help your users by adding an easy-to-implement search control to your Access forms.