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Author: Helpful Office Tips
Voice Mail for the Small Business Owner
Do you have one phone for business and one phone for personal calls? If not, your voice mail for your … More
Automatically Playing an Embedded YouTube Video in PowerPoint 2016
If you are using PowerPoint 2019 or MS Office 365 after April 2019, click here for the updated procedure: Automatically … More
Inserting and Formatting a Table with a Formula in MS Word
I was recently teaching a MS Word workshop and ran out of time to teach about inserting a table, so … More
Word: Adding my Signature to a Letter to Email the PDF
What’s a Signature Block? First, you need to add a signature block to your letter for proper business format. A … More
Windows and Office: Using Shortcut Keys to Select a Range
Microsoft has developed several standard ways to select bits of text, objects, or files in most of their products. The … More
PowerPoint Photo Album Shortcut
An office was putting on a spur of the moment open house and wanted the computer screens to show photos … More
Setting Excel’s Default Date Format to Two-Digit, aka, mm/dd/yy
Why? I like using two-digit date formats on all my spreadsheets. This way all the dates in columns will line … More
Use Excel and Word’s Mail Merge to Print Mailing Labels
First, create a basic mailing list in Excel of your friends and family. You must include the headers for each … More
MS Word: Resetting the Page Number in the Middle of your Document
A co-worker was struggling with starting the first page of Chapter 1 of a document being page 1. The title … More
