MS Word: Insert Date and Automatically Update

Your computer knows what day (or date) it is, right?  Instead of typing the date in Word, why not let … More

Excel Basics

I am a guest blogger on Noobie.com.  They asked me to create some new-to-Excel posts for beginners.  Just click the … More

MS Word: Introduction Lessons

I teach an Introduction to MS Windows class for a community education program.  Noobie.com asked me to type up those … 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