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Helpful Office Tips

tips and shortcuts to make your MS Office life easier

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Category: Word

Business English Checklist

What is Business English? Clients or customers, investors, and community peers expect business owners and managers to be clear and … More

Abbreviations, Business English, Grammar, Grammarly

Windows 11 Microsoft 365 / Office 365 Update: Quick Access Toolbar & Menu Tabs, and the Colorful Office Theme

If you upgrade to Windows 11, you will find that your Microsoft 365 / Office 365 will soon change their … More

Backstage, Colorful, customize ribbon, Excel, Menu, Microsoft 365 Update, Office 365 Update, Office Theme, PowerPoint, Publisher, Quick Access Toolbar, Ribbon, Tab, Windows 11, Word

MS Office / Word / Excel / PowerPoint: Customize Your Quick Access Toolbar

When you first open any document in MS Word, MS Excel, or MS PowerPoint, you should notice there are little … More

Customize Quick Access Toobar, Excel, Excel 2016, MS Office Microsoft Office, Office, PowerPoint, PowerPoint 2016, Quick Access, Quick Access Toolbar, Toolbar, Word, Word 2016

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

Date Field, Date Format, Insert Date, Insert Date and Time, Microsoft Word, MS Word, Set As Default, Update Automatically, Word

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

Alignment, Browse, Copy, Cut, Envelopes, File Tab Pushpins, Format Painter, Formatting, Insert a Date, Introduction, Microsoft Word, Paste, Printing Envelopes, Word, Word Doc to PDF

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

Add Formula to Table in Word, Create Table in Word, Insert Formula in Word, Insert Table in Word, Move Table, MS Word, Resize Table, Table Grid, Update Formula, Update Formula in Word, Word

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

Adding Signature, Digital Signature, Email Signature, Microsoft Word, MS Word, Signature Block, Signature Image, Signing Letter, Signing PDF, Word, Word 2013

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

Ctrl A, Ctrl Click, Double-Click, Excel, Microsoft Office, MS Office, MS Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Publisher, Select All, Select Paragraph, Select Range, Select Word, Shift Click, Triple-Click, Word

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

Excel, Holiday Labels, Labels, Mail Merge, Mailing Labels, Mailing List, View Gridlines, Word

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

MS Word, Page Number Footer, Renumber, Reset Page 1, Reset Page Number, Starting Page 1, Word

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