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Helpful Office Tips

tips and shortcuts to make your MS Office life easier

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Category: Microsoft Windows

Music on My Computer… How?

I have lots of computer students who want to listen to music on their computer or just add music to … More

Digital Music, Music from CD, PowerPoint Audio File, Rip CD, Windows Media Player

Is My PC Computer Up to Date? Are Windows Updates Working?

How do I know if my PC computer is up to date?  Microsoft presets any computer to get updates automatically.  … More

Check for Updates, Restart is Required, Schedule Restart, Updates, Windows, Windows Update

Windows 11 First Look: Settings, Changes

Upgrade I upgraded to Windows 11 last night.  It took over an hour, but I did not have to be … More

File Explorer, Taskbar, Windows 11, Windows 11 File Explorer, Windows 11 Search Bar, Windows 11 Taskbar

Compress Images in Windows… Using Paint

Sometimes you are uploading an image, like a profile picture, to a website, and the website tells you the image is too large – huh? Sometimes you want to email a picture of your garden to some friends, and your email software says the image is too large – huh again?

Compress, Images, MS Paint, Paint, Pixelation, Resize, Resolution, Windows, Windows 10

Windows 10: Some Beginner Lessons

I’m a guest-writer on a Noobie.com, a website that teaches tech, and I designed a few lessons for brand new … More

File Explorer, File Folders, Microsoft Taskbar, Microsoft Windows, MS Windows, Notepad, Save, Taskbar Calender, Taskbar Icons, Taskbar Large Icons, Taskbar Search, Windows, Windows 10, Windows Taskbar

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

Setting Excel’s Default Date Format to Two-Digit, aka, mm/dd/yy

I like using two-digit date formats on all my spreadsheets.  This way all the dates in columns will line up, … More

Default Date Format, Excel, Excel 2010, Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, mm/dd/yy, Two Digit Date

Window(s) to My Documents – Moving Shortcuts into My Documents Folder

In a previous post “Windows: Creating Shortcuts on your Desktop,” I showed you how to move documents and folders to … More

Libraries, My Documents Library, Organize, Shortcut to My Documents, shortcuts, Windows

Windows: Creating Shortcuts on your Desktop

Using the Show Desktop shortcut I described previously, you now know how to get to your desktop with one easy click, … More

create file shortcut, create shortcut, Desktop shortcut, Desktop Shortcuts, document shortcut, Document Shortcuts, file shortcut, folder shortcut, Folder Shortcuts, Windows, Windows shortcuts

Show Desktop with a Quick Shortcut in Windows

Look at the clock on the right side of the Task Bar.  The Task Bar is that horizontal bar on … More

Desktop, shortcut, Windows

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