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tips and shortcuts to make your MS Office life easier

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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,…

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MS Outlook 2010: Moving Signatures to a New Computer

I work on multiple computers throughout my workday as my clerical team switches desks.  I use Outlook signatures for templates…

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Excel: Shortcuts for Selecting a Cell, Highlighting a Range, Going to the End of your Data

      I have found that I understand Excel because I seem to think in Excel terms.  Even before…

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Excel: Linking My Chart Title to a Cell

A year ago, I found an online hint about typing a name for a chart in a cell, then linking…

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Business English: To Comma or Not to Comma, That is the Question

Memorize these three basic comma rules.  They will get you through most situations.  Google if you are not sure and…

Business English, commas, Grammar, Punctuation

Excel: Counting with Totals Row in a Table

In the last two lessons, we learned about Filtering and Excel’s Format as Table command.  Open up the dog breed…

Excel, Filter, Sum, Table

Excel: Why should I use “Format as Table” command when my table is already there?

In a previous blog, I introduced filtering, but warned you not to use the sort command when you use filtering…

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Excel: Giving Me Only the Information I Want, aka, Filtering

I will be devoting three days to this topic.  Sorting and filtering information is one of the most efficient uses…

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Formatting a Basic Business Letter: Use Proper Style to Create the Right Impression

(Proper formatting is illustrated and described when you read the letter below.) February 5, 2012   Mr. Joseph Matthew Helpful…

Business English, comma, Grammar, Punctuation

MS Word: Making Tabs, Returns, Spaces, and All Those Hidden Formatting Symbols Visible

Have you ever had a document suddenly look really odd with lots of extra space where you didn’t want it? …

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