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Did you know that you can ‘pin’ any number of files to a special menu in Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Publisher? Its as simple as pressing the little pin icon on the right hand side of the image below:- Pinned files are easy to access as they are kept on a separate, but easy to…
Did you know you can bookmark the current page by simply pressing Control D – or pressing on the yellow star shown here? The star looks the same in Chrome, another popular browser. In Internet Explorer, it looks a little different like this (but the same shortcut works):- Afterwards, a box like this pops up…
Have you heard of PowerPoint’s Slide Sorter View? This option (3rd from the left) under the View Menu allows you to:- A. insert slides B. delete slides C. hide slides from the presentation D. …. or even create new sections for some of them! This is what it looks like:-
Have you checked what features are available to help you manage them? The screenshot below shows some of them:- I use the Rename option most commonly – here’s how it works:- The tab colour option is also very handy – here’s how it works:- …. and the result is this appearance when the tab isn’t…
It allows you to add a live feed from your webcam to the slides of your presentation – visible constantly as you play the slides Below is a still image of me in my office, within a PowerPoint presentation. If we were playing this slideshow as part of a online meeting (whatever platform you use…
One factor you can improve is your experience using the mouse – especially laptop users using a built-in trackpad. Switching from the one which came with my desktop PC to this ergonomic one (this one is cabled), was a great usability experience. Suddenly all my tasks seemed easier as the mouse glided across my screen…
Did you know how easy it is to create a shortcut to your favourite program (eg Word)? 1. Simply find its icon within the Start Menu 2. ….. click with the right mouse button ! 3. From the menu which pops up, you will see options for adding an icon to the Taskbar (bottom of…
If you have Microsoft Office 365, you probably use Word, Excel and PowerPoint as its popular programs. Have you considered one of its other packages Publisher can turn this image:- …. into this image, ready for printing on an A4 sheet Publisher is part of many MS Office 365 Packages (Home and Business) – and…
Do you sometimes find it hard to see your mouse on screen when it looks like this? Wouldn’t it be easier if it looked like this design? On almost all Windows PCs, such a change can be easily accomplished by following the few steps below:- A. Type ‘mouse pointer’ into the Search bar within the…
Do you know you can filter your Outlook Inbox by whether they have an attachment (often a document or picture)? I used this feature all the time when I was in employment as often I didn’t want to see emails which were ‘plain text’ without attachments – viewing just the ones WITH attachments. To activate…
