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Category: MS Office

Office Online for FREE!

Posted on 5 November 20235 November 2023 By JuliaEEvans No Comments on Office Online for FREE!

1. Are you a ‘light’ user of Word, Excel or PowerPoint? Yes 2. Are you happy to store your documents in OneDrive? Yes If so, you could spend £0.00 by using Office Online with your Microsoft account, storing the documents you create on the standard OneDrive 5GB cloud storage allowance. After simply logging into www.office.com…

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Internet, Microsoft, MS Office, Online, Windows 10, Windows 11

Excel – Using tables for data entry

Posted on 5 November 2023 By JuliaEEvans No Comments on Excel – Using tables for data entry
Excel – Using tables for data entry

Did you know how the Tables feature in Excel can enhance your spreadsheets, especially for data entry purposes? Tables allow you to select areas in your worksheet tabs and show them like this:- ….. instead of displaying like this:- The biggest difference in usability is that – when you are tabbing through cells in data…

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Microsoft, MS Office

Office tip for your files

Posted on 27 September 202327 September 2023 By JuliaEEvans No Comments on Office tip for your files
Office tip for your files

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…

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Microsoft, MS Office

PowerPoint – Slide Sorter view

Posted on 26 August 202326 August 2023 By JuliaEEvans No Comments on PowerPoint – Slide Sorter view
PowerPoint – Slide Sorter view

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:-

Microsoft, MS Office, Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows 8

Managing your Excel tabs

Posted on 10 August 2023 By JuliaEEvans No Comments on Managing your Excel tabs
Managing your Excel tabs

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…

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Microsoft, MS Office

PowerPoint Cameo Feature

Posted on 22 July 2023 By JuliaEEvans No Comments on PowerPoint Cameo Feature
PowerPoint Cameo Feature

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…

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Internet, Microsoft, MS Office, Online, Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows 8, Zoom

Microsoft Publisher

Posted on 2 July 2023 By JuliaEEvans No Comments on Microsoft Publisher
Microsoft Publisher

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…

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Microsoft, MS Office

Filter your emails in Outlook

Posted on 20 June 2023 By JuliaEEvans No Comments on Filter your emails in Outlook
Filter your emails in Outlook

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…

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Microsoft, MS Office

OneDrive files

Posted on 18 May 20238 June 2023 By JuliaEEvans No Comments on OneDrive files
OneDrive files

Do you know you can access all of your files on your tablet (iPad or Android), and also your smartphone (iPhone or Android)? The screen below shows the ‘Account window’ from which you can see files can be saved for offline use. This means that if you’re on the tube you can still see important…

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Apple, Internet, iPad, iPhone, Microsoft, Mobile devices, MS Office, Smartphones

Excel columns and rows too small?

Posted on 30 April 20238 June 2023 By JuliaEEvans No Comments on Excel columns and rows too small?
Excel columns and rows too small?

The default cell doesn’t allow much room for typing text, does it? To extend a column’s width, move the mouse pointer over one of the small divider lines that separate the alphabetic headers at the top of the sheet. When the pointer changes to a double-headed arrow (as you can see in the picture above),…

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Microsoft, MS Office

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