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Fixing Formulas in Excel
[ADVANCED] Do you ever find yourself in trouble when you’re working with formulas? You may see “#NAME”, “#REF”, or other cryptic error messages in the cell. [...]
EXCEL – Formula Auditing
[ADVANCED] Have you ever received a complex spreadsheet and wanted to see what went into the formulas? Or perhaps you do the creating and want to [...]
SOFTWARE – Visual Thesaurus
[INTERMEDIATE] Have you ever searched your mind trying to think of a better word to use in a report, a proposal or any kind of written [...]
OUTLOOK – Create Contacts in Outlook
[NOVICE] How much time do you spend typing in a person’s email address each and every time you send them a message? Do you invest more [...]
Choosing a Collaboration Tool
[INTERMEDIATE] How often do you meet on the phone? Maybe it’s with one other person? Perhaps it’s with two or three? What about with everyone in [...]
PPT – Animated Charts
[ADVANCED] Have you ever wanted to highlight your organization’s growth trend in several key areas of a presentation, so you included a chart? It’s colorful. It’s [...]
WEBSITE – iStockPhoto
[INTERMEDIATE] Are you having trouble finding reasonably priced, high quality images to use in your organization’s print and web publications or your presentations? When you go [...]
WORD – Get a Quick Word Count
[INTERMEDIATE] You are filling out an online application and you need to describe your business in 150 characters or less. Or, perhaps you’ve been asked to [...]
PPT – Self-Running PPT Presentations
[ADVANCED] You have just given a knockout PowerPoint presentation to a new client. Wouldn’t it be cool if you could somehow “package” that presentation to send [...]
Time-Saving Keyboard Shortcuts
[INTERMEDIATE] Over the years, we have highlighted many keyboard shortcuts which can really save time and help you work more efficiently. Some of these you probably [...]
GRAPHICS – Compress Graphics
[ADVANCED] Have you ever created a presentation that had so many graphs, illustrations and images that the size of the file was huge? It looks great, just what the client wants, [...]
OUTLOOK – Electronic Sticky Notes
[NOVICE] What do you do when you need to quickly jot down an idea or bit of information that you want to keep and use at [...]
WEBSITE – Wififreespot.com
[INTERMEDIATE] Have you ever needed to connect your laptop to the Internet while you’re out of town, but haven’t known where to go or how to [...]
EXCEL – Make Your Formulas Easier to Read
[ADVANCED] Have you ever looked at a formula in a worksheet you created and had trouble figuring out exactly what it was calculating? Perhaps all the [...]
SOFTWARE – Transferring Data
[ADVANCED] Have you ever wanted to use the data you have in one program, in some other software application? Maybe you want to transfer items from [...]
WORD – Quickly Convert Text to All Caps
[INTERMEDIATE] When you’re adding the finishing touches to your document, have you ever realized that changing a portion of the text to all uppercase letters would [...]
EXCEL – Transposing Rows and Columns
[INTERMEDIATE] You’ve set up your spreadsheet, but now that you look at it, it would really work better if you switched it around so that data [...]
Draw Perfectly Symmetrical Shapes Automatically
[INTERMEDIATE] Have you ever needed to insert a circle into your document or slide? You try to do it using the Oval shape on the drawing [...]
PPT – Jump Directly To Any Slide
[INTERMEDIATE] Have you ever been in the middle of a presentation when someone in the audience asks a question that can best be answered by a [...]
EMAIL – Subject Line Messages
[INTERMEDIATE] How often do you send colleagues or friends short, one-line email messages? Something along the lines of, “Staff meeting in my office at 3:00 today.” [...]
EXCEL – Making Cell Borders Show Up
[INTERMEDIATE] Have you ever had trouble getting the type of border you want to show up around your cells? Perhaps you’ve selected the side where you [...]
INTERNET – Find Definitions Quickly
[NOVICE] While surfing the Web have you ever run across a word that you didn’t know but couldn’t find a definition for it? Or perhaps you’re [...]
PPT – View Before Printing in Grayscale
[INTERMEDIATE] You’ve created a spectacular presentation using bright colors and interesting textures. Now you want to create handouts to give to your audience as well. But [...]
EXCEL – Click TWICE Inside A Cell
[NOVICE] Have you ever clicked a cell in your spreadsheet to make a small change such as correcting a misspelling, and found that much to your [...]