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PPT – Improving the Print Quality of Your Slides
[Intermediate] Have you ever gotten a hard copy of PowerPoint presentation that was difficult to read because the colorful backgrounds and images printed out as large [...]
EXCEL – Copying and Pasting Information Quickly
[INTERMEDIATE] If you are using the copy and paste commands to copy the information from one cell (or range of cells) to another location in your [...]
WORD – Working More Efficiently with Bookmarks
[ADVANCED] Working in large documents can be a painstaking process, particularly if you need to move back and forth from one section to another. It’s not [...]
EXCEL – Creating Blank Space in Spreadsheets
[INTERMEDIATE] Have you ever looked at a spreadsheet that was so jam packed with data that you had a hard time reading it? Formatting it with [...]
EXCEL – Moving Page Breaks
[INTERMEDIATE] Sometimes your printed spreadsheet pages don’t break quite where you’d like. For example, most of the rows in a particular section might print on one [...]
SOFTWARE – Open Recently Used Files
[NOVICE] You just saved a file and now you need to open it again. What’s a quick way to get back into it? […]
GRAPHICS – Choosing the Right File Format for Your Photos
[INTERMEDIATE] Should you save your photos as .jpg (pronounced jay-peg) files? Would .tif be better? How do you know which format is best? There isn’t one [...]
Choosing to Reply or Reply All
[NOVICE] Have you ever received an email that was sent to a group of people … and then kept receiving replies sent to the sender … which you had no need [...]
Navigating Windows Explorer/File Manager
[WINDOWS] Windows Explorer (or often referred to as File Manager) is a powerful tool for finding and organizing documents, files and folders. Sometimes, it can seem [...]
One Click or Two?
[DESKTOP] Sometimes you just need to click once with your mouse. Other times you need to double click. How do you know how many times? Here’s how [...]
Searching for Files
[DESKTOP] Have you ever been in a situation where your document wasn’t where you thought it should be? It’s easy to inadvertently lose a file on the computer. [...]
Saving Ink by Printing in Black and White
[INTERMEDIATE] Have you ever printed something in color when you didn’t really need to? It may have been a draft of a document in which you were [...]
Installing Programs from Executable Files
[ADVANCED] Usually when you download a piece of software from the Internet or load it from a CD / DVD, the program automatically starts up and [...]
WORD – Moving Things Around with Drag and Drop
[NOVICE] Need to move a block of text or graphic to a new location in your document? Drag and drop is the easiest and fastest way [...]
Decrease Processing Time with Defrag
[DESKTOP] Is your computer working as efficiently as possible? If you haven’t run a defrag lately, the answer is “No!” If you could look inside your [...]
Fix Mistakes with CTRL + Z
[NOVICE] If you've ever accidentally deleted text or images, you know that sinking feeling that says, "Oh no, what did I do?" Fortunately, "Control Z" can [...]
Keeping Virus Software Up to Date
[INTERMEDIATE] Have you ever said, "I can't get a computer virus, I've got anti-virus software." You might want to think again on that! New viruses are being [...]
EMAIL – Email Etiquette
[NOVICE] Do your email messages make a good impression on the reader? There are certain “rules” that you should follow when writing an email note. The [...]
DESKTOP – Back Up Your Files
[Intermediate] Do you back up your files regularly? Do you rely on your organization’s system wide backup to take care of your files, too? It is [...]
INTERNET – Capturing Graphics from the Web
[NOVICE] Have you ever been writing a report or designing a flyer, wanted a nice picture that will grab the reader’s attention? The web can be a good source of [...]
Merging Cells in a Spreadsheet
[EXCEL] When you merge cells, you create one larger cell by combining two or more existing cells together. This doesn't collapse the cells or make them [...]
Get Organized by Creating New Folders
[WINDOWS] Do you spend a lot of time looking for a document on your computer? Then it’s time to get organized! For example, if you were [...]
WORD – Using Multiple Headers in a Document
[INTERMEDIATE] Sometimes you don’t want to use the header that you used on the first page of document on subsequent pages. For example, you might want [...]
WORD – Fixing Errors Quickly with Find/Replace
[NOVICE] What do you do when you need to fix the same typo or mistake several places in your document? If you think you need to [...]