July 30, 2010
Excel, Microsoft’s spreadsheet application used by millions, is an incredibly powerful and versatile suite. And yet most users don’t reach past the fancy coloring and simple formulae. A lot of people don’t realize Excel’s support for the Visual Basic programming language. You can make use of this, even if you’re not a programmer yourself. Pre-written [...]
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July 12, 2010
Project management is the discipline of planning, organizing, and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives. Without setting measurable goals and keeping track of various efforts and resources, projects don’t stand a chance of seeing a successful completion. There are many useful tools out there for project management. [...]
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July 4, 2010
Google Documents has its problems. Its features are not comprehensive enough for truly serious office work, and it can be a bit slow and finicky when compared to a traditional office program. Still, Google Documents has started a revolution. The ability to access a document from any computer and share it with co-workers is immensely [...]
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February 17, 2010
We normally don’t associate the word “fun” or “play” with Microsoft. Pinball and Minesweeper are fine”¦but hey, a game for Microsoft Office? This is where the guys from Redmond have got off the well trodden path and done something that’s downright unique. Microsoft has introduced a Microsoft Office training game called Ribbon Hero that attempts [...]
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November 8, 2009
I am not much of an Excel hand; spending most of my time either in Microsoft Word or PowerPoint. My most regular use of Excel is as a tool to keep track of my schedule and to list what I am putting out on the web as a writer. So I can safely say that [...]
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October 30, 2009
If you’re like me, you love the idea of charts and can think of dozens of useful applications for them, but when it comes to creating them, the frustration starts. Charts often make decision making easy. They’re a nice change from staring at rows and columns of numbers. They add some style and pizazz to [...]
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September 27, 2009
Office suite applications are ubiquitous. There are so many options available if you want to a create a document or a spreadsheet. There are open source free desktop applications, then there are free cloud-based applications. Microsoft has been working on a free version of its popular Office franchise as well. The free version would be [...]
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September 14, 2009
It is a known fact that if you want to commit something to memory, continuous revision is the key. You read something every time you are at your desk and within days it becomes second nature. To be able to revise quickly and often, it helps if the information is terse and to the point [...]
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August 28, 2009
I want to help you get a handle on the handle. Excel has, for quite a few versions now, had a number of shortcuts for using the mouse rather than the keyboard. I want to clarify how some of them work, so you can make the most of the tools at your disposal. Cell handles [...]
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August 27, 2009
As an avid Excel user, I often find myself trying to do things with Excel that most folks would never consider. There are several reasons for this, but the most important is that Microsoft Excel has certain features that make certain unique formatting tasks extremely simple and easy to automate. Earlier, I introduced MUO readers [...]
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August 26, 2009
I got a hot tip today on a piece of Chinese software that will make my life MUCH easier by adding Microsoft Office tabs to your installed MS applications. Have you heard of OfficeTab? Well if you are not into finding the latest and greatest software you have probably never heard of it. But I [...]
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August 14, 2009
I recently started working with a company that does HUGE mailing lists. I deal with a lot of records everyday but this really is a lot of data. They have an opt-in mailing list that they blast to once or twice a month. When I say huge I am talking about between 7 and 8 [...]
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August 7, 2009
Do you get tens of pages out, with some of the columns standing by themselves in an unknown page every time you print out an Excel worksheet? Tired of wasting paper time and time again? It’s time to get things straight. Let’s see how to print an Excel sheet the right way. [All the Excel tips shown [...]
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August 1, 2009
About 10 years ago, my wife and I were straddled with so much debt that we thought it would take the rest of our lives, or at least the next sixty years, to pay it all off. The combination of school loans, car loans and credit card debt was enough to make a grown man [...]
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May 10, 2009
There are so many good software available these days – some free and some not free that you can use to create documents of all kinds. The downside? Each has its own format, some open formats and some not and you have to take care of which ones play well with which software. Every now [...]
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