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Over the years, I have taken quite a few courses about Microsoft Office, so I do consider myself NOT an expert but a quite comfortable user. I do know the simple stuff. Most of the advanced stuff that I have learned in those courses (or in the books that I have read) are things that I simply don't need in my day-to-day work.

Yet, I do surprisingly often bump into a situation where I do not know how to do something in Word or Excel. Thus, I need a source of tips/tricks for Word and Excel that do not stick to simple tips but also do not talk about complex analysis that I never need.

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Perhaps the best way to define what I want is 'advanced/unusual uses of the simple tools'. I mean that I don't need the complicated tools but sometimes I do need a bit more functionalities than what the simple features offer.

I hope somebody has some good ideas :)

Thanks in advance,

Tilman

Felicil
2011-04-17 04:14:00
The best free excel tips I've found are here:http://chandoo.org
Allen
2011-02-19 15:38:00
http://word.tips.nethttp://wordribbon.tips.nethttp://excel.tips.nethttp://excelribbon.tips.net
FIDELIS
2011-02-19 07:35:00
Here are some links for you:http://www.computerfreetips.com/Office_Tips/main_office.htmlhttp://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htmhttp://desktoppub.about.com/od/word/Microsoft_Word_Tips_and_Tutorials.htmhttp://www.officeletter.com/http://www.entrepreneur.com/tradejournals/article/145783011.htmlhttp://www.exceltip.com/exceltips.php?view=excel_links
Mike
2011-02-19 01:57:00
Microsoft started to setup some decent support sites for the Office products.http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/About.com also has some decent tutorials for Word and Excelhttp://wordprocessing.about.com/http://spreadsheets.about.com/Much like the functions themself a lot of the
cool stuff is hidden around the web for example the Excel Solver (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/about-solver-HP005198368.aspx) or Table formatting in Word (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/tips-tricks-and-problem-solving-for-tables-HA001187617.aspx), Sample text, etc...I guess the best tip is not to get too frustrated with Office ~ most of the time you will find a cool solutions or tipp after you have done it using the manual time consuming way.