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- How do I... Spice up a list in a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation?
- Most of us use bullets or numbers to introduce specific ideas or points. There's nothing wrong with them, but they are rather ordinary. In a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation, you might want to forgo the ordinary and go with something a bit more novel, and certainly unexpected. The...
- Tags: Item, Arrow, Slide, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Corp., Figure D, Figure J, Figure K, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Susan Harkins
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- How do I... Use the Office Clipboard instead of the Windows Clipboard?
- The Microsoft Windows Clipboard has magic quality to it -- like a magician's disappearing act. Into the magic box the pretty lady goes. After a few magic words, she reappears from behind a curtain. Now, it's a great trick, but the Clipboard has its limitations -- you can only make...
- Tags: Windows Clipboard, Item, Office Clipboard, Microsoft Windows Clipboard, Clipboard Icon, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Susan Harkins
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Shortcuts for accessing the Windows Desktop
- Office (well, Windows really) is the world of keyboard shortcuts and we all have our favorites. A commonly used combination, [Alt]+[Tab], cycles through all the open applications. You might be glad to know that there's also a keyboard alternative for switching to the Desktop: [Windows]+M minimizes all...
- Tags: Window, Toolbar, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Construction, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Susan Harkins
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- 10+ tips for using Word's Track Changes feature for collaborative editing
- Editing is a tough job and not many of us do it well. Most likely, you'll want others to review important letters and reports to suggest changes and catch errors. Thanks to Word's Track Changes feature, keeping up with all those changes and comments is a relatively simple task. ...
- Tags: Susan Harkins
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- How to show Access subreport totals in main report
- Reports and aggregate functions go hand in hand. Using the same aggregate function, you can evaluate groups of data or the entire report. For example, the expression SUMAmount will return a different value depending on which report section it's in. Subreports expand on this capability. You can even display aggregate...
- Tags: Microsoft Access, Expression, Microsoft Office, Databases, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Susan Harkins
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- Quick change trick displays optional All items
- The File menu in most Office applications offers a Save and Close command. They're self-explanatory and you probably use them often. What you might not know is that most of the Office applications also offer Save All and Close All commands. They're just not on the default File menu. ...
- Tags: Menu, Command, Save, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel, Office Suites, Software, Susan Harkins
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- How do I... Avoid e-mail spam using Outlook tools?
- Nobody knows for sure how spam got its name, but we can all agree that we hate it. As more and more spam finds your Inbox, it's harder to find legitimate mail. Regrettably, at least from the recipients' point of view, it looks like spam is here to stay, but...
- Tags: Message, Microsoft Outlook, E-mail Spam, Tool, E-mail Address, Option, Inbox, Cyberthreats, Spam, E-mail, Security, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications, Susan Harkins
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- How to trim down the size of your PowerPoint presentation
- PowerPoint presentation files can grow quickly. Graphics files, music, and all those custom instructions really add up. There are a few things you can do to reduce the file's size: Reduce all graphics files to 96 dpi if you don't need to print them directly from...
- Tags: Microsoft PowerPoint, File, PowerPoint Presentation, Gif, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Susan Harkins
- Blog posts 2008-04-14
- How to create columns in the middle of a Word document
- Columns, or specifically, newspaper-style columns, are common in newsletters and reports. The good news is that they're easy to implement and you don't have to apply the column format to your entire document; you can columnize any text with just two clicks. In version 2003 and earlier,...
- Tags: Column, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Corporate Communications, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Marketing, Susan Harkins
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- How to see only the Outlook tasks you need using multiple criteria
- If your Outlook Task view looks anything like mine, it's too busy to be truly effective. Fortunately, you can filter the view, but sometimes it's hard to get the right result. Most of us always need to know what's overdue. Sometimes, we need to know what's due in the near...
- Tags: Item, Microsoft Outlook, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Susan Harkins
- Blog posts 2008-04-18
- Download Vista Service Pack 1 to correct Office 2007 bugs
- Vista Service Pack 1 has been out for a while, but I'm slow to recommend updates. Reports are it's working well. Vista and Office 2007 users are finally getting some relief for some of the problems that have plagued their systems. Vista Service Pack 1 comes with...
- Tags: Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Windows Vista, Vista Service Pack 1, Reports, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Office, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Office Suites, Susan Harkins
- Blog posts 2008-04-02
- How to enter symbols using Office AutoCorrect
- AutoCorrect doesn't always get the respect it deserves. Sure, we use it to correct typos, but the feature has more to offer than that. For instance, you can use it to insert frequently used symbols. To insert a symbol, you probably choose Symbol from the Insert menu....
- Tags: Symbol, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Susan Harkins
- Blog posts 2008-04-02
- 10 ways to prevent Access database corruption
- By Susan Sales Harkins and Gustav Brock Nothing frustrates the full spectrum of Access users -- from casual user to developer -- quite like a corrupted database. With a little know-how, you might get lucky enough to repair the database or at least recover the data. Sometimes,...
- Tags: Microsoft Access, Workstation, Network, Data, Susan Sales Harkins, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Susan Harkins
- Blog posts 2008-04-01
- How do I... Spice up a list in a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation?
- Most of us use bullets or numbers to introduce specific ideas or points. There's nothing wrong with them, but they are rather ordinary. In a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation, you might want to forego the ordinary and go with something a bit more novel, and certainly unexpected. Susan Sales Harkins shows...
- Tags: Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Corp., Presentation, Susan Harkins, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Download resources 2008-05-13
- How do I... Use the Office Clipboard instead of the Windows Clipboard?
- Most of us get by most of the time just using the basic Microsoft Windows Clipboard. Copying multiple items at the same time takes a bit more work. You can spend a lot of time switching between documents that contain the source items and the target documents, but that routine...
- Tags: Windows Clipboard, Item, Susan Harkins, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Download resources 2008-05-08
- How do I... Fill a Word table with Access data?
- Almost effortless collaboration is a key selling point for Microsoft Office: If the data already exists in one format, why re-enter it in another. Usually Office delivers nicely on its promise. Word is troublesome, however, because it doesn't offer an import feature. Using the File Open feature, you can specify...
- Tags: Microsoft Access, Data, Table, Clipboard, Clipboard Method, Figure C, Figure D Use Word, Figure G, Figure H, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Databases, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Susan Harkins
- Blog posts 2008-03-31
- 10+ tips for using Word's Track Changes feature for collaborative editing
- Editing is a tough job and not many of us do it well. Most likely, you'll want others to review important letters and reports to suggest changes and catch errors. Thanks to Word's Track Changes feature, keeping up with all those changes and comments is a relatively simple task. Office...
- Tags: Susan Harkins, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Productivity, Office Suites, Software
- Download resources 2008-04-30
- From the Knowledgebase
- There are two new Knowledgebase articles to report. One is for Office 2007, the second applies to Access 2007: Description of the 2007 Office hotfix package: February 26, 2008: With Office 2007 installed, Office Document Imaging doesn't display full scanner names if the names contain over 30...
- Tags: Microsoft Access, Knowledgebase, Microsoft Office, Databases, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Susan Harkins
- Blog posts 2008-03-27
- How do I... Avoid e-mail spam using Outlook tools?
- As more and more spam finds your Inbox, it's harder to find legitimate mail. Regrettably, at least from the recipients' point of view, it looks like spam is here to stay. You can't keep spammers from sending you e-mail, but you can make sure you don't ever see it. Susan...
- Tags: E-mail Spam, Tool, Susan Harkins, E-mail, Microsoft Outlook, Spam, Cyberthreats, Productivity, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Online Communications, Office Suites, Software, Security, Spam And Phishing, Enterprise Software
- Download resources 2008-04-22
- How to enter a tab character in a Word table
- I've been using Word tables for years. They're efficient and easy to insert and format. Recently, I wanted to enter a tab character between phrases in a single table cell. But when you press Tab in a table, Word positions the cursor in the next cell. At first, I thought,...
- Tags: Cell, Character, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Susan Harkins
- Blog posts 2008-03-24
