Looking for 2022 FIFA World Cup, Qatar calendar info? … click here Outlook’s Internet Calendar feature can be used to follow the round ball game or interesting things. I don’t know about you, but my football/soccer gene was removed at birth. The whole World Cup event is a mystery to
There has been a rush of fake emails that are being missed by Outlook Junk email filters even in Outlook 2010 with the latest updates. All of the messages look very like real messages and appear to come from legitimate companies. Often the only way to quickly pick the fake
Emails can disappear in many different ways before they reach you. Michael writes: “You and others say to check your ‘Junk e-mail’ folder. … You should mention to check the ‘Junk e-mail’ folder on your ISP’s webmail and your local e-mail program in your articles. This is easy to overlook
How to write an email now and send it later. For many versions of Outlook you’ve been able to write an email now but delay sending it until a later time. Like many things with Outlook, there are several catches to the supposedly simple feature. Why delay sending a message?
Make a base for all your slides, then later global changes are easy. We’ve seen too many people making the same change to slide after slide when they could have done it in a few seconds with some preparation. Before you do anything on a presentation – check out the
The fast way to make a photo album presentation in Powerpoint 2007 and 2010. Last year, Office for Mere Mortals, covered making a photo album in several versions of Powerpoint. In PowerPoint 2007 and PowerPoint 2010 there’s a quicker way – go to the Insert tab and choose Photo Album.
Moving and counting rows or columns Navigation Excel has some clever keyboard shortcuts to let you move to the extremes of your worksheet. ‘Extremes’ doesn’t mean the absolute end of the worksheet, rather the end of the current block of filled or unfilled cells. Hold down the Ctrl key and
Wrapping up our look at Master Documents in Word with some extra tips. We’ve been looking at Master Documents in Word and here’s some extra tips to help you get the most from this once feared Word feature that’s come good … · Feature like Page number, Header and
Don’t be afraid – Word’s Master Documents is stable and worth using. The term ‘Master Document’ may cause many to scorn if not outright panic especially those who have been using Word 97 or 2000 version. The most common problem which people faced earlier was the corruption of master documents
We bring together earlier articles to create a quick and simple Excel data analysis. by David Goodmanson In the final article of this series we will bring together what we have learnt in earlier articles to create a data analysis. We started with Average / Mean options in Excel then
Excel 2007 and 2010 have a quick way to see basic stats on a list of numbers. If you only need some basic details about a list of numbers, there’s no need to use Excel formulas or the Descriptive Statistics feature. In Excel 2003 you can select two or more
How to stop typing replacing or overwriting text. Daysha B writes “What I type replaces my existing text. How do I turn this off? Thank you.” As usual with Microsoft Office, nothing is as simple as it first appears. Most people probably know that the immediate answer is ‘Press the
Step by Step preparing for Office Web Applications Part of Office 2010 is the Office Web Applications (OWA), a browser based version of the main Office programs. In this article we’ll take you through the setup process for Office Web Applications. Office Web Application or OWA are the online, lightweight
A primer on measuring data variance in Excel. by David Goodmanson Let’s continue our look at the basic statistics functions in Excel. In our first article we looked at statistical functions that measured central tendency or averages. Most people understand Average or Mean though Median is often misused. Now lets
How to easily make appointments with other people using Outlook. Outlook has some great features for making appointments and sharing those details with others. The main features can be used by anyone to setup dinner, movies or any personal event. Outlook lets you create an appointment in your calendar then
How to get started with Office Live Workspace – assuming that you want to. Microsoft’s Office Live Workspace (OLW) is a free file sharing and online storage service. In the workspace you can create, save, access, edit and share documents with Microsoft Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, etc. It is
What to watch for when making a place for your documents. Once you’re setup Office Live Workspace you have to create one or more workspaces to put documents in. Before creating a workspace it’s worth keeping in mind a big limitation of Office Live Workspaces – sharing permissions are only
or in Word 2010 for that matter? Select All will choose the entire contents of the Word document, text, images, the lot. It’s on the Home tab, Editing block, Select then choose ‘Select All’. Quite likely the Select All option is ‘buried’ because most users will use the keyboard shortcut ‘Ctrl
VBA macros should migrate from Word 2003 to 2007 but don’t bet on it. Yes, VBA macros from Word 2003 should work in Word 2007. We always say ‘should’ because there are inevitably changes in VBA behaviors between versions of Office and “Murphy’s Law” says that one of these ‘minor’
There’s lots more ways to use Powerpoint without standing in front of an audience. It’s easy to think of Powerpoint as only useful for people who have to give a speech, but there’s actually many other choices for saving slides and presentations that let you use Powerpoint in many other
Make great personal photo albums with Powerpoint. Creating a photo album in PowerPoint 2007 has become very interesting and convenient. The themes, layouts and Quick Styles make formatting the albums a cakewalk. PowerPoint slideshows aren’t just for projecting on a big screen in front of an audience. You can use
A new yuletide e-book for making cards, letters etc with Microsoft Office. Christmas Cheer with Office – PREMIUM Edition, is the new yuletidee-book from the makers of the Organizing Outlook Email, Eye-Catching Signs with Word and the Office Watch newsletters. Office Watch head honcho, Peter Deegan has teamed up with
More useful stats functions in Excel by David Goodmanson Continuing our series on Excel’s statistical functions … we started with Average/Mean and now move onto the misunderstood cousin Median plus also Mode. Median and Mode If we are looking for work and are told that the average salary is $45,000,
Sundry notes to round out our coverage of IMAP in Outlook. Flags With Outlook you can only set flags on IMAP messages that are in the Inbox or any other folder but you cannot send or receive messages which are flagged. The Quick click flag option where you can customize