Some tips for cutting back on the brochures you lug back from a trade show or conference. Going to a trade show can be interesting and tiring. One strategy for getting though the booths in a reasonable time is to just collect the brochures and keep moving. The problem then
More tips and suggestions for taking your Powerpoint presentation on the road. In a previous Office for Mere Mortals we talked about Powerpoint presentations and how to copy the entire presentation so you can show it elsewhere, even when Powerpoint isn’t installed check out Now we’ll look at some of
How to move your Powerpoint presentation to another computer to display. Another move by Google into Microsoft Office territory was recently announced with their purchase of Tonic. Later this year we can expect an online presentation system (a la Powerpoint) to join Google Docs and Spreadsheets as rivals to Microsoft
Some Outlook Calendar tips we collected while writing ‘Effective Outlook CALENDARS’ Our latest ebook is Effective Outlook CALENDARS – a comprehensive look at the calendar, appointment and events in Outlook 2002 (XP), Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007. In this issue we’ll share some of the tips we found while writing
If and how to use Outlook’s AutoArchive feature – by Kara Monroe. STORING OLD EMAIL WITH AUTOARCHIVE AND OTHER OPTIONS by Kara Monroe Chances are if you’ve used Microsoft Outlook for any period of time, you’ve been prompted to AutoArchive your old items. AutoArchive is a tool that backs up
We continue this series by providing another assortment of simple, yet often “invisible” features in Office. According to Microsoft, around 80% of the feature requests they get for Office are already currently within the applications. Last year we started a series of articles in Office for Mere Mortals about this
We round off our date functions in Excel topic with a look at custom date formats, the NETWORKDAYS() function, and an in-depth discussion on sharing date-related worksheets between Mac and Windows. By Michael Barden In the last edition of Office for Mere Mortals, we used the basic date formulas in
We have a look at some of the basic date formulas and how to combine them to make more powerful date-based functions. By Michael Barden In the last edition of Office for Mere Mortals we looked at the basics of the date and time formats, the different ways they can
What happens when a good Excel worksheet goes bad. Based on an article by Helen Bradley What happens when there’s an error in a worksheet? The answer is that it depends on what the worksheet is calculating and how bad the error is. Theoretically if an error were to over
We run through the basics related to date and time formats in Excel 2003. By Michael Barden Working with dates in Excel is a common task: Are you trying to determine the number of days between two dates? Do you need to know the date that is X number of
We delve even further into the AutoFill options in Excel and find out how to create a custom fill list. By Michael Barden Last week, we had a look at the basics of AutoFill in Excel – a function that is used to “automatically fill in” a series of data
We look at AutoFill – a powerful feature in Excel used to “automatically fill in” a series of data based on a small amount of input. By Michael Barden In this edition of Office for Mere Mortals, we will have a look at AutoFill – a powerful feature in Excel
We look at marking index entries across multiple pages, hidden text and a nifty add-on for regular indexers. By Michael Barden In the last issue of Office for Mere Mortals we looked at the basics of indexing in Word – setting up a document to be indexed and then generating
An index is a list of terms or topics that can be found within the document. We look at how to create an index in Microsoft Word. By Michael Barden In this and the next issue we’re going to talk about creating indexes in Microsoft Word. ‘Real’ books often have
How to make a Table of Figures in Microsoft Word. By Michael Barden In last week’s issue, we looked at how to make a table of contents. This week, we’ll look at the similar concept of how to make a table of figures. That’s a list of the images, graphs,
The basic options for making a Table of Contents in a Word document. In this issue we’ll look at the basic options for making a Table of Contents in a Word document. It’s very easy to do this in Word and it’s not just for people who are making books,
Wrapping up our comprehensive look at installing Office 2007. In our pre-Christmas issue of Mere Mortals we’ll continue our series on installing Office 2007, where we go far beyond the simple and simplistic instructions you’ll get from Microsoft. The parts of this series are online at: Part 1 Part 2
Tips on what to do after installing Office 2007. In the last two issues of Office for Mere Mortals we talked about installing Office 2007, firstly what hardware is sufficient to run Office 2007 properly (as opposed to Microsoft’s fanciful ideas) and then the things to do before installation and
All the options for installing Office 2007 including the complete listing of customise options. In the last issue of Office for Mere Mortals we talked about the hardware requirements for Office 2007, comparing Microsoft’s self-serving recommendations with some suggestions of our own for a computer that will not just run
Starting our comprehensive series on installing Office 2007, preparation, options and aftermath. You’ve been hearing about it for some time but Office 2007 is now a reality. It’s available for MSDN subscribers and organizations with volume licenses. Retail boxes will be available in January 2007. You might not get Office
Step-by-step instructions on forcing plain text display of all emails in Outlook or Outlook Express. It is possible to force all incoming messages to be displayed as plain text in either Outlook or Outlook Express and in this issue we’ll tell you how to do that, in case you prefer
The second part of our series on the basics of reviewing documents in Word. In a previous issue https://office-watch.com/?12 we gave a simple overview of the reviewing features in Word. When you strip away all the fancy jargon and marketing hype then you are left with a simple way to
In part 2 of our “Invisible Office” articles, we point out another assortment of simple, yet often “invisible” features in Office. THE INVISIBLE 80% OF OFFICE – PART 2 By Michael Barden According to Microsoft, around 80% of the feature requests they get for Office are already currently within the
In this article, we point out an assortment of simple, yet often “invisible” features in Office. THE INVISIBLE 80% OF OFFICE – PART 1 By Michael Barden According to Microsoft, around 80% of the feature requests they get for Office are already currently within the applications. That’s right – the
