Auto updating your Excel Charts
How to make an Excel chart that changes as you add more cells or rows is really simple these days. Read More
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More Word Find / Search tricks
Following on from our introductionFind pane search secrets in Word here’s some Word Find tricks that you might find useful. Read More
Find pane search secrets in Word
Search for text and more within a document using the Find side-pane feature in Word. There are secrets making it Read More
Footnotes and Endnotes in Word
Getting started with Word’s footnotes and endnotes. Footnotes is one of those Word features that’s been around for a long Read More
The Old Alt + X trick
Quickly insert symbols, characters and emoji in Microsoft Word without taking your fingers off the keyboard. Inserting Symbols into Word Read More
Difference between 'Pickup where you left off' and GoBack 'Shift + F5'.
Microsoft Word’s ‘Pickup where you left off’ or ‘Welcome back’ message is different from the Shift+F5 shortcut. All the recent Read More
SSD's - some tips
If you want to take the plunge to Solid State Drives, here are some comments from our experience. Mostly for Read More
Solid State Drives and Microsoft Office
Are there any advantages to getting an Solid State Drive (SSD) when running Microsoft Office? We have some advice from Read More
Access: Persistence of Reference Problems
Back in 2002 I wrote an Access Archon article dealing with reference issues, among them the problem of certain references Read More
Found! Shortcut to the Find dialog
There is a way to make a shortcut or menu button to jump directly to the Find dialog box, as Read More
Find and Do
You can use Find combined with your own actions and easily switch between the Find and editing. That’s great for Read More
Find in Word
We’ve all seen the standard Find/Replace in Word, either the ‘new’ pane or the older dialog box. Like so much Read More
When web links don’t work in Office
When you type or paste a web link into Office, it normally converts it into a web link automatically. But Read More
FedEx email that isn’t
A friend is expecting a parcel via Fedex and got the email shown below, so they wondered if it was Read More
Military Discount for Australians and others
John Harcourt-Rigg writes …. “Could you tell me why Microsoft do not offer a similar discount programme for users of Read More
How to get a refund on your Office 365 subscription
UPDATE: we’ve totally updated this article see How to get a refund of Office 365 With the release of the ‘free’ Read More
Handling Emails and Phones in Access
Q: Arne Johnston writes that he has four phone number fields in a table, but that is not enough. How Read More
Dealing with the “Field Cannot be Updated” Error
Access Archon Column #234 By Helen Feddema Access versions: 2007-2013 Level: Intermediate Introduction Sometimes, when working on an Access subform, Read More
Office for Mac 2015 roadmap
As part of the Outlook for Mac release, Microsoft has indicated their Office for Mac plans. A new Office for Read More
New Outlook for Mac
Microsoft has released a new version of Outlook for Macintosh computers with new features but it’s not available to everyone. Read More