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 Office. We customers can make […]
How to get more out of Microsoft Word or Excel by using the free collaboration and portability tools from Google. Living with Google Apps and Microsoft Office Google’s move to an online version of Office continues with the announcement that they have purchased an online presentation system. Later this year Google Docs and Spreadsheets will […]
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 so-called “Invisible 80% of Office”. […]
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 Excel as building blocks and […]
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 days in the future? Do […]
