Tips – How to create a Watermark in Word
You won’t believe it but yes I have seen many people actually use a highlighter pen to write diagonally across a document that it is a draft or a copy rather...
Tips – Sorting a filtered list in Excel
My students are great because they always pose questions on my courses. One that most commonly crops up is the one where they need to know if once they have filtered...
Create a Shortcut key for the strikethrough effect in Word
I had a student approach me the other day who asked if there were shortcut keys to change a highlighted word into bold or underlined or even italic. And could you...
Want to open files quickly from the application Icon on the Task Bar?
Using Windows 10 you have a jump list from the icon of each application on the task bar. This is a great way to open a file that you have recently...
Using a list of choices to input data in Excel.
It can be so frustrating when you look over a database of information to find that how data was input can limit your ability to report on the data. This is...
Tips – PKI
This week's tip is a brief look at the basics of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is a set of technologies, process and practices that create a secure infrastructure that...
Exit from an application in Windows.
Do you get thoroughly frustrated when you have worked hard all day and then you need to spend what seems like half an hour closing and saving files you have used...
Using Grouping in Excel
As part of my training process I do what's known as floor walking. This is when I walk about the company I have done some training at so that anyone can...
When two files have almost the same headings and need to be combined.
In my last tip I wrote about how to combine, or consolidate, two or more spreadsheets that had the same layout and headings. These needed to be combined in an all-inclusive...
How to change case in Excel
You may well know that in Word you can change the case of your text very easily. What was originally all in lower case you can change to All upper or...
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