Following on from my last tip on how to create a template in PowerPoint here I am going to discuss where to place it on your network. Microsoft products come with a selection of templates that make your choices easy to create a wonderful and colourful presentation. Most large companies however do have a…
When I sit in a presentation, I take note of how it is presented and what it looks like. Has the speaker for instance created something new that I find both interesting and want to copy for my own presentations. I do find though that some companies do not make their presenters keep to a…
Over the past 25 years I have constantly been asked how to easily extract single words out of multiple words in a cell in Excel. This is normally because people receive imported data from external applications where, for example, people’s names are merged into a single. It used to be a pain to do this…
I’m sure many of you get so very frustrated when you have typed a lot of text then look up at the screen to see that it’s been typed in the wrong case. What you wanted in lower case is in upper and vice versa. I find it amazing that no one has told you…
In the heart of Finland is a technological design company that is helping to build the office of the future. Framery designs and builds sound proofed booths that work as quiet rooms and meetings rooms within offices. They are moveable and are being snapped up across the world by Fortune 500 companies. Its customers include…
Hands up who doesn’t like the new way in which the MS Office Quick Access folder – which used to be called Favourites works now. Changing the name to Quick Access Folder only seems to be causing confusion for people with the Quick Access Toolbar. For me, do like the fact that folders you access regularly…
Placing images into your text is a great idea as this breaks up the block of text that sometimes overwhelms the reader. You have already (I hope) read my tip on how to place pictures and use the word wrap tool for images in my last tip. I would like to introduce you to the…
Last week I showed you how to create columns of text in Word for a newsletter type of document. Today I shall show you how to place pictures into this text and make the ‘story’ more appealing to read. The saying is “a picture paints a thousand words” so use that to your advantage. Embellish…
When creating newsletters and the like, you may find yourself wanting to layout the text in a more traditional newspaper way. We are creatures of habit. As such we find reading small columns of text to be the correct way to read news. Follow these simple steps to create a beautiful newsletter in Microsoft Word…
If there is just one thing that I would do away with in Excel it is the Merge & Centre button found on the home tab in the Alignment section. This may be a lovely useful feature to many of you but it can cause such havoc further down the line that I feel it…