by Colin Foster | Mar 8, 2021 | Microsoft PowerPoint, Tips and Tricks
In a face to face situation, when delivering a PowerPoint presentation, you can point out key items with the laser pointer that’s part of your “clicker”, or you may have a separate laser pointer, or a physical pointer or, at its most basic, you can walk up to the...
by Colin Foster | Mar 1, 2021 | Microsoft Word, Tips and Tricks
Do you have a long list of names and addresses that you need to send letters to? The Mail Merge process combines a Word document with a data source to quickly create letters that feel personal. Mail Merge Definitions Starting Document (Main Document) A document that...
by Colin Foster | Jan 13, 2021 | Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Excel
There are three ways that we can calculate price increases. The first calculates the increase & then adds this to the original value; the second calculates the new price only (though, of course, we can use that & the original price to work out the difference)....
by Colin Foster | Jan 12, 2021 | Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft PowerPoint, Tips and Tricks
Many of us use PowerPoint to support the delivery of a report, talk or similar. The document has already been written (so we know what we’re talking about!), but we now need to pull together a presentation to go through the key points. Fortunately, we don’t have to do...
by Colin Foster | Jan 11, 2021 | Microsoft Word, Microsoft Word, Tips and Tricks
One of my friends, Gordon, has written a book. It’s something that he’s been working on for a while & he asked my help with some of the formatting and editing. One thing that he wanted to include in the document was a Watermark behind the text to act as a...
