by Colin Foster | Mar 15, 2021 | Microsoft Excel, Tips and Tricks
When we have a list of data, sometimes it can be quite difficult to extract information from it quickly and efficiently. However, provided that we’ve the right sort of information in the various columns of our list, then we can make a start by using Excel’s...
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 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...
by Colin Foster | Apr 18, 2019 | Microsoft PowerPoint, Tips and Tricks
PowerPoint has a really useful feature: being able to save Presentations as “Shows”. These allow people without PowerPoint on their computer to still watch the presentation. The downside is that they’re not, on the face of it, editable. And that was...
