Outlook Tips
Welcome to a snow-delayed version of the elite Tech Tips blog.This week we have important information for Outlook. Changing font size in Microsoft Outlook Calendar Do you find yourself squinting to read the appointments you’ve set up on your calendar?Do you sometimes think something starts at the wrong time because it is just too small to tell?You …
Read MoreEnd of the semester wrapup and Out of Office AutoReply
Well, it’s that time of year again.The ground is frosty, students aren’t sleeping, and faculty have a long week of grading exams ahead.It must be almost Christmas break! We want to make sure that you know one more Outlook trick before you go off for your relaxing vacation. Out of Office AutoReply If you are going to …
Read MoreReveal formatting, Fast Formulas, Viewing Conversations
Reveal Formatting Ever try to fix formatting that refuses to change? You can start with a clean slate by removing all formatting from the selection—select the block of text and press Ctrl-Shift-N. Alternatively, you can use Word’s Reveal Formatting task pane to modify the formatting. In Word 2007, just hit Shift-F1. When you click on an underlined link, …
Read MoreEverything PowerPoint
Here a few quick pointers to make your PowerPoint presentations easier and better! PowerPoint’s Presenter View PowerPoint has for many years had a great feature called Presenter View, which allows you as the presenter to see a different view of the presentation from your audience. In Presenter View, your monitor shows not only the slides, …
Read MoreKeyboard Shortcuts in Microsoft Office
Hey everybody, This week, we have some great hidden features in Microsoft Office programs.These are things that are neat, will save you a lot of time, and that most people don’t know about. Zooming in and out of a document You can use the scroll button on your mouse to zoom in and out of documents …
Read MoreResizing Excel Columns, Duplicating Objects in PowerPoint, and Adding More Levels of Undo
This week, we have a hodgepodge of various shortcuts in Microsoft Office.First off, Resizing Excel Columns to Fit Text In Microsoft Office Excel, you can resize multiple columns to different widths so that you can see all the text in your spreadsheet. 1. Select the columns where your text appears by clicking the column headings. Select …
Read MoreConditional Formatting and the Status bar in Excel
Happy Tuesday everybody, This week, we have the third installment of our Microsoft Office shortcuts.These quick commands will save you a lot of time and make you much more efficient.In our poll on the right sidebar, you indicated that Microsoft Excel was the trickiest of the Office programs, so this week’s post will revolve …
Read MoreOffice Shortcuts Part 2
Moving and Copying Cells in Excel Probably the most useful yet completely undiscoverable feature in Excel is the ability to move and copy cells by dragging selection borders. The selection border is the black line that outlines a cell when it is clicked. So, in the example above, we are trying to insert Row 4, the row …
Read MoreOffice Shortcuts
With this week’s blog, we want to show you a couple ways you can be more efficient with Microsoft Office programs. Here are a few quick and easy ways to save you a lot of time: 1. The Format Painter Tool On the Home tab of any Microsoft Office program, there is a window called Clipboard that …
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