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  • Microsoft Word Basics: How to Select Text Effectively
    Using Microsoft Word allows you to create highly effective documents that are professional and pristine. However many users of this powerful application still find the simple task of selecting text challenging, especially in long documents.
  • Microsoft Excel Basics: What Are Functions?
    Microsoft Excel allows you to write any formula that you require in a cell using basic mathematical operators such as Brackets, Division, Multiplication, Subtraction and Addition however it is easy for these formulas to become complex very quickly.
  • Microsoft Excel Basics: How to Embed a Chart
    Microsoft Excel is a powerful tool that allows you to take data from your worksheet and position the chart within the worksheet. This type of chart is known as an Embedded Chart.
  • Microsoft Excel 2003 - How to Name a Range
    One of the most common functions that you will use in Microsoft Excel is to name a cell. The role of naming the cell is simply to provide you with a name to remember rather than a specific cell address like B2 or B3. However, one of the cool functions that Microsoft has incorporated into Microsoft Excel is the ability to name a range of cells and utilize the range when required.
  • Basic Word: Use Autocorrect to Deal with Acronyms Easily
    The world today has gone literally gone acronym crazy. Every industry has its own plethora of acronyms to bamboozle the uninitiated. Acronyms are also often a source of great pain for those people who have to create procedure documents for their industry.
  • Basic Excel: Developing Your First Spreadsheet
    Developing your first worksheet can be an exciting time but there are a few things you need to be aware of. When entering data into a cell, the data is normally going to be text, numbers or a formula.
  • Microsoft Excel: Working With Toolbars
    Toolbars are a crucial part of the Microsoft Excel 2003 Application and assist in improving your productivity and efficiency in the application. Microsoft Excel contains a range of toolbars that you can use for a variety of different tasks.
  • Microsoft Excel: Unleashing Microsoft Excel’s Menus
    Microsoft Excel 2000 introduced two new menu features called expanding menus and recently used commands and this feature has been continued in the version of Microsoft Excel 2003.
  • Microsoft Excel: What Is Spreadsheeting?
    The concept of spreadsheeting has been around for hundreds of years. The process can be described as the ability to arrange numbers, characters and other objects into rows and columns. It is most common that spreadsheets only contain numbers and text.
  • Microsoft Excel 2003: How To Control What Data Can Be Entered Into A Microsoft Excel Cell?
    Microsoft Excel by default allows you to enter any type of data into a cell however sometimes when you are developing a spreadsheet for use by your staff or external people you will want to control what data can be entered into a specific cell.
  • Absolute References Vs Relative References in Microsoft Excel
    Microsoft Excel is built on a regime of Columns and Rows with the intersection of these two elements giving us our cells. The cells in Microsoft Excel are always named Columns and then Rows, so a typical cell address would look something like - AB256. This particular cell is found on column AB and in row 256.
  • How To Learn Your Keyboard Shortcuts!
    Knowing your shortcut keystrokes should be the number one priority when you start learning to use your computer but unfortunately with the advent of the mouse, learning your shortcut keystrokes seems to be less of a priority and more of a luxury. The really bizarre thing about knowing your shortcuts is that you can be up to 5 times more efficient than somebody that does not know them.
  • How Autocorrect in Microsoft Word Can Help You With Acronyms
    The world today has gone literally gone acronym crazy. Every industry has its own plethora of acronyms to bamboozle the uninitiated. Acronyms are also often a source of great pain for those people who have to create procedure documents for their industry. There is a way to survive this turmoil through the power of Autocorrect and it will definitely save you time.
  • How AutoText In Microsoft Word Can Save You Hours Of Typing
    Microsoft Word is one of the most powerful desktop publishing tools available on the planet and is incredibly feature rich yet because of its complexity, many features are often unused by Microsoft Word operators. One of the features that I do see under utilised is the AutoText function.c
  • The Secret Microsoft Excel Steps That Allows You To Select 50 Columns with just 5 Mouse Clicks
    One of the great challenges that we have when working with Microsoft Excel is selecting large volumes of columns or rows as quickly as possible. The core reason we usually need to select such large numbers of columns is usually to hide them. For example if you are building a template for users to use, you would generally try to ensure that the only cells that they see is just the ones that you want them to use or put data into.
  • How to Create A Microsoft Excel Database
    The term Microsoft Excel Database has never really sat very well with me since my primary role in the IT world has been in developing database and what is used by the spreadsheeting fraternity is what I consider an over glorified list. However, for the sake of peace, I want to outline some of the principles you must follow in building what is known as the Microsoft Excel Database.

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