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How to do Page Down / Up using the mouse
Simple but useful. Try it out. Filed under: Office, Windows
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How to learn all Office keyboard shortcuts in 10 seconds!
Every menu item has a keyboard shortcut. You don’t even have to remember it. Just press and release ALT key and it is visible. Type what you see. No need to press key combinations. Just one key at a...
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Irritating = Extremely Useful – The “Enable Editing” button
Since Office 2013, you will often see a yellow bar at the top asking you to Enable Editing. Unless you press this button, you cannot type anything or format any content. This may sound irritating, but...
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Amazing Office apps for Android Phones
Till now, Android phones just had a single Office app. This had limited functionality. Now, we have separate apps for Word, Excel and PowerPoint. And what an amazing job the MS team has done. With such...
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Office Apps for Android and iOS: Where to store files?
This is a short but important article. Now, Microsoft has updated all individual Office apps to include support for many storage locations out of the box. Most people have not noticed this flexibility....
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Understanding Live Preview in Office
Probably you have used it some times. But it is important to understand how to use it and when NOT to use it. Live Preview shows many options – visually. These options typically work on a selection....
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Something going wrong? Try SAFE mode
This works for all Office products. When things go wrong or the application starts very slowly, or gets hung while starting or misbehaves in any way, it is worth trying starting it in SAFE mode. How...
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Office Best Practices Video on Microsoft Channel 9
Spend 30 minutes and save at least 10 minutes every day. Learn powerful time savers and amazing features which work across Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Have a look. Post your comments. More videos...
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Quick and easy: Backspace and Delete
Recently I noticed that many people don’t know this. So here it is. Look at where your editing cursor is. If you want to remove things on the LEFT side of the cursor, use BACKSPACE key. If you want to...
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Outlook 2016: Insert Attachments – Recent Files
As you know, the new version of Office is almost ready. I will be covering the new features in future articles. Here is the first one. Simple but extremely useful capability. While inserting...
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New, better alternative to Pie Charts: Treemap
We have been using Pie Charts for decades. Although these are useful for looking at proportions, there are disadvantages. Now, we have a more effective and easier to interpret chart available in Office...
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In-depth: Customizing Quick Access Toolbar Precisely
QAT is a great way of putting commonly used buttons just one click away. I found a nice way of adding buttons at the right location. Read on to find out how… The Need You must read these articles to …...
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Outlook 2016: Insert Attachment shows OneDrive recent files
Office 2016 has enhanced the integration with cloud. Inserting attachments into a mail requires you to select the file to be inserted. Often this file is something you have been working on very...
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Office 2016 – Better look and feel options for menus (ribbon)
This is the first thing you should do when you get Office 2016. There are three options available. Choose the one which suits you the best. Try each for few days if you are not sure. Here are the...
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IT as an Enabler (really!) – use Office Group Policy
This article is for IT professionals only. The language is technical. As a user it is not relevant to you. IT presentations say “IT is an enabler”. But ask any user – they will tell you that the...
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What did I learn today: Remove all hyperlinks
Excel provides a direct feature. Select multiple sheets and select the desired range. Home – Clear – Clear Hyperlinks. The default blue color and underline is NOT removed. Therefore, you may feel that...
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Hierarchical data visualization: New Chart – Sunburst
Office 2016 has introduced two new charts for hierarchical data: Treemap and Sunburst. Let us explore Sunburst in this article. These charts do NOT work as Pivot Charts. We will use the same data as...
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Quality Management 4: Histogram (using Excel 2016)
Well, the histogram articles don’t seem to be ending. I promise, this is the last one. With Excel 2016, a new chart type called Histogram was introduced. Now we don’t need either Data Analysis ToolPak...
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Quality Management 5: Pareto Chart
This chart is used to analyze important factors and prioritize action items. It is a combination of bar and line chart. Bar chart shows the data in descending order of importance and line chart shows...
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How many features does Microsoft Office have?
I often mention during my sessions and posts that we have 12000+ Office features. Some of you may be wondering as to where I got that number from. Here is the list. It covers only Word, Excel,...
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