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Recover Data from a Corrupt Excel File

kjackson_ott — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:11:45 +0000

Excel files are commonly used to keep and make sense of large amounts of data. Some companies have painstakingly used the same spreadsheets through two decades of Excel versions. So, having a precious spreadsheet suddenly become corrupt is a devastating experience. Recovering data from a corrupt file can be a pain. One of the most [...]

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Recover Data from a Corrupt Excel File

Create and Use Windows Live Business Cards

byirka — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 11:47:58 +0000

Microsoft, in its never ending quest to bring its online user community every advantage that is available to people who communicate in person, has a feature in Windows Live Mail that is meant to replicate the passing of business cards back and forth. And while you still can’t drop them in a jar at restaurant [...]

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Create and Use Windows Live Business Cards

Dress up your Text in Word 2010 Using Gradient Fills

byirka — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 11:45:01 +0000

Gradient fills might not seem like the most exciting thing in the word, but they can truly dress up an otherwise dreary document, and in learning all the ways that you can dress up your text using gradients, you also learn a lot about how to use other Word 2010 graphics features. To begin, a [...]

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Dress up your Text in Word 2010 Using Gradient Fills

How to Do Simple Math Using Microsoft Excel 2010

byirka — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:32:33 +0000

A lot of times people find themselves wanting to do some simple math and find that what they want to do is a little complicated for Windows Calculator, and then wonder if it might not be easier to do the job in Microsoft Excel. Unfortunately, since so many people rarely if ever use Excel, they [...]

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How to Do Simple Math Using Microsoft Excel 2010

Create and Use Basic Formulas in MS Excel 2010

byirka — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:08:05 +0000

Oftentimes people avoid using certain programs because they figure the learning curve might be too long or the amount of time invested won’t be worth the eventual payoff. Nowhere is this more apparent than Microsoft Excel, the spreadsheet program that comes with the Office suite of applications. Millions of people the world over have this [...]

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Create and Use Basic Formulas in MS Excel 2010

Create Basic Charts in MS Excel 2010 the Easy Way

byirka — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:47:36 +0000

Let’s face it, a lot of people are still intimidated by Excel; all those numbers and it has that grid and it just seems like it would take quite an investment of time to even get started. The problem with that line of thinking though, is it just isn’t true, not anymore; take creating charts [...]

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Create Basic Charts in MS Excel 2010 the Easy Way

Dynamically Link an Excel Spreadsheet into a Word 2010 Document

byirka — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 11:43:16 +0000

There are times when you’re working in both Word and Excel where you’d like the data that you’re using in Excel to appear in your word document as a table, but you’d also like any changes you make to the Excel sheet to be automatically updated in your Word document. This is possible using dynamic [...]

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Dynamically Link an Excel Spreadsheet into a Word 2010 Document

Enable Text-to-Speech in Outlook 2010

kjackson_ott — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:15:17 +0000

Email is the communication medium of choice for most of large businesses. Employees often feel drowned in the sheer amount of emails received in a given day. Instead of skimming emails and potentially missing important information, a better way to multitask is to set Outlook to read emails to you. Outlook 2010 has built-in text-to-speech [...]

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Enable Text-to-Speech in Outlook 2010

How to Use Conditional Formatting with Excel 2010

byirka — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:15:29 +0000

One of the neat features of Excel is how there are so many cool ways to automatically show off your data; and one of those ways is by using Conditional Formatting. In short Conditional Formatting is where Excel causes formatting to occur based on the contents of the cell. To see how this works, create [...]

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How to Use Conditional Formatting with Excel 2010

How to Use the Excel 2010 Basic Fill Feature

byirka — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:47:55 +0000

Microsoft Excel has had a fill feature of some kind going back several versions, and while each version did much the same as the last, you couldn’t always count on things just exactly the same way; below is the way it works in Excel 2010. To begin, let’s start with a simple data sheet: Next, [...]

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How to Use the Excel 2010 Basic Fill Feature

Use Templates in MS OneNote 2010

byirka — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 12:21:44 +0000

With the latest additions to its Office suite of products, Microsoft has added new functionality to all its entire lineup, and OneNote is no exception. One change that many users have noticed right away is the lack of a Templates choice on the main ribbon, or any other ribbon for that matter. This is because [...]

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Use Templates in MS OneNote 2010

Track Changes When Two or More People Work on the Same Word 2010 Document

byirka — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 12:22:59 +0000

Quite often, especially in a work environment, multiple people wind up working on the same Word document, although not necessarily at the same time. While this makes sense because oftentimes a document needs input from several people, or its edited by more than one, such activity can make it difficult to keep track of who [...]

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Track Changes When Two or More People Work on the Same Word 2010 Document

Use Find/Replace to Format Documents in Word 2010

byirka — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 11:00:41 +0000

One of the little secrets of Word 2010 is the Format option that comes with the Find/Replace feature; with it, you can format certain parts of your document automatically, quickly and easily. To see how, bring up a document or create a dummy document that you can use for testing formatting options. Here’s the one [...]

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Use Find/Replace to Format Documents in Word 2010

Create and Use Automatic Macros in Word 2010

byirka — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 12:00:11 +0000

One thing many people may not know about Word is that it has several standard macros that run automatically depending on the circumstance. For those that don’t know what macro’s are, they are Word commands that are stored in a file and executed one after the other, like a little program. As an example, if [...]

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Create and Use Automatic Macros in Word 2010

How to Write Equations in Word 2010

byirka — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:13:01 +0000

One of the nice new features of Word 2010 is the update and expansion of the Equation Editor; where before writing equations in Word required the use of add-ons, and generally a lot of fooling around trying to get your equations to look just write in Word, now, it’s as simple as jumping into the [...]

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How to Write Equations in Word 2010