March 30th, 2011 by Aseem Kishore
One of the most common things computer user’s do is cut, copy and paste stuff. When you’re cutting or copying from one place in a document to another, there’s not much to the story; when you’re cutting or copying text from a website perhaps, to a Word document on the other hand, things get a [...]
March 29th, 2011 by Aseem Kishore
One of the many gripes people have had about Microsoft products, at least in the past, has been the lack of customization regarding menus, which led to claims that Microsoft was out to tell us all what to do and how to do it all the time, rather than let us do what we want [...]
March 3rd, 2011 by Aseem Kishore
Microsoft Word not only rules the roost when it comes to word processing, the software giant has pushed most of its competitors out of the market. OpenOffice Writer, however, is a free word processor from Oracle to which many home and office users have turned to get the functionality of a high-quality word processor without [...]
February 27th, 2011 by Aseem Kishore
One of the things that is intimidating for a lot of Word users, is adding page numbers to documents when the first or second page is not to be numbered, or should be numbered with a different format, eg. i, ii, iii, and then 1, 2,3, in the second section etc. Microsoft still hasn’t made [...]
February 22nd, 2011 by Aseem Kishore
Windows Update does more than just update files for the operating system. It also updates applications such as those included in the Microsoft Office suites. Sometimes, the update procedure fails and produces error 0×80070646. Learn how to troubleshoot and fix Windows update error 0×80070646, which is sometimes referred to simply as error 646. Windows Update [...]
February 11th, 2011 by Aseem Kishore
Although Excel’s long list of functions is one of the most enticing features of Microsoft’s spreadsheet application, there a few underutilized gems that enhance these functions. One often-overlooked tool is the What-If Analysis. Excel’s What-If Analysis tool is broken down into three main components. The part discussed here is the powerful Goal Seek feature that [...]
February 4th, 2011 by Aseem Kishore
Each document you create in Word contains information about the document or Properties, such as the date the file was created, the author of the document, and the number of pages and words in the document. When you save the document, some of these properties are updates, such as the date on which the document [...]
January 20th, 2011 by Aseem Kishore
There may be times when you want to insert a bullet in the middle of a sentence or a line of text. For example, you might want to put bullets between parts of an address, as pictured below. The bullets above were inserted by holding down the Alt key and typing 0183. You can also [...]
January 13th, 2011 by Aseem Kishore
PowerPoint has become such as staple of business and educational presentations that many people have replaced the generic term electronic slides with the term PowerPoints. If you use PowerPoint presentations on a regular basis, you know it is sometimes difficult to know how much time your overall presentation will take. This is especially important when [...]
January 11th, 2011 by Aseem Kishore
If you’ve used Excel for any length of time, you know that this spreadsheet application is as adept at manipulating strings of text as it is at manipulating numbers. When it comes to functions, however, Excel users tend to be more familiar with the ones that compute new numbers than those that change text. If [...]