Helen Bradley

If you haven’t added a blog to your online store, given the state of the economy, now is a good time to consider doing so, as they can be an affordable way to market your e-commerce site. For some Web shop owners, it is the perfect forum for offering insider tips and sharing your expertise, […]

PowerPoint is a great tool for developing products catalogs that you can use for sales and other types of presentations. This often involves adding lots of photos and images to your presentation. While you can do this manually, it’s much faster and easier to harness the power of PowerPoint to do most of the work […]

Sometimes when I’m working with an Excel worksheet and I want a cell to look a certain way, I run into what appears to be a limitation in the program. It might be trying to enter product numbers with leading zeros or trying to make numbers show their unit of measure in the cell along […]

With an outline in place, you can click the + and – markers to display or hide parts of the worksheet data When you have a lot of data in an Excel worksheet it often becomes necessary to summarize the information to get to the crux of what it is telling you. There are a […]

Often during the day you’ll get a feeling of déjà vu that tells you that you’ve done some task before. When it’s a document you find yourself creating time and again, perhaps it’s time to turn the original document into a reusable template. In this article I’ll show you how to create templates from standard […]

Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet application that you can use to record data, make calculations and create charts. In this article I’ll introduce you to the basics of working in Excel. We’ll look at how to create, format and print a simple worksheet and how to chart the data in it. Enter this sample data […]

One nice thing about Microsoft Office applications is that they’ve been designed to talk to each other. For example, you can take an Excel chart and place it in a Word document to illustrate a report. While the process of putting an Excel chart in a Word document is simple, there are three ways that […]

A well-drawn chart turns columns of numbers into something that can be more easily read and understood. Using charts in a PowerPoint presentation makes it easier for your audience to draw inferences from your data, which can help them to better understand the concepts you are presenting. PowerPoint 2007 has several new tools for working […]

The basic forms and reports that Access creates automatically make a good starting point for your database projects. It is, however, likely that you’ll want to improve them so they look better and are more functional. In this article I’ll show you how you can use Access Design View to add additional efficiency to forms […]

One typical application for Excel is to find information in a list of data. The simplest way to do this is filtering the data so that Excel does the work of finding the pertinent information for you rather than you having to do this manually. The filtering tools in Microsoft Excel 2007 are more sophisticated […]

As I showed in my first Excel functions article, the serious meat in any spreadsheet is the formulas and functions that perform the calculations. Excel offers functions that you can use to make the process of computing the results simpler for many standard calculations. In this article I’ll show you some useful examples; I’ll tell […]

To get started creating a Web site in Publisher 2003 launch the program or choose File > New to display the New Publication task pane. From the Web Sites and E-mail dropdown list choose Web Sites to show your four options. You have a number of options for creating a range of different Web sites […]