Helen Bradley

There is no avoiding the fact; Microsoft Word is a very powerful program that has way more features than you’re probably ever going to need. When you are just getting started with Word the entire program can look just a little bit overwhelming. Even simple tasks like getting a picture into the right place can […]

While Word 2007 ships with a swag of handy Quick Parts for creating great-looking headers and footers in your documents, sometimes these don’t look exactly as you want them to look. With the new tools available in Word 2007 you can create custom headers and footers for your documents that function in the same way […]

Every business, large or small, uses marketing materials – from business cards and letterhead to flyers and posters. Typically, a commercial print shop would have designed and printed these materials, but with the advent of desktop publishing software and quality printers you can create good-looking marketing materials. Selecting a single design-set gives all your documents […]

When used judiciously, PowerPoint animation effects add variety and visual interest to your slide presentations and make it easier for your audience to retain information. For example, you can spice up routine slides with bullet points or chart bars that appear only when you’re ready to discuss them and not all at once. The Slide […]

When you’re working on a large worksheet it’s easy to lose track of where important details are. As soon as the worksheet grows beyond screen size, valuable information can disappear out of view. There are, however, ways that you can configure Excel so that the information that you need to refer to frequently is visible, […]

Some of Word’s most powerful features are hidden from view, and one of these is field codes. While you may have encountered field codes when using mail merge, that’s not the only task you can accomplish with field codes. In this article we’ll look at how you can use field codes by themselves and in […]

From automatically inserting and formatting data to marking the place someone needs to type into a template, Word fields are the tool to use. Unfortunately, as useful as they are, Word doesn’t make field codes easy to find and a quick first glance at the field codes dialog won’t exactly enlighten you to their potential […]

when you are working with data in Microsoft Excel the data you have to work with won’t be presented in a way that you need it to be. There are a number of options for displaying your data and one of these is to use what is commonly referred to as a dashboard. Excel Dashboards […]

One of the new features of Microsoft Word 2007 is its Building Blocks tool. On the face of it this looks like a simple tool for storing repeatedly used text and adding this text to your document. While at one level this is the case, at another level building blocks are a lot more sophisticated […]

The rationale behind creating a database is typically to store data that you need to access for business purposes. While creating the actual database and its data entry forms and reports is a necessary first step, the day-to-day work on the database generally involves getting business information out of it. Watch the video: Extracting Data […]

Functions, some of the most useful tools in Excel, let you perform a variety of tasks automatically within a spreadsheet. They return different results depending on certain circumstances, such as whether a particular condition is true or false. Excel includes a number of these functions that you can use to not only to make working […]

One of the big benefits of a word processor is the ability to spell check your work. Instead of sending out documents littered with typos and misspellings, it’s easy to ensure that your work is correctly spelled. Even if you don’t realize a word is a misspelling, chances are that Microsoft Word does, and it […]