How to Create an Organizational Chart in PowerPoint
Whether for business or a family tree, it’s easy to create an organizational chart using SmartArt in Microsoft PowerPoint. Let’s get started.
How to Find and Replace Special Characters in Microsoft Word
In addition to searching and replacing text, Word lets you search for special characters—tabs, indents, paragraph marks, and so on—and then replace them with other special characters. This can be handy for quick and easy …
How to Create a Pop-Up in PowerPoint
PowerPoint can pop up an image when you hover your pointer over a thumbnail image. This lets you keep a nice, clean slide, but also show your audience more information when you want to.
How to Use Guidelines to Line Up PowerPoint Objects
If you have several images on a slide, you can align your objects both horizontally and vertically for a more professional look. There are guides and gridlines available to help you align objects manually, and there are optio…
How to Add the Developer Tab to the Microsoft Office Ribbon
The Developer tab is not displayed on the Ribbon in Office apps by default, but it’s easy to add and gives you access to advanced features like macros, ActiveX controls, and form controls to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Vis…
How to Insert Music Symbols in a Word Document
Did you know there are music symbols that you add to your Microsoft Word document without adding graphic images? Let’s take a look.
How to Prevent PowerPoint from Automatically Resizing Text
In PowerPoint, when you type, you may notice that if you enter more text than can fit inside a text placeholder, the text is automatically resized to a smaller size. This is called AutoFit. In some cases, that might be helpfu…
How to Print a Range of Pages in a Multi-Section Word Document
When you print in Microsoft Word, you can print the whole document, the current page, or a range of pages. But what if you have a document with multiple sections, each of which has its own page numbering? There’s a nifty litt…
How to Draw and Manipulate Arrows in Microsoft PowerPoint
Whether you need to point to an image or chart for emphasis, show movement, or demonstrate a process flow, PowerPoint offers a wide range of arrow shapes. Here’s how to use them.
How to Make a Border or Frame on a PowerPoint Slide
Although there’s not a specific command to add a border to a whole slide, there are a couple of ways you can make it happen. One way is to create a border using the outline of a shape. The second is to use the Bing Image Sear…
How to Draw and Manipulate Arrows in Microsoft Word
Whether you need to point to an image for emphasis or demonstrate where to click for interactivity, there is a wide range of arrow shapes that you can create and customize in Microsoft Word. Let’s take a look at how they work…
How to Print Just the Speaker Notes for a PowerPoint Presentation
You’ve got your speaker notes set up in your PowerPoint presentation, and now you want to print a copy for quick reference. Here’s how to print speaker notes for a PowerPoint Presentation—with and without slide thumbnails….
How to Find and Replace Formatting in Microsoft Word
Microsoft Word’s Find and Replace feature isn’t just for replacing text. You can also use Find and Replace to locate specific types of formatting throughout your document and even replace that formatting with something else….
How to Find and Replace Text in Microsoft Word
Have you ever finishing typing a letter, report or presentation only to discover that you misspelled a person’s name or had the wrong company listed multiple times throughout your document? No worries—it’s an easy fix. Usi…
How to Use Wildcards When Searching in Word 2016
Word has a powerful search feature that lets you search for text, numbers, formats, paragraphs, page breaks, wildcards, field codes, and more. By using wildcards, you can search for just about everything in your document. Let…
All the Best Microsoft PowerPoint Keyboard Shortcuts
Even if you’re familiar with Microsoft PowerPoint, you might be surprised by the number and variety of keyboard shortcuts you can use to speed up your work and generally make things more convenient.
All the Best Microsoft Excel Keyboard Shortcuts
Even if you’re familiar with Microsoft Excel, you might be surprised by the number and variety of keyboard shortcuts you can use to speed up your work and generally make things more convenient.
How to Alphabetize Lists and Tables in Microsoft Word
Microsoft Word makes it easy for you to alphabetize text, whether that text is on its own, in a list, or part of a table. Let’s take a look at how it’s done.
How to Add a Background Color, Picture, or Texture to a Word Document
You can quickly add visual appeal to your Microsoft Word document by adding a background color, image or texture. You can choose from a variety of colors and fill effects. Adding a colorful background image can be helpful whe…
How to Create and Format a Text Box in Microsoft Word
Text boxes let you emphasize or bring focus to specific text in a Microsoft Word document. You can choose from a variety of preformatted text boxes, or draw and format your own. They’re great for adding things like pull quote…
