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How to Add Line Numbers to a Microsoft Word Document

Adding line numbers to a Microsoft Word document can help you point others to exact positions within it, especially in documents with multiple pages. Here’s how to quickly add line numbers in Word....

Ben Stockton Jan 24th

How to Make One Long Column into Multiple Columns in Excel

Too much data in a single column can make your Microsoft Excel spreadsheet harder to read. To improve it, you should consider splitting up your column using the “Text to Columns” or “Flash Fill” featur...

Ben Stockton Jan 23rd

How to Print an Excel Spreadsheet with a Background

By default, when you print an Excel spreadsheet, it only includes cells that contain data. Extra content is typically excluded, but it is possible to add a background to your Excel printouts—here’s how to do it....

Ben Stockton Jan 22nd

How to Stop Excel From Moving the Selection Box When You Hit Enter

When you type information into Excel and press the Enter key, the selection box moves to the cell below. This is the standard behavior of Excel, but you might find this frustrating. Fortunately, the default setting can be cha...

Alan Murray Jan 15th

How to Find and Replace Text and Numbers in Excel

The Find and Replace tool is a powerful yet often forgotten feature of Excel. Let’s see how it can be used to find and replace text and numbers in a spreadsheet and also some of its advanced features....

Alan Murray Jan 14th

How to Dim the Appearance of Text in PowerPoint

Marshall Gunnell Jan 10th

How to Add Space Between Text and Cell Borders in Excel

Adding a bit of extra padding to your cell boundaries can make it easier for you to read through data in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. If you want to add extra white space between text and cell borders, here’s how....

Ben Stockton Jan 9th

How to Duplicate a Page in Microsoft Word

There are plenty of reasons why you might want to duplicate a page in a Microsoft Word document, especially if you’re creating a template. It’s a pretty simple process, so here’s how to do it....

Ben Stockton Jan 8th

How to Change the Paper Size in Microsoft Word

Documents come in different shapes and sizes, like legal or brochure. In Word, you can change the paper size to fit the type of document you’re working on, or change the default paper size for all new documents. We&#821...

Marshall Gunnell Jan 7th

How to Save a Word Document as a JPEG

There might come a time when you’d rather share a Word document as an image that anyone can open. Unfortunately, you can’t export a document as a JPEG, but there are a few other simple solutions. Here are a few....

Marshall Gunnell Jan 6th

How to Add a Default Signature to an Outlook Meeting Request

An odd quirk in Outlook is the inability to add a default signature to meeting requests. Here’s a quick and simple way to set up a one-click solution that avoids cutting and pasting every time you create a meeting....

Rob Woodgate Jan 2nd

How to Create a Page Border in Microsoft Word

Adding a page border to your document can be a subtle way to make your Microsoft Word documents stand out. You can customize the style, thickness, and number of pages for a border to apply to your Word document....

Ben Stockton Dec 31st, 2019

How (and Why) to Start Microsoft Word from the Command Prompt

Like most apps, you can launch Word from the Command Prompt, but Word also supports several optional switches for controlling the startup process.

Marshall Gunnell May 24th, 2019

How to Merge and Unmerge Cells in Microsoft Excel

Merging and unmerging cells in Microsoft Excel is a great way to keep your spreadsheet clean, well-organized, and easy to understand. The most common use is creating a header to identify the content across several columns, bu...

Marshall Gunnell May 7th, 2019

Where Are the Admin Tools for Office 365?

For most people, Microsoft Office 365 is a bunch of applications like Outlook, Word, Excel, etc. But if you have your own domain, you can also manage your users, groups, policies, and more. Let’s take a look....

Rob Woodgate Feb 20th, 2019

How to Pause Audio on a PowerPoint Presentation

Slideshows are, more often than not, accompanied by a great deal of speaking, so it’s no surprise that you might sometimes need to pause the audio during the presentation. PowerPoint allows you to do so with the click of a ...

Marshall Gunnell Jan 4th, 2019

Office Design Lead Talks Fluent Design Commitment for Microsoft Software and Hardware

Earlier this week, the design lead from Microsoft’s Office team talked about the upcoming icon changes in both Office and Windows. Now we’re seeing how the teams at Microsoft are working together to bring Fluent D...

Cameron Summerson Dec 5th, 2018

Microsoft Will Unify Windows 10 Icons with a New Brand-Wide Design

Last week, Microsoft revealed plans to modernize its Office icon suite, but it looks like the plan is bigger than just Office. In fact, this new design language appears to be part of a bigger plan for all stock Windows icon...

Cameron Summerson Dec 3rd, 2018

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...

Amelia Griggs Nov 5th, 2018

How to Use the Conversation Clean Up Tool in Outlook

Some people like to keep their Outlook folders perfectly controlled, with emails neatly categorized and stored in a logical, minimal folder structure. Most of us aren’t like that, so Microsoft has provided tools to hel...

Rob Woodgate Oct 30th, 2018

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 nift...

Amelia Griggs Oct 25th, 2018

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.

Amelia Griggs Oct 24th, 2018

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 Imag...

Amelia Griggs Oct 23rd, 2018

How to Reuse or Import Slides from Another PowerPoint Presentation

We often find ourselves creating the same sets of slides for different presentations—weekly presentations for company meetings, for example. Using slides from another PowerPoint presentation is a great way to save time ...

Marshall Gunnell Oct 19th, 2018

How To Choose How Much Mail Outlook Downloads to Your Computer

You might think that Outlook will display all of your mail (after all, why wouldn’t it) but by default, the Outlook client only keeps the last year of email on your computer. All of your mail still exists on the Microso...

Rob Woodgate Oct 17th, 2018