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How to Change the Default Search Location in Microsoft Outlook

When you perform a search in Outlook, it defaults to searching only the current folder. You can change what you’re searching on the fly, but you can also set that default behavior to be something different....

Hayley Milliman Aug 2nd, 2018

How to Enable Dark Mode in Microsoft Office

Microsoft Office includes black and dark gray themes. Windows 10’s system-wide dark mode won’t affect Office apps, but you can choose a dark theme for Office apps like Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPo...

Chris Hoffman Aug 1st, 2018

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...

Amelia Griggs Jul 31st, 2018

How to Change a Picture to Black and White in Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word has several simple color adjustment options so that you can quickly and easily style the images in your Word document. Whether you want to create an artistic masterpiece or simply get your document to match you...

Hayley Milliman Jul 30th, 2018

How to Type Accent Marks Over Letters in Microsoft Word

If you don’t have a specialized keyboard, you have to do a little extra work to type letters with accent marks in Microsoft Word. Here are a few ways to get it done.

Marshall Gunnell Jul 27th, 2018

How to Control Line and Paragraph Spacing in Microsoft Word

There are lots of reasons you might want to change the amount of space between lines in a paragraph, or between paragraphs themselves. Word offers some handy preset values to use, but you can also take full control by specify...

Rob Woodgate Jul 26th, 2018

How to Turn Off New Message Alerts in Microsoft Outlook 2016 or 365

Outlook can trigger several types of alerts when you get a new message. You might see a taskbar notification, notice a message icon in your system tray, hear a sound, or even see your pointer change briefly to an email messag...

Hayley Milliman Jul 25th, 2018

How to Use Footnotes and Endnotes in Microsoft Word

Whether you use Microsoft Word for personal or professional writing, sometimes you may want to add supplemental notes to sections of your work. Maybe you want to make a side comment on one of your arguments, or you need to ci...

Elizabeth Mills Jul 25th, 2018

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...

Amelia Griggs Jul 24th, 2018

How to Change Double Spaces to Single Spaces in Microsoft Word

If you find yourself in possession of a Word document where someone has typed two spaces between every sentence and you need to change those to use just one space, Word makes it easy to do a find and replace that changes all ...

Marshall Gunnell Jul 23rd, 2018

How to Link or Embed an Excel Worksheet in a PowerPoint Presentation

Sometimes, you want to include the data on an Excel spreadsheet in a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation. There are a couple of ways to do this, depending on whether or not you want to maintain a connection with the source Exce...

Hayley Milliman Jul 20th, 2018

Save Time With Custom Search Folders in Microsoft Outlook

Searching in Outlook is pretty easy, but why bother typing out the same searches over and over if you perform them regularly? Custom Search Folders let you save those custom searches so you can get back to them with just a cl...

Hayley Milliman Jul 19th, 2018

How to Link or Embed an Excel Worksheet in a Word Document

Sometimes, you want to include the data on an Excel spreadsheet in your Microsoft Word document. There are a couple of ways to do this, depending on whether or not you want to maintain a connection with the source Excel sheet...

Hayley Milliman Jul 18th, 2018

How to Merge and Split Tables and Cells in Microsoft Word

You can easily merge and split cells in Microsoft Word to make your tables more interesting and more suited to the data you are trying to share. When you merge two or more cells, you are bringing them together in one cell. Wh...

Hayley Milliman Jul 10th, 2018

How to Save Emails (and Other Items) as Files in Microsoft Outlook

You can save your Outlook emails, contacts, and appointments as individual files. Saving these items can help you access them more quickly and easily later. It’s a convenient way to back up or share certain messages, or...

Hayley Milliman Jul 6th, 2018

All of the Best Microsoft Word Keyboard Shortcuts

Even if you’re familiar with Microsoft Word, you might be surprised by the number and variety of keyboard shortcuts you can use to speed up your work, and just generally make things more convenient....

Hayley Milliman Jul 3rd, 2018

How to Round Off Decimal Values in Excel

If you don’t want to show decimal values in Excel, you can simplify your numerical data using the ROUND functions. Excel offers three functions: ROUND, ROUNDUP, and ROUNDDOWN. Let’s take a look at how they work....

Hayley Milliman Jun 25th, 2018

How to Create and Work with Multilevel Lists in Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word lets you easily create and format multilevel lists in your documents. You can choose from a variety of formatting options, including bulleted, numbered, or alphabetized lists. Let’s take a look....

Hayley Milliman Jun 21st, 2018

How to Create a Template in Microsoft Word

Templates let you configure all the relevant settings you want pre-applied to documents—page layout, styles, formatting, tabs, boilerplate text, and so on. You can then easily create a new document based on that templat...

Hayley Milliman Jun 20th, 2018

How to Save a Microsoft Word Document as a Web Page

You may not think of Word as a tool for designing web pages, and that’s okay—it’s really not very good at it, anyway. But, if you have an existing Word document that you need to turn into a web page for what...

Elizabeth Mills Jun 18th, 2018

How to Delete a Header or Footer from a Single Page in Word

You can remove or make changes to headers or footers on any page in Microsoft Word. This is handy if, for example, you want to hide the header or footer on a specific page. The process is a bit different if you want to delete...

Hayley Milliman Jun 12th, 2018

How to Use Gmail With Microsoft Outlook

If you use Microsoft Outlook, and want to set it up with your Gmail address, you’re in luck. Newer versions of Outlook make this easier than ever. You’ll need to enable a couple of settings on the Gmail website, and t...

Hayley Milliman Jun 8th, 2018

How to Insert, Delete, and Manage Hyperlinks in Microsoft Word

Adding hyperlinks to your Word document is an easy way to give your readers quick access to information on the web or in another part of a document without having to include that content right on the page. Let’s look a...

Hayley Milliman Jun 7th, 2018

How to Easily Select a Block of Cells in Excel

There are several different methods for selecting a block of cells in Excel, or extending an existing selection with more cells. Let’s take a look at them.

Hayley Milliman Jun 6th, 2018

How to Create a Landscape Page in a Portrait-Oriented Word Document

Sometimes, you need to stick a landscape oriented page in the middle of a portrait-oriented Word document—a spreadsheet, graph, or wide image, maybe. Here’s how to do that, and how to keep your page numbering inta...

Hayley Milliman Jun 5th, 2018