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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

What’s the Latest Version of Microsoft Office?

Office 2019 is the latest version of Microsoft Office for both Windows PCs and Macs. If you subscribe to Office 365, you’ll always receive updates to the latest version of Office. If you buy a traditional single system ...

Chris Hoffman Jun 4th, 2018

How to Convert a Microsoft Word Document to a PDF

PDFs are handy for distributing documents so that they’re seen the same way by all parties. Typically, you’ll create documents using another app, and then convert them to PDF. Here’s how to do it for a Micro...

Hayley Milliman May 21st, 2018

How to Create, Edit, and View Microsoft Word Documents for Free

There was a time when you had to have Microsoft Office installed to create, edit, or even view a Microsoft Word document. Thankfully, that’s no longer the case. There are a number of free alternatives for working with thos...

5 Google Sheets Features You Should Know

You’re probably familiar with the basics of Google Sheets, but Google’s spreadsheet offering boasts loads of features that aren’t obvious at first glance. Here are some of our favorites....

Craig Lloyd May 2nd, 2018

Office 365 ProPlus Users Basically Already Have Office 2019

Office 2019 launches this year, but Office 365 Pro Plus users shouldn’t expect a bunch of new features.

Justin Pot May 2nd, 2018

How to Make Outlook for Mac Show Pictures by Default

For reasons I cannot fully understand, I decided to use Outlook on my Mac. That’s when I discovered that Outlook was making me click “Download Pictures” on every single email, which is really annoying. Here&...

Lowell Heddings May 2nd, 2018

How To Restrict Data Input In Excel With Data Validation

If you use Excel spreadsheets to collect data from other people, but find that they often fill your carefully-planned cells with the wrong kind of information, data validation can help.

Michael Crider Apr 26th, 2018

How to Use a Dark Theme in Windows 10

Windows offers a setting named Dark Mode that applies a dark theme to apps you get from the Windows Store. It doesn’t affect most desktop apps, but we’ve got some other solutions for those. Here’s how to get...

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