How to Use Outlook’s Online Inline Translation Feature
Microsoft Outlook’s online app provides free and immediate translation of emails across a large number of languages for Office 365 subscribers. Here’s how to turn the feature on and use it.
How to Convert Currency in Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Excel doesn’t include built-in tools to convert currency. However, you can use an external data source to provide up-to-date rates. A basic multiplication formula will then convert from one currency to another. Here…
How to Create and Add Footnotes in PowerPoint
Footnotes are great for providing additional information without taking up too much space. With there being a finite amount of space on each slide in PowerPoint, footnotes may be just the thing you need. Here’s how to add the…
How to Create a Dynamic Defined Range in Excel
Your Excel data changes frequently, so it’s useful to create a dynamic defined range that automatically expands and contracts to the size of your data range. Let’s see how.
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.
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” features….
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….
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…
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.
How to Dim the Appearance of Text in PowerPoint
When you’re giving a presentation, you want to keep your audience focused on one message at a time to prevent confusion. Dimming the text’s appearance that’s not being discussed can help you achieve this goal. Here’s ho…
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….
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.
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’ll walk yo…
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….
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….
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….
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.
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…
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….
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 …
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 Design to mor…
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…
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 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 help. One…
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…
