Microsoft Office Features
How To: Create & work with pivot tables (PivotTables) in Excel
Whether you're interested in learning Microsoft Excel from the bottom up or just looking to pick up a few tips and tricks, you've come to the right place. In this tutorial from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, ExcelIsFun, the nth installment in his "Highline Excel Class" series of free video Excel lessons, you'll learn how to create and work with pivot tables (PivotTables) in Microsoft Office Excel. Specifically, this video covers the following topics and examples:
How To: Record custom macros in Microsoft Excel 2007
Want to record your own custom macros within MS Excel 2007? See how it's done. Whether you're new to Microsoft's popular spreadsheet application or a seasoned business professional just looking to better acquaint yourself with the unique features of Excel 2007, you're sure to be well served by this video tutorial. For more information, and to get started recording your own macros, take a look.
How To: Use dynamic range names in Excel 2007 tables
Looking for a primer on how to create and work with names in Microsoft Office Excel? You've come to the right place. In this free video tutorial from everyone's favorite MS Excel guru, YouTube's ExcelIsFun, the 12th installment in his series of Excel name tricks, you'll learn how to use the built-in dynamic range names in Excel 2007 Tables.
How To: PowerPoint Ribbon & Interface Introduction
Learn the and understand the mechanics of the PowerPoint interface. This tutorial will explain the Ribbon, Slides Pane and Slides Tab. Throughout this tutorial it is assumed that you are a complete beginner however as new tutorials are added the complexity will slowly increase from basics to advance. This tutorial is brought to you by Cozy HowTo your place for a snugly warm learning experience.
How To: Use templates in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007
Building a presentation can be time consuming. You need to make sure the layout is consistent from slide to slide, and make sure important graphic or text elements make it to every slide. Fortunately, in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, you can create a template to speed the process. For detailed instructions on using templates in Microsoft Office Power Point 2007, watch this video tutorial.
How To: Create a custom toolbar in Microsoft Excel 2003
This video describes how to create a custom toolbar in excel. First we have to go to tools menu in the excel. Next take the option of customize there and then choose the toolbars there. Next there will be the option “new” tab in that box. You have to select it first and then give a name the toolbar, which you are going to create. Then will be get the tool bar. Next if you want to add the buttons to the toolbar that you have created now, you have to go to commands tab. Then you will get ca...
How To: Convert a Word document to PDF
In this how-to video, you will learn how to change a .doc file into a .PDF file. Open the document in Microsoft Office. Go to file and select print. Change the printing device to the CutePDF Writer. Click okay and save the file as whatever name you want. Once this is done, navigate to the location where you have saved the new .PDF file. Open the new .PDF file by double clicking it. You cannot change any of the text in this new file. By viewing this video, you will learn how to quickly convert...
How To: Use VLOOKUP queries inside of an MS Excel IF function
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 588th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to determine whether an employee is exempt from a tax using a VLOOKUP in an IF function, and if not use a second VLOOKUP lookup query to look in tax tables to look up and calculate the tax
How To: Return multiple items for a single Excel lookup value
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 581st installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to return multiple items from one lookup value and see a formula to return just the numbers from a column containing both text and numbers.
How To: Manage Office themes when using Microsoft Excel 2011
Need some help figuring out how to handle Office themes from within Excel 2011? This video will show you how it's done. Whether you're new to Microsoft's popular digital spreadsheet application, new to Excel 2011 or even an expert merely looking to brush up on the fundamentals, you're sure to be well served by this quality video tutorial from the folks at Lynda. For all of the details, and to get started better managing Office theme settings yourself, watch the video.
How To: Use Outlook Express in Windows XP
In this video, the instructor shows how to use Outlook Express in Windows XP. This software comes bundled with Microsoft Windows XP, which is a part of Microsoft Office package. Outlook is an e-mail client that allows you to view your e-mails on your computer without the help of any web interface to your mail host. To use Outlook Express, you need to configure it first. Open the Outlook Express program. Outlook will then take you through a wizard to help you to configure your email host. Ente...
How To: Apply conditional formatting to a calendar in Excel
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 98th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use a TRUE/FALSE formula and the TODAY function to format a calendar within a two-week period.
How To: Find 5 largest values with Excel's AGGREGATE function
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 568th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to calculate the five largest values for each a data set using the new AGGREGATE function.
How To: Use the SUMIF function in Microsoft Excel 2007
New to Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly advanced as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 203rd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the SUMIF function to sum with specific criteria.
How To: Set-up an Excel page for print
In this Excel basic video the instructor show how to setup a page in Microsoft Excel. Now you before go to a page setup, first you have to make sure that all the cells are visible in a spreadsheet by extending or contracting the size of different columns. You can also select all columns and make their column width a constant. Now go to the orb and select a print preview to get a preview of how the print out is going to be. Now after checking it out you can make necessary changes in the origin...
How To: Use headers and footers in Word 2007
In this 3-part series, you learn how to use headers and footers in Microsoft Word 2007. Part 1 shows you how to add page numbers to multiple-page documents, customize your document from a gallery of predesigned headers and footers, and even change the theme.
How To: Use macro security options in Excel 2007
Some times when you upgrade your Microsoft Excel software to Excel 2007 your old macros may stop working. Some times this may be due to the settings and by enabling the macros you can get your old macros to work. Macros are turn off by default in Excel 2007. You can turn this on from the macro security settings. But the settings option is it self completely hidden. You cannot find it in any of the tabs present on the top of the program. Even the macros option present in the view tab has no se...
How To: Use the double space function in MS Word 07
Here you will learn how to use the double space function in MS Word 07. To use the double space function in MS Word, do the following: Open MS Word 07. After typing in some text, highlight the part which you want to double space. Click on the Icon that says "Line Spacing". Click on it and scroll down to find 2.0. Click on it. Now your work has been double spaced. A shortcut to do this would be to click Control and 2, and it will automatically double space everything for you.
How To: Create summary tasks in MS Project 2007
In this video, we learn how to create summary tasks in MS Project 2007. Start by selecting the firs task that is on your project. You can create a summary task by selecting a task underneath and indenting the task. This makes the item above this the summary task that is defined by the sub task underneath this. You can do this for multiple tasks at once, or just one task. Now, you will be able to see the duration of the entire project and then change the tasks from sub tasks to summary tasks a...
How To: Work with Microsoft Excel's order of precedence
Whether you're interested in learning Microsoft Excel from the bottom up or just looking to pick up a few tips and tricks, you've come to the right place. In this tutorial from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, ExcelIsFun, the 24th installment in his "Highline Excel Class" series of free video Excel lessons, you'll learn see exactly how Excel calculates/evaluates formulas including things like intersections, unions, negation, text operators and comparative operators. Knowing the o...
How To: Use Excel's AVERAGE functions with zeroes and blanks
Love Microsoft Excel? This clip contains a tip that just might induce you to. With this free video tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 92nd installment of his "YouTubers Love Excel" or YTLE series of free video MS Excel lessons, you'll learn how the AVERAGE function sees zeroes and uses them in calculating an average but does not see blanks.
How To: Work with tables in Microsoft Word 2007
Mike Callahan with Butterscotch demonstrates how to work with tables in MS Word 2007. Tables are useful for creating information charts and address lists. First, open up Microsoft Word. To create a table, click on the insert tab on the top tool bar. Highlight the elements that you would like to appear in the table by selecting the desired number of columns and rows. Pressing enter inside of a table, it will increase the side of the cell all the way across the table. It will not just increase ...
How To: Put a YouTube video into a PowerPoint presentation
This video tutorial is in the software category where you will learn how to put a YouTube video into a PowerPoint presentation. First you go to the YouTube video that you want to put in your presentation and copy the URL in the address box. Then you go to one of the file conversion websites like Media Converter, paste the URL in the box and click 'next'. Then select the type of file you want it to convert to, for example, mpg, and click 'next'. Once it is converted, download it. To embed it, ...
How To: Find values with the INDEX & MATCH functions in Excel
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 517th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the INDEX and MATCH functions to show vendor name associated with lowest bid.
How To: Import different types of data in Microsoft Excel
Whether you're interested in learning Microsoft Excel from the bottom up or just looking to pick up a few tips and tricks, you're in the right place. In this tutorial from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, ExcelIsFun, the 23rd installment in his "Highline Excel Class" series of free video Excel lessons, you'll learn how to import data into Excel from text files, web sites, Excel files and Microsoft Office Access files. Also see how to import currency rates and major indicies from ...
How To: Drag and drop emails in Outlook
Outlook is one of those applications that has 100 ways to do the same task. Today I’m going to show you how to automatically extract data from an email and have it populate fields in various modules in outlook (Contacts, Tasks, Calendar)
How To: Use Spellcheck/Thesaurus/AutoCorrect in MS Word 2007
As you type in Microsoft Word, take care to notice when the computer puts a red squiggly line underneath a word you typed. If you see a red squiggly line, the word is spelled incorrectly. If you right-click on the word, MS Word will show you a list of correctly spelled words that it guesses you were trying to spell. If you wish to check the entire document, you can click the Tools tab at the top of the page and then spell check. This will go through the document and point out every misspelled...
How To: Add conditional formatting to data bars/icons in Excel
Whether you're interested in learning Microsoft Excel from the bottom up or just looking to pick up a few tips and tricks, you're in the right place. In this tutorial from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, ExcelIsFun, the 21st installment in his "Highline Excel Class" series of free video Excel lessons, you'll learn how to add conditional formatting to data bars and icons to show relative size, icons to show relative size, to highlight values within 1 standard deviation, to highli...
How To: Apply conditional formatting to a MAX value in Excel
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 153rd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to apply conditional formatting to the MAX value in a set of three incentive pay plans.
How To: Make date & time calculations (sans weekends) in Excel
New to Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly advanced as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 533rd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a formula to calculate the difference between start date/time & end date/time excluding holidays and weekends. This is accomplished with recourse to Excel's NETWORKINGDAYS and MOD functions.
How To: Use AGGREGATE instead of SMALL in Microsoft Excel 2010
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 672nd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how you can use the non-Ctrl+Shift+Enter function AGGREGATE in place of SMALL in an array formula.
How To: Subscribe to blogs and RSS feeds in Microsoft Outlook
Have your favorite blog posts delivered straight to your email inbox! Many websites and blogs offer RSS feeds which allow you to subscribe and have new content emailed directly to you. This tutorial shows how you get RSS feeds sent to your Microsoft Outlook inbox.
How To: Use MS Excel Effectively
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How To: Use the navigation pane to organize in Access 2007
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How To: Count characters & numbers within a string in MS Excel
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 288th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to count the number of characters or numbers in a text string with a formula that is case sensitive.
How To: Speed up calculations with custom Excel formulas
Are you looking for a way to make your Microsoft Excel formulas simpler, faster and more efficient? If so, you're in the right place. With this free video lesson from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, YouTube's ExcelsFun, the very first installment in his "Excel Formula Efficiency" series, you'll learn how a custom function (i.e., a user-defined function) can speed up calculations.
How To: Return every other cell in a row in Microsoft Excel 2010
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 700th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a formula that will retrieve every other cell in a row as you copy the formula across the columns.
How To: Create striking bulleted lists in PowerPoint: Mac 2008
PowerPoint 2008 for Mac can help you turn boring old bulleted lists into something nobody would forget. With SmartArt graphics in PowerPoint you can now make your bullet lists pop using pre-formatted charts, graphs, and more. The Microsoft Office for Mac team shows you just how to make a bulleted list more visual in this how-to video.
How To: Add a background to your present in Powerpoint 2007
You don't have to be a professional designer to create a professional-looking slide show. Check out this tutorial and learn how to grab the audience's attention by adding a background to your slides. Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 design themes include an array of coordinated choices for background colors and textures. You can even use a picture as a background. See your choices displayed instantly in a live preview, so no guesswork involved!
How To: Use a keyboard shortcut to create a chart in Excel 07
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 2nd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create charts via keyboard shortcut as well as how to create dynamic charts with cell references.