• Our eight best Excel tutorials on charts

    Excel tutorials on chartsExcel spreadsheets are all about numbers. But tons of numbers are often not the most effective way to communicate what you want. That's where charts come in handy. Charts can display numeric data in a graphical format, making it easy to understand large quantities of data and the relationships among data.

    If you want to learn about Excel charts, you've come to the right place. We've pulled together out best tutorials and articles to get you started.

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  • Announcing Office 365 for Government: A US Government Community Cloud
    Today, I'm pleased to announce some great news for government customers in the United States. First, we're introducing Office 365 for Government. Office 365 for Government is a new multi-tenant service that stores US government data in a segregated community cloud. Like other Office 365 offerings, it includes productivity and collaboration services including Exchange Online, Lync Online, SharePoint Online, and Office Professional Plus. Customers can contact their Microsoft representative for details...
  • MommaSaid Office can keep you organized

    Anderson Cooper & Jen Singer Office Tips(Guest blogger Jen Singer is the creator of MommaSaid.net, a Forbes Best of the Web community for moms, and ParentingWithCancer.com.

    In this post, I share some ways that I keep my MommaSaid.net empire running from home (and my car, and soccer practice) with the help of Microsoft Office. I let Anderson Cooper in on some when I appeared on his TV show, but time was too short to fit them all in. Check out all the tips here.

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  • Webinar: Our favorite Office timesavers

    In this week's webinar, author and popular blogger Jen Singer (Momma Said.net) joins us to share some of her favorite Office timesavers. Plus, you'll learn more of them from the Help writers at Office.com who use every day.

     

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  • What's the dif? Gridlines vs borders in spreadsheets

    Gridlines and borders in ExcelA lot of you want to know the difference between gridlines and borders. Gridlines help you work in a spreadsheet, and borders help you highlight important information in one for your audience. Gridlines appear automatically so you can see how your data is organized into rows and columns; borders need to be added by you so you can highlight certain cells. This post describes how to work with both of them.

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  • Using crosstab queries in reports

    A well designed database stores data in a normalized format with dates defined in a field so that new data is simply added as additional records. However, people want to see data with dates grouped by columns. This can be done by using a crosstab query. However, when creating reports based on crosstab queries, we need to control the specific column names that are returned by the query. Otherwise, the report cannot refer to the query's fields.

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  • Change page numbers in different sections in a Word document

    Watch this video to find out how to how to use 1, 2, 3 page numbering in the main part of a document and i, ii, iii page numbering in the appendices:

    -- Joannie Stangeland

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  • Webinar: Working with Office for Mac 2011

    Office for Mac 2011 and PCs are working better together. In this week’s webinar we’ll show you Office for Mac 2011 including some features that make that possible.

    What you will learn at Tuesday's webinar:

    • Outlook now on the Mac
    • SkyDrive for the Mac
    • How a Mac and a PC...
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  • Schedule crammed? Try searching your Calendar

    Search Outlook CalendarNow when is that neighborhood planning meeting and will it conflict with the business dinner your boss just asked you to attend? Your calendar is so full that scanning it won't help. You might not know that the Outlook Calendar has its own Search to help you sort out the dates.

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  • Split and merge data in URLs

    Issue: I have a list of URLs with their corresponding page views. The URLs include a section of the site and the date when the page was published. I'd like to calculate the total number of page views by site section and the total number of page views by publication date. I want to reduce the time it would take to manually enter this data into new columns. To save time, I plan on using the Text to Columns wizard and Concatenate function rather than a complex formula. Once you learn the steps, it will take you only a few minutes to complete the tasks.

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