Category Archives: Microsoft Office

How to Use Motion Paths in PowerPoint Including Custom Paths

If you have been using PowerPoint then you have probably added some animations to bullet points at the very least to add a bit of movement to your presentations. Many of us would like to do something a bit different from … Continue reading

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Syncing Office for iPad with Your Mac

If you have got Office for iPad you’ll have soon realised how useful it is and in my opinion better than the other programs that try and use Office files like Word, Excel and PowerPoint. You’ll also have noticed it … Continue reading

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Protecting Worksheets in Excel

Protecting worksheets in Excel allows you to stop anything being changed on a worksheet or specifying that particular cells can be changed whilst others cannot. This is very useful if you want to make sure that certain cells are not … Continue reading

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How to Use Excel PivotTables

Excel is full of great tools for doing data analysis, in fact it is sometimes useful to import data from another application or database and analyse it in Excel. One of these great tools is the PivotTable. It is quick … Continue reading

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Importing and Exporting Data in Excel

Excel does many useful things and entering data so that you can do calculations or manipulate data. However, sometimes you need to bring that data in from somewhere else or you need to export it to be used in another … Continue reading

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Getting Started with PowerPoint

If you have watched any presentation over the past couple of decades then the chances are you have watched a PowerPoint presentation. If you need to create your own presentation and have either not done one before or need a … Continue reading

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Microsoft Access: How to Use the Update Query

If you have been following my blog since the beginning of this week you will have seen that I have been looking at action queries in Microsoft Access. These are queries that are using for changing the data sets such … Continue reading

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Microsoft Access: How to Use the Append Query

So you’ve imported some data into your Microsoft Access database and now need to add that data to an existing table. It would be handy to copy and paste but using an append query does the trick and you can … Continue reading

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