Category Archives: Office 2010

How to Select Visible Cells in Excel

If you have every copied cells in a range that has some hidden rows our columns you soon discover that the hidden data gets copied too. Same applies to other features including subtotals. What would help is a command or … Continue reading

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Add Video to a PowerPoint Presentation

Whenever you go to a presentation it seems that most of the time they are using PowerPoint to help get their message across and adding video can certainly help. Video has certainly become easier to create even using your phone … Continue reading

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Mail Merge Using Microsoft Word and Excel

We see it everyday, personalised emails, letters and brochures sent to us. It makes it feel like someone has made the extra effort to write to us. As it happens this is quite easy to do using a feature in … Continue reading

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Using the SUMIFS Function in Excel

I would say one of the first things people learn in Excel is how to total up a column or row of numbers. This is done very simply by using the SUM function. The AutoSum button in most cases does … Continue reading

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Counting Empty Cells in Excel Using the COUNTBLANK Function

So you might be aware of some useful functions that allow you to count up how many cells have text or a value in it using the COUNT function, you can also count cells based on specific criteria using COUNTIF … Continue reading

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Open Favourite Documents Quickly in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access

We all have documents we use regularly and even though they conveniently appear on our recent file list we can make them even more prominent. This can be done by pinning these files in the recent files list. This is … Continue reading

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VBA: Using the IF Statement

The IF statement is one of the most important concepts to use when programming, it is simply used all the time. The IF statement helps the program make decisions based on criteria you have set. So it can decided on … Continue reading

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Removing Timings from PowerPoint Slides

One of the nice things about PowerPoint is that you can add timings to your slides so that  they can change automatically. This is great if you just want to leave it running or if you have rehearsed your presentation … Continue reading

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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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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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