Helen Bradley

Do you find yourself typing in the same familiar text into your business documents again and again? Whether it’s boilerplates, executive bios or directions to your store, two tools in Microsoft Word — AutoCorrect and AutoText – can help you to insert text into a document with minimal effort. While the two tools look very […]

One of the big benefits of a word processor is the ability to spell check your work. Instead of sending out documents littered with typos and misspellings, it’s easy to ensure that your work is correctly spelled. Even if you don’t realize a word is a misspelling, chances are that Microsoft Word does, and it […]

Whatever tools you can find to speed up your day’s work are tools well worth owning. PowerPoint has its share of features that reduce the time it takes to create and format a presentation, but some of these are well hidden. For example, PowerPoint masters can help you control the look of the slides in […]

In business, spreadsheets are most often used to make financial calculations. Financial worksheets that contain errors could cause financial embarrassment to the business, but unfortunately spreadsheets are susceptible to errors simply by their inherent design — information is hidden in formulas where it cannot easily be seen or checked for accuracy. While a mistake in […]

While a database is generally the smart way to keep track of complex data, sometimes your needs are much simpler. In situations where your data is more like a list or table, Excel has an excellent list management tool designed for the task. Working on lists in Excel offers advantages over using a database application […]

Photos and other images add visual variety to your Word documents. You can use them as decorative features to break up large pieces of text, and they play an important part in delivering your message to your reader. Word offers handy tools for working with images in your documents and, in this article I’ll show […]

Word is a great editing tool to use when you’re working with others on a project. It has features that allow you to manage everyone’s changes and contributions to the document. Using these, you can view the changes that have been made and who made them, and you can easily accept or undo them as […]

Excel charts have been given a makeover in Excel 2007 and the Chart Wizard of earlier versions is now gone. However, creating charts is still as easy as it was in previous versions. Beyond building basic charts there are various techniques you can use to make your charts both more functional and attractive. Here are […]

The first time you open Outlook 2007 you might be disappointed to see that, on the face of it, Outlook does not display the new ribbon and new interface that you will see in the other major applications in the Office 2007 suite such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Dig a little deeper under the […]

The first time you open Outlook 2007 you might be disappointed to see that, on the face of it, Outlook does not display the new ribbon and new interface that you will see in the other major applications in the Office 2007 suite such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Dig a little deeper under the […]