Office

You can use speech recognition in Windows and dictate a document in MS Word, or an email in Outlook. Windows’ dictation feature isn’t the greatest tool for this purpose. MS Office apps don’t have a built-in dictation feature so that’s really all you can use. If you’re not averse to …

Microsoft Excel is a powerful spreadsheet app. It lets you process a substantial amount of data. You can sort it, apply formulas, and use conditional formatting to make it easier to read. Add to this the many types of graphs it supports and you can get a lot done with …

MS Word has a neat ‘Pick up where you left off’ feature. When you close a document, Word bookmarks the exact location you were last working on within that file. It does so by identifying where the cursor was when you closed the document. When you open it again, Word …

PDF is the format to use when you want to publish documents online. PDF is easily one of the most common file types found online and it’s used to publish not just documents but also presentations, reports, and catalogs. The thing with a PDF file is that while the format is exceptionally …

There’s two ways to spell color, with and without a ‘U’. That’s the case with a few other words; neighbor, favor, etc. The correct spelling is drilled into you in grade school but Microsoft Word generally doesn’t know where you went to grade school. It has spellcheck which tends to …

If you use Excel to maintain schedules and/or time sheets, you might have needed to find the date of a specific day of the month. For example, what date does the second Monday of the month fall on? If you ever need to look up this same information but don’t …

Cross referencing is essential if you have a particularly large document. It allows the reader to go back to relevant parts of a document that support or elaborate a particular section of it. Cross referencing is a very well developed feature in Microsoft Word which is particularly useful for academic …

If Microsoft Word ever crashes or you experience a system crash while you have an MS Word document open you can likely recover most if not all of your document through the auto-recovery copy that the app saves regularly. In most cases, this will always save you when something goes …

You can add graphs, tables, images, and text boxes to a document in Microsoft Word. It doesn’t have a snapping feature like PowerPoint does however there is a ruler that allows you to align items. The ruler, by default, is scaled in inches however, if you’re not comfortable working with …

You can use Window 10 with a local account, or with a Microsoft Account. A Microsoft account doesn’t necessarily have to be one that’s created on one of Microsoft’s domains e.g., Outlook, or Live. If you have a Gmail account, you can use it to create a Microsoft Account and …