Aligning text in Microsoft Word is incredibly simple. The Home tab on the ribbon has dedicated buttons that allow you to left align, right align, center align, or justify text. It’s great for when you need to meet certain academic requirements, make a stylish document, or type in different languages. …
Read More »How To Stop Numbers Converting To Date In MS Excel
MS Excel is an exceptionally intelligent spreadsheet app and it’s not just because it supports a lot of logical arguments. The app can recognize data for what it is, e.g. it knows when it’s dealing with currency, and when it’s dealing with time values. It’s precisely because of this that …
Read More »How To Add A Watermark To PowerPoint Presentations
Watermarks are a simple way to protect documents and images from being plagiarized. Sure, people can still find ways to get around it by tracing artwork or typing the contents of a document but that kind of stealing requires effort. It isn’t as instantaneous as clicking a download button and …
Read More »Stop MS Word From Opening Documents From The Internet In Protected View
When you download an MS Word document either from a cloud drive or from an email it opens in the ‘Protected’ view. In the Protected view, just about all editing options are disabled and the most you can do is copy text from the document. The document of course isn’t …
Read More »Get The Noun Project Add-in For MS Word And PowerPoint
The Noun Project is a popular project that gives users access to hundreds of icons for free. Members of the project can contribute their own icons, and use icons by other designers. If you ever need a nice, neat icon for a document, the Noun Project is the first place …
Read More »How to find duplicate values in Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Excel can recognize data for what it is; currency, numbers, string values, dates, and more. You can apply different formulas based on what a value is recognized as. Since Excel can recognize values as a certain type, it stands to reason that it can also tell when a value …
Read More »How To Customize & Remove The Title Bar Background In MS Office 2016
MS Office 2016 doesn’t have a long list of awesome new features. The new additions made to Office 2016 are few and they aren’t for everyone. Moreover not all new features are functional in nature. MS Office 2016 has made an effort to make the UI better looking. It comes with …
Read More »How To Find Whole Words In MS Word Instead Of Text Strings
MS Word has a really useful find and replace feature. It lets you search an entire document for a word and replace it with another. This is useful in a lot of cases e.g. if you need to replace names in a document. By default, the ‘Find’ function looks for …
Read More »How To Customize The Chart Legend In MS Office
MS Word, PowerPoint, and Excel all come with a library of charts and graphs. With Excel, they’re much easier to insert. You can select the data you want to plot on the axis of a graph, and Excel will take care of the rest. These charts can be copied and …
Read More »How To Link To Other Slides In A PowerPoint Presentation
When you’re presenting a PowerPoint presentation, you can use the Backspace key, and the forward and back arrow keys to cycle between slides. The Backspace key lets you go back to the previous slide. These buttons are great if you need to return to a previous slide, or jump ahead …
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