Let's look at how to edit and make changes to a Design Ideas slide in PowerPoint.
If you're like me, you probably love, love, love the Design Ideas slides in PowerPoint.
Design Ideas is available in PowerPoint for Office 365.
You can find the Design Ideas option on the Home tab...
Learn how to add colour, borders and alignment settings to your Excel data to give your worksheet a more professional look and to make it easier for others to read. Continue Reading
Formatting lets you change the appearance of data to control exactly how Excel will display the data on a worksheet.
An example of formatting is to add dollar signs, percentage signs and decimal places to Excel data. Continue Reading
In this post I want to share with you how to update an existing presentation with your new company template.
I recently ran a PowerPoint course for a Sales Team. One of the biggest challenges they had was updating their existing presentations (which were large and extremely comprehensive) to the new company template. Their organisation had recently re-branded and they had been asked to ensure ALL presentations to clients were using the new template.
Before I arrived it had been a cutting and pasting frenzy. Apparently it had been taking forever and had caused a few people to become very stressed.
Within a few minutes I had them laughing at how easy it was. Continue Reading
If you are familiar with working in centimetres, not inches, it can be a tad frustrating if Word is displaying measurement settings in inches.
For example, if I wanted to set my Hanging Indents to 1.25cm I know for a fact I would be lost if my measurement settings were only being displayed in inches. I don’t have a clue as to what 1.25cm would be in inches. Read more
PROBLEM: when typing a figure into a cell in Excel the figure is displayed as a date?
SOLUTION: quickly change the format of the cell back to a format that displays numbers, not dates. Continue Reading
PROBLEM: why does the 0 (zero) disappear in Excel? How do I stop the 0 from disappearing?
SOLUTION: learn how to format cells so that 0 (zeros) are displayed.
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PROBLEM: Do you find yourself having to change the size of your font often while you are typing? Stopping to use the mouse to select a different size can really slow you down.
SOLUTION: Start using keyboard shortcuts to quickly increase and decrease the font size.
Adding a watermark to a document assists greatly in making it very obvious to the reader that the document has a special condition or status.
For example, adding a “Draft” watermark to a legal Agreement or Deed document makes it obvious to the reader that this isn’t the final copy of the document .
PROBLEM: Wasting time repetitively applying the same formats
within a document.
SOLUTION: copy the formats instead!
