Tips and Tricks - Microsoft Office
Interested in making Office even more useful? Here's some tips
Table of Contents
- Add Current Date and Time
- Excel - Using IF statements
- Outlook - Add Reminders to Messages
- Outlook - Assigning Tasks
- Outlook - How Message Recall Works
- Word - Save and Close All Open Docs
Add Current Date and Time to MS Office documents
Adding the current date and time is a fairly simple task in any Microsoft Office program. Why manually type a date or time, though, when you can use easy keyboard shortcuts to do the task for you? These shortcuts will help you easily insert the current date and time into your Office documents...
Add Reminders to Outlook Messages
Have you ever left a message in your Outlook Inbox, fully intending to reply to it at a later time, but then forget? By using flags and reminders in Outlook, you can keep this from happening again. Here’s how... Using Reminders with Outlook...
Assigning Tasks in Outlook
One helpful feature of Outlook that is under‐used in most work environments is Tasks. Many Outlook users know that you can create tasks for your personal organization and task tracking, but did you know that you can also assign these tasks to other Outlook users and manage them? Here’s how to assign a new or existing task to someone else (Don’t go overboard, though, or you may get a few assigned to you, too!)...
Save and Close all open WORD documents easily
If you work on multiple Microsoft Word documents throughout the day, most likely at the end of the day your stuck going through the procedure of individually saving each document before you can close it. Well, computers are supposed to be more efficient than that. There is a little known but very effective way of saving all those documents and closing them more quickly...
Using 'IF' Statements in Excel
If you are asking yourself “What is an IF statement?”, then you are among the majority of Microsoft Excel users. If you are already familiar with IF statements, then you might find these two first sentences amusing as they are in fact IF statements themselves. The IF statement is a very powerful tool incorporated into Excel that can turn your spreadsheets into something that not just displays your data, but that will actually make decisions on your data as well (making your life easier). Wouldn’t it be nice to tell your spreadsheet to make correct decisions for you and display the results depending on what criteria you specify?... Tips on using IF statements in Excel...
How Outlook's 'Message Recall' works
Almost everyone who uses email at some point has an “Oops” moment of sending an email he or she would like to have back. Outlook includes a little known feature of message recall that may help with some of these “Oops” moments in certain scenarios... Using Message Recall in Outlook...