Articles written by: Nicky Bull

Sep 03, 2020

Word Equations

Microsoft Word is not only a great tool for everyday business documents like reports, memos and minutes, it can also be used to produce much more specialised [...]

Aug 20, 2020

Automate a table of contents in InDesign

A lot of larger documents (and even some smaller ones) require a table of contents so that readers can more easily locate the information they need. Manually creating [...]

Jul 31, 2020

Excel – Fill in the Blanks

Spreadsheets are fantastic not just for number crunching but for extracting useful information from large quantities of data. Filtering, sorting, pivot tables all allow [...]

Jul 20, 2020

Adobe Acrobat Custom Stamps

Adobe Acrobat offers the option to stamp an electronic document in much the same way as you might apply a rubber stamp to a paper document. You can choose from a list of [...]

Jun 29, 2020

Present a PowerPoint 2013 presentation online

Advancements in communication make distributed office environments and working remotely an ever more practicable option, but what about when you need to deliver a [...]

May 25, 2021

Understanding the difference between Office 2013 and Office 365

You’re looking to upgrade from Office 2010, but instead of just a choice between Home and Professional to make, you now have to choose between Office 365 and Office [...]

Mar 27, 2021

Excel Array Formulas (Part 1)

Excel array formulas are power tools that enable you to perform operations that in many cases can’t be done with regular Excel functions. So what are array functions? In [...]

Dec 09, 2020

Change the Spell Check Language on all slides in PowerPoint using VBA (2007 onwards)

One limitation of PowerPoint is that you can only change the Spell Check Language for a one text box at a time; there is no way to set it for the entire presentation. [...]

Nov 04, 2020

Duplicate animations with ease using PowerPoint's Animation Painter

Adding animations to our PowerPoint presentations can add visual interest and help emphasise information being presented. It can also be quite time consuming getting [...]

Sep 26, 2020

Dynamic charts in Microsoft Excel

Charts in Microsoft Excel are a great way of representing data graphically, but sometimes that data is subject to change and when it does change, we need our charts to [...]

Aug 21, 2020

Dress up and present your data with Power View

Power View is a feature of Microsoft Excel 2013 that allows you to create stunning interactive visual presentations of data from multiple sources.  In this tutorial we [...]

Jun 25, 2020

Customise the weather forecast in Outlook 2013

A nifty new feature in Outlook 2013 is the built-in weather forecast now available on the calendar.  This allows you to see what your day has in store for you from a [...]

Jun 25, 2020

Customise the weather forecast in Outlook 2013

A nifty new feature in Outlook 2013 is the built-in weather forecast now available on the calendar.  This allows you to see what your day has in store for you from a [...]

May 19, 2021

Use slicers to filter table data in Microsoft Excel

Slicers were first introduced in Excel 2010 and gave us a nice easy way of filtering PivotTable data. Instead of the typical drop-down list filtering in Excel, slicers [...]

Apr 17, 2021

Insert an online video into Word 2013

A picture says a thousand words and now in Microsoft Word 2013, we can say it with moving pictures. The new Online Video button found in the Insert tab makes it possible [...]

Mar 31, 2021

Enhance your presentations with PowerPoint's Slide Zoom

One of the more useful features that has been introduced with Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 is the new Slide Zoom feature available in Presenter View. If you are trying [...]

Mar 21, 2021

How to create a PivotTable using Excel VBA

PivotTables are a powerful Microsoft Excel tool for analysing large quantities of data. When the process of creating a PivotTable needs to be automated, it can be done [...]

Nov 20, 2020

Quickly jazz up your Excel comments

Do you need your Excel comments to stand out? Did you know that it's possible to change the colour of Excel comments as well as the shape of the comment? Follow these [...]

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