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Word & Outlook Tip: Change Sentence Case with a Shortcut

Save yourself from retyping text again when you need to change between lowercase, UPPERCASE and Title Case, select a word, line or a whole paragraph and press SHiFT+F3. Did it work? Reply with your favourite Word and Outlook tips. Share this tip on your favourite...

Don’t type it all over again! Re-use text in Word documents and Outlook messages thanks to AutoText [Instant Productivity Free Tutorial]

by François Auerbach | Microsoft Word

Copy and Paste will only get you so far. Rather than type the same bits of text and pictures over and over again, be it your address, your terms and conditions, your disclaimer, your location map or logo, save them as AutoText entries in Word. AutoText entries work in...

Instant Productivity: Newspaper Columns in your Word Documents [Free Tutorial]

by François Auerbach | Microsoft Word

Change your Word document into newspaper-style columns, complete with drop cap, to give your document a more interesting layout. It will draw the reader’s eye and make important text stand out. From plain text… … to newspaper-style columns and drop cap. Video:...

Build interactive Excel spreadsheets with developer tools

by François Auerbach | 28 March 2022 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

A user on Reddit asks I’m building a financial model in excel. I’d like to be able to insert a type of button which will apply different % increase to a range of cells. For example, I have 10 products in a list which have 10 different sales prices. I’d like to be able...

How to stop and restart your Microsoft Project schedule

by François Auerbach | 20 July 2020 | Microsoft Project | 0 Comments

Question: With Covid-19 and the lockdown, my project schedule is put on hold for a number of weeks. How can I reflect this in my Microsoft Project Gantt Chart? This is useful for tasks that haven't started yet - you don't want to change the start date of tasks that...

Top Keyboard Shortcuts in Articulate Storyline

by François Auerbach | 5 November 2018 | Articulate Storyline, E-Learning | 0 Comments

Download the Top Keyboard Shortcuts in Articulate Storyline cheat sheet Do you need help to get started with your e-learning? Learn the shortcut way to designing professional e-learning that is engaging, fun and creative. We offer classroom training for your...

Fix Microsoft Project Error: ‘Excel 2003 or Later Required’

by François Auerbach | 22 June 2018 | Microsoft Project | 0 Comments

If you try to create an Excel report in Microsoft Project but have a different version of Excel, then you will have come across this error: "This operation requires that you have Excel 2003 or later installed on your computer." In disbelief, you check that you have...

TOP 10 Keyboard Shortcuts for Excel Spreadsheets

by François Auerbach | 22 May 2018 | Microsoft Excel | 0 Comments

Once you start using these top 10 Excel keyboard shortcuts, you will never look at your Excel spreadsheets the same way again. If you want to become more efficient with Excel, shortcuts are a good way to speed up your data entry, find your way around your spreadsheet...

Help! Reminders are missing from Google Calendar!

by François Auerbach | 3 January 2017 | General, Uncategorized | 15 Comments

Have your Tasks or Reminders gone missing from your Google Calendar? It may be due to one of your extensions. Firstly, if you aren't already using Reminders in Google Now and Google Calendar - you are missing out. If you are an Android user, you can speak reminders...

Kill fewer trees when printing a Gantt Chart

by François Auerbach | 22 August 2016 | Microsoft Project | 0 Comments

How do I print just the Gantt chart in Microsoft Project without it being 50 million pages? I have tried every option possible and so far wasted about eleven trees of A3 paper but I just keep printing blank pages – is there some way to scale it without making it...

Top 5 Reasons to Learn PowerPivot – Training for Results

by François Auerbach | 30 June 2015 | Microsoft Excel | 0 Comments

Top 5 Reasons to Learn PowerPivot -Training for Results Hey there! Have you discovered the power or PowerPivot for Excel yet? Or are you stuck with boring old Excel sheets and formulas that quickly become cumbersome, inflexible and impossible to maintain without...

Extract Comments Embedded in the N() Function

by François Auerbach | 23 April 2014 | Microsoft Excel | 0 Comments

Not so long ago, I showed you how to insert comments using the N() function in Excel formulas. But can you get the comment out of that cell using a function, reader Dobrin asks? Thank you for this article - the N() funtion is very usefull and I use it often in my...