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Creating a New Presentation
Nov 21, 2003
The PowerPoint AutoContent Wizard can certainly help you get started. But when you need something outside its purview -- or you simply want to do something different -- you'll need to create a brand new presentation. In this sample chapter, you'll learn about bullet formatting, fonts, text boxes, and text editing.
Creating Access Forms To Work with Excel Data
Jan 9, 2004
Microsoft Excel is great at a lot of tasks, but it has limits as a database manager. If your Excel data worksheets are beginning to get out of hand, it may be time to call in a little help from Access.
Creating and Sharing Notebooks in OneNote 2013
Mar 10, 2014
OneNote 2013 is the note-taking and sharing utility included in Microsoft Office 2013. This article shows you how to create and share OneNote notebooks easily in the cloud so you and your teammates can capture those million dollar ideas wherever you might be in the world.
Creating and Tagging Notes in Evernote
Dec 20, 2010
In this video, you see how to create, format, and tag the Evernote notes you create — using your computer, phone, or web browser — so that you can find them easily later.
Creating Charts in Excel 2013 That Show Trends
May 3, 2013
In this chapter Bill Jelen explains Excel 2013's chart options and continues by showing how to best take advantage of them.
Creating Excel 2007 Charts That Show Trends
Mar 26, 2008
Bill Jelen walks you through your many choices for effectively displaying your Excel 2007 data in charts.
Creating Microsoft Excel Charts That Show Trends
Nov 29, 2010
"Mr Excel" Bill Jelen shows how to choose the most effective type of chart and which settings to use to show various trends over time. He also discusses the strengths and limitations of Excel's available chart options.
Creating Winning Presentations for You and Your Audience
Jul 2, 2004
Jerry Weissman explains how to accurately define your audience and create audience-focused presentations.
Customizing a Pivot Table in Excel 2016
Jan 5, 2016
This chapter from Excel 2016 Pivot Table Data Crunching covers how you can use many powerful settings to tweak pivot tables. These tweaks range from making cosmetic changes to changing the underlying calculation used in the pivot table.
Customizing an Excel 2007 Pivot Table
Apr 6, 2007
Although pivot tables provide an extremely fast way to summarize data, sometimes the pivot table defaults aren't exactly what you need. This chapter covers functional areas in customizing pivot table settings to help you zero in on the results you're looking for.
Customizing an Excel 2013 Pivot Table
Mar 12, 2013
This chapter covers six functional areas in making pivot table customization: Minor Cosmetic Changes, Layout Changes, Major Cosmetic Changes, Summary Calculations, Advanced Calculations, and Other (less common) Options.
Customizing Excel 2016
Dec 9, 2015
This chapter from Excel 2016 In Depth walks you through examples of customizing the ribbon and discusses some of the important option settings available in Excel.
Customizing Fields in a Pivot Table
Jul 15, 2005
Creating a pivot table in Excel is a snap with the PivotTable wizard, but sometimes you'll need finer control over the function and relation of fields. This chapter teaches you how to customize fields to do precisely what you want them to using the PivotTable Field dialog box.
Customizing the Office 2016 Applications
Nov 23, 2015
In this chapter from My Office 2016, you learn about customizing the Office 2016 applications, including working with the application options and customizing the interface.
Designing a "Look" for your PowerPoint 2013 Presentation
Jul 9, 2013
This chapter provides tips, techniques, and advice for customizing the look and feel of your presentation and creating templates to use again later.
Desktop Publishing with Word Text Boxes
Jun 10, 2015
Desktop publishing software uses movable frames to give you precise control over a layout, but did you know that Microsoft Word can do basically the same thing? Faithe Wempen, author of Word 2013 In Depth, shows you how to use Word’s Text Box feature to create simple DTP layouts.
Developing a Custom iPhone or iPad App Can Benefit Your Business
Dec 10, 2010
Best-selling author and avid iPhone/iPad user Jason Rich shows you how to have custom apps developed for your business.
Discover LibreOffice, a Free MS Office Alternative
Aug 9, 2011
If you don’t have Microsoft Office, consider a free alternative that gives you the same basic programs and features. Eric Geier introduces you to LibreOffice, a fork of the popular OpenOffice.org (OOo) suite.
Discovering New Features of Microsoft Office 2010
Apr 30, 2010
Eric Geier highlights new social networking and sharing features and other improvements in Microsoft's Office 2010 suite.
DIY Desktop Calendar with Microsoft Publisher 2010
Jun 28, 2010
Microsoft Publisher was designed to give you the tools you need to create your own beautiful desktop calendar. Using clip art or your own photo, you can easily create a stunning desktop wallpaper calendar.

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