There’s a feature in Outlook that allows you to send an email that “expires” at a certain date and time. Sandra and I were discussing it the other day, and we really didn’t know what it would do. I decided to figure it out for today’s tip. 🙂
AutoRecover in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
So have you ever been working away on a Word document or Excel file, only to have the power go out or your laptop throw the Blue Screen of Death? All your work… gone.
But not necessarily… if you have AutoRecover configured in your Office programs (specifically, I’m referring to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint), you will only lose a limited amount of work. Here’s how you do that…
Sharing your desktop in Skype in one easy step
When I’ve been working with people and ask them to share their desktop, I’ve noticed that a lot of people select the desktop sharing option, but forget to click the Present button at the bottom…
Printing the row letters and column numbers on an Excel spreadsheet
Most of the time when you print a spreadsheet, you only want to see the data, not the letters for each column and the numbers for each row. However, there is a way to get the letters and numbers to show up if you need them on your printout.
Zooming the text in an Outlook email
Depending on the quality of your eyesight (and the font size choice of your email sender), you might find that you need some extra “help” in reading the text in a particular email. Outlook provides a couple of ways that you can easily zoom in and increase the text size of your email.
Tabbing your way through OneNote sections
If you use the CTRL+Tab key combination, you can move across the section tabs from left to right at the top of your OneNote notebook.
Excel Spell Check Options
One of our Enterprise Service Center (ESC) supervisors shared a cool Excel tip yesterday. They often hear complaints about how there is no automated Spell Checker in Excel. However, there are a couple of different ways that you can complete a spell check.
Save time with Skype shortcut keys
We were recently asked about what shortcut keys exist for Skype. Sandra found a great list of all the Skype shortcut key combinations at Microsoft’s support.office.com site.
Getting rid of the numeric/text error in Excel
While there’s no way to shut off the numeric/text error in Excel completely, there is a way to clear the error on a number of cells at once rather than one at a time. Here’s how it works…
One Minute Office Magic 