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Declutter the title bar in Microsoft Office

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 13:03:48 +0000

Microsoft Office has had the ability to place icons in the title bar for a long time. I seem to remember doing that way back in Office 2007. But recent versions put a lot more things in the title bar

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How to merge data in Excel

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 13:03:37 +0000

I understand business analysts ask each other how to merge data in Excel in job interviews. The rest of us struggle and swear a lot. If you don’t count a business analyst among your best friends, here’s the secret you

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Save as in Office 365

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 14:03:31 +0000

I was working on some documents in Word and Excel last week and needed to know where the files were. Figuring that out used to be easy: Just use Save As. But that looks really different in Office 365. Here’s

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Word line wrap not working? Here’s the fix

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 12:00:11 +0000

I ran into a problem with Word line wrap not working. Even though the text had spaces in them, Word was treating some of the spaces from my copy and pasted text like they weren’t spaces. When line wrap doesn’t

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Reveal codes in Word like Wordperfect

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 30 Aug 2021 12:00:33 +0000

If there’s one thing people miss when they switch from Wordperfect to Microsoft Word, it’s the old Reveal Codes function. This lets you view and fine tune document formatting and fix weirdness. Word has a similar function that nobody talks

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How you view message headers in Outlook

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 12:00:03 +0000

Viewing message headers is helpful for troubleshooting, and also making sure you’re not getting phished. Microsoft moved things around in recent versions of Outlook, so here’s how to view message headers in Outlook–the current version. View message headers in Outlook

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Make a Word hyperlink UNC path

Dave Farquhar — Sat, 20 Feb 2021 15:02:19 +0000

I had an issue in a document with a hyperlink to an existing file. The file existed on a network drive, so the link worked fine… until someone with different drive mappings than me had to look at the document.

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How to use Excel VLOOKUP

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 12:00:50 +0000

VLOOKUP is a very useful tool in Excel but can be difficult to get right. Here’s how to use Excel VLOOKUP, including an example and what to do when it doesn’t work right. VLOOKUP is a useful tool for data

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Combining cells in Excel

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 12:00:44 +0000

Combining cells in Excel is something we frequently need to do. And there are multiple ways to do it, depending on what exactly you need to do. One is easier to remember than the others, but let’s step through them.

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How to sort by color in Excel

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 13:00:49 +0000

When doing data analysis, frequently you’ll use conditional formatting to highlight certain cells. But then you’ll probably find you still need to group those similar cells afterward. That’s where sorting by color comes in. Here’s how to sort by color

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