Microsoft Hints and Tips
A selection of hints and tips to assist you in you Microsoft Excel Training, or any other Microsoft training.
FV Financial Function in Excel – using financial functions for working out calculations
FV Financial Function in Excel - how can I use this financial function in my spreadsheets? Watch the video to learn more This week's hint and tip is on the FV financial function in Excel. This looks at the financial function which is applicable to home as well as...
Dependent List Data Validation in Excel – using dependent lists to make it more advanced
Dependent List Data Validation in Excel - how can I use this more advanced example of data validation in my spreadsheets? Watch the video to learn more This week's hint and tip is about dependent list data validation in Excel. This looks at how you can use data...
Time Calculations in Excel – using cell formatting to allow use of these in spreadsheets
Time Calculations in Excel – how can I use cell formatting to allow use of these in spreadsheets? Watch the video to learn moreThis week's hint and tip is about time calculations in Excel. This looks at how you can use custom cell formatting to enable you to carry out...
PDF Data into Excel – using the ‘Get Data’ feature in Excel to save you time!
PDF Data into Excel - how can I use the 'Get Data' feature in my spreadsheets? Watch the video to learn moreThis week's hint and tip is about getting PDF data into Excel using the 'Get Data' feature. This option isn't on any of our courses so we decided to do a hint...
Publisher Useful Features – have you used either of these before?
Publisher useful features - do you know either of them? Watch the video to learn moreThis week's hint and tip is on Publisher useful features. In this hint and tip we are covering how to change character spacing and how to easily select multiple objects in one go....
View Tab features in Word – using them to compare documents
View Tab features in Word - do you know either of these? Watch the video to learn moreThis week's hint and tip is on some view tab features in Word. In this hint and tip we are covering the Split and the View Side by Side option. These are both not necessarily covered...
Word Useful Features Part 2 – how about these, heard of any of them?
Word useful features part 2 - do you know any of them? Watch the video to learn moreThis week's hint and tip is on Word useful features part 2. In this second part we are covering the increase/decrease indent buttons and the hyphenation button. These are both not...
Word Useful Features Part 1 – have you heard of or used these before?
Word useful features part 1 - do you know any of them? Watch the video to learn moreThis week's hint and tip is on Word useful features part 1. In part 1 we are covering the increase/decrease font size buttons, the change case button and the format painter button....
VBA Input message boxes in Excel – something to stretch your knowledge
VBA Input Message Boxes - how can I create them in my spreadsheets?This week's hint and tip is about VBA input message boxes in Excel. It looks at how to make an Excel worksheet more interactive by using a macro with input message boxes. We also did an earlier video...
Text Wrapping in Word – how to use it plus some extra features
Text wrapping in Word - how do I use this? Watch the video to learn moreThis week's hint and tip is about how to use text wrapping in Word when inserting. This is not covered really on our Word courses in detail, so we decided to do a post on it. We are going to go...
Inserting slides in PowerPoint – how to do it and the different layouts
Inserting slides in PowerPoint - how do I do this? Watch the video to learn moreThis week's hint and tip is about how to insert slides in PowerPoint into your presentations. This is on our Basic PowerPoint course and it covers where the options are found and how to...
Inserting text boxes in PowerPoint – how do I insert them in my slides?
Inserting text boxes in PowerPoint - how do I do this? Watch the video to learn moreThis week's hint and tip is about how to insert text boxes in PowerPoint in your presentation slides. This is on our Basic PowerPoint course and we cover how to insert, resize and...
Inserting and Defining Bullet Points in Word – a video on how to do so
Inserting and defining bullet points - how do I do this? Watch the video to learn moreThis week's hint and tip is about how to insert and define a new bullet point within Excel. This is on our Intermediate Word course and it covers where the options are found and how...
Dynamic Arrays in Excel 365 – what is it and how can I use it in Excel?
Dynamic Arrays in Excel 365 - how can I use this in my worksheets?This week's hint and tip is about dynamic arrays in Excel 365 and how you can use it in your worksheets. This feature isn't covered in our courses, so we wanted to create a hint and tip to let you know...
Groups of option buttons in our fun quiz! Have a go and let us know!
Groups of option buttons in our little quiz! How many questions did you get right?This week's hint and tip is slightly different, we are bringing you a Quiz! This quiz has been created using groups of option buttons and you can see how they are used in this post....
Data Validation in Excel – how to apply it to cells in your spreadsheet
Data Validation in Excel - how do I apply this in a spreadsheet? Watch the video to learn moreThis week's hint and tip is about how to apply and use data validation within Excel. This is on our Advanced Excel course and covers where the option is found and how to...