Office For Mac

Here are a few time saving keyboard shortcuts to get your week off to a productive start. I’ve also included the equivalents in Excel for Windows in case you have to jump back and forth between platforms like I do. – All Excel for Mac 2011 keyboard shortcuts – Common Office for Mac 2011 keyboard [...]

I recently had an opportunity to speak with Stephanie Krieger. Stephanie is a Microsoft Office MVP and professional document consultant who built many of the templates for Office for Mac 2011. How did you come to build the templates for Office for Mac 2011? My expertise is in creating great documents and templates for the [...]

Fall is my favorite season. When the leaves begin to turn, I can’t wait to light a fire and start planning for the holidays. To celebrate the season, I like to host dinner parties. I provide the main course, and my friends and neighbors bring salads, desserts, and everything else. For a while, we were [...]

When you have problems or questions about Office for Mac, who do you turn to? I can tell you who my dad does, which is why I created this “cheat sheet” to help divert some of his weekend distractions. I thought I would share it here. Hopefully you’ll find it useful as well. ——————————– Questions [...]

I don’t know about you, but the first time I looked at a Mac keyboard, I felt like I needed a hieroglyphics interpreter. I ended up having to make a cheat sheet for myself. One that I sometimes still have to refer to. Fifteen years later, despite the sometimes finger-bending COMMAND + SHIFT + OPTION [...]

Do you have a list of data that’s in a format you can’t use? Do you need to “pull out” specific pieces of a longer string? Don’t despair! You can use simple Excel functions to break apart strings and quickly find only the data you need. Meet RIGHT, LEFT, and MID! My sister Sandy recently [...]

I use Office all day, every day. And still, sometimes I don’t remember exactly where to find an option or setting I need. When this happens, the first place I usually look is the right-click, or “contextual” menu. You can right-click on just about anything in Office. Selected text. A misspelled word. A picture, object, [...]

Do you find yourself wading through folders in your Inbox to try and find that one email you received months ago? You know you have it piled or filed somewhere but you can’t seem to find it, just when you need it. Use the advanced search features in Outlook to ease the pain of searching [...]

Incorrect spellings in a document or mail can be quite distracting. Like most applications, Office for Mac offers spell check tools to help you correct misspelt words. In the forums, some of you have questioned the difference in the spell check functionality between Word/Excel/PowerPoint and Outlook. They are different because Word/Excel/PowerPoint is customized for Office [...]

When I do research for a project, a trip, or whatever, I like to use the Office Scrapbook. The Scrapbook is a palette in the Toolbox (click View > Scrapbook) where you can collect text, image, and object “clips” that you want to use later. To store a clip in the Scrapbook, just drag it [...]