Office For Mac

What? No egg shape? If you want to fine-tune a shape in Office for Mac 2011, or even create a different shape altogether, you can edit its points. For example, turn a circle into an egg shape. Or rearrange the points in a freeform shape that you created with the drawing tool. To see the [...]

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 [...]

If 25 GB of free online storage wasn’t enough, here’s another great reason to try SkyDrive – it works with Office. Whether you use the free Office Web Apps, Office for Mac 2011, or Office for Windows 2010, you can save, download, and collaborate in real-time on all of your online documents. The latest Windows [...]

When it comes to editing pictures for your documents, don’t overlook all of the options built right into Word. When you click a picture in a document, the Format Picture tab appears on the ribbon. From here, you can quickly apply the styles and formatting you want. For example, I used the Format Picture options [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

In Power Tip #6, we talked about the basic Shapes in Office for Mac, today I will show you one really powerful undocumented Shapes feature in PowerPoint 2011. What if you need a graphic that is somewhat more complex than the basic Office shapes? For example, if you need graphics like any of these: (And [...]

Shapes is one of the more underutilized features in Office for Mac 2011, and in this week’s Power Tip I will show you why it should be used more often. In presentations and documents (and in spreadsheets, but to a lesser extent), quality graphics can often convey a wealth of information in a minimal amount [...]

Until today, most of the Power Tips in this blog have been Word tips. But there are three other major apps in the Office for Mac suite, and for each there is a wide range of tips to share with you. So, this is my first tip for PowerPoint for Mac 2011. You may have [...]

This week’s Power Tip is about spell check – functionality that is in all four of the main Office for Mac 2011 applications – and how to enable it and disable it in certain special situations. I’ll share some examples later in this post. To start off with some background, the spell check functionality in [...]