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Tips on Microsoft Office (from the OfficeTips email list)

These tips were emailed to members of the Officetips list between September 2005 and February 2006.  They're still useful! Take a look:

Excel Tip #2:Quick charts

Submitted by madhu on Mon, 08/18/2008 - 8:28am

To create a chart in Excel really quickly, you can highlight the data to be charted and hit the F11 function key.

Customized Excel Sheets for Legal Aid

Submitted by jeff.narabrook on Wed, 08/13/2008 - 12:38pm

Do you know people in the poverty law community who use Microsoft Excel to create elaborate customized calculation sheets but aren't sure how to replicate it for your program? 

Excel Tip #1 - RedoRedoRedo

Submitted by madhu on Thu, 08/07/2008 - 4:08pm

I have been using Excel ever since the first MS Office came out and whenever I find myself using shortcuts, I note them to share with my colleagues.  I thought the LSNTAP blog would be a good plac

The Sound of Silence

Submitted by Kathleen Brockel on Fri, 08/01/2008 - 4:24pm

Today our brand new training coordinator Jeff Narabrook experienced a bit of trial by fire.  With about 100 people on the line ready to go for the Excel training

The Cost of Not Learning

Submitted by Kathleen Brockel on Tue, 07/29/2008 - 7:50am

What does it cost you not to learn something? In my case I can recall lots and lots of time I’ve wasted putting together Excel spreadsheets for budgets, invoic

Printer Emissions: Danger or Hype?

Submitted by Kathleen Brockel on Mon, 06/30/2008 - 5:57pm


I do most of my magazine reading via the public library so I am passing along a dated story but it looks like the information is relevant.

PowerPoint 101 Available Online!

Submitted by gabrielle on Tue, 03/18/2008 - 4:18am

Thanks to Michael Bowen who found this site with online tutorials for Microsoft PowerPoint.