Category: Microsoft Office

Make the Office Ribbon that suits you and your job! Microsoft Office products all support a standard ribbon menu with pretty much the same functionality with the exception of product specific tasks that differentiate them (ie: Word for documents and Excel for spreadsheets). Although we are all using the same Microsoft Office products we don’t […]

When I first evaluated Power BI a few years ago, the thing that impressed me most was that, unlike Sharepoint Power View, a developer could create new visualizations and integrate them into PBI. Some time later, Microsoft greatly expanded the ability of Power BI to include sophisticated graphs by adding to Power BI the ability […]

Stop worrying about how sophisticated your spreadsheets are. What you (and your company) should worry about is how reliable your spreadsheet is. Here are ten things you can do to ensure your data is right and that you (and your company) aren’t depending on a unreliable spreadsheet. Embarrassingly enough, I run both my personal finances […]

What is a Microsoft Office Add-In? Add-ins provide optional commands and features for Microsoft Excel. By default, add-ins are not immediately available in Excel, so you must first install and (in some cases) activate these add-ins so that you can use them. Some add-ins are built in to Excel, such as Solver and the Analysis […]

Yes, I know, if you go to a lot of meetings you are probably sick and tired of seeing yet another PowerPoint slide deck presentation! Boring! Boring! Boring! If people are sliding under the table when you are giving your PowerPoint presentation you need to liven them up a little bit and incorporating animation is […]