10 Productivity Tools You Should Learn to Use in 2010

If you want to make a New Year’s Resolution that’s easy to stick to and will make a direct impact, try teaching yourself some new software skills. Here are ten tools that will have an immediate effect on your day-to-day production, from Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint:
1. Search Folders
As described in previous posts, Search Folders [...]

Excel Tutorial: Pivot Tables, Part 1

One of the more prevalent uses of Microsoft Excel is saving large tables of information, and then wringing some quantity of interpreted information from that table. Unfortunately, many Excel users lean on an overuse of functions to interpret that information, when a pivot table would make their jobs easier. This needs to stop. Let’s start from the beginning:

Learning Office 2007

Everyone who changes from Office 2003 to Office 2007 has a learning curve. During the weeks and months after you transition, you’ll find yourself wondering: where is that tool I used to use all the time?

Tools You Should Be Using: Microsoft Excel

There are some very powerful functions in Excel that few people ever use: the Database Functions.

Five Great Excel Selection Tricks

If you want to move more quickly and confidently in Microsoft Excel, here’s a couple of useful tips: