How to rename worksheet tabs in Microsoft Excel
It may sound crazy, but renaming worksheet tabs in Microsoft Excel can be a game changer. Especially if you share your worksheets with others. It makes it easier to find information and simplifies the process of finding the right data quick and easy for users who may not be as experienced as you with Microsoft Excel. To see how easy it is to do and why you would do it, check out this video I put together. Get more free Microsoft 365 core four (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook) tips and shortcuts.Subscribe to my free monthly eNewsletter here. …
How to Hide Zero Values in a Microsoft Excel Pivot Table
I love pivot tables because they require absolutely NO formula or function knowledge in Microsoft Excel. With the click of a few buttons you can easily summarise your data and look like a pro with Microsoft Excel! However sometimes pivot tables look messy because there are so many zero values. Here’s a quick tip to hide zero values in your pivot table so they don’t display. You’re welcome!! For more Microsoft 365 Tips and Shortcuts for Business, subscribe to my free eNewsletter here. or go to www.donnahanson.com.au/subscribe …
5 Must Know Excel Hacks
In business today we don’t have enough time to do all the things we want or need to get done, as a result we are always looking for hacks or shortcuts to fast track common tasks. Here are 5 of my favourite must know Excel hacks that are so simple you may be overlooking them and their ability to immediately improve your productivity and reduce your stress with Microsoft Excel. 1. Duplicating a Worksheet So many people copy and paste data from one excel worksheet to another only to find they lose column widths, along with any formatting such as …
Pivot Tables: Your Secret Weapon in Microsoft Excel
So many clients I work with want to know how to create complex formulas or functions to analyze large data sets in Microsoft Excel. Reality is, you don’t need to be a math genius to do this, you just need to understand a powerful tool in Microsoft Excel called Pivot Tables. When I mention pivot tables I often see eyes glaze over! Like macros, pivot tables can seem overwhelming and complex. However, when you understand what they do and Excel’s tools to make creating them EASY, enormous amounts of time can be released to do other tasks. The bonus is, …
How to Find a Previous Version of a Word Document.
Ever worked on a document only to realize that the previous version of it was much better? Most people think if you edit a document, it changes the document for good. Well it does, but if your document is saved to either OneDrive or a SharePoint library, Microsoft 365 enables you to access various versions of the document based on time and date autosave. This is a handy feature if you are working on a document but decided that you want to go back to a previous version to review it, or to simply go back to it to start …
5 Tips to Improve Your Efficiency with Microsoft Outlook
First of all, let me clarify what Microsoft Outlook is used for. Microsoft Outlook is a software tool that enables emails to be sent and received, management of calendar and contacts as well as creation and management of tasks or things to be done. Given the sheer volume of email we receive on a daily basis in business, as a productivity speaker, trainer and course creator, I am regularly asked how to effectively plan your day so you get stuff done and don’t end up wasting your time dealing with other people’s problems or issues…..unless of course, that IS your …
How to Change the Color of a Worksheet Tab
Firstly, why should you change the colour of your worksheet tabs? Primarily, worksheet tab colors provide a visual cue that worksheets in an Excel file relate to each other, for example, team worksheets relating to a single department, data relating to a geographical location. Like anything in Excel, changing the color of a worksheet tab is easy when you know how. 1/ Right click on the worksheet tab you want to change the color of. 2/ Choose Tab Color 3/ Click the desired colour and the tab will change NOTE: To change multiple tabs to the same color at once, …
Comment and review Microsoft Word documents with Ease!
In older versions of Microsoft Word, collaborating on a document with colleagues was cumbersome! It required both the user and anyone contributing or editing the document an understanding of Microsoft Word’s track changes. How to switch track changes on and off and how to remove any mark ups after the collaboration process was completed. For those less experienced, it often felt easier to simply print out the document, make physical changes and pass it back to the owner, or to simply provide changes in the form of an email. With the evolution of Microsoft’s Office suite, today there are multiple …
It’s all in the preparation
I’ve been speaking, training and consulting for over twenty years and one of the things that still surprises me is the comments I get from participants about my presentations. I’m regularly told “gee you make everything seem so easy”, or “how do you remember all that?”. There is no real secret to presenting, making things look easy or remembering things. It just takes practice. I recently presented a program for a client to educate their organisation on some new software. I was familiar with the programs and whilst I could have just turned up and spoken about the programs to the audience, …
