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Preflight checklist for your PowerPoint presentations

You may not always have time to create a blockbuster slideshow. But if you take a quick spin through this list, you can catch mistakes, improve polish, and prevent problems.

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Office challenge: How can you get a list of referenced libraries in an Access database?

In this week's challenge, test your Access skills and learn the solution to last week's Outlook challenge.

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Print multiple copies of individual pages in a Word document

Use a built-in printing feature in a little-known way to print multiple copies of specific pages in a Word document.

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A fast way to center a heading across Word columns

Don't wrestle with column width and alignment formats when you want to add a title above multi-column text. This trick lets you add it as you would any other title.

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Quickly display all you need to know about Excel functions while entering a function

Most functions require a bit of information in the form of arguments -- which aren't always easy to remember. If you don't know what's expected, use one of these quick methods for displaying information.

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Office challenge: How can you quickly increase the text size of an Outlook message without permanently changing settings?

This week, test your Outlook skills and learn the solution to last week's challenge on Excel's Auto Fill feature.

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Eliminate a mostly blank page from the end of an Excel report

Excel has a built-in feature that lets you control the number of pages used to print data. This feature enables you to eliminate a last page that has only a few records or to expand data over more pages than it really requires.

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Office poll: What's your most common support call on Word?

Almost all of us support Word users. What issues and problems do you get the most calls for?

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An efficient method for adding a text box to a Word document

Don't spend time adjusting the size of a text box to fit the text when Word can do the job for you.

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Use Word's Find feature to highlight all occurrences of a word or phrase

Word's Find feature locates text, but you can also use it to highlight all occurrences of a word or phrase in a document.

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