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Microsoft Tips and Tricks

Microsoft Outlook
Add a contact
Add and request read receipts and delivery notifications
Allow someone else to manage your mail and calendar
Attach files or insert pictures in Outlook email messages
Change how you view your Outlook calendar
Change the default font or text color for email messages
Create an email message
Create and add a signature to messages
Create and send email in Outlook
Create and use contact groups
Create appointments and meetings
Delay or schedule sending email messages
Delete an email
Export contacts from Outlook
Ignore all email messages in a conversation
Import contacts to Outlook
Manage your calendar and contacts in Outlook
Mark a message as read or unread
Recall or replace an email message that you sent
Reply to or forward an email message
Schedule a meeting with other people
Search and filter email
Send automatic Out of Office replies from Outlook
Send an automatic reply email
Set or remove reminders
Set up your Outlook mobile app
Share your calendar with other people
Use and configure the Reading Pane to preview messages
Use calendar categories
Use Conversation Clean Up to delete redundant messages
Use folders to organize your inbox
Microsoft Excel
Collaborate on Excel workbooks at the same time with co-authoring
Create a PivotTable to analyze worksheet data
Format elements of a chart
Lock or unlock specific areas of a protected worksheet
Use sparklines to show data trends
Add a watermark in Excel
Align or rotate text in a cell
Analyze and format in Excel
Analyze your data instantly
Annotate a worksheet by using comments
Apply data validation to cells
Automatically number rows
Available number formats
Calculate the difference between two dates
Change the format of a cell
Collaborate in Excel
Combine text from two or more cells into one cell
Conditional formatting
Copy cell formatting with the Format Painter
COUNTIF function
Create a chart from start to finish
Create a list of sequential dates
Create a PivotChart
Create a workbook in Excel
Create and format tables
Create or delete a custom number format
Define and use names in formulas
Display or hide zero values
Filter data in a PivotTable
Filter data in a range or table
Filter for unique values or remove duplicate values
Find or replace text and numbers on a worksheet
Freeze panes to lock rows and columns
Group or ungroup data in a PivotTable
Hide or show rows or columns
IF function
IFS
Import or export text (.txt or .csv) files
Insert or delete cells, rows, and columns
Learn more about Excel
Merge and unmerge cells
Move or copy cells and cell contents
Overview of formulas in Excel
Protect an Excel file
Resize a table, column, or row
Save or convert to PDF
See files others have shared with you
Select cell contents in Excel
Set up your Excel mobile app
Share your Excel workbook with others
Sort data in a table
Split text into different columns with the Convert Text to Columns Wizard
SUM function
SUMIF
SUMIFS
Total the data in an Excel table
Update the data in an existing chart
Use slicers to filter data
Use the Field List to arrange fields in a PivotTable
VLOOKUP
Microsoft Word
Apply themes
Check spelling, grammar, and clarity
Create newsletter columns
Insert pictures
Research, edit, and design in Word
Accept tracked changes
Add a border to a page
Add a watermark
Add a watermark
Add and edit text
Add and format text
Apply styles
Change margins
Change page orientation to landscape or portrait
Change the line spacing in Word
Collaborate on Word documents with real-time co-authoring
Convert or save to PDF
Create a bulleted or numbered list
Create a document in Word
Create a table of contents
 Edit a PDF
 Find and replace text
 Insert a header or footer
 Insert a page break
 Insert a table
 Insert a table
 Insert hyperlinks
 Insert icons
 Insert icons
 Insert or delete a comment
 Insert page numbers
 Insert pictures
 Insert WordArt
 Insert WordArt
 Learn more about Word
 Print an envelope
 Print mailing labels
 Print return address labels
 Print your document
 Remove hyperlinks
 Rotate a picture or shape
 Rotate a picture or shape
 Save a document
 Set up your Word mobile app
 Share a document
 Show or hide the ruler
 Show or hide the ruler
 Show word count
 Track changes in Word
 Use Word on a mobile device
 Wrap text around a picture
 Wrap text around a picture
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