Inspired by my achievement this week where I reduced the number of emails in my inbox from over 1,000 down to 296, I thought it would be a great idea to touch on the processes of how to create folders ...

How often do you check back on your favourite website to see if new content has been uploaded? How would you like to automatically subscribe to your favourite websites without joining a mailing list? If you are like me, then ...

As a business owner, I spend a significant amount of time managing my emails. I often need to respond to the same questions several times a week. This is where Quick Parts in Outlook saves me time and sanity. Quick ...

A common concern for any presenter (including me) is knowing if they have enough content or too much in their presentation. The Rehearse Timings feature in Microsoft PowerPoint provides a quick and simple way to rehearse the timing of your ...

The 24th of July marked the 4th birthday of "The Training Lady" blog. This year I spent this occasion with my two girls playing in the snow! We had a lovely break away with friends in the crisp clear air of ...

Last week one of my clients experienced a hardware failure on their main computer. It's a computer users worst nightmare and occurred in the middle of an important week of work. Long story short, I was able to source a ...

This week I had a request to show participants how to crop an image using Microsoft Paint. Most of the Microsoft Office products include a cropping tool but it only crops the image within that specific program. Microsoft Paint can ...

In an earlier post titled Backing up your files – a vital step to securing your data, I outlined the basic information needed for any user to begin the process of backing up data on a regular basis. In this post, ...

In an earlier post titled Backing up your files - a vital step to securing your data, I outlined the basic information needed for any user to begin the process of backing up data on a regular basis. In this post, ...

This week I saw a great question on an online forum relating to Microsoft PowerPoint. The question asked how to make an object appear on screen for a few seconds, and then make it disappear only to be replaced with ...

At the start of every training course, I show participants through a few really useful features of the Microsoft Office programs. These features save you time during a busy workday. One such feature is AutoCorrect, another is the ability to ...

Do you find yourself repetitively inserting the same sentence, paragraph or images into documents on a regular basis? Today I'd like to introduce you to the world of Building Blocks and Quick Parts in Microsoft Word. Microsoft Word, and likewise ...

Guess what? "The Training Lady", or this blog, has turned 3 years old.. It happened without any celebration or hype, but it happened. There are now over 100 posts and although I don't get to blog as much as i'd ...

I’ve encountered more than a few clients now who have run into issues with their allocated mailbox space. Depending on your hosting provider, you could be provided with email storage from 250MB to 10GB. The more space we have, the ...

Microsoft PowerPoint has been around for a long time, circa 1990 according to most online sources, either way it’s aging gracefully. No longer do we have to sit and watch a presenter giving us 1,001 points of interest about the ...

During a Microsoft Excel training session a few week's ago, I had a great question about using conditional formatting to highlight dates earlier than the current one, in other words, how can we highlight dates that occur in the past? ...

Did you know that you can insert Excel into Word? That's right, you can have the functionality of an Excel worksheet sitting inside your Word document. This is one of the many functions that I find people aren't aware of ...

If you have tried to open your Microsoft Outlook client and have received an error relating to your .pst file then you have come to the right place. The Inbox Repair Tool is a utility included with Microsoft Outlook which ...

When creating a presentation it can be daunting trying to remember what needs to be said and when. You may also encounter the odd occasion when a presentation will be shared between multiple presenters. There can be confusion in knowing ...

Does your document show [Compatibility Mode] in the Word title bar? You'll be happy to know that this is a simple fix. Compatibility mode identifies to the user that a document is not using the most recent file format. Let's ...

Want to become more efficient using Excel? Let me show you the best keyboard shortcuts in Excel. Anyone who has ever attended training with me, or even anyone who has read my other “shortcut key” posts, should know that I ...

Microsoft Outlook gives you the ability to create and manage contact details in a personal address book. Because Outlook encompasses email, contacts, scheduling and more, you can utilise these features across any task you are performing which is associated with ...

In recent versions of the Microsoft Office programs, users now see a Start screen appear when any of the programs are launched. This Start Screen gives you quick access to various functions such as any recent files you have opened ...

For anyone who sends emails on a regular basis, you may find yourself sending the same information over and over. This is especially relevant for people running a business and it is this situation where email templates can come in ...