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A bite-size look at how to input numbers, how to make sure you are using numbers rather than text, and how to format numbers, and change text back into numbers.

Excel is easier to work with if you set up a comfortable grid and cells. This video teaches about leaving white space, resizing cells, and creating borders.

Learn how to add, control, and customize images in MSWord.Word offers a variety of techniques for putting graphics into your documents. The technique you choose depends on your needs and the image…

Learn to begin making pretty things in Word by taking control of shapes. This video teaches how to create shapes, make them work well with text, and how to add both small and large amounts of text to…

Learn to turn off those pesky, html links that Word automatically supplies. Learn to keep them turned off for good! Learn to add your own links to web pages, other Microsoft files, and to important…

Ready made tables in MSWord are treacherous, to say the least, but tables are among Word's most useful features.Learn to make tables with borders, to edit tables with borders, and to decorate…

Styles offer a smooth shortcut to preformat fonts and paragraphs in MSWord. They are easier to retrieve than home made templates, and require only knowledge you already have.

Learn a foolproof, robust technique for making outlines in MSWord. Learn why you should avoid Word's automatic outline creators, and learn how to beautify your outlines with indents and bold…

Learn how to open/enter the header (and how to exit it too), how to insert beautifully formatted page numbers, and how to create multiple headers with section breaks.

Learn how to set fonts and spacing, place a hanging indent in a works cited or reference list, add page breaks to separate parts of documents, and use the spelling, grammar, and margin checkers.