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Dana Mathew - Software Instructor/Consultant

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Weekly Tip: Excel Slicers

Slicers are easy to use filters. They can be activated for one or more Pivots that use the same dataset or on the dataset itself. To use, click inside of a pivot table or table and Choose Insert/Slicer or Insert/Timeline. Timelines are specialized slicers for Date fields in your dataset. Timelines make filtering by month…
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Weekly Tip: Working with multiple monitors

Hooking up a second screen and need to change it’s settings:Right-click your Desktop and choose Display Settings. Click on a screen and you are setting that screen’s properties. You can click and drag to move screen 2 to the left of screen 1 to match your physical screen setup.You can change the brightness of either…
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Weekly Tip: Format Painter

When I train classes, I find that employees often don’t know about the Format Painter feature in the Office Suite of products. Format Painter is found under Home/Clipboard group/Format Painter. It’s grouped with your copy and paste because it copies and pastes formatting only. Hover over it to find out how to use it. I…
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