The Glide Training Blog

Written by Jane Hames I was doing some analysis on my banking this week (hmmm, not the most exciting job!) and decided to export the month’s transactions into Excel so that I could separate my incomings and outgoings more easily. The outgoings were displayed as negative values which is what I would expect. However, I […]

Written by Jane Hames I deliver a lot of Microsoft Office upgrade training and I have been asked this same question several times recently: “From the Print Preview, in older versions of Word, I used to be able to shrink the text in a document onto one page. The option doesn’t seem to be available […]

Written by Jane Hames Many Excel users make use of the Autofill feature for copying formulas or entering days, months, dates or other things that form a series. There are occasions when users want Excel to ignore the fact that the value is part of a series so that rather than create the series, it […]

Written by Jane Hames Yes, the title of this post does sound as though I’ve made a mistake! It is, however, entirely deliberate as I am going to explain the difference between Delete on the keyboard, the Delete command on the ribbon and Clear in Excel. I meet many people on my training workshops who […]

Written by Jane Hames Last week, during a Microsoft Word course, one of the participants asked me the following question: “I typed some dashes/hyphens in my document. Word then extended the dashes to make a line going all the way across the page. I have been trying to delete it, but neither backspace nor delete […]

Written by Jane Hames Lots of research has been done around the human reaction to colour, so if you’re really serious about the impact of colour it is well worth looking in to. Personally, I just try to keep it simple and follow a few basic guidelines. Here are some of the things I bear […]

Written by Jane Hames I have been training and working with a client to create Visio diagrams such as flowcharts, swimlane diagrams and organisation charts. The organisation charts have proved tricky due a complex structure within the organisation, a common issue, I know. To make the chart clearer, my client decided to change the fill […]

Written by Jane Hames Do you use PowerPoint as a visual aid when presenting? How do you start running the Slide Show? I sometimes see presenters opening PowerPoint and then fumbling around for the Slide Show button to start the full screen show (I don’t mind admitting that I have been guilty of this in […]

Written by Jane Hames In Microsoft Word, Headers and Footers are a great way of being able to set the same information to appear at the top and bottom of every page in the document. Common examples of this are the page number, date, company name, copyright, titles or file location. If you need to […]

Written by Jane Hames I often get asked this question: “I’ve inserted a table at the top of my Word document but now I can’t seem to get above the table: how can I click above the table to type my heading?” Here’s the answer: Click into the first cell in the table (in front […]