Melissa P Esquibel

A Microsoft® Certified Trainer, Melissa Esquibel combines her 25+ years experience in information technology with a background in training, technical writing and business risk analysis. Her goal: To take you from "No, how?" to "Know how!"

Content Posted by Melissa P Esquibel

Hide and Seek With PowerPoint Objects

If you design diagrams with layered objects, especially with animation, it can be a bit frustrating to keep things stacked the way you like as you make changes and add movement. Here are a couple of tips to keep your sanity with layered objects.

Outlook 2010 View Tips

Just about everything you need with regard to changing your view in Outlook can be found on the View tab in Outlook 2010. Here’s a little tour through the View ribbon. View Ribbon Left Current View In this group you’ll find 3 han...

3 OH NO moments in Excel and what to do about it

'My Ribbon is gone!' This is a common exclamation by new Office 2007 and 2010 users. We come from a long line of “double clickers” even though precious little needs a double click. One of the things you might actually double click on is...

Beyond Find in Word

Many people have used Find for years in Microsoft Word without ever clicking on the More>> button. Find More Here are all the things you can look for specifically: Your search words in the case you type them in, so This, THIS, or this. Wo...

Time sheets and shortcuts

Rachelle asks: “I would like to set up excel spread sheet to track my hours for work but can’t figure out how to set it up, can someone please help!” There are several great templates on Office Online which you can access with Fi...

Pasting Gmail and Outlook together

I had an interesting question this week from someone in my network. Their IT decision makers have chosen to host their email and calendars in Gmail. My contact and her colleagues would all prefer to keep using Outlook 2010. She wanted to know how ...

Office 365: Is it for me?

Office 365 is the robust cloud computing offering by Microsoft. Very quickly and inexpensively, an organization can enable the power of Exchange 2010, SharePoint 2010 and Lync 2010. For as little as $6 per user per month you can put the power of h...

Easy and useful macro: Right fit worksheet

If you’ve never created a Macro before, this one will be an easy starting place. A macro can be a simple recording of keystrokes that can be played back over and over again. The purpose of this macro is to set the column widths and row heigh...

3 tips for PowerPoint Video success

In PowerPoint 2010, you can now create a video file called a Windows Media Video file or .wmv. This format is playable on many video players and can be converted with a separate piece of software to another format if needed.  Last year, here ...

SharePoint: What the heck is it?

Many people are presenting problems to IT and being told their solution is SharePoint. While there is a whole lot of “geek speak going around, there’s not enough plain talk. Here’s a primer: What SharePoint is NOT SharePoint is no...