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!"

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Get Word to run a tighter ship

Q. There is too much space between the lines of my recipients’ address in a letter. How can I tighten it up?

Bring Excel data into PowerPoint with ease

Q. My tables never look right when I paste them into Power­­Point. How should I paste Excel data into PowerPoint?

Get Word to stop assuming what you want

Q. How do I keep Word from Auto­­Formatting or Auto­Correcting certain text?

Let Outlook redirect those RSVPs

Q. I want to send an email invitation to an event, but I want the RSVP responses sent to my assistant. Can I do this?

OneNote for Event Collaboration

It is three days before the event. You are frantically trying to gather attendee lists, catering orders, room arrangements, speaker itineraries, agendas, presentation slides and meeting notes. Some are in documents on your hard drive. Other information is available on a website. Countless documents and notes are in your email in box, somewhere. Sound familiar? You may have an application already installed on your desktop that can rescue you from all that insanity. It’s called OneNote.

You can override Word's spacing suggestions

Q. Why does the new Word paragraph format default to 1.15 lines?

Start a new document with the font you want

Q. How can I change the default fonts for new Word documents?

3 Tips for Getting Around Big Documents in Word 2010

The Navigation Pane, Find/Highlight tool, and Bookmarks will have you manuevering around your text and adding polish to it in no time.

Resolving text-to-columns with line breaks in Excel

Q. I have a spreadsheet where three address lines are separated by a line break. How do I use text-to-columns to separate the lines into columns?

It's a Date: Excel Meets the Calendar

There are some powerful math features in Excel that can help you with your date data. First, let's take a look at how Excel interprets dates ...