Image: Tada Images/Adobe Stock When Microsoft first acquired Visio back in 2000, it was a general-purpose diagramming tool for drawing flow charts, floor plans, org charts, mind maps and network…

Learn how to use either of these methods in Microsoft Excel to display negative values in red. Image: Viktor Pazemin/Adobe Stock To enter a negative value into a Microsoft Excel…

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Image: mizar_21984/Adobe Stock. It’s important to have a professional-looking signature in your work email. Microsoft Word has a template gallery with 20 signatures that you can choose from and then…

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[embedded content] An Excel drop-down list can make it easier for the average Microsoft Excel user to enter data. Using a drop-down limits the entry choices for a selected cell,…

A spinning hollow circle is a great way to suggest the passing of time in a PowerPoint show. Susan Harkins shows you how to make this simple animation. Image: monticello/Shutterstock…

At the sheet level, conditional running totals require focused expressions, but an Excel PivotTable requires only a few field swaps. Susan Harkins shows you how. Image: Ahmad/Adobe Stock An expression…