Top tips to help you ‘tame your computer’ – 700 and counting
Software training expert Karen Roem – who has been sharing valuable hints, tricks and shortcuts to help users make the most of Microsoft Office for many years – this week publishes her 700th tip.
Tame your computer - spot the difference
In her regular series for Cambridge Network members - which she started in January 2005 - Microsoft Office-ionado Karen Roem offers handy tips to help you 'Tame your computer'. This week she describes how to spot the difference between two documents in Microsoft Word.
Tame your computer - with follow-up flags
In her regular series for Cambridge Network members, software training expert Karen Roem offers handy tips to help you 'Tame your computer'. This week she describes how to add follow-up reminder text and a column to an email (Microsoft Outlook).
Tame your computer - new year, no new Start
In her regular series for Cambridge Network members, software training expert Karen Roem offers handy tips to help you 'Tame your computer'. This week she describes how you can turn off the Start screen when you open Word, Excel or PowerPoint.
Tame your computer - Best of 2021 - top 11 tips
In her regular series for Cambridge Network members - now in its 15th year - software training expert Karen Roem offers handy tips to help you 'Tame your computer'. This week she lists her top tips of 2021.
Karen Roem joins Executive Support Speaker Bureau
Cambridge-based software training expert Karen Roem – author of the popular ‘Tame your computer’ series of articles on the Cambridge Network site – has been invited to join the Executive Support Speaker Bureau.
Tame your computer - keep in shape
In her regular series for Cambridge Network members - now in its 15th year - software training expert Karen Roem offers handy tips to help you 'Tame your computer'. This week she describes how to make your transparent circles and shapes the default in all new files (Microsoft PowerPoint).
Tame your computer - (almost) total recall
In her regular series for Cambridge Network members - now in its 15th year - software training expert Karen Roem offers handy tips to help you 'Tame your computer'. This week she describes a way to increase your chances of recalling an email message (Microsoft Outlook).
Tame your computer - lights, camera, action
In her regular series for Cambridge Network members - now in its 15th year - software training expert Karen Roem offers handy tips to help you 'Tame your computer'. This week she explains a quick way to open your Camera App (Windows 10)
Tame your computer - unflag your follow-ups
In her regular series for Cambridge Network members - now in its 15th year - software training expert Karen Roem offers handy tips to help you 'Tame your computer'. This week she explains how to remove flagged messages from your 'For Follow Up' folder using your keyboard (Microsoft Outlook).
Tame your computer - read it out loud!
In her regular series for Cambridge Network members - now in its 15th year - software training expert Karen Roem offers handy tips to help you 'Tame your computer'. This week she explains how you can listen to Hazel, George or Susan stumble over the mistakes in your draft email or document (Outlook and Word 365).
Tame your computer - super search selections
In her regular series for Cambridge Network members - now in its 15th year - software training expert Karen Roem offers handy tips to help you 'Tame your computer'. This week she explains how to use Outlook's predefined filters to find that needle in a haystack.
Tame your computer - a hiding hint
In her regular series for Cambridge Network members - now in its 15th year - software training expert Karen Roem offers handy tips to help you 'Tame your computer'. This week she explains how to make sure hidden rows and columns are not copied (Microsoft Excel).
Tame your computer - take a shortcut
In her regular series for Cambridge Network members - now in its 15th year - software training expert Karen Roem offers handy tips to help you 'Tame your computer'. This week she describes ten useful keyboard shortcuts you can do with your spacebar.
Tame your computer - add a lively welcome
In her regular series for Cambridge Network members - now in its 15th year - software training expert Karen Roem offers handy tips to help you 'Tame your computer'. This week she describes how to add an animated GIF or meme to a slide (Microsoft PowerPoint).
Tame your computer - manage your inbox beast
In her regular series for Cambridge Network members - now in its 15th year - software training expert Karen Roem offers handy tips to help you 'Tame your computer'. This week she describes how to automatically move email messages from a particular company to a specific folder (Microsoft Outlook).
Tame your computer - change the weather by degrees
In her regular series for Cambridge Network members - now in its 15th year - software training expert Karen Roem offers handy tips to help you 'Tame your computer'. This week she describes how to show weather in Celsius on the Outlook calendar.
Tame your computer - cool calendar coordinates
In her regular series for Cambridge Network members - now in its 15th year - software training expert Karen Roem offers handy tips to help you 'Tame your computer'. This week she compares ways to move around the Outlook and Google calendar.
Tame your computer - make your slideshows slicker
In her regular series for Cambridge Network members - now in its 15th year - software training expert Karen Roem offers handy tips to help you 'Tame your computer'. This week she explains how to remove all speaker notes in one go (Microsoft PowerPoint).
Tame your computer - suggest a new feature
In her regular series for Cambridge Network members - now in its 15th year - software training expert Karen Roem offers handy tips to help you 'Tame your computer'. This week she explains how to submit your ideas for improvements to Microsoft.
Tame your computer - colour your cursor
In her regular series for Cambridge Network members - now in its 15th year - software training expert Karen Roem offers handy tips to help you 'Tame your computer'. This week she describes how to make your text cursor easier to spot in Word and Outlook.
Tame your computer - jump between multiple Excel worksheets
In her regular series for Cambridge Network members - now in its 15th year - software training expert Karen Roem offers handy tips to help you 'Tame your computer'. This week she describes how to quickly jump between multiple worksheets in Excel
Tame your computer - with a quick change trick
In her regular series for Cambridge Network members - now in its 15th year - software training expert Karen Roem offers handy tips to help you 'Tame your computer'. This week she describes how to edit your document while previewing it (Microsoft Word).
Tame your computer - set a timely reminder
In her regular series for Cambridge Network members - now in its 15th year - software training expert Karen Roem offers handy tips to help you 'Tame your computer'. This week she describes how to add a reminder from your taskbar.
Tame your computer - button up!
In her regular series for Cambridge Network members - now in its 15th year - software training expert Karen Roem offers handy tips to help you 'Tame your computer'. This week she explains how to make your favourite buttons easily accessible (Microsoft Office).