Microsoft Word & Excel 365 Productivity Tips (Udemy.com)

***UPDATED WORKBOOK AND VIDEOS - MAY 2024***

Donna believes the very technology that was supposed to make our life easier has created another layer of work which takes us away from things that we want in our lives such as more time with family, time to focus on a new project or simply reducing stress levels and risk of errors.

With over 20 years of Adult Learning & Development experience, in this short course Donna covers productivity tips that you must know about Microsoft Word & Microsoft Excel to immediately increase your productivity and reduce risk.

This sample program covers a range of key tools and features in Microsoft Excel & Microsoft Word that are some of the most common challenges and frustrations participants in face-to-face workshops, one on once coaching sessions or online programs Donna has been asked in her twenty-five years as a professional educator. One tip alone could save you hours of stress and frustration and will enable you to immediate increase your productivity and efficiency with Microsoft Word & Microsoft Excel 365.

This short program addresses 38 of the most common questions my audiences have also provides context for how and where in the “real world” participants might utilise these skills.

Whilst this program is shared in the Microsoft 365 these tips also work in previous versions of Microsoft Word & Excel.

Topics covered include:

Microsoft Excel

1. Shortcuts to adding or summing data

2. How to copy worksheets EXACTLY as you want them

3. How to send a single worksheet in a file to someone instead of the whole worksheet

4. 1 Key Graph/Chart creation

5. How to split data in one cell into multiple columns

6. How to easily remove extra spaces in cells

7. How to easily change the casing of text in cells

8. How to "add" cells containing text together

9. How to get ALL your data to print on a single page

10. How to set up headers & footers on your worksheet

11. How to flip data you've already entered from being across the spreadsheet to down the spreadsheet

12. How to make finding and referring to key information in your spreadsheet easy

13. Simple formulas to add up data across multiple worksheet

14. How to create a pivot table to enable you to analyse data

15. How to easily subtotal a long list of data

16. How to create droplists to keep data entry in cells consistent

17. How to highlight cells that meet a specific criteria

18. How to remove duplicate entries from data lists

19. How to leverage hyperlinks to move around larger spreadsheets

20. How to protect your data from user errors

21. How to automate common, repetitive tasks.

Microsoft Word

1. How to apply formatting from one part of a document to another with a couple of clicks

2. Setting up default line spacing

3. Making bullets work for you, not against you.

4. Simple tips on creating and working with tables.

5. Copying and pasting "insider" tips to save hours of frustration

6. Fast tracking page breaks

7. Understanding headers and footers and how they work in Word

8. Inserting an Excel worksheet into a Word document.

9. How to automatically insert common text

10. How to insert larger blocks of text with a few clicks

11. How to insert watermarks on documents

12. How to insert one file into another

13. Using styles to make document formatting EASY

14. Creating an automated table of contents

15. Creating templates to save time and frustration on repetitive tasks

16. Easy mail merge with an Excel worksheet as a data source

17. How to easily insert a file name and path into a document footer.

Includes Downloadable workbook with step-by-step instructions + NEW Downloadable Excel Practice Worksheet!!