Office Videos

Hey, this is Will from BeYourOwnIT.com. And I’m going to give you a little tour through Open Office, which is an open source office suite that is compatible, mostly, with Microsoft Office. It’s going to be able to open most of the files, save files that do the types that Open Office is going to…Read More and Watch the Video.

Hey, everyone. This is Will from BeYourOwnIT.com. I’m going to bring you a video today on how to make better use of a program called Notepad++. Notepad++ is a word editor or a text editor that a lot of people like to use when they need more functionality than Notepad. Some people would be thinking…Read More and Watch the Video.

Microsoft Outlook distribution lists can save you a lot of time if you frequently e-mail the same groups of people time and time again. Follow these easy steps to simplify your online messaging. Click the “New” button near the top left corner and select “Distribution List.” Enter a name for the list – such as…Read More and Watch the Video.

If you have several lines of text you want to turn into a list, highlight them and click the small icon in the tool bar that either represents a bulleted or numbered list. If you later decide you do not want a list, highlight the text again and click the same button The “Insert” menu…Read More and Watch the Video.

Microsoft Word is a widely used word processing program. It comes installed on most Windows-based PCs, and it is an easy way to compose text-based documents. Follow these basic steps and you should have no problem using Word in your daily life. Double click on the clock display in your screen’s lower right corner. A…Read More and Watch the Video.

Microsoft Excel is a useful spreadsheet creation tool that is very easy to use. Before you start to use the program, we recommend brushing up on some of Excel’s basic formulas. Here are a few helpful hints to make addition, multiplication, subtraction, division and more much easier in Excel. Let’s say you have a series…Read More and Watch the Video.

If you have a great deal of data to work with, it is very beneficial to set up multiple pages in Microsoft Excel. Not only will this help you stay organized, it will also allow you to write equations that take input from as many sheets of data as you want. If you have an…Read More and Watch the Video.

The track changes function in Microsoft Word is a great tool for anyone who is working on a group project, editing someone else’s document, etc. Track changes highlights the edits you make to a Word document and points out potential changes that need to be made. To enable the function, go to the “Tools” menu…Read More and Watch the Video.

Microsoft Access is a database tool that is easy to use and also underutilized by many Microsoft users. It allows you to organize your life in multiple ways, for example setting up a mailing database for a small business or for personal use in organizing wedding invitations. To start, open up Microsoft Access and open…Read More and Watch the Video.

Welcome to beyourownit.com’s free video series where we offer a variety of computer related tips, tricks, trouble shooting problems, and tutorials. The last category, tutorials, is going to be where we start today with a beginner’s guide to Microsoft Word. Probably, everyone out there has at least used it or seen it before. What I’m…Read More and Watch the Video.