Anyone who has used Word for any amount of time will know that it can ‘try to help’. This is a very clever semi-intelligence that Microsoft have built into the software, but we all know it as those annoying little things that happen as we work. What you probably didn’t […]

The Office suite has a fully-fledged programming language built into it. Visual Basic for Applications [VBA] is a sub set of the very powerful Visual Basic used to develop full applications on the Windows platform. In Office, VBA can extend almost any feature or function within Word and, to a […]

There’s nothing like a list of problems to get us interested at Operandi. Some of which most people don’t realise they have, and often as not we just get on with it and deal with them as part of the work. Every few projects we get something that really stretches […]

A Microsoft Office template in Word, PowerPoint or Excel should only use the facilities offered by the Office suite. With a general issue of training for most people, it is hardly surprising that the uninitiated produce poor templates themselves. We receive a request for help from one designer or another […]

We have had quite a few meetings and projects lately where this question came up. Most of the time we are discussing Word’s abilities, but the latest PowerPoint and Excel offer features and functions most people don’t seem to know about. The main reason, we find, is that few people […]