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How to Customize Keyboard Shortcuts in PowerPoint, Excel, and Word
Customizing keyboard shortcuts in Microsoft Office can drastically speed up your workflow. But while Word offers built-in support for...
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18 Excel charts every finance professional should know
Whether you want to analyze profitability, show a P&L, track budget performance or compare M&A acquisition targets, choosing the right...
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Building Accurate Financial Models: Most Used Software in Business for Investment Banking Analysis
In the high-stakes world of investment banking, financial modeling is an essential skill that underpins strategic decision-making....
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How to create a Speedometer chart in Excel
Table of contents Introduction Create a speedometer chart in Excel Overview Step 1 : Create the color scale Step 2 : Insert the value...
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Customize the default Excel styles, colors and fonts to your brand and save hours
Introduction Understanding Excel's default page layout The problems of not customizing Excel styles What are the default themes in Excel?...
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How to extract data from a PDF or picture into Excel
Table of contents Introduction How to convert data from a PDF to an Excel table The problem: PDF data won't come formatted as a table...
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How to use the new PivotBy and GroupBy functions in Excel
Table of contents Intro What are the PivotBy and GroupBy functions about? What are array formulas? How to use the PivotBy function in...
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Missing your consulting PowerPoint toolbar? We've got your back!
Table of contents Introduction PowerPoint toolbars developed by major consulting firms: the secret weapon Bain Toolbox for PowerPoint...
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Beyond the hype: what can you really do with Copilot in Microsoft 365?
Table of content Introduction What is Copilot? How does Microsoft 365 Copilot work? How does Copilot ensure data protection and privacy?...
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Advanced chart types actually possible in PowerPoint & Excel
Table of contents Introduction Default charts Vs advanced chart types Default chart types in PowerPoint or Excel How to create advanced...
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Unlock productivity with the Slide Master in PowerPoint
If you've ever found yourself wrestling with inconsistent fonts, muddled color schemes, and unruly slide layouts while crafting a...
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10 legendary games created by Excel geniuses
Who said Excel couldn't be fun? Although Microsoft's software is mostly known for boring financial spreadsheets, it can also be so much...
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Excel lookup functions with multiple criteria or multiple results
As an Excel user, you're likely familiar with the lookup functions like VLOOKUP, INDEX/MATCH and XLOOKUP and their ability to retrieve a...
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How to link PowerPoint slides in a presentation
Presentations are almost always designed as linear. You start from Slide 1 and then move to Slide 2, then Slide 3, etc. in this fixed...
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How to fix Excel errors: #VALUE!, #REF!, #DIV/0!, #N/A, #NUM! and #SPILL!
Excel is a wonderful toolbox to compute, analyse, compare and crunch data but it can also lead to some unexpected errors. In this post,...
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How to use the new VSTACK and HSTACK Excel functions
in 2022, Microsoft revealed no less than 14 new Excel functions. These functions are probably one of the biggest game-changer of the...
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How to use the new TEXTSPLIT, TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER Excel functions
Microsoft recently revealed not one, not two, but 14 new Excel functions, and more precisely new text and array functions for Excel 365....
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How to Create Pro-Level eLearning Content in PowerPoint
A PowerPoint presentation is probably the most widespread training format in the world. Yet, such presentations are not highly effective...
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How to create Org charts in PowerPoint the smart way
Creating org charts is a classic need virtually every PowerPoint user has faced at some point. An org chart can give a lot of information...
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How to create links between Excel and PowerPoint (or Word) for your charts, tables and texts
Linking Excel and PowerPoint is a powerful solution to automate reports and a major time-saver. In this post, we will lay out the pros...
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