A resume is synopsis of your experiences and skills in the field of work that you are entering. It shows your achievements and skills to prove a potential employer that you have the right skill set and experience for the job. Although resumes are very important part of your career, however the main hurdle to create a good resume is that it’s hard to make a resume that highlights your skills without being over ostentatious (showy).

In such cases a resume template can come very handy because it is tailor made as per the jobs requirement and skill sets. Basically, Resume Templates are certain resume formats and layouts made by experts that can help you to make good resumes in the shortest possible time. All you have to do is to fill in your relevant details in the fields and you are all set to go to a job interview.

Benefits of Using Resume Templates:

Resume templates have many benefits and some of them are as follows:

• Resume templates are designed by experts so they are as per the Corporate Standards.
• They can help you to make your custom resumes in shortest possible time.
• Making your resume becomes very easy by using resume templates.
• They are free of cost.

Microsoft word also has many stock resume templates that you can use to create your own resumes. But the resume templates that you can find in Microsoft word are very much limited and hence later in the post I will be sharing packages of Free Resume Templates for Microsoft Word.

How to use an existing Microsoft Word Resume Template:

If your computer is not connected to internet then you will only be able to use the stock/default Resume templates that come with MS Word. So, for using the default templates follow the below steps:

• Open Microsoft word.

• Click the “Office Button” select the “New” option.
• Now a “New Document” window will open, Select the “Installed Templates” option.

• And then select any Resume template, and click the create button.
• Now you can easily make the changes in the resume template that you selected in your browser as per your requirement.
• Finally Save the Document and your resume is ready.

If your computer is connected to internet then you will be able to browse the office online library for the most suitable resume templates. So, for using this follow the below steps:

• Open Microsoft word.
• Click the “Office Button”, select the “New” option.

• Now a “New Document” window will open, Scroll down and you will see an option named “Resumes and CV’s” select it.
• Now Microsoft word will show you few categories to choose the resume template from. Select the category that is best suited for your requirements and then select your resume template.
• Make the desired changes and save the resume.

Bonus Tip – Free C.V. Templates for Microsoft Word:

As a bonus tip here we are offering you a collection of 170 C.V. Templates. You will find these templates very useful for designing your own resumes. The collection consists of Resume templates for different job profiles like Banking, I.T., Teaching, Administrative, Marketing, Corporate Sector and many more.

Download Link: [Free Resume Templates for Microsoft Word]

How to use these resume templates in Microsoft word:

To use these templates is easy; simply open these templates to the word templates directory at

And after this to use them, simply click the “New” option in Word and select “My templates”, choose the resume template that you want to work with and it’s all done.

Hiding formulas in excel is a thing that most of the excel users would love to know. Actually it is quite useful in the cases where you want to share an excel sheet with other people and don’t want to reveal a particular formula that you have used for any calculations. So it is always a wise option to hide your formulas before sharing your excel sheet with others.

Hiding formulas in excel is an easy task very similar to protecting cells in an excel sheet. The basic idea behind hiding formulas in excel is that first you have to change the format of the cell to hidden and then lock that cell, so that no one can change the contents.

Steps to Hide Formula in Excel:

• To hide formula in excel first of all you have to select the cell, right click on the cell and select the option “Format cells”.

• Now a “Custom List” window will open, navigate to the “Protection” Tab and check the “Hidden” option and click “Ok”.
• After this navigate to the “Review” tab in excel, select the “Protect sheet option”.

• In the Protect sheet window, check keep the default check boxes checked as shown in the image, enter the password and click “Ok”

• Now, the formulas in the selected cells will be hidden i.e. they won’t show up in the edit bar.

Steps to Unhide a Formula in Excel:

Now if you want to make some changes to the formula again you need to unprotect the sheet.

• To unhide the formulas simply navigate to the “review” tab and select the option “Unprotect sheet”.

• Now a window will pop out, asking for your password. Here you need to enter the same password that you used to hide the cells.
• After entering the password click “Ok” and your cells will get un protected and you can make the desired changes to the cells.

Outlook 2010 is a very nice product from Microsoft, for Windows users. It is the best email client program available in the market. Its classy look, flawless features and the tight integration capability with exchange server are the things that make it the best email client. Another wonderful feature that it has is that it allows you to check your Gmail emails or yahoo emails on outlook.

At times you may find a need to Export Contacts from Outlook 2010. Reasons can be many may be you want it for some documentation purpose or maybe you want to upload your contact list to some other email program like Gmail, Yahoo etc.

Generally, the best way to export contacts from outlook 2010 is by exporting them to a CSV file. If you are not aware of what a csv file is then I must tell you that a CSV file is a simple text file with comma as a delimiter character. CSV stands for Comma Separated Values. They have an extension .csv and can be opened with any text editor or Microsoft Excel.

Exporting Contacts from Outlook 2010 to a CSV file:

• First of all open Outlook 2010.

• Navigate to the “File” Tab and Choose “Options”.
• In the Options select “Advanced”.
• Find the “Export” Category and click on the “Export” button there.

• Now an “Import Export Wizard” will open, select “Export to a file” and then hit the “Next” button.
• In the “Create a file type” option select the “Comma Separated values (Windows)” and click Next.

• Now Outlook will prompt you to select the folder to export from, here select the contacts folder that you want to export and click “Next”.
• After this for saving the exported file, click “Browse”, select a destination folder, and in the File name box, enter the name that you wish to use for the file.
• Click on the confirmation dialogs and then click on the “Finish” button.

Now, your contacts file will be saved on the path that you had chosen in the wizard. You can open it with Microsoft excel and use it.

Additional Tip on Transferring Contacts from Outlook 2010:

You can use this file for creating a contact list on Gmail, Yahoo mail or Facebook. You simply upload this file to the contact file uploading option and it will instantly create contact list.

One thing I would like to point out that if you want to upload this file to Gmail then in the step 6 select the file type as “Comma Separated values (DOS)”

In this post I am going to guide you on how to spell check in Excel Sheet. Most of you would be aware that in MS Word spell check is done actively and automatically while you are typing data in the document. However in Excel there is no way to do a spell check automatically.

I would suggest that it’s always good to spell check only after you are done with the data entry in the worksheet and are about to mark the sheet as complete. Please note that the steps shared below will be same for all versions of MS Excel.

Please follow below steps for spell checking in excel:

1) Press Ctrl + A and select all cells of the excel sheet.

2) Navigate to “Review” tab located at the top ribbon of the excel.

3) Now Select “Spelling” Button. After this spelling check will be initiated.

4) It will prompt a new window which will suggest the correct spellings of the word.

5) If you want to Change it then press “Change” Button, else you could press “Ignore Once” button.

6) Please note that if you want to change the dictionary language then you could easily change it from the dropdown and set it as per your requirement. Please refer above picture for this.

7) After checking all spellings, a message would be prompted as shown in below screen shot.

8 ) Click on “Ok” button.

Please ensure to save your worksheet after doing the changes. This is how to spell check in excel using the above mentioned step by step procedure.

Additional Tip:

This tip is for those users who might not want to use the navigations and need a shortcut to check spelling.

Please press (F7) key to do spell check.

So this was all about spelling check in excel using various buttons and short cut key.

Please feel free to share your comments, suggestions, and feedback in the comments section below.

Cheers!

In this article I am going to guide you on how to lock cells in excel sheet. To start with I will be throwing some light on what do we achieve by locking cells. Locking cells will protect your excel sheet and will not allow any user to edit the data unless they enter the password.

Please note that the steps shared below on lock cells in excel are for Excel 2007 only however the procedure is same for Excel 2003 and other versions. Normally when you try to protect an Excel sheet all cells are made protected by default.

Please follow below steps to lock only certain cells in excel:

1)     Press Ctrl+A and Select all Cells in the Excel sheet.

2)     Now Right Click and Select “Format Cells…” option.

3)     Now navigate to “Protection Tab” and uncheck the “Locked” option.

4)     Now click on “Ok” button.

5)     Now you need to select those cells that you want to lock \ protect.

6)     After selecting the cells, Right Click and select “Format Cells..” option .

7)     Now again navigate to “Protection Tab” and check the “Locked” option.

8)     Now click on “Ok” button.

9)     Now you need to look at the top ribbon of excel sheet and select the “Review Tab”.

10)  After navigating to “Review Tab”, click on “Protect Sheet” button.

11)  Now in the “Protect Sheet” window, check “Select Unlocked Cells” only. Please note that by default “Select Locked Cells” and “Select Unlocked Cells” both are checked. So please ensure that you select the right option as mentioned here in Step 11.

12)  Now you need to set up a password.

13)  After setting up a password in Protect Sheet Window, click on “Ok” button.

14)  Now re-enter the password in the “Confirm Password” window.

15)  Click on “Ok” button.

So this was all about locking cells in excel. In case you want to unprotect the cells then all you need to do is to go to the “Review Tab” and select the “Unprotect Sheet” option. You will be required to re-enter your password here. After entering password the sheet will become unprotected and editable.

Please feel free to share your comments, feedback or suggestions in excel in the comments section below.

Cheers.

Excel is the most powerful data entry tool. One of the many exciting features of MS Excel is creating drop down list in excel. I can really assure you that use of drop down lists in excel can greatly improve your data entry experience in excel. Drop downs enable you to allow users to choose values from a specified range. This proves to be of great help if you have to share your excel to an audience who needs to enter their inputs using some pre-defined values for some columns.

Actually creating dropdown lists in excel are quiet easy, you don’t need to write a macro or any large piece of code. MS Excel has a defined set of Options that you need to configure to get a drop down list. All you need to do is to configure it correctly as guided below.

Steps to create drop down list in excel:

• First of all open an excel sheet, and create the value that you want to populate in the drop downs.

• Now select the cell where you want to have the drop down, navigate to “Data” tab present on top of MS Excel ribbon and then select “Data Validation” in “Data” Tab as shown in above screen shot.

• Now in the “Data Validation” window, select “List” in the “Allow” drop down, in the source select the range where you have the range. In this example the Range is “A1:A8” as highlighted in above screen shot.

• Click on “OK” and your drop down is ready

If you have any problems in creating dropdowns in excel then please have a look at the below video. Everything is explained clearly in this video.

Please share your feedback or queries in the comments below. In case you have come across any other tip which helps in creating drop down list in excel then do share it with us.

Cheers!

While making charts and graphs in excel it is very important to label the axes so that the person who is reading them may know what the x and y axes represents in the chart. Few days back one of my readers asked me how to label axes in excel. Actually, the option to label the axes is not quiet visible on chart. So, today in this post I will be guiding you to label axes in excel both 2007 and 2010 versions.

Label Axes in Excel 2007 and 2010 :

If you are working on excel 2007  or 2010 then after creating the graph you have to navigate to the layout tab in the ribbon and from there you can add the labels to the axes. Step by Step Instructions are as below:

1. First of all you have to create a chart, and then select the chart data. If you already have created a chart then there is no need of this step.
2. Now navigate to the layout option on the top ribbon, and there select the option “Axis Titles” select the “Primary Horizontal Axis Title” and finally select the option “Title Below axis”
3. Now a default title will be placed below your horizontal axis, you can rename it as you wish.
4. Now for Vertical Axis title again navigate to “Axis Titles”> “Primary Vertical Axis Title” , now you can select any of the vertical title types.
5. It will create a title box just before your vertical axis, and you can rename it.

Although the screenshots above are of Excel 2007 but the same is also applicable to Excel 2010. If you are facing some problems then you can refer the video tutorial below to label axes in excel. This video tutorial explains the process quiet simply.

Drop in your feedback or queries in the comments section below.

Personally I always get annoyed by Blanks Rows or cells while importing data from an Excel to CSV file or a text file. I guess it’s a very common problem which most of us have faced while trying to import data from excel sheet to text file or zip file. So today in this tutorial I am going to throw some light on how to delete blank rows in Excel. There are many methods to delete blank rows in an excel depending on the data in spreadsheet.

Method 1: Delete Blank Rows Individually

This is a very simple and self explanatory method. However it could be used only when you have a small range of data for deletion.

1. Please follow below steps to delete cells using this method.
2. Make a copy of your spreadsheet for backup, so that in case of any unfortunate event you can still recover your data.
3. Open the MS Excel Spreadsheet from which you want to delete blank rows.
4. Hold Ctrl Key and Select the blank rows that you want to delete one by one.
5. After you have made the selection, release Ctrl key.
6. Right Click and Select Delete.

Method 2: Delete Blank Rows by Arranging data

This method is also very simple. All you have to do is to sort the rows alphabetically in ascending or descending manner. All blank rows will appear in an ordered fashion and now you could easily delete the blank rows.

Although this method is very quick and easy to implement still its not recommended for those users whose data is ordered in a particular fashion and cant be re-ordered to eliminate blank cells.

Method 3: Delete Blank Rows where in Blank Cells are in same column

This method is useful if the blank rows that you want to delete are present in same column. Please follow below mentioned steps to delete blank rows in excel:

1. Make a copy of your spreadsheet for backup, so that in case of any unfortunate event you can still recover your data.
2. Open the MS Excel Spreadsheet from which you want to delete blank rows.
3. Select the area or rows that contain the blank rows which you want to remove. Example: Suppose your data is populated from Row 1 to Row 25, then select Row 1, hold Shift Key and scroll over to Row 25.This way all your data from Row 1 to Row 25 will be selected for deletion of duplicate cells.
4. If you want to select the whole spreadsheet then hit Ctrl + A Key twice.
5. Now go to Home in the above Ribbon and select “Find and Select” option.
6. Instead of following above step you could also use a key board shortcut, Press F5, this will open “Go to” applet. Select Special Button. Now goto Step 8.
7. Select “Go to Special” from the dropdown.
8. Now check “Blanks” in the “Go to Special” window.
9. Hit “Ok” after selecting Blanks option.
10. Now go back to the Home ribbon available at Top.
11. Select “Delete” option.
12. Select “Delete Sheet Rows”.
13. This tip will save lot of time if you are working with large data.

Method 4: Delete Blank Rows using a shortcut

This method is not known to many people. Its very quick and easy to implement on both small and large files. Please follow below mentioned steps to delete blank rows in excel using this shortcut:

1. Make a copy of your spreadsheet for backup, so that in case of any unfortunate event you can still recover your data.
2. Open the MS Excel Spreadsheet from which you want to delete blank rows.
3. Select the area or rows that contain the blank rows which you want to remove.
4. Now Press “F5”, Go to Window will be displayed.
5. Now Press “Alt + S”, Go to Special Window will be displayed.
6. Now Press “K” and Hit Enter. Using this Blanks options will be selected from “Go to Special Window.
7. Now press “Ctrl + U” and Hit Enter, Rows will be deleted.

In short we used following shortcut key to delete blank rows in excel “F5 > ALT+S > K > Enter > CTRL+U > Enter”

This was all about the various methods to delete blank cells in excel. However please note that if you want to keep some blank cells then those also would be deleted using these methods. So please keep a backup copy always with you before starting this process or you could also use “Ctrl + Z” key to undo your last action on the worksheet.

Please share your feedback, concerns and issues in the comments section below.

Cheers!

Sometimes while opening word documents like .doc & .docx files, MS Word shows an error message that it was unable to open the document because the document is corrupted. In many cases this problem will not have enough severity, like: if we have a backup of the document or if the document is not so important at all. But if in case that document is very important and also you have not backed it up anywhere, then you are left with the only option and that is to repair the document. And today in this post I will be guiding you on how to repair word document.

The methods that I will mention in this post will be applicable for most of the versions of Microsoft Word.

Repair word document with Microsoft Word:

Actually Microsoft Word offers a way to repair the documents but the problem is that most of the people are not aware of this feature. Follow the below mentioned steps to repair Word documents in Microsoft Word:

• Open Microsoft Word, click the “Office Button” and navigate to “Open”.

• Now select the document that you want to repair, after selecting the document click the small dropdown on the open button as shown.

• On the dropdown select the option that says “Open and Repair”.

• Now word will start repairing your document and after the repair process is over it will open the document.

Repair word documents with third party tools:

Here the tools that we are going to use is Repair My Word, it is a freeware and is quiet effective in repairing corrupted word documents. The tool actually opens the document and then for repairing the document you need to save the document in an .rtf format. Saving the document in rtf format will erase all formatting but you will be able to retrieve the text.

• Download the tool here.

• Open the tool (no installation needed).

• Now select the “Repair/Open” option on the tool and select the document that is to be repaired and click “Ok”.

• After this the document will get opened, now save the document and it will save a repaired version of your document.

Happy Repairing

As most of you would be knowing WPS is the file extension for a Microsoft Works File. To be honest Microsoft does not support WPS Files very well. Hence the best way to avoid WPS File is to get your old computer upgraded. However in this tutorial I am going to help you on how to open wps file in word. There are several ways to achieve this depending on your choice. I will highlighting all the methods and you could easily choose any of these methods to open wps file in word as per your requirement.

Method 1: If you have Microsoft Works installed on your computer

This is the easiest method for those users who have Microsoft Works installed on their machines. This method basically works by saving a .wps (Works 6.0, Works 7.0, Works 8.0 or Works 9.0) file as a Word document using Microsoft Works so that you could directly then open the document in Microsoft Office Word. Please follow below given step by step procedure:

1. Open Microsoft Works Program.
2. Now open the document which you want to be able to open in Word.
3. After opening the document, click on File and then click Save As.
4. In the Save As dialog box, follow below steps:
   • In the Save in box, browse the location where you want to save the Word format of you document.
   • Now in the File name box, type a new name for the Word version of your document.
   • In the Save as type box, select Word 97-2000 & 6.0/95 – RTF (*.doc)
   • Then click Save.
   • Please note that if you are using Works 8.0, select Word 97-2003 (*.doc) in the Save as type box, and then click Save.
   • On the File menu, click Close to close the document before you try to open the document in Word.

Start Microsoft Word and open the freshly converted word document.

So this was how you could use Microsoft Works to covert .wps file to word file.

Method 2: Using Works 6-9 Converter:

Don’t worry if you do not have Microsoft Works installed on your computer. You can still open wps file in word. Using this method we will be downloading Works 6-9 Converter first. In case you have installed Works previously on your computer then you can skip this Step and move forward to Method 3. Please follow below steps to download the Works 6-9 Converter:

1. Please close Microsoft Word if it already open.
2. Now go to this link to download Works 6-9 Converter.
3. After visiting Microsoft website, Click Download button.
4. Now in the File Download dialog box, click Save File.
5. Once the download is complete, double-click the saved file. Works 6-9 Converter installer would be started.
6. Start the installation process and follow the instructions.
   Note Please ensure to accept the terms of the License Agreement, as the installation cannot start until you accept this.
7. Click Install to install the file converter on your computer.
8. After this the program will be installed on your computer and would be ready to convert wps file to word.

Please note that in case the file does not download or is installed incorrectly, then you need worry as you can follow other methods.

Method 3: Open the Works document in Word

I am sure you will be surprise to learn that Microsoft Word allows opening a wps file without conversion. Although there is a trick which I will be sharing in below mentioned steps:

1. Start Microsoft Office Word
2. Now click the File Menu and click Open (in Word 2000, Word 2002 or Word 2003
3. In Word 2007 or Word 2010, click Microsoft Office Button, and then click Open.
4. In the Open dialog box,
   • Change the Look in box to the location of your Works document.
   • In the Files of type box, click All Files (*.*).
   • Now select the Works document (.wps) that you want to open, and then click Open.

Once the document opens correctly, click File, click Save As, and then change the file type to a Microsoft Word document (.doc).

Save the document.

So this was how you could convert a wps file into a Word document.

You can open a WPS file in one of two ways: either convert it to a Word document if you want to be able to edit it or download a WPS viewer.

Method 4: Download Word 2003 Viewer

This is the most simple way to view WPS file. All you have to do is to download a tool at the click of your mouse.

Please use this link to download the Word Viewer 2003.

Word Viewer 2003 is capable to open a wide variety of extension including .wps, .rtf, .txt, .wpd, and .xml, .doc. It opens files from both Microsoft Works 6.0 and 7.0

Please note that using this tool you would be able to able to view file. However you would not be able to convert or save the file to word document.

This was all about the various ways to open wps file in word. Please feel free to share your suggestions, feedback or issues in the comments section below.

Cheers!