Getting Help on Microsoft Productivity Software

The other day I was bogged down with Microsoft Word. You mean, you too you are having difficulties in getting the best out of MsWord? I was trying to do Mail-merge. That feature that allows you to mass-mail personalized letters to contacts. I got round it. Not only that, I also learnt how to better search for tutorials.

Let me show ou quickly what I did?

1. I discovered that Universities in developed countries especially U.S. routinely post tutorials on software on their websites which include MsWord.
2. I also recognized that with Google, you could limit your search to university websites only by simply adding site:edu to the keywords
3. More importantly, Google also allow for search for synonyms of words. The one that was of value to me then was tutorials. So, in order to capture other web sites with keywords like HELP, TIPS, TRICKS, GUIDE ... I simply used the searched for synonyms of TUTORIALS by adding this ~ with the keyword i.e. ~tutorials
4. I decided to to focus on MsWord 2003. I typed in the full name and the edition together as a phrase i.e. "Microsoft word 2003". In most search Engines you must use "..." in order to search for the exact phrase.
5. Finally, I also needed to specify Mail Merge because that was the area of interest.
6. The final search terms used in Google looked more like this
   "Microsoft Word 2003" ~tutorials site:edu "Mail merge"
7. I got what I wanted.
   
8. Try searching for tutorials on MsPowerPoint

You may click here for a comprehensive search on Google tutorials