Think about the times you've been stuck in a line, or you need to check your e-mail, but don't want to fire up your desktop computer or laptop. Or maybe you want to review a PowerPoint presentation, or whip up a quick Excel spreadsheet to track your holiday...

I recently posted an article on the At Home Web site called Go Ahead, Break Your Camera! Your reader feedback was interesting. Some of you, even a few of the small group who missed the joke and told me how stupid I was, asked some great questions and...

One way I waste time working on a document is looking up words or doing research. I can find everything I need online or in the dictionary on my desk relatively quickly, but I have to leave my file, find the information in the right source (and it may...

Have you ever accidentally sent an e-mail to the wrong person because Outlook automatically inserted a name you didn’t want in the “To…” line of your message? If so, then this tip is for you. Where do those names come from, anyway? Outlook automatically...

Since I’m an editor, Microsoft Office Word is the workhorse on my computer. And the feedback we’ve gotten shows I’m not alone. So any Word feature that can save us time and make us look good will make a big difference in our day. I’ve used a lot of features...

Here's a conversation I had with a reader the other day. While we can't always answer the questions we get on TipTalk, this one was so intriguing, we talked among ourselves on the Web team to see if we could solve the puzzle. Here's how it turned out...