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When you are laying ceramic tile, you will invariably run into a situation where you need to cut a notch out of a tile. If you are tiling a portion of a wall, you find this when you encounter an electical outlet. For this application, the cut doesn't have to be perfect as the outlet cover will hide any flaws.
To make the cut, a tile saw is the easist method. Depending on the type of saw you have, you may be able to turn the tile over and push the tile into the saw blade. If the tile is too large, you can lift the tile up into the saw blade. This will give you the outermost cuts. Now you have to remove the material in between the cuts.
High end saws have a plunge feature that will allow you to connect the 2 previous cuts by turning the tile over and cutting from behind with the plunge feature. For the rest of us that don't have a plunge feature on their tile saws, you can nibble out that materal with the saw.
You can make successive parallel cuts with the 2 cuts you have already made until you have a line of cuts. Then you can push the tile perpendicular to the blade so that the spinning blade erodes the skinny strips of tile. Just be careful and wear proper protection. What you will end up with is a notch in your ceramic tile.
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