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  Sunday, February 28, 2010 – Permalink –

Productivity Guides

Free suggestions


Microsoft provides 22+ guides to productivity in the office.

"Microsoft IT created Work Smart productivity guides (previously Everyday Productivity Education (EPE) guides) to bridge the gap between technology and users. Work Smart guides provide employees with scenario-based, best-use productivity aids on Microsoft products and technologies. As more Work Smart guides are published, Microsoft IT expects to see more consistent, productive, and cost-effective use of products and technologies across the company."

IT Showcase






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  Saturday, February 27, 2010 – Permalink –

Database Genesis

Gotta start somewhere


Microsoft has a tutorial on how to create a database.

Office.Microsoft.com






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  Friday, February 26, 2010 – Permalink –

Word Features

New or reacquaint

2007 came up with a number of new and impoved features. Most are the same in 2010.
Here's a description of some built in tools.

Beyond the Ribbon





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  Thursday, February 25, 2010 – Permalink –

Convert Graphic Styles

Straight forward

Often you will have pictures in one format and want to explore using it in a different manner.
Built into Office 2003/7/10 is a mini app called Microsoft Office Picture Manager.

1. Go to Start > All Programs > Microsoft Office > Microsoft Office Tools > Microsoft Office Picture Manager
2. Browse to the images you want to convert and select them
3. Go to File > Export
4. Under Export with this file format, click the dropdown and select one of the formats (TIFF, PNG, JPG, BMP. . .)


Converting WMF's






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  Wednesday, February 24, 2010 – Permalink –

One-Slide Timer

Easy tip


You can use this before a show, or when you take a break.

PowerPoint: A Codeless One-Slide Timer






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  Tuesday, February 23, 2010 – Permalink –

PDF Form Fill

Free tool


Have you ever been stymied by this PDF warning?



You can enter data, but you can't save the file with the new information.
Nuance has a free answer:

"Fill and save PDF forms - Most other PDF viewers do not enable you to fill and save PDF forms without support from a premium product.
Nuance PDF Reader provides frequently used annotation tools, letting you highlight, cross-out, and underline text."

Nuance PDF Reader






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  Monday, February 22, 2010 – Permalink –

Stuck in the Outbox

Steps to try

Some suggestions about how to empty your outbox and speed your greatest thoughts on their way.

How to troubleshoot messages stuck in your Outbox


Outlook Troubleshooting Tips






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Sample forms
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  Sunday, February 21, 2010 – Permalink –

Google Searches II

Tips


Here's a link to a PDF file that shows how to maximize Google searches.

Parameters Cheat Sheet






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  Saturday, February 20, 2010 – Permalink –

Selection Address

What's the count

". . . know what range is selected at any given time. You can look at the Name Box, but that only show the active cell."

Display number of Rows and Columns






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  Friday, February 19, 2010 – Permalink –

Navigate Navigation Pane

Ahoy


Here's the Microsoft tutorial:

Meet the Navigation Pane

Also:
"We have heard a few of you have missed the ALT D shortcut to open an object in design. As you know, ALT in ribbon apps now allows you to access ribbon shortcuts. Next time you want to open an object in design view, try Control Enter."
Navigation pane tip




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  Thursday, February 18, 2010 – Permalink –

Custom QAT

Access additions


Applications put most of the most-used commands on the Home tab's Ribbon, not everything is there. You may want to add Close, Close All, or Print commands, for example.

In the upper Left corner is the Quick Access Tool bar.

To update the QAT:
Click the down-pointing arrow to the right of the QAT.
Choose any common commands (New, Close, Print, etc.) by checking the option.






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  Wednesday, February 17, 2010 – Permalink –

Temp Files

Where they live and breathe


Ed Bott discusses temp files; care, feeding, and cleaning.


EdBott.com








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  Tuesday, February 16, 2010 – Permalink –

Flip Text

This text is right side up


uʍop ǝpısdn sı sıɥʇ

This site accepts your perfect prose and turns it around.
(with unicode)

RevFad.com







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  Monday, February 15, 2010 – Permalink –

Performance and Exhibition

Techniques

PowerPoint can be one element, but there are other considerations when delivering information.
  • Presentation
  • Creation
  • Delivery
  • Venue
  • Technology
  • Products
Presentations.com



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  Sunday, February 14, 2010 – Permalink –

Display Order

What’s on top

Outlook allows you to rearrange how information is displayed in your email list.



(Outlook 2010)

HowToGeek.com







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  Saturday, February 13, 2010 – Permalink –

Quotes and Apostrophes

HTML codes


A left double quote is &ldquo;
A right double quote is &rdquo ;
A left single quote is &lsquo ;
A right single quote is &rsquo ;


OfZenandComputing.com






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  Friday, February 12, 2010 – Permalink –

Custom Toolbars

You’re not restricted


You can create your own toolbars. Here's some code that helps:



Toolbars for Fun and Profit






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  Thursday, February 11, 2010 – Permalink –

Historical Documents

Remember good old paper?


"Footnote helps you find and share historic documents. We are able to bring you many never-before-seen historic documents through our unique partnerships with The National Archives, the Library of Congress and other institutions.

Our patented digitization process is helping bring other collections to life on the web everyday.

But Footnote is more than just a dusty, digital archive online. We provide you the tools to share your historical passions and connect with others."


Footnote.com






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  Wednesday, February 10, 2010 – Permalink –

Access Communities

It takes a village


Here are some links the Access groups. Someone has probably asked your question before.
Access Communities



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  Tuesday, February 09, 2010 – Permalink –

Merge Formatting Extended

Manipulation

When you merge data into Word, it takes on the formatting of the target document.
This tip allows you the dictate the appearance of merged data.


VitalNews.com






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  Monday, February 08, 2010 – Permalink –

Schlub

a stupid, worthless, or unattractive person

"(Jerry is) an all-American schlub . . . He has turned these degradations into an animated Web site appropriately named ItsJerryTime.com, on which he battles a cast of tormentors that includes the Meal Moth, his landlord and an alleged telephone conspiracy perpetrated by a duo of old ladies" Wall Street Journal

ItsJerryTime.com






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  Sunday, February 07, 2010 – Permalink –

Onscreen Keyboard

Tap or Click?


If you would like to have a keyboard on your screen that can be activated with your mouse you're in luck

Type osk in Start Run








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  Saturday, February 06, 2010 – Permalink –

Home for PPT Ideas

A covey of notions



"PowerPoint Heaven is a PowerPoint entertainment portal for PowerPoint animations, games, artworks, showcases, animation templates and tutorials. The focus of this site is to maximize the use of Microsoft PowerPoint and go beyond its capability. Our goal is to show users that PowerPoint is not simply a presentation tool, but is also capable on leveraging into other areas such as creating games, artworks and animations."

PPTHeaven







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  Friday, February 05, 2010 – Permalink –

Order on the Right

Context Menu

Eric Legault shares the VBA code that can be used when "Organizing Your E-mail Using Custom Item Context Menus in Outlook 2007".

May appear to be daunting, but if you have had some exposure to VBA, it's not that bad.

OfficeZealot







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  Thursday, February 04, 2010 – Permalink –

Command Reference

2003-2007-2010

Those of you that are just now making the switch to the Ribbon world, will find this valuable.

ComputerWorld.com






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  Wednesday, February 03, 2010 – Permalink –

My One and Only Thrill

Melody Gardot


B001NESPHC
Verve April 28, 2009

Gentle. Almost from another time.


"The story of vocalist Melody Gardot is as remarkable as any who perseveres against abject adversity. Born in New Jersey in 1985, she took up piano and played as a youngster on the nightclub scene of Philadelphia, influenced by jazz, folk, rock and pop musics. At age 19 she was a fashion student at the Community College of Philadelphia. But, on a fateful day, while riding her bicycle, the driver of a Jeep made an illegal turn, hurdling into Gardot and leaving her in the street for dead. Hospitalized for months with multiple head injuries and pelvic fractures, her love for music was the best therapy she could receive.
Her music could be described as a cross between Laura Nyro, Joni Mitchell, Eva Cassidy, and Shania Twain, but goes deeper than mere pop convention. ~ Michael G. Nastos, All Music Guide"








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  Tuesday, February 02, 2010 – Permalink –

Office Training

Suggestions

TechRepublic lists a number of areas that you might explore when training is needed for a new Office version.

Here are a few:

  • LINKS TO TIP SHEETS AND ARTICLES
    "Instead of telling your users to go out to Microsoft.com and do a search, put hyperlinks to the printer-friendly version of tip sheets and articles on your company's main portal page. Providing links to information you know they need will help you cover the training bases. And presenting the links on an internal web site they already use will show your users that it's okay to go outside of their four firewalls to learn something new. Include your favorite hyperlink in your signature line so it goes out in every e-mail you send."
  • ONLINE TRAINING
  • E-LEARNING
  • WEBCASTS
  • VIRTUAL TRAINING
  • MULTILINGUAL SCREENTIPS AND TRANSLATIONS
  • COMMAND REFERENCE GUIDES
  • OFFICE ONLINE AT WORK
10 ways to train your users on Office 2007 for free




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  Monday, February 01, 2010 – Permalink –

Tips for Word and Excel

Also some Windows hints


This site has useful information about:

  • Word
  • Word VBA
  • Excel
  • Excel VBA

    and
  • Windows
Tribbs.co.uk




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