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  Tuesday, August 31, 2010 – Permalink –

Shoelaces

What's to know?


Fun, fashion & science in this quirky site about shoelaces. Whether you want to learn to lace shoes, tie shoelaces, stop shoelaces from coming undone, calculate shoelace lengths or even repair aglets, Ian's Shoelace Site has the answer!
Fieggen.com



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  Monday, August 30, 2010 – Permalink –

Template Videos

See how it's done

Access 2010 template videos available.

Access 2010 ships with 5 Web database templates, each of which does a great job of showing off the new features. We’ve created videos about how to use each template, as well as a sixth video showing you how to modify a template by adding a field.

Blogs.MSDN.com





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  Sunday, August 29, 2010 – Permalink –

Spell Checker update

Word 2007+

A discussion of how Spell Checker works and how it has improved over the years.

Office.Microsoft.com




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  Saturday, August 28, 2010 – Permalink –

Guess a Password

Check your own

Who'd ever guess password as a password?


BookofJoe.com




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  Friday, August 27, 2010 – Permalink –

Montage in PPT

No need for Photoshop


Fill a picture with a gradient - or another picture in PowerPoint? Have you wanted to blend two pictures in PowerPoint to create a montage?

Transparent montages in PowerPoint




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  Thursday, August 26, 2010 – Permalink –

Open Calendar

First thing

"If you want Outlook to start in the Calendar folder, go to Tools, Options, Other tab, Advanced and select the calendar in the Start up in this folder field. If the folder you want to use isn’t listed you can create a shortcut using the /select switch: "
outlook /select "outlook:calendar\subcalendar"

Outlook-Tips.net



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  Wednesday, August 25, 2010 – Permalink –

Video Without Sidebar

Avoid collateral references

Sometime the appropriate video has inappropriate links next to it. Here's how to embed just what you want

AskDaveTaylor.com




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  Tuesday, August 24, 2010 – Permalink –

Control Sort

Your choice

You can determine how Excel sorts your data.

ExcelTips.VitalNews.com




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  Monday, August 23, 2010 – Permalink –

Find Commands

Ribbon seeker

MS has a download that can be used to search for those old toolbar commands on the new Ribbon.
OfficeLabs.com



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  Sunday, August 22, 2010 – Permalink –

SS Zip Numbers

Excel to Access

Social Security Numbers and ZIP Codes can present special challenges when importing them into Access from Excel. This tip explains how you can prepare the data for the smoothest transition possible.
ExcelTips.VitalNews.com




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  Saturday, August 21, 2010 – Permalink –

Set the Table

Descriptions

Tables in Word are more than just boxes.
This link describes and demonstrates other uses and formatting.

Blogs.MSDN.com



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  Friday, August 20, 2010 – Permalink –

Command Line

Control Line

"The Windows command line is a mainstay for systems administrators and power users but is relatively unknown to many PC users. The purpose of this site is to make the power and utility of the command line more familiar to a wider community of computer users. Also under-appreciated are the related resources of batch files and scripts and these will be discussed as well."

CommandWindows.com


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  Thursday, August 19, 2010 – Permalink –

Sound Throughout

Background

You can set up sound to run throughout your show, music or narration.
(Included on this link is a list of free music locations)

Indezine.com




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  Wednesday, August 18, 2010 – Permalink –

Signature Tutorial

Sign it

"Create your own signatures using text, hyperlinks, pictures, or even an Electronic Business Card.
Use your signature in every message or just when you want to.
Create different signatures for your different roles or e-mail accounts and switch between them to suit your needs."

Office.Microsoft.com




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  Tuesday, August 17, 2010 – Permalink –

CSS Basics

Tutorial

Cascading Style Sheets can help to unify site design.
Here are some tips.
HTMLGoodies.com




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  Monday, August 16, 2010 – Permalink –

Stacked Columns

On on another

Instructions how to put one column on top of another in a chart.



People.stfx.ca


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  Sunday, August 15, 2010 – Permalink –

Open with Google

And you want to do this why?


"Google has added the functionality to make its office apps (Docs and Spreadsheets) the default application to open word documents and spreadsheet files, either for files downloaded from the Internet or local files on your computer, or both."

GoogleTutor.com




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  Saturday, August 14, 2010 – Permalink –

Animated Forms

Add action

"Publishing your Access forms on the Web? Add some fun with animated images! For example, say you want to publish a form that allows your users to enter a keyword that will search your software catalog for winter specials; to illustrate this, you’ve embedded an image of two boys hitting the a puck with their hockey sticks."

TechRepublic.com




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  Friday, August 13, 2010 – Permalink –

Calculating Time

Using EditTime field

Word keeps track of the time you spend editing. You can use this to figure out how to bill your time.
MSOfficeTuneup.com




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  Thursday, August 12, 2010 – Permalink –

Hints And Tips

For Windows

A number of suggestions to use with Windows.

Ramesh Srinivasan
Microsoft MVP, Windows Desktop Experience


Ramesh's Site



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  Wednesday, August 11, 2010 – Permalink –

Hints and Tips

more ideas


  • Customize the Ribbon
  • New Shape Tools
  • Media Triggered Animations
  • Video across slides
  • Where did the stretch animation go?
  • Animated text in circle (2007 / 2010)

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  Tuesday, August 10, 2010 – Permalink –

Steps to Take

Keep it up

Erik Eckel presents 10 things you can do to keep Outlook running.
10 Things to Do




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  Monday, August 09, 2010 – Permalink –

The Internet Knows

Where have you been?

"This page checks your browser history and determines which of the 5000 most popular Internet websites you've recently visited."
WhattheInternetKnowsAboutYou.com



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  Sunday, August 08, 2010 – Permalink –

Templates

Suggestions

If you have a task with an app that you find yourself repeating, make a template.
Here are some suggestions.
Bottom line: don't do it twice if you can template it once.
DownloadSquad.com




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  Saturday, August 07, 2010 – Permalink –

Dynamic Charts

Keep on changing

Instructions and examples of charts that change as the data changes.

Tushar-Mehta.com




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  Friday, August 06, 2010 – Permalink –

PPT from Access

Automation

"Create a PowerPoint slide presentation from scratch using Access data. In addition, display and control a slide show from within an Access form. Walk through the solution and explore ways to extend the sample for your own applications."
MSDN.Microsoft.com



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  Thursday, August 05, 2010 – Permalink –

Word 5.5 for DOS

A way back ap

Microsoft is giving away Word for DOS. This is the version that came out pre-Windows.

DownloadSquad.com




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  Wednesday, August 04, 2010 – Permalink –

Macro Meaning

Wha's a macro?

"The purpose of this column is simply to provide information to anyone interested in how to make their work life more efficient through the use of macros. When your average computer user finds out that macros are all about little bits of code, the fear in their hearts becomes palpable, all the way from here. And so today I want to ease those fears and invite those of you who've been curious about macros to take the plunge and finally learn about them."

Office.Microsoft.com




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  Tuesday, August 03, 2010 – Permalink –

Countdown Timer

Please sit down


To get your audience to settle down before you start or for breaks, you can create a timer slide that counts down the seconds or minutes before you begin.
Here are step by step instructions and links to other timers.


EllenFinkelstein.com





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  Monday, August 02, 2010 – Permalink –

Moving Day

Transfer Outlook

A new machine and old Outlook data; how to combine the two.

Step 1: Get Files from Old Computer
Step 2: Put Files on New Computer
Step 3: Create a Profile
Step 4: More Settings
Step 5: Add Old Data File (*.PST)
Step 6: Finishing Touches
Step 7: Signatures & Stationery (and custom dictionary)

Slipstick.com




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  Sunday, August 01, 2010 – Permalink –

Bullets and HTML

Some code


Bullets aren’t too difficult to create using HTML.

<ul>


<li>Apples</li>

<li>Pears</li>

<li>Bananas</li>

<li>Grapes</li>

</ul>

Here’s an article that goes into more detail:


Cryer.co.uk



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