March 2009 - Posts
The Internet and job engines have digitized everything and you need to fortify your resume the same way companies use search engines: by using keywords. Office Casual: How to get your resume noticed This video is part of our new Job Seeker site created
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As a technology company, even Microsoft is looking for ways to reduce our impact on the earth’s energy resources. As individuals, it may be hard to feel like you can make much of a difference. Well, here’s a chance to make a difference – and a
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More than 3 million people have watched this on YouTube. If you haven't, you might want to. --- Holly Thomas
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Have you seen wild or superb examples of what people with an obsessive or inventive streak can do with Office programs and add-ins? Think, for example, of PowerPoint as performance art, as in David Byrne's strange wonders of some years back. We're always
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I am very excited to announce we have created a new Office Online Career Center and partnered with Monster.com to make the entire job hunting process - from planning your strategy to polishing your resume and submitting it for a position - as painless
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This is one of the most extraordinary presentations I've ever heard. I've written before about Office's commitment to helping you be as creative as possible with the tools we produce whether or nor your endeavors have anything to do with the arts. Well,
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Here's another article that saves Excel customers time, according to verbatim feedback: Locate duplicates by using conditional formatting (Excel 2003) The Excel 2007 version covers the conditional formatting approach and more: Filter for unique values
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Once more, in his comic blog Office OFFline , my colleague David Salaguinto find's the world of marketing too tempting a target to resist. Happy St. Patrick's Day! -- Holly
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Right now it's more important than ever to know what your money is up to. These eight free financial calclators from Vertex42 , a partner with Office Templates , can help. The calculators work in Excel 2003 and Excel 2007 can make quick work of tracking
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Pranav Mistry , a grad student at MIT's Media Lab and former UX researcher for Microsoft, has developed a wearable device that "enables new interactions between the real world and the world of data." That sounds dry, but once you watch the 9-minute demo
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A recent blog post at U.S. News & World Report asks this question: When Will Microsoft Word Stop Making Obama into Osama? When this writer runs his spellchecker, Word is suggesting that he change the word “Obama” to “Osama.” Fortunately, this problem
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Should you share your technical expertise, goals, or accomplishments at work? Yes! Share a caricature of your boss or love letter from an office romance, however, and you might soon need to share your resume. Here are some tips for avoiding such career-limiting
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My ingenious colleagues Joannie Stangeland and Michael Oldenburg have launched a new podcast series: A Writer's Guide to Microsoft Office . Joannie, a writer and former editor for Word, is also an accomplished poet . Michael writes the popular Nota Bene
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I entered the computing world as an English major with few geek tendencies other than a penchant for sci fi, so I don't salivate every time new technology rolls out. But this glimpse of the future from this year's Microsoft Techfest has me intrigued.
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Who doesn't need a personal assistant? My invisible butler, Beeves, hasn't done a bit of work since the day I first dreamt him up, a distressing fact because I could use the help. But alas, there is no Beeves. There soon may be, however, "Laura", a virtual
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A teammate was wondering how to stop the flow of email from her business Outlook account over a long weekend. For a Windows Mobile 5.x or 6.x device, here's what you can do: Office Casual: How to separate work and home on your phone There is an alternate
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We have a fantasy about a Productivity Super Hero, like some kind of Office Super Expert Dude who shows up whenever an Office user needs advice. You just shout out, "Help Me Office Super Expert Dude!" and he shows up in his Office cape, shows you some
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