April 2009 - Posts
Maybe you’ve a knack for tweaking Office just so. You secretly like futzing about with add-ins and customizations. You’re not a developer—Heavens no!—but pushing Excel/Word/Outlook/You-Name-It through their paces is your idea of a satisfying Monday. If
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Since we’re marking our president's first 100 days in office (a little pressure? ya think?), I’ll be publishing a column later today that offers 100 tips from 100 columns. Here are a few to whet your appetite #1: A WYSIWYG (acronym for "what you see is
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Today, Microsoft announces the availability of the 2007 Microsoft Office system Service Pack 2 (SP2) which delivers significant stability, performance and interoperability improvements for customers. Enhancements in SP2 span across the servers and software
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What? You haven’t heard about Office Podcasts ? Then you probably don’t know that we published our 100th amazing podcast episode . Neither did my boss, so I’m sharing my hot top 10 Office podcasts with you and him. If you haven’t experienced the growing
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I read the first edition of Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship With Money and Achieving Financial Independence years ago, but I didn’t follow its advice. Oops. Experience has proven a….shall we say “powerful" teacher? So
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Earlier this month, news from the Web showed how to “do” Twitter in a spreadsheet. The folks at Office Watch dug into how to do this in Excel and now have directions to use Excel as a Twitter platform and how to leverage the powerful Twitter search data
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Looking for work and good advice? Take a look at some tips from a recruiter.
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By the Crabby Office Lady Everyone sees, hears, feels, and maneuvers around the world differently. Accessibility features exist to help those of us with less than perfect vision, hearing, or dexterity. Very few of us have 20/20 vision, perfect hearing,
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Back when Earth Day was born, in 1970, the only government participation was Senator Gaylord Nelson's declaration of its existence. In 2009, it is recognized world-wide as a day focused on the environment, with its own, official U.S. Government participation
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We here on the Office staff swap tips and info all the time. For your own steady supply of quick tips about working faster and smarter in Office, check out the Office Tips and Tricks site or sign up for the daily Tips newsletter. Also watch Office Zip
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I was writing on the bus this morning, and I almost missed my stop. As I walked over to the office, I realized how good it can feel to feel creative. As Holly mentioned in a recent post on Office Hours , creativity doesn't have to mean penning the Great
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Dear readers, I’ve always felt that getting a job is like dating. You meet a lot of people and most of them are OK. It’s a numbers game, and what I mean by that is eventually the answer is yes , but you hear no a lot: No, No, No, No, No, No, Yes . The
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Senior VEEP Chris Capossela, announced today the next wave of Microsoft Office and related products. Quoting Chris, head of Microsoft’s Information Worker Product Management Group: “We’re announcing that Microsoft will begin releasing new versions of
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What’s cool about mobility and technology is that it’s no longer just comic-book fantasy. Not that long ago, Dick Tracy had his wrist radio, which seemed amazing and impossible. Today we can call anyone in the world, take a picture, store information,
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How would like to make a quick call and do things in Outlook like send email, schedule meetings, and create notes? I made this Office Causal video about a service called Jott and a nifty free add-in from Office Online. You can learn more about Jott here
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Now that you've (hopefully) completed the annual obstacle course of tax time, see if you can make next year's financials easier to wrangle with any of the free financial planning and analysis templates at Office Online. Right now the Templates home page
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How do you make a manuscript? You have a file here and a file there, and you want them all together. The new Writer's Guide video shows how to create a manuscript using Word 2007. Actually, it covers the first part of how to create a manuscript—including
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More resume tips for job seekers. You'll love them.
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If your work is anything like mine, you’re being asked to look at business information a little more closely and share business information you didn’t have to prepare before. If you’re being asked to use business information to make better, faster, and
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How are your Outlook skills anyway? Are you aware you can compose an email and then use the Outlook mail merge feature to bulk-send that email and have it appear you sent it personally to each person on your contact list? This topic cropped up in a recent
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Did you know the interface used in Office programs before 2007 was designed way back in 1992? That's something I learned when researching the Office 2007 interface, the ribbon. Here's some cool tools to help you get the most out of it. The interactive
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Presumably, you’ve read Ed’s advice about writing a resume and landed that first interview. Way to go! Since your potential employer finds something interesting about your resume, now you need to show them something remarkable. Something that differentiates
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Looking for work? Let people know how cool, nifty, and successful you are.
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Microsoft Office has awesome powers. It’s jam packed with a gazillion ways to help you be more productive. Fact is, Office is so insanely rich that no one taps its full potential. All Office customers -- from those confronting enterprise-wide, business-critical
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By now you have probably seen the announcement about our new Office Online Career Center and partnership with Monster.com. While we've put together this great resource for you to work on your resume and upload it online, we recognize that social networking
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Lots of rumors out there about SharePoint Designer. But's its true, the tool to make your SharePoint sites come alive and customized is a free download starting today. So if your company has SharePoint Server 2007 or Windows SharePoint Services, you can
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