June 2009 - Posts
If you are using Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, or Excel, SmartArt graphics are the answer to illustrating your documents, e-mail, slideshows, or worksheets. Here are five video demos, including the top-ranked family tree demo, to get you started with SmartArt
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Whether planning a summer sale or a company picnic, Office Online Templates help maintain a business presence with both your customers and associates during the vacation season. Consider the Summer Event Flyer (left) for Publisher which, via the software,
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Heads Up: You can pre-order Windows 7 today at Microsoft Store . You'll get it for at least half off and be one of the first to have it. Hurry, quantities are limited.* It's pretty simple Windows 7 is coming on October 22, 2009. To get it fast and save
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Ever wish you could actually hear the Crabby Office Lady? Envelope yourself in her dulcet tones while receiving the communion of her tips and tricks? Of course you have – who hasn’t? Well, you’re in luck: Every week Crabby records and publishes a 2-minute
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I spend a lot of time managing and updating Web pages on our internal Microsoft Office SharePoint Web site. MOSS is great for displaying lists, libraries, and calendars of shared items and events using Web parts. When I first starting creating pages,
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I like to keep up with environmental news and thought I’d share this little tidbit with you. Microsoft Hohm is a new software program which will be available in beta only in the U.S., that is designed to help you understand your home energy useage and
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Job and career information for managers, job seekers, teachers and students
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I was surprised to learn that my job is not ranked one of the three top occupations in the United States. Hint: The top three jobs involve knowing your numbers. Even PowerPoint has a top three list. Here are the top PowerPoint questions and answers: 1.
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(Read more Crabby Office Lady columns ) When you work for a living, you MUST get away from the office once in a while. With a few of my tips and some helpful templates, create a vacation plan, prepare your colleagues for your time away, and then make
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Spell checking is not perfect, but I would not have made it through school without it. Despite my love for spelling and grammar checking, I'm aware of its limitations. Basically, Word will tell you when you have misspelled a word or made a grammar error,
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Top-10 occupations in the US
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A bad economy is good time to put your best foot forward, whether that means becoming the Office products expert in your workplace, or adding new job skills to your resume. Office Online offers a catalog of free training courses , each one anywhere from
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If you don't deal with flowcharts, chances are you haven't opened the Visio program. Let me show some other uses for this diagramming, visual-based program--that's just sitting idle on many business computers—for moving your office, or setting up a meeting
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By Crabby Office Lady You're a foodie and everyone knows and enjoys that about you. You can bring home the bacon (or is that pancetta?), fry it up in a pan (copper of course), and wrap it around some seared scallops... Have I got some fresh and juicy
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Looking for a job? This functional resume template is one of the most popular ones we have—downloaded more than 183,000 times and still going strong. It’s one of dozens of customizable templates available at the Office Online Career Center , powered by
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Where work can be found in the US
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I need a job. Well, I already have one, for which I’m grateful. But “I need a job” is the title of the premiere video in the Office Intervention series, and it’s worth a look if you’re out of work right now. It shows how a genuine Seattleite worked with
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The best things in life are free. Sixties activist and rogue, Abbie Hoffman , outlined how to get most of them in his 1971 “survival manual” Steal this Book . It’s the only book I know of that begins with a Table of Discontents. What fascinates me about
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Some learning curves are steeper than others. It takes most folks a while after upgrading to Office 2007 to get used to the new user interface (UI) introduced in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access, (also known as “the ribbon”), so I've pulled together
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So you want to call a meeting. What's the best way to do it? And once everyone is gathered together and staring at you, anticipating your pearls of wisdom, what's next? It's your meeting and you have every right to run it how you please, right? I suppose
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I've mentioned before that we love getting feedback from our users. Why? Because you give us great ideas - such as these six new templates that will help teachers let parents know what is happening in the classroom. First, a class calendar to highlight
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There are more than a dozen ways to follow Twitter, but TwInbox (formally known as OutTwit in its beta stages) places some powerful Outlook capabilities in the hands of us Twitters. Here's a short video on TwInbox . Office Casual: How to Twitter in Outlook
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Women's careers, unions, and positive change
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John Moe, an NPR host, author and Twitterer, takes us through the history of Twitter. All 13.5 billion years of it. Read the full article, "Twitter headlines through history ." A sample below: Early Prehistoric Animals Crawled out of sea on to "land",
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I have written Word help content for a few years now, and I’ve written for Office products a few years longer than that. All I can say is that it’s a good thing my career isn’t decided by customer ratings for the page numbering help, or I would be out
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Part search engine, part Eureka!, Bing is ready to go. Try it yourself: Bing (the thing itself). Or take the video tour . Bing is a decision engine designed not only to find information, but also to help you accomplish things related to that information,
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Have you created a wonderful PowerPoint presentation that others find motivational or inspiring? Now's your opportunity to share it with others. Submit your entries to the Office Online " Create a Spark PowerPoint contest ." Winners will be promoted online
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