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Someone who blogs on this site has a really snazzy electronic business card for Outlook. Truly, it is a business card to be envious of. So, following some instructions , I decided to create some electronic business cards on my own. (I’ll admit, though,
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Every day when I open my mailbox, I mostly see two sorts of things: bills and newsletters. And honestly, I like newsletters. (They’re certainly better reading than the other kind of mail.) I want to know about on-going sales and events at the local co-op,
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Logos. You see them everywhere and on just about everything. Companies spend a lot of money to create, promote, and protect their own logo. (And just to be clear, sometimes we might call something a “logo” that is more properly a “mark” or a “lettermark.”)
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You may have heard some rumors that PowerPoint can cause terminal symptoms. However, I argue that it is the improper use of PowerPoint that causes problems, not PowerPoint itself. In short, a boring presentation is a boring presentation, no matter what
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( Office Hours columns are conceived and written by Microsoft employees -- for the times when only insider information will do.) If you visit my office, you will probably notice right away that I have three large flat screen displays that sit together
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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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For Office at Home , a holiday slant with a link to our holiday store, an article on sprucing up your gifts with Office by Nancy Buchanan (yes, it's true!), a link to new calendars and clip art, a list of cool sites for kids from the Canadian Home Magazine,
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Okay, say it's Friday. Have you ever found yourself decompressing in true TGIF spirit one minute and scrambling to meet some deadline-from-Hell the next? (Maybe even today?) If that deadline happens to involve a presentation, this tongue-in-cheek video
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The October employment news was not good. Another 240,000 people lost their jobs. The unemployment rate reached a 14-year high of 6.5 percent, with 2.8 million more people unemployed than at this time last year. The double whammy of mortgage woes and
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With the mixed bag of brilliant innovations and petty annoyances that come with modern life, getting organized is a perennial challenge. Some folks are naturally brilliant at it but I suspect they're all either engineers or parents with multiple kids
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Ever clicked "reply all" and then completely panicked? Inadvertently emailed your boss a blue streak about...your boss? Sent something a little too personal to the wrong person, or more likely 100 of them? Check out this video from videojug.com about
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Office at Work is a site I imagine I would use in my previous job: working on a computer in a big corporation. I was always looking for hints and informal training for the programs I used, sometimes by force (thanks, Access). This week's refresh includes:
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