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You must have seen them – plaintive, desperate or just plain panic. It hasn’t taken long for the USB memory stick to turn into something that everybody has (and yet, I can still remember that sense of satisfaction when I was given my first freebie memory
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You probably have heard about the Ultimate Steal before. It’s the offer where students with a .ac.uk email address can buy a copy of Office 2007 Ultimate edition, for £38.95 UK students have some of the highest rates of usage of Microsoft Office in the
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This could be part of a “things you wish you’d heard about earlier…” series. If you’re working within a UK college, then there’s a fair chance that your university has signed a Microsoft Campus Agreement , and that this applies to YOU! The deal, in a
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Last year, a few colleges, and quite a few universities, asked us for materials that they could use to let their students know about the Ultimate Steal offer ( Office Ultimate 2007 for £38.95 ). And universities and colleges including Bristol , Kent ,
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A while ago I wrote about the announcement of the work that Microsoft were doing to develop a DAISY XML translator. The DAISY Consortium was set up to help those with visual impairment (or ‘print disabilities’) to access digital content easily, and enhance
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You can’t have failed to miss the offer we’ve been running for students and staff who have an email address that ends in .ac.uk – Office Ultimate 2007 for £38.95 – on www.theultimatesteal.co.uk But you may have missed the looming deadline – it closes
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With only three weeks to go, I can imagine this blog post could create some howls...but better late than never. We have just managed to convince all the powers-that-be that staff should also qualify for the Ultimate Steal . Until today, if members of
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The countdown to the end of the Ultimate Steal student offer has started. The deal (Office 2007 Ultimate edition for £38.95) ends at the end of April. Lots of students have used the deal to get their own (legal) copy of Office ( our earlier research says
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What is DAISY you might ask? The DAISY Consortium, a coalition of talking-book libraries and nonprofit organizations, was formed in 1996 to harness the rich capabilities opened up by the transition from analog to digital technology to ensure that all
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Even amongst those colleges who are moving to Office 2007 this summer, one common fear is whether students/staff will be able to quickly transition to the new Fluent interface in Office 2007 . If you want more help, then I've just come across these brilliant
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Lots of colleges are already using Windows Vista and even more are using Office 2007. And if you are one of those, then here's your chance to tell others why you like it...and win a prize. There are two Tablet PCs up for grabs in the competition (one
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If you're using Microsoft Office 2000, XP or 2003, you may need to be able to open, edit and save files in the new file formats of Microsoft Office 2007 . Newly launched is the Microsoft Updates and Compatibility Pack , which will enable you to work with
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Dell has re-launched its Student Computing Initiative (SCI) for this year’s student intake. The programme, which provides a choice of PCs with Microsoft Office 2007 Pro, 3 year onsite support and McAfee as a complete and heavily discounted solution, was
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There are a number of universities and colleges managing wide-scale migrations to Windows Vista this summer - and they've probably already started to upgrade workstations. But if you are planning to do your upgrades later, then you might be interested
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Helping your users get up to speed with Microsoft Word and the Office 2007 System When you first open Word 2007, it looks very different to what you may have become used to, because it has been designed to make your life a whole lot easier. So here's
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