Posts Tagged ‘microsoft’

15 Tips To Increase Power Point Productivity

TechnoSpot has written about some hidden features and efficiency tips for Microsoft’s Power Point 2007 that should help your next presentation.

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Its a tiring thing when you have to open you most frequently used slides and you need to pick up manually. You get some of them listed on your recent open file list but again they get over written every time you open another one. So if… » Continue

September 10 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: microsoft, powerpoint | 4 comments»

8 Ways To Microsoft Outlook Happiness

Whether you use Outlook for email out of choice or because your workplace forces it, you can use these 8 tips to get things done a little easier.

These are pretty basic steps but since A LOT of people use Outlook at work I thought it would help those people not already familiar with the email client.

Quickly Undelete a Message. If you have just deleted a message and want to… » Continue

August 2 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: microsoft | 1 comment»

New Microsoft Works Will Be Free

The next version of Microsoft’s productivity suite, Works 9.0, will be available free and ad-supported, according to Bink.nu

For the time being, however, the new version of Works will be ad-funded, according to Satya Nadella, the newly minted Corporate Vice President of Microsoft’s Search & Advertising Platform Group. Nadella told me during an interview on July 27 that Microsoft recently released the new ad-funded version of Microsoft Works.

No official news… » Continue

July 31 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: microsoft | 3 comments»

Replacing Microsoft With Web Apps

Similar to our Top 10 Microsoft Alternatives post, Mashable.com have put together an ordered list of web-based alternatives to common Microsoft software.

For me, and anyone else who finds themselves working on different computers and wanting to keep as much stuff online as possible, we’ve already explored these possibilities. Mashable go one further and make it easy for everyone to choose which program they want to replace and try… » Continue

June 26 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: microsoft, web2.0 | no comments»

Insert Tables in Word 2007 Without the Mouse

This is as basic as a keyboard hack as you get, but it’s worth mentioning for you keyboard-only junkies.

Don’t use that mouse when inserting tables in Word, try hitting dashes and crosses to get a multi-column table in seconds!

Keyboard Ninja: Insert Tables in Word 2007 - [HowToGeek]… » Continue

June 25 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: microsoft, word | 9 comments»

Top 10 Microsoft Alternatives

As many of you probably already know, there are a number of excellent and often superior alternatives to Microsoft software. Unfortunately, Microsoft’s vast market share and practically unlimited financial resources keep these products from ever seeing the growth they deserve (even those with superior products).

Fortunately, you can choose to think for yourself and find your own alternatives….often better and cheaper ones.

Here are ten of the top Microsoft alternatives available… » Continue

June 1 2007 | By Kim | Tagged: microsoft, software | 49 comments»

Quicktip: Bypass Recycle Bin to Permanently Delete

If you ever want to completely delete some files without having to go though Window’s Recycle Bin, try hitting the Shift Key before the Delete key.

This will delete the file permanently instead of just moving it to the Recycle Bin.

Likewise, you can make this happen all the time by going to the Recycle Bin’s properties [Right-Click] and checking the “Remove files immediately when deleted” radio button.

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April 4 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: microsoft | no comments»

Vista’s Integrated RSS Support May Simplify RSS Usage

The new Microsoft Windows Vista will include integrated support for RSS. Microsoft says Vista will support RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, Atom 0.3, and Atom 1.0 (when released). Vista’s integrated RSS support is designed to make subscribing to and managing feeds easier. This feature is likely to provide some interesting applications that may help increase productivity.
Today RSS is primarily used for news sites, blogs, and increasingly for audio-based serialized content. But… » Continue

January 16 2007 | By Rob | Tagged: feed, microsoft, rss, syndication, vista, windows | 2 comments»

Find Your Way

Microsoft has teamed with Traffic.com to add live traffic patterns to their maps offering. This means, at least for places that Microsoft Maps covers, you now can see how to get somewhere, and the traffic associated with going that way. Here are the three new features they offered: