There’s lots more ways to use Powerpoint without standing in front of an audience. It’s easy to think of Powerpoint as only useful for people who have to give a speech, but there’s actually many other choices for saving slides and presentations that let you use Powerpoint in many other
The most noticeable changes in Office 2010 are in Outlook and, sad to say, they aren’t all for the best. Some early notes and first impressions based on the most recent beta release of Outlook 2010. The most noticeable changes in Office are in Outlook 2010 and, sad to say,
From: Microsoft Q&A: Kurt DelBene, senior vice president of the Office Business Productivity Group at Microsoft, discusses what is new in the public beta and what developers can expect from the upcoming release of Office 2010 and related products. Earlier this year Microsoft introduced the technical preview program for Microsoft
You can try out Visio 2010 now. The Visio 2010 beta is now available. MSDN users can get it from the MSDN web site. The rest of us can go to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/ee390821.aspx to get a copy. You need to register first. You’ll also need to download the Enterprise CAL edition
When the Space Shuttle Atlantis orbits Earth, its crew checks email using something you probably have on your own desk right now: Microsoft Outlook. NASA runs a stripped-down version of Outlook 2003 on standard laptops in orbit, powered by Exchange Server, but with a twist that no office on Earth
You can try out Office 2010 now, here’s how. Office 2010 beta versions are now available. MSDN users can get it from the MSDN web site. The rest of us can go to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/ee390818.aspx to get a copy. You need to register first. Product Activation A product key (a ‘MAK
Our popular Outlook guide is now available for Kindle device and Windows software. We’re delighted to announce the release of our Clever Outlook Contacts book on Amazon for worldwide distribution on your PC or Kindle device. It’s the same ebook as we’ve sold to thousands of people over the years,
Beware, we’ve seen a live OWA demo and it has the usual Microsoft fudging. If the demo of Microsoft Office Web Applications (OWA) that we’ve seen is any guide, the audience will have to be very careful to pick truth as it edges into lies. A favorite trick in the
Make great personal photo albums with Powerpoint. Creating a photo album in PowerPoint 2007 has become very interesting and convenient. The themes, layouts and Quick Styles make formatting the albums a cakewalk. PowerPoint slideshows aren’t just for projecting on a big screen in front of an audience. You can use
A new yuletide e-book for making cards, letters etc with Microsoft Office. Christmas Cheer with Office – PREMIUM Edition, is the new yuletidee-book from the makers of the Organizing Outlook Email, Eye-Catching Signs with Word and the Office Watch newsletters. Office Watch head honcho, Peter Deegan has teamed up with
From: Jive Software Jive Extends its Social Layer Deep into the Enterprise, Wide Across the Firewall, and Out into the Marketplace Jive, the Social Business Software leader, today announced the general availability of Jive Social Business Software (SBS) 4.0. The new offering is the largest, most ambitious release Jive Software has brought
A ‘support’ message you should definitely ignore. Going the rounds at the moment is a fake support message with an infected attachment. The only thing you should do with such a message is DELETE IT since Outlook’s own protection doesn’t catch it. Microsoft never distributes updates or patches via email
Redmond boasts about MS Office are excessive or merely what you’d expect. As part of the Office 2010 hype, Microsoft has given some numbers to the reach of their Office suite. But as usual, these numbers need a reality check. They seem to be either excessive or merely what you’d expect
Microsoft has two products called OWA – which one is which? Microsoft has two browser-based products with the same acronym. Anyone who has worked in an organization with Exchange Server will know about ‘Outlook Web Access’ – it’s a way to get to your email from a browser instead of
Prepare for Office Web Applications – get a Windows Live login. A prerequisite for using the public version of Office Web Applications (browser versions of Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Onenote) will be having a Windows Live login. We’re suggesting that you get a Windows Live login now, before you decide
If you get access to Office via your browser, what’s on offer now? Only half. Microsoft is gradually rolling out browser-based versions of Word, Excel, Powerpoint and OneNote. If you have a Windows Live / Hotmail login you might receive an invitation to join the pre-release trials. If you accept
How to convert a PDF to a Word document and why it’s so hard. ” One of the things that drives me crazy is that it’s easy to convert documents from Microsoft Word 2007 to PDF (for commercial printing) but very hard to convert PDF back to Word without screwing
How Outlook manages different FROM addresses. John L has done a great job merging all his email accounts into a single Gmail storage but still has a problem: ” A puzzling Outlook-Gmail question: With the newly added SMTP functionality to Gmail, I can now use the Gmail website to consolidate
You can now sync your Outlook notes to iTouch or iPhone. You can now sync your Outlook notes to iTouch or iPhone Sometime recently Apple sneaked in the ability to synchronize your Outlook Notes folder with your iPod Touch (aka iTouch) or iPhone. When this happened we’re not entirely sure. Apple’s
The 5th Gen Nano has an alarm feature that’s useful for sleepy travellers. The new iPod Nano has an effective little alarm clock. In the iPod Nano 5th generation models is a little speaker, which means the Alarm feature will work even if you don’t have earphones or speakers plugged
More useful stats functions in Excel by David Goodmanson Continuing our series on Excel’s statistical functions … we started with Average/Mean and now move onto the misunderstood cousin Median plus also Mode. Median and Mode If we are looking for work and are told that the average salary is $45,000,
Today some Windows Live users will be able to try Office web apps. Today some Windows Live users will be able to try Office web apps. What Microsoft calls a ‘select group’ of SkyDrive users will be able to try the web application versions of Word, Excel and Powerpoint. SkyDrive,
Microsoft is asking for more people to test Office 2010 and especially the web applications. Microsoft has opened up a page where you can apply for entry to the Office 2010 beta and also the Office Web Applications. Go here. Strictly speaking your applying for ‘early notification’ of the upcoming
See a video preview of Office 2010 web applications for Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Microsoft has released a video showing some features from the upcoming Office Web Applications In the Word web application you can see images and tables in a web based version of a Word document. Excel web
