Do you have more than 20 different folders in Outlook that you use to keep your emails organized? If this is the case you most likely use a couple of these folders more often than others. Rather than scrolling up and down each time you wish to look for a folder or expanding folders (if [...]

If you really want to differentiate yourself from others who use the default color scheme in Office 2010 applications, then read on. Office 2010 (beta) ships with three color schemes to help customize the look of all Office 2010 applications. To change the color schemes on your Office 2010 installation, follow the instructions below.
Note: When [...]

How many times have you started writing a new email message in Outlook and tried to insert a link and couldn’t? Chances are that your default email format is Rich Text or Plain Text. In either case HTML code cannot be used when composing your message. If you wish to use HTML code in your [...]

Pretty soon everyone with a SkyDrive account will be able to create and edit Excel spreadsheets, Word Documents, PowerPoint Presentations, and even their OneNote notes online. So…how exactly do you create these files using SkyDrive? Well, follow the instructions below.
Before we get started, you first need to have a SkyDrive account, which you can quickly [...]

How many times have you gone back and forth between an email message and your contact list to add a new contact? Fortunately there’s an easier way to add contacts from an email message. Outlook allows users to create new contacts from an open email message by right-clicking on the users name in the From: [...]

If you have ever worked on a Six Sigma project you know that the most important step is the documentation of the entire process in question. At times this can be a time consuming and if you’re not careful can become a sort of controlled chaos of process maps upon process maps. In Visio 2010, [...]

How many times have you found a great scene from a video online that you wanted to show an audience in PowerPoint? Of those times how many of those desired scenes were located halfway between the video? Unless you know how to edit videos you probably sat your audience through 5 minutes of meaningless footage [...]

The other day I was working on a presentation in PowerPoint 2010 beta (which you can download for free from Microsoft) and found a Broadcast Slide Show button tucked away in the Share options under the File menu. I clicked on Broadcast Slide Show and found that PowerPoint now allows you to broadcast to [...]

The other day I decided to give Microsoft another try and ran Outlook 2010 which was already installed with the Office 2010 beta (which you can download for free from Microsoft). One of the things that quickly caught my eye was the default use of conversations for emails something I have always enjoyed while using [...]

If you’re like me and you’re not that great with the number pad on a standard keyboard, Excel’s ability to speak what you type as you enter it can make the difference between a couple of minutes in front of a spreadsheet or hours. The Speak Cells command will enable Excel to dictate the information [...]