With online office programs, such as Google Apps, becoming more popular, it’s getting harder and harder for Microsoft to compete. On June 7, 2010 Microsoft entered the online office program playing field with their new set of apps, called Web Apps which included Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. A few months ago they made Web…Continue Reading
How many times have you received a reply from someone who cannot seem to open an attachment you sent them recently? If you’re using Office 2010 chances are that others have yet to upgrade to the latest version of Office, this means that you are likely sending them Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files that are…Continue Reading
Wouldn’t you like to be able to access all of your Word Documents, Presentations, Spreadsheets, and even your Notes on the Go? Well, if you use Office 2010 and your Windows Live SkyDrive you’ll have your files securely stored online so that you can access them from anywhere. Gone are the days of additional plug-ins…Continue Reading
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:…Continue Reading
How many times have you worked on group presentation and found yourself lost? I know I have, specially when several team members are working on it and presenting together. In PowerPoint 2010 you can pretty much say goodbye to that problem. The Office team at Microsoft has introduced a feature in PowerPoint 2010 that allows…Continue Reading
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…Continue Reading
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…Continue Reading
One of my favorite and frequently used toolbars is the Quick Access Toolbar located above the Office Ribbon. By default the toolbar has shortcuts for the Save, Undo, and Redo commands, fortunately Microsoft likes to make our lives easier and allowed users to customize this easy to access toolbar. The how-to below will walk you…Continue Reading
I often work with multiple Excel windows at any given time and I have found that I work best with Excel when all open windows are displayed on the Windows Taskbar (see screenshot below for illustration). The default setting for this feature groups all Excel windows (or workbooks) into one Taskbar button. This can be…Continue Reading
I have a set of documents that I frequently use in Excel and Word. Most of the time I can find them using the Recent Documents menu, but at times when they are not listed (because I’ve opened so many other documents) I have to locate the files to open them. I am always looking…Continue Reading
Like I stated in my previous post, I was able to get a copy of Office 2010 and have been playing with it since. The videos below are just a preview of each of the applications mentioned below, more will follow. Even though it is a technical preview I found it to be extremely stable…Continue Reading
Most computer users are not aware that files created from the Microsoft Office Suite (Word/Excel/PowerPoint) may contain hidden information that you may want to keep private. If you’re wondering what kind of information can be obtained, here’s the list; Author information Collaboration information Editing Time Date Created Date Copied and more… To battle this issue…Continue Reading
If you’re building up an extensive collection of movies in the new Blu-ray format, chances are that you’ve spent a couple of bucks putting it together. To help protect that small fortune that you call a movie collection, there are a couple of apps out there that will help you backup these discs so that…Continue Reading
If you are looking for a quick, easy and FREE method to convert your favorite movies and TV shows to a format you can take with you anywhere, you need to check out BDlot Video Converter. BDlot Video Converter is part of a greater suite of applications that allows you to convert videos to any…Continue Reading
With the imminent launch of iOS 5 for the iPhone and the iPad, Apple is moving forward with its new music offering for iTunes, Match. iTunes Match stores your entire music library in iCloud (another new service from Apple debuting this fall). When you store your music in iCloud you can access it from anywhere…Continue Reading
One of the settings I always enjoyed in Outlook is the ability to customize work hours so that my available time (work time) would appear on the calendar as a reminder not to schedule anything past a certain time. Google has taken this concept event further and now allows users to hide those morning and…Continue Reading
Just the other day I needed to print a monthly calendar in Mac OS X and realized that I had never done it before. When I opened the print dialog box I was amazed at the number of options available to print a calendar in iCal. So I decided to write this guide to help…Continue Reading
Have you ever found yourself looking for a particular set of files that are either named similarly or are of the same file type? Rather than perform a search in Mac OS to locate these files each time you want to access them, you have the option of creating a Smart Folder to simplify this…Continue Reading
