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Online Favorites for Internet Explorer - 2 laptops
I normally do my day-to-day work on a great HP NC8430 laptop. I have had it for a couple of years and it has been trouble free for me. It has a nice full size keyboard and big screen - it's...
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Taking Graphics and Text to the Next Level in PowerPoint
With the introduction of Office 2007, a new feature called SmartArt was included that allowed anybody to create very professional looking documents quickly. SmartArt is one of the reasons that almost...
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Office 2007 Application Use Tracking
A really good way to prove the value and usefulness of Office 2007 in your business is to run a pilot install with a small number of users. During the Pilot, you can find out in-depth information...
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Impact of New Microsoft Office Interface (circa 1990)
I was reading the content of an article published in April 1990 of Software Magazine. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0SMG/is_n5_v10/ai_8411962. The article is a software review of the new...
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More Ways Office can Save You Money
Gray Knowlton, Office Group Product Manager, just posted a nice blog entry Bits on Boxes about the cost savings of deploying Office 2007 versus doing nothing at all and staying on Office 2003. He has...
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Reducing Paper Use – Saves Big Money
I was talking to a customer of mine in Sydney yesterday, and the discussion of forms came up as a way of reducing the amount of paper the organisation uses.I recalled there was a study done by CitiBank...
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Use SharePoint Tasks to Manage Meeting Actions
My manager Peter was asking my advice for how to help organise a weekly meeting that he organises. It’s a number of managers that are the leadership of our team, and they discuss the operations and...
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Free Screen-cast Video Demonstrations and Training for SharePoint
A colleague of mine, Ketan, mentioned these free Screen-cast videos for SharePoint – provided by the crew at SharePoint e-Learning.com. Asif and Wendy have put together a great set of audio narrated...
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Email Delay Rules
As I mentioned in my email approach PIFEM one of the rules I have turned on in Outlook is to delay sending email by 1 minute.This allows me to catch any emails I didn’t mean to send just yet, or more...
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Building a Workplace for a Wide Spectrum of Generations
I’ve spent the last few working days briefing Government Agencies about how Microsoft approaches a new release of Office and decide on the investments in new features to give our customers new...
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Real Life Value of Software + Services
I’ve been travelling overseas this week to a global Microsoft conference in the US. I sit here in the Airport departure lounge (offline) reflecting on my week.A couple of events happened – and both...
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SharePoint in Plain English
In my role as an Enterprise Productivity Specialist, I spend a lot of my time talking to customers about Office System, and how the Office Server (SharePoint) enables people and teams to work better...
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The Productivity Hub is now Available
The Productivity Hub is now live!What is the Productivity Hub?The Productivity Hub is a SharePoint Server 2007 site collection. It comes packed with over 300* pieces of content, including videos,...
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Interactive Command Reference for Office 2010
One of the most useful tools to help learn the updated interface in Office 2007 is the Interactive Command Reference. It provides a useful mapping between features and commands in Office 2003, and...
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Office 2010 Tips and Tricks Screensaver
If you are an organisation thinking about options and ways to get training and daily tips to your users, you could consider applying the Office 2010 Getting Started Screensaver.It’s a new type of Help,...
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PIFEM 2010–The Best Way to Manage Lots of Email in Outlook 2010
[***Updated Feb 2013, to included corrected/new URL to PIFEM Folder in my SkyDrive****] In 2008 I released guidance on how to use Outlook 2007 features to prioritise and categorise a large number of...
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How Did Microsoft IT Upgrade to SharePoint 2010?
With its SharePoint 2010 deployment nearly complete, Microsoft IT has developed helpful perspective on what worked and what steps could have been performed better. The Microsoft IT SharePoint...
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Microsoft Lync End User Training and Adoption
For those organisations that are about to deploy Microsoft Lync for their corporate Presence, Instant Messaging, Audio, Video and Web Conferencing interface we have released a packaged kit to assist...
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Spending too Much on Internal Audio Conferencing?
Perhaps follow an approach like Nextel Sprint – who were spending over $1Million per month on Audio Conferencing – and unify Communications and Collaboration into a single platform with Microsoft...
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Get Office 2010 Marketing Material to Help With Your Deployment
I work with many customers on their Internal Office 2010 User Readiness activities. These activities normally are to: help the Internal Communications team build a communications plan prior to, during,...
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