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Three Tricks to Boost Your Excel Productivity: Even if you spend a lot of time using Excel, you may not be taking full advantage of the spreadsheet program's power. Productivity501 sheds some light on three of Excel's lesser-known, but extremely useful, capabilities. They are: Transpose copy function Validate entries to a list ...; Tags: Productivity501, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Rick Broida; Blog posts 2008-07-03
Should You Buy a Microsoft Office Subscription?: For some reason, Microsoft has decided to start renting an Office software package (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, OneNote and a security program called OneCare) to consumers for about $70/year. I'm assuming this subscription policy is an effort to gain back some of the market share they're losing to free programs like...; Tags: Microsoft Word, Word processors, David Goldenberg, OneCare, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp.; Blog posts 2008-07-02
How Bill Gates (and Office) Changed Your Life: Happy Monday, and welcome to the first day that Bill Gates has not been a full-time employee of the company he created, Microsoft. Do you miss him? Love him or not one thing is true: Bill Gates, his company, and his products have had a profound influence...; Tags: Sean Silverthorne, Microsoft Office, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp.; Blog posts 2008-06-30
"Words of Bizdom" Winners: Thank you to all those who entered the BNET Australia "Words of Bizdom" competition. We received a large number of interesting and insightful examples of useful managerial advice. Winners of the competition include: Major winner D. Gee from NSW took away top prize with...; Tags: Winner, Recruiting, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Recruitment & Selection, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Brian Haverty; Blog posts 2008-06-29
Xobni Adds LinkedIn Integration: Indispensable Outlook plug-in Xobni just released version 1.4, adding integration with social-networking service LinkedIn. Users will now see a contact's LinkedIn profile data (job title, company, and photo), assuming he/she has any, in their Xobni sidebar. Clicking the accompanying LinkedIn logo takes you to that contact's page on the service. Also...; Tags: Groupware, Microsoft Office, Rick Broida, Xobni, LinkedIn, Ctrl, Microsoft Outlook; Blog posts 2008-06-26

Zoho Show Adds Export-to-PowerPoint Option and Other New Features: When you create a presentation with Web-based software, it's highly desirable to be able to export that presentation in PowerPoint format. Google Docs inherited that capability back in April; now Zoho Show can export to PowerPoint as well. And not just PowerPoint: Show can also export to...; Tags: Microsoft Office, Rick Broida, Zoho, Zoho Show, Microsoft PowerPoint; Blog posts 2008-06-26
Pity the Poor Copy Editor: In the old days, copy editors often seemed to be the Rodney Dangerfields of their profession, i.e., they didn't get no respect. At least they had jobs. These days, you can visit many a news organization that doesn't even have any copy editors at...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Outsourcing, David Weir; Blog posts 2008-06-25
Microsoft Word Tip: Clear Formatting from Pasted Text: The other day I showed you how to remove e-mail and Web hyperlinks from text copied and pasted into a Word document. Okay, but what about formatting? What if you want to rid pasted text of weird line spacing, italics, and the like? Turns out there's an easy shortcut for...; Tags: Word processors, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Office, E-mail, Rick Broida, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Word, Word Document, Clear; Blog posts 2008-06-25
Microsoft Word Tip: Clear Hyperlinks From Pasted Text: When you copy text from an e-mail, Web page, or another source into a Word document, any URLs or e-mail addresses contained within that text usually wind up hyperlinked. Word offers no clear-cut method of removing those links. You can right-click one and choose Remove Hyperlink, but that's a pretty slow...; Tags: Word processors, E-mail, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Rick Broida, Microsoft Word, Clear; Blog posts 2008-06-23
How to Create Custom Keyboard Shortcuts in Microsoft Word: As regular Business Hacks readers know, I'm a big fan of using keyboard shortcuts--especially in Microsoft Word. But there are some program functions, like Word Count, that don't have shortcuts assigned to them. Fortunately, it's an easy matter to set up shortcuts for just about any Word command. Here's the...; Tags: Word processors, Microsoft Office, Keyboards, Rick Broida, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Word, keyboard shortcut; Blog posts 2008-06-11
25 Easy Pivot Table Reports: Having trouble visualizing how to use a PivotTable report to analyze your data? While you can use these techniques for just about any type of source data. To work directly with these PivotTable reports, download Excel 2002 Sample: PivotTable Reports, the companion workbooks. This paper gives information of how to...; Tags: Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., data source, technique; White papers
Prepare Your Excel Worksheet For Printing: Your worksheet looks fine on the screen, so you're ready to print-right? Not exactly. You'll save time and paper by following the steps described in this paper to fine-tune your worksheet, avoid common printing problems, and prints the result. And also if you plan to print a specific portion of...; Tags: Document management, Microsoft Corp., printing, Microsoft Excel; White papers
Help Protect And Work With Business Intelligence Data In Excel: This paper explains one way to work around versioning problems. It briefly touches on how you can answer the "why" questions posed by business intelligence data. Finally, it shows how to use Excel to connect directly to data cubes, a useful technique for those times when Data Analyzer isn't available....; Tags: Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Corp., business intelligence, Microsoft Excel, technique; White papers
Support For The New Turkish Lira In Microsoft Office: Microsoft Office has taken several steps to ensure that our customers in the Turkish market are able to continue business as usual and that the changeover to the new currency, the new Turkish lira, is transparent. This paper describes the level of support that is offered in Microsoft Office to...; Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp.; White papers
Distribute An Excel Worksheet In An E-Mail Message: If you have Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express installed, you can embed a worksheet in an e-mail message and send it directly from Excel. Distributing a worksheet via e-mail allows you to quickly share a worksheet with others, Embed a worksheet in a message, Use HTML format so almost anyone...; Tags: Microsoft Office, Groupware, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Outlook, e-mail, HTML; White papers
Create A Sharepoint Team Services List With Excel: Although you can create lists one item at a time on your SharePoint team Web site by using a Web browser, a faster method - especially for a large list - is to create it in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet and then import the spreadsheet to your team Web site.; Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Collaboration, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft SharePoint, spreadsheet, Microsoft Excel, Excel spreadsheet, team, Web browser, Web site; White papers
Synchronize Excel Reports With A Single Data Source: The analysts needed to take existing year-end financial reports and summarize, group, and chart the data in various ways to present to their organizations' business decision makers. Data analysts rely on Microsoft Excel to connect to, display, and format data. However, copying and pasting data between cell ranges or between...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., data source, analyst, spreadsheet, financial; White papers
Overview And Samples Of Data Validation: Microsoft Excel data validation lets you define what type of data you want entered in a cell. This white paper describes how to set up data validation, including the types of data you can validate and the messages you can display, and provides a workbook that you can download to...; Tags: Microsoft Corp.; White papers
Add Eye-Catching Formatting To Your Charts: To give your Excel chart a custom, eye-catching look, you can easily apply formatting to data markers. Data marker is a bar, area, dot, slice, or other symbol in a chart that represents a single data point or value that originates from a worksheet cell. Related data markers in a...; Tags: Microsoft Corp.; White papers
Create A Gantt Chart In Excel: There are many ways to create a Gantt chart. For example, Microsoft Project, a task-planning program, makes it easy to track and chart project timelines with a built-in Gantt chart view. Another option is to use Excel. Excel does not contain a built-in Gantt chart format; however, you can create...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Gantt Chart, Microsoft Excel; White papers