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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: Microsoft Office, Rick Broida, Microsoft Excel, Productivity501
Blog posts 2008-07-03
How to Overhaul a Messy Home Office
Take it from me: It's wayyyy too easy for a home office to vanish under piles of clutter. If you know the feeling, check out Dumb Little Man's 10 steps to a clean, rejuvinated office. A step sampling: Start with an empty room  It will be wise to...
Tags: Fax, Lifehacker, Rick Broida
Blog posts 2008-06-27
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
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
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, Rick Broida, Microsoft Corp., 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, Microsoft Corp., Rick Broida, Microsoft Word, keyboard shortcut
Blog posts 2008-06-11
Add Plain-English Calendar Entries to Outlook with Easy2Add
Google Calendar users have the enviable option to create new events using plain English: "Lunch meeting with Joe tomorrow at Panera Bread," for example. Freeware applet Easy2Add adds the same capability to Outlook, allowing you to create appointments just by typing a line of text. The applet sits...
Tags: Groupware, Microsoft Office, Rick Broida, Easy2Add, Microsoft Outlook
Blog posts 2008-06-06
Send Text Messages to Any Phone with Joopz
Text messages are a great way to reach someone when a phone call won't do, but do you really have to pull out your cell phone whenever you want to send one? Not if you use Joopz, a Web-based service that enables two-way texting from inside your browser. ...
Tags: Microsoft Outlook, Telecom & Utilities, Rick Broida, Joopz, Outlook Plug-in, phone
Blog posts 2008-06-05
Replace Pricey Microsoft Office with Free Lotus Symphony 1.0
Lotus Symphony is a free office suite for Windows and Linux. It rivals Microsoft Office, offering business-caliber word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations. And it's no longer in beta: IBM just announced Symphony's official 1.0 release. Though built on an OpenOffice core, Symphony bears little...
Tags: OpenOffice, PRODUCTIVITY, OPEN SOURCE, Lotus Symphony, Rick Broida, Symphony, Microsoft Office, IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp.
Blog posts 2008-06-02
Three Steps to an Uncluttered Outlook Inbox
As anyone who receives more than 50 e-mails per day can attest, effective inbox management is essential. Microsoft exec Amit Mital offers a surprisingly simple three-pronged approach to dealing with e-mail overload, starting with the creation of three inbox folders: The first one should be just for you, so set...
Tags: Rick Broida, Amit Mital, e-mail, Microsoft Outlook
Blog posts 2008-05-20
OpenOffice 3.0 Beta Adds Mac, Docx Support and More
Seems like just a month ago that Microsoft Office competitor OpenOffice.org trotted out version 2.4. Today the open-source office suite debuted its long-awaited 3.0 version albeit in beta form, adding native support for Mac OS X, import filters for Office 2007, an updated interface, and countless other tweaks and...
Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Rick Broida, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, OpenOffice 3.0 Beta, Apple Macintosh
Blog posts 2008-05-09
Microsoft Word Tip: Select Text Using Only Your Keyboard
If you spend a lot of time in Microsoft Word or any other word processor, it's high time you learned how to select text using only your keyboard. Why? Because it saves you having to reach for your mouse and lets you use other keyboard shortcuts more effectively. Here's how:...
Tags: Keyboards, Word processors, Rick Broida, keyboard, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Corp.
Blog posts 2008-05-06
Five Freeware Gems I Use Every Day
Whenever I migrate to a new PC it happens more often than you might think, I immediately install the following five programs. I can't live without them, and neither should you. Copernic Desktop Search  I don't know why desktop-search utilities have all but vanished, but thank goodness Copernic...
Tags: Microsoft Excel, Instant messaging, Rick Broida, Copernic, freeware, Meebo
Blog posts 2008-04-30
Use Macros and Pivot Tables in Zoho Spreadsheets
Zoho continues to one-up Google Docs. (Actually, they're more like four or five "up" at this point.) Zoho Sheet, the company's Web-based spreadsheet, just added over a dozen new features, including support for Visual Basic macros the same kind used in Excel and pivot tables/charts (which are already supported in...
Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Rick Broida, Zoho, spreadsheet
Blog posts 2008-04-29
Sync Your Contacts and Calendar to the Web with Autosync for Yahoo
An oldie but goodie, Autosync formerly Intellisync for Yahoo synchronizes your contacts, calendar, and other data to the Web. That not only gives you a backup in case of disaster, but also makes your info available from any PC. The software synchronizes data between your desktop PIM (Act, Outlook,...
Tags: Desktops, Microsoft Outlook, Rick Broida, AutoSync, Yahoo! Inc., desktop, Web
Blog posts 2008-04-23
Use Keyboard Shortcuts to Work Faster in Outlook
The most efficient computer users are those who rarely take their hands off their keyboards. If you want to be among them, learn to use keyboard shortcuts for commonly used commands. Own Your Inbox offers a batch of keyboard shortcuts for Outlook users, including: Send message: ALT+S...
Tags: Keyboards, Microsoft Office, Rick Broida, keyboard shortcut, keyboard, Microsoft Outlook
Blog posts 2008-04-17
Send a Text-Message Reminder to Your Inbox with Kwiry
As regular Business Hacks readers know, I'm a big fan of using Jott for personal reminders: If I remember something I need to do and I'm driving down the highway at the time, a quick call to Jott sends a reminder to my inbox. But what if I'm in the...
Tags: Rick Broida, reminder, Jott
Blog posts 2008-04-03
Replace Pricey Microsoft Office with Free OpenOffice 2.4
Before you spend hundreds of dollars on the latest version of Microsoft Office, consider a less-expensive alternative: OpenOffice, which offers business-caliber word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, databases, and drawing. Because it's open-source software, it doesn't cost a penny. The latest version, 2.4, adds a host of minor fixes...
Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Rick Broida, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp.
Blog posts 2008-03-27
Save Keystrokes with PhraseExpress (Windows)
Do you frequently have to type the same lengthy phrases? Ever wish you could add different signatures to e-mail sent from different accounts? You can save considerable keystrokes by installing PhraseExpress, a freeware auto-complete utility that automatically inserts text when you type simple abbreviations. For example, suppose...
Tags: E-mail, Rick Broida, Microsoft Windows, PhraseExpress
Blog posts 2008-03-25
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