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Sync All Your Calendars for Free with Calgoo Connect: So you've got iCal at home, Outlook at work, Google Calendar on the Web -- that's three calendars to manage! Calgoo Connect promises to keep these and other calendars in sync, and it's now available free of charge. Specifically, the Calgoo sync program is available for both...; Tags: Calendar, Calgoo Calendar, Microsoft Outlook, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Rick Broida; Blog posts 2008-07-29
The Office War: What happens when the IT and Sales teams don't see eye to eye? Don your foam-dart-proof vest and click play to find out. by CC Holland; Tags: CC Holland, Software, Office Suites, Sales, Microsoft Office, Sales Strategy, Eye; Blog posts 2008-07-25
How to Sync Your Outlook Calendar with Windows Live Calendar: As any Google Calendar user knows, having a copy of your appointment schedule on the Web can really come in handy. Now Outlook users can sync their calendars with Windows Live Calendar thanks to a new beta version of the Microsoft Outlook Connector. When we first looked...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows, Calendar, Microsoft Outlook, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Rick Broida; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Get Your Cheat Sheets Right Here: Over at MakeUseOf, they've compiled very useful keyboard shortcuts for Google search, Firefox, Gmail, Windows including Word and Excel, and Mac OSX. They're not searchable except once you download them as PDFs, but they are a great resource; In the Google page, I picked up a few tricks on how...; Tags: David Goldenberg, Peripherals, Hardware, Apple Mac OS, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Cloud Computing, Keyboards, Microsoft Office, Apple Mac OS X, Word Processors, Microsoft Word, Sheet, Google Inc.; Blog posts 2008-07-16
New Business Word of the Day: Chindia: ChangeThis has an excerpt from "Chindia Rising:How China and India Will Benefit Your Business," by Jagdish N. Sheth. If the excerpt provides a model for the whole book, the writing is slightly jarring, like the name 'Chindia' itself. Many of the assertions seem overstated. Sheth argues for...; Tags: Office Suites, Microsoft Office, Management, Channel Management, Word Processors, E-mail, Microsoft Word, Entrepreneurship, Tarun Khanna, Sheth, ChangeThis, India, China, Michael Fitzgerald, Marketing, Online Communications, Software; Blog posts 2008-07-09

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: Office Suites, Microsoft Office, Rick Broida, Software, Microsoft Excel, Productivity501; 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: Software, David Goldenberg, Office Suites, Microsoft Word, 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, Software, Office Suites, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Bill Gates; Blog posts 2008-06-30
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 PowerPoint, Presentation, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Rick Broida; Blog posts 2008-06-26
Xobni Adds LinkedIn Integration: Indispensable Outlook plug-in XobniÂ just released version 1.4, adding integration with social-networking service LinkedIn.Â Users will now seeÂ a contact's LinkedIn profile data (job title, company, and photo), assuming he/she has any,Â in their Xobni sidebar. Clicking the accompanying LinkedIn logo takes you to that contact's page on the service. Also...; Tags: LinkedIn, Integration, Xobni, Microsoft Outlook, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Rick Broida; 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: Microsoft Outlook, Word Processors, Text, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Corp., Clear, E-mail, Office Suites, Software, Online Communications, Rick Broida, Microsoft Office; 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 URLsÂ 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: Microsoft Corp., Clear, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, E-mail, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Online Communications, Rick Broida; 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: Microsoft Corp., Keyboard Shortcut, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Keyboards, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Hardware, Peripherals, Rick Broida; 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 toÂ create appointments just by typing a line of text. The applet sits...; Tags: Applet, Easy2Add, Microsoft Outlook, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Rick Broida; Blog posts 2008-06-06
Send Text Messages to Any Phone with Joopz: Text messagesÂ 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: Office Suites, Software, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook, Phone, Rick Broida, Message, Telecom & Utilities; Blog posts 2008-06-05
Scott McClellan and Business Ethics: Stephen Goldman, a law professor at Catholic University of America, has just come out with a book called "Temptations in the Office: Ethical Choices and Legal Obligations." Scott McClellan, the former White House spokesman, has a new book of his own, "What Happened: Inside the Bush White...; Tags: Business Ethics, Leadership, Microsoft Office, Management, Office Suites, Software, William Baker; Blog posts 2008-06-04
3 Ways To Control Your Office Clutter: I tend to be most productive and efficient when my workspace is neat and organized. Despite knowing this, my home office still tends to slide toward a natural state of barely controlled chaos. My piles of paper beget other piles, my sticky notes threaten to obscure my computer screen, and...; Tags: Clutter, Office, Productivity, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, CC Holland, Pile; Blog posts 2008-06-03
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 announcedÂ Symphony's official 1.0 release. Though built on an OpenOffice core, Symphony bears little...; Tags: Software, Rick Broida, Word-processing, Office Suites, Open Source, Microsoft Office, Productivity, OpenOffice, Lotus Symphony, IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp.; Blog posts 2008-06-02
5 Classic Computer Pranks: Last Friday's "Top 5" post -- about the best office pranks -- got folks talking about shenanigans at work. One poster offered a gem about using the shimmer effect in Word, which got me thinking about a whole new class of goofs: mucking about with a co-worker's computer. ...; Tags: Office Suites, Microsoft Office, Peripherals, Hardware, Mice, Word Processors, Microsoft Word, Productivity, Keyboards, Hilarity, Computer, Laser, Microsoft Corp., Victim, Software, CC Holland; Blog posts 2008-05-30
Your Next Exec Off-site: Riding the Rails: Executive off-sites fail when they feel like canned affairs cooked-up by HR. You know: team-building ropes courses, faith-fall exersizes, the endless "interactive" PowerPoint presentation in a beige-colored hotel conference room where the only one interacting is the one blathering endlessly on, slide after slide after slide. ...; Tags: Business Operations, Michael Mattis, Management, Microsoft Office, Corporate Governance, Team Management, Cabin, Car, Software, Office Suites, Corporate Law; Blog posts 2008-05-30