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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
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

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
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: Arrow, Microsoft Corp., Text, Keyboards, Word Processors, Microsoft Word, Hardware, Peripherals, Software, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Rick Broida; Blog posts 2008-05-06
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: Signature, PhraseExpress, E-mail, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Online Communications, Operating Systems, Software, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Rick Broida; Blog posts 2008-03-25
Edit PDFs in Word with Free PDF to Word Converter (Windows): Last week we told you about PDF Hammer, which lets you reorder PDF pages,Â join multiple documents, and more using a simple Web service. But what if you want to actually edit the innards of a PDF, to make changes or additions to the content? For that, look to Free PDF...; Tags: Microsoft Windows, Adobe PDF, Rick Broida, Software, Office Suites, Microsoft Office, Word Processors, Microsoft Word; Blog posts 2008-01-14
Use DocSyncer to back up all of your Office Documents as Google Docs: Google Docs is fast becoming my text editor of choice simply because the collaborative advantages it gives me are far beyond what passing a Word document back and forth over email allows me to do. No longer do I have to do with improperly formatted documents, nor do I have...; Tags: Office Suites, Microsoft Office, Word Processors, Microsoft Word, Office Document, Google Docs, Google Inc., Software, David Goldenberg; Blog posts 2007-12-12
The Gap Gives its Word Then Contradicts It: We didn't receive an answer when we asked the question "Why do Indian children keep falling into The Gap?" We do know, however, that Gap Inc. won't sit by idly and watch children being exploited -- not while American consumers are looking, anyway. Gap's pledged $200,000 to improve working standards...; Tags: Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Business Operations, It Operations, Software, Office Suites, Microsoft Office, Quality, Outsourcing, Word Processors, Microsoft Word, Gap Inc., Lori Deschene; Blog posts 2007-11-20
Word on the Street is that the Street Will Be Free: Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has big plans for the Wall Street Journal once the $5 billion deal is finalized this year. Murdoch says he'll likely make WSJ.com free. Previously, all articles were offered only to subscribers. The Wall Street Journal would join some other large newspaper holdings to...; Tags: Office Suites, Strategy, Microsoft Office, Word Processors, Microsoft Word, Rupert Murdoch, Be Free, Wall Street Journal, Software, Management, Jonathan Haeber; Blog posts 2007-11-14
What is the Origin of the Word "Boss"?: My fellow bloggers over at BNET Intercom have revealed some fun facts about National Boss Day (which is today, by the way, lest you forget to buy your boss a box of chocolates or a bottle of the finest cabernet). Few of us, however, know the origins of the word...; Tags: Jonathan Haeber, Software, Office Suites, Microsoft Office, Word Processors, Blogging, Microsoft Word, Boss, Internet; Blog posts 2007-10-16
CYA By Keeping Good Notes: Workplace conflicts and miscommunications happen all the time. How can you protect yourself from accusations, reprimands, and other misery-causing office situations? Lifehacker's Gina Trapani says good note-taking skills can save the day. For example: What do butt-covering notes look like? First, all your notes should be dated. Date the...; Tags: Rick Broida, Online Communications, Software, Office Suites, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Enterprise Software, Microsoft Office, Groupware, E-mail Servers, Word Processors, E-mail, Microsoft Word, Recruitment & Selection, Lifehacker, Note, IBM Lotus Notes; Blog posts 2007-10-01
Create Word Documents on Your iPhone with gOffice: Web-based office suite gOffice now offers an iPhone-compatible version of its word processor. Okay, so it's not exactly Word, but it does let you churn out a document of virtually any length, add a signature, then e-mail it to others. Alternately, gOffice will print the document and snail-mail it for...; Tags: Word processors, gOffice, Rick Broida, Microsoft Word, Document, Apple iPhone; Blog posts 2007-09-07
7 Great Microsoft Word Tips: If you eat, sleep, and breathe Microsoft Word or even just snack on it occasionally, you'll want to check out Web Worker Daily's 7 tips for getting the most out of Word. I've used the program for longer than I can remember, and I wasn't aware of most of these...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Word, Rick Broida, Word processors, Microsoft Office; Blog posts 2007-08-06
Google Docs Spruces Up, Adds Features: Google Docs & SpreadsheetsÂ just received a long-overdueÂ facelift and some excellent new features. If you've never tried the online word processor and spreadsheet manager, now's the time. Here's the rundown on what's new, straight from the GD&S blog: Looking prettyÂ The entire document list has been given a complete visual overhaul--newÂ icons, more...; Tags: Documents, Web Tools, Google Docs, Google Inc., Rick Broida, spreadsheet, PRODUCTIVITY, Word processors; Blog posts 2007-06-28
A Word Processor/Corkboard Mashup: The daily annoyances of writing programs like Word have sent several frustrated users running to stripped-down word processors like Google Docs and even Notepad. But if you're a Mac user, it might make sense to get a writing program with more capabilities: Scrivener. Although Scrivener, which costs $35 (but offers...; Tags: Documents, Software, David Goldenberg, mashup, Microsoft Word, Scrivener, Word processors; Blog posts 2007-06-22
Merge Two Word Files into One: It's one thing to compare multiple documents--but what if you want to merge two heavily revised documents into one? Windows Vista Magazine, UK edition, shows you how to do exactly that. The solution lies in Word 2007's new tri-pane review panel, which, according to the author, makes it a snap...; Tags: Word processors, Microsoft Office, Rick Broida, General, Microsoft Word; Blog posts 2007-05-25
An Easier Way to Compare Multiple Documents: As my colleague Leslie Leite has previously noted, the easiest way to for a bunch of people to work on the same documents is through the pseudo-wiki functionality of Google Docs. But if youre still sticking to the old fashioned system of emailing MS Word documents back and...; Tags: Microsoft Word, Word processors, David Goldenberg, Web Tools, Time-Savers, Documents; Blog posts 2007-05-10