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SharePoint 2010 & Visio Services: A New Tool For Technical Writers?

August 21, 2012 – 8:19 pm

Publishing Visio drawings (*.vdw files) to SharePoint 2010 using Visio Services is one of the best things to come out of SharePoint 2010. I’ve dealt with large scale Visio drawing libraries on past contracts and know firsthand how cumbersome it can be to share Visio drawings with other people who don’t have access to Visio on their PC. Besides, Visio Services are another tool to democratize project management data because accessing Visio drawings via Web browser is a much friendlier than through Adobe Acrobat much less the Visio application itself.

Visio Services can also refresh the data and recalculate the visuals of a Visio drawings hosted on a Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 site refresh connections to various data sources and to update affected data graphics and text fields.

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Rolling Out Social SharePoint To The Enterprise

August 5, 2012 – 5:25 pm

In a new series of articles, I am going to explain a Social Computing Deployment Process. As the roll out of SharePoint My Sites and social computing tools progresses, a certain maturity needs to happen for the business and end user community to realize the benefits of social computing within the enterprise. This Social Computing Deployment Process includes the following phases:

Rollout Phase
Connection & Discovery Phase
Business User Productivity Phase
Product Innovation Phase

In this article, I will walk you through a potential rollout phase for moving an organization to a more social SharePoint.

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Saying Yes to Microsoft Office for iOS

June 6, 2012 – 9:24 pm

I am happy to be seeing news pop up again about an impending release of Microsoft Office for iOS. Whether it is part of the ongoing rumors or not, I think as a technical writer, iOS user, and somebody who writes about tablet and smartphone topics that it is a real prudent move for Microsoft.

The release of OneNote for iOS and Lync for iOS shows that Microsoft gets iOS and mobile user experience when it comes to porting their apps to iOS. Office 2010 WebApps is another mature offering outside Microsoft’s traditional PC desktop comfort zone. While there is a growing list of capable Office productivity apps like iWork, DocsToGo, and CloudOn for iOS, companies can ill afford the issues that can sometimes arise when you send documents between mobile device and PC especially if an external customer is involved in the transaction. What mobile workers who require an Office suite on their iPad require is a seamless experience when interacting with documents, presentation decks, and spreadsheets.

Here is my (partial) wish list for a Microsoft Office for iOS release:

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Reviewing PowerPoint Slides Without Resorting To A Red Pen

March 18, 2012 – 1:03 pm

While Microsoft Word Track Changes and Comments are well known document review tools for editors and reviewers, Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 also has its own set of review tools you can use when you’re reviewing the next big client presentation. Like it or not, a lot of the civilized business world runs on PowerPoint presentations making it in everybody’s best interest to get reviewers using electronic review tools to review PowerPoint slides.

In this post, let’s take a look at those review tools:

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A Few Words About Microsoft Word Track Changes

March 6, 2012 – 8:18 pm

One of the most useful – yet potentially embarrassing –features of Microsoft Word is Track Changes. Using the Track Changes feature lets you electronically markup your Word documents with edits, additions, and revisions. Think of it as an electronic red pen so to speak.

The potential embarrassment of the feature comes in when you don’t accept the Track Changes. Comments, edits, and revisions not fit for public consumption can leak out. Even if none of the comments are critical it is just plain sloppy to have a recipient open up a document that still contains markups.

Here is the advice I give people about using track changes:

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Book Review: Security and Privacy for Microsoft Office 2010 Users by Mitch Tulloch

March 5, 2012 – 8:02 pm

Security and Privacy for Microsoft Office 2010 Users by Mitch Tulloch is a book I’ve been trying to find for years. Throughout my time as a technical writer, I’ve bumped into some minor to major security and privacy issues related to the development and distribution of Microsoft Office documents including some that caused a measure of embarrassment to people. By extension of my work as a technical writer, I’ve had to give both formal and one-on-one training about some of the topics in this book and can tell you it is easy to say it’s just Microsoft Office until something you don’t want to leak out gets out in one of your documents. read more »

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Using Tags In OneNote 2010

February 22, 2012 – 7:14 pm

One you get started with OneNote 2010 it can be hard to stop finding uses for it especially if you work in a writing and research heavy job like the one I do as a technical writer. This is why I always recommend getting a flexible organizational schema in place when you first start using the application. Tagging in OneNote enables you to put key terms on your OneNote pages that can help you better search for OneNote content.

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Collaborating With OneNote 2010

February 21, 2012 – 7:30 pm

One of the hidden gems of Office 2010 is that it now includes OneNote 2010 – the latest release of Microsoft’s simple yet elegant note taking application. Formerly, you had to purchase OneNote separately making it a special software request inside many corporations and not standard issue. Now that it comes with all versions of Office 2010, my first hope is that it helps slay the useless tradition of taking meeting minutes, but before that comes collaborating with OneNote.

OneNote can serve as an effective backchannel for collaborative note taking, whiteboard session captures, and capturing the myriad of bits and bytes that comes with running a technology project.

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Getting Started with OneNote 2010: Part 3

February 20, 2012 – 9:00 am

Now that you have notebooks teeming with notes and data it’s time to settle in with OneNote as part of your daily workflow. In Getting Started with OneNote 2010: Part 3, we’ll take a look at how to search through your notebooks for information and how to get information out of OneNote 2010 into other applications and to other project team members.

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Saving & Sending Word 2010 Documents

February 17, 2012 – 3:56 pm

There is more to sharing Word documents than the ancient tradition of attaching them to an Outlook email. Now Word 2010 makes it easy to share your Word documents over the web or SharePoint without you having to leave the application and creating too many steps between your documents and their recipients

Click File. The BackStage View appears. Click Save & Send to access Save & Send options. Here is a breakdown of options that are available:

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Category Archives: Microsoft Office

SharePoint 2010 & Visio Services: A New Tool For Technical Writers?

Saying Yes to Microsoft Office for iOS

Reviewing PowerPoint Slides Without Resorting To A Red Pen

A Few Words About Microsoft Word Track Changes

Book Review: Security and Privacy for Microsoft Office 2010 Users by Mitch Tulloch

Using Tags In OneNote 2010

Collaborating With OneNote 2010

Getting Started with OneNote 2010: Part 3

Saving & Sending Word 2010 Documents

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