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Tweaking Your Outlook 2010 Setup

January 30, 2012 – 8:05 pm

A nonscientific survey of my local job listings show that Office 2010 is showing up on more corporate desktops and with that many new users are trying to figure out how to get the most out of Outlook 2010. With every Office release, Microsoft shows a little extra love to one application and Outlook definitely saw some product management and developer love in this go around.

I’ve also come to believe that Microsoft Outlook and not spreadsheets is what really runs projects and even businesses so I want to offer up some Outlook setup advice in this post. These are items that are typically overlooked in stock implementations but can save you embarrassment and make you a bit more productive.

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Book Review: MOS 2010 Study Guide for Microsoft Word

January 26, 2012 – 7:18 pm

After having a great experience reading the MOS 2010 Study Guide for Microsoft Office SharePoint, my next read was the MOS 2010 Study Guide for Word. Microsoft Word has always been a bread and butter application for me as both a technical writer and freelance writer. Things have been a bit slow lately, so I am taking advantage of the time to shore up some old skills and learn new ones.

The book’s tendency to overlap screen captures became a bit annoying after the first 100 pages. To a novice Word 2010 user, this space saving move could lead to a minor bit of confusion. Take the screen captures on page 143 of 317 (iBook edition) which borders on abstract art not clear and concise communications. While I am on the subject of screen shots, fading out the bottom and right sides of them while certainly a special effect made it almost look like a rendering issue on the screen. There were also a few places in the text where the pagination would cut into the middle of a procedure that was also a bit disappointing considering the state of epublishing tools today. These lapses in production detracted from the overall writing of the manuscript and exercises.

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Microsoft Office 365 for Project Managers

December 27, 2011 – 4:41 pm

The launch of Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft’s new collaboration tool suite that includes SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, Lync Online, Office 2010 Web Apps, and Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus brought a lot of headlines because anything cloud is hot right now. Nevertheless, project management features were absent from the marketing push unless you knew where to look.

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Microsoft Office Isn’t Due Retirement Papers Just Yet

December 12, 2011 – 8:15 pm

Eric Lundquist’s recent article about the need for Microsoft Office to retire furthers my opinion of the wide gulf that exists between some technology journalists and real life out there in cubicle land. I am not talking about the next big sexy cloud computing platform or latest mobile computing apps but the people who do the day-to-day grunt work – crunching spreadsheets in accounting, writing technical documents, creating small databases, and presentation development for next week’s sales team meeting.

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The Changing Nature Of Office Productivity Applications

October 30, 2011 – 2:01 pm

Microsoft Office applications have been a major part of my working life for years. Throughout my work as a technical writer and later as a computer book technical reviewer and then freelance writer, I’ve been able to watch the growth and changes in Microsoft Office from all sides.

The most exciting developments for me have been seeing Office applications move to the web and onto mobile platforms other than PCs. I remember the first time I saw a demo of Zoho Business and got first access to Writely (now Google Docs) and could see the potential for such applications on the web. But my question even back then was how smoothly could such applications integrate with desktop applications. This question is getting easier to answer now with many recent developments.

I’ve comes to see the desktop suite extend beyond its desktop origins into both the web and mobile layers. These are natural layers for Office applications since the way people work has changed so dramatically. This new model also accommodates the diffe

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Building Basic Microsoft Word Skills With Non-Writers

August 14, 2011 – 12:00 pm

One of the challenging aspects of my current position is working with a lot of non-writers or those in what I consider allied professions – trainers, instructional designers, and project managers – and helping guide them through technical writing and course development tasks. It became relatively clear to me why I stayed a solo technical writer for so many years but I’ve been able to get some more insight into how regular folks use Microsoft Word and other Office applications that I am growing to appreciate.

This experience has also shown me that even with templates in place for each major document type there is no way escaping the need for non-writers to have a base set of MS Word skills if they are thrust into a writing or course development position.

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Microsoft Office And The Web Office: My Complementary View

June 21, 2011 – 7:30 pm

I’ve written a lot about Microsoft Office, online collaboration, and web office technologies in the past and like to think I temper my views on the subject with the practical experience I’ve had as a technical writer in the IT industry. So having spent a lot of hands on quality time with Microsoft Office, Google Apps for Business, Zoho Business, Microsoft Office 2010 Web Apps, and others, I am comfortable with saying that Microsoft Office is here to stay but readily admit the rules by which knowledge workers create and share documents has changed immensely since its initial launch.

It is this change why I always said Microsoft Office needed to extend itself to the web whether through Office 2010 Web Apps and Office 365 or through a third party solution like Google Apps for Business. When Office products first went mainstream as part of the computer desktop it was a much different era with what have today with geographically dispersed workforces, outside contractors, and different work schedules.

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OffiSync: Another Google Docs/Microsoft Office Syncing Option

March 27, 2011 – 1:36 pm

I’ve long been a proponent of a complementary model for Google Docs and Microsoft Office. While Google Cloud Connect is a great tool, I need to mention OffiSync — available in the Google Apps Marketplace — as another option for file syncing between the two office suites.

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My Initial Thoughts about Google Cloud Connect

March 1, 2011 – 6:56 pm

Google Cloud Connect launched last week and it plays nicely with the complementary model vision I have for Google Apps and Microsoft Office. While I know Google Apps is chocking up some enterprise wins, we live in a Microsoft Office world (a harsh reality to some) so I like seeing tools that help bridge the gap between these two competing applications.

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SharePoint Productivity for Project Teams: Out of the Box

February 20, 2011 – 2:19 pm

The popularity of Microsoft SharePoint has given rise to a whole slew of third party application add ins and professional services that organization’s can use to customize and add functionality to their SharePoint sites. However, on the road to SharePoint adoption you might not always be able to get what you want until you score some initial victories. You can score some of these victories right out of the box – with minimal SharePoint knowledge and the appropriate user permissions – so here are a few ideas to get you started right out of the box.

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Tag Archives: Microsoft Office 2010

Tweaking Your Outlook 2010 Setup

Book Review: MOS 2010 Study Guide for Microsoft Word

Microsoft Office 365 for Project Managers

Microsoft Office Isn’t Due Retirement Papers Just Yet

The Changing Nature Of Office Productivity Applications

Building Basic Microsoft Word Skills With Non-Writers

Microsoft Office And The Web Office: My Complementary View

OffiSync: Another Google Docs/Microsoft Office Syncing Option

My Initial Thoughts about Google Cloud Connect

SharePoint Productivity for Project Teams: Out of the Box

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