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.
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:
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.
Harmon.ie for Google Docs is a free Google Docs client available in the Google Apps Marketplace or on their web site that does away with the need to send those annoying email attachments. While we can argue the merits of using Microsoft Outlook to manage documents, many people do it. Installing Harmon.ie creates a sidebar in Outlook 2007 or 2010 that is convenient and easy to use for users of all levels.
My biggest qualm with introducing Google Apps for Business into an enterprise is the scale of which it changes how the average user works within Office productivity applications like Outlook. Like it or not, it’s an application that rules the day for people at all levels in an organization. Therefore, a tool like Harmon.ie is worth investigating for organizations that are making a limited or full migration to Google Apps for Business. I especially like it as an interim step for users still with Microsoft Office on their desktop or for those needing to bridge the gap between Microsoft Office on the desktop and Google Docs after an organization migrates.
On the way to getting my groove back, I am also examining how I can manage my email better. This is a great time to overhaul my email management since I am not actively freelancing (but working on changing that fact) and only working 40 hours a week. My email is split between Microsoft Outlook (professional email) and Gmail (personal email). I made the move a while back to Google Apps for Business for my professional email with Office 365 a potential future move.
After years of following web office apps like Google Apps, I finally decided to move willkelly.com, my professional site. to Google Apps for Business last September. A combination of drivers including my long simmering dissatisfaction with my ISP’s email (plus a long overdue need for IMAP) drove my need to make the change. Here is a status report…
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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