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Benefits of Training
By Sheri T
People are either thrilled or upset when their company tells them they have to attend a training. I do understand that when you are already very busy, it just makes your day more stressful to be away from your desk for several hours. BUT, when you take the time to learn the most efficient way of performing task, you will be more efficient. Training.com states that you will actually be 230% more effective than someone who has not been trained. This means that the few hours you give up in a training class, you will make up for in efficiency multiple times over!
In today’s economy the best thing you can do for your career is to be up-to-date with the latest technology as well as being an efficient user of that technology.
Don’t consider training a burden on your day. Consider it a benefit, one that no one can take from you (even if you do have to change jobs). It is reassuring that your company is spending their money investing in your skills.
Filed Under Desktop Education, Excel, General, Microsoft Access, Office, Outlook, PowerPoint, Visio, Word |
Preview Attachments in Outlook 2007
By Jane H
One of the neat features in Microsoft Outlook 2007 is the ability to quickly preview some email attachments without opening the the attached file. This can be done in either the Reading Pane or in an open message window. Messages that have attachments are identified by a paper clip icon in the message list. Of course, in order to preview a file created in Office 2007, you must have Office 2007 installed. Read more
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If you have ever collected customer information in an Excel 2003 workbook and wished you could transfer it to an Outlook contacts folders, the good news is that it is relatively simple to bring into Outlook 2003. You should start by examining the Excel data and making sure it is arranged into a proper list. Read more
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I’ve been wanting to be able to edit the subject line of emails while they were in my Inbox so that when I file them in different folders I can more accurately remember what is in the content of that email. What you should put as a subject line of your email is a whole different topic!! I knew you could do it in other email packages, so Microsoft had to hide it somewhere, right? Well it is there….just a little buried.
While looking at your Inbox go to View/ Current View / Customize Current View. Click on the Other Settings button. There is a check box along the right that says Allow In Cell Editing. Click that check box and you can now edit your subject line. Quick and easy!
Two Tips - CSS in Email Newsletters
By Marge R
Anyone who has tried to create an email newsletter using cascading style sheets already knows that there are issues with certain email clients. So let’s talk about which clients have problems, what causes some of the problems and a couple of suggestions on how you create an email newsletter that will look ok in all clients?
Let’s start by looking at the cause. Gmail is one of the worst. In fact, a good rule of thumb has always been that if you can get your email newsletter to look ok in Gmail, then it is a pretty safe bet that it will look ok everywhere else.
Gmail is a browser-based email client, which means that it is already an HTML page. So if your newsletter contains the standard HTML page tags (ie. <head>, <body>), Gmail strips them out, because they are basically redundant with those same tags that already exist within the Gmail web page. And if you think about it, that automatically impacts any external or page embedded CSS that you may have used.
Filed Under CSS, Dreamweaver, Expressions Web, FrontPage, Outlook, Web Technologies |
Searching in Outlook
By Sheri T
The item you need is not in your Inbox and you don’t want to search each folder separately. In MS Outlook 2007 there is a down arrow on the right side of the search box. Click the down arrow and select Search All Mail Items. This will search all of your folders and return a list of desired items including the name of the folder in which it was found.
In MS Outlook 2003 it say Search In. Click the down arrow and select All Mail Folders.
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Eeeek - another acronym ? DDPS and SAM…
By Gerry V
That’s all that technology professionals need, another acronym to learn… more importantly, even when we know the acronym, what is the concept behind it ? DDPS stands for Desktop Deployment Planning Services, yet another service offering from Microsoft that provides software versioning migration planning and SAM (that’s Software Asset Management) as a component of their Software Assurance.
The process is relatively simple - the enterprise identifies a Microsoft Certified Partner that is certified in DDPS to conduct the audit - usually taking 2-5 business days of auditing and consulting. The resulting deliverable identifies a standardization plan and upgrade path that is tied (ideally) to corporate culture and objectives. Yes, this is somewhat of a “fox watching the hen-house” scenario since the Partner conducting the audit is paid by Microsoft for their investment of hours. The consulting hours are not the real attraction to the partner/vendor, in their case, the real upside is the potential sales opportunity of both licenses and services required to actually complete the prescribed upgrade.
Ultimately, DDPS is a valuable free service for any enterprise committed to a desktop upgrade/migration as long as the clients take the time to understand the results and ask the proper questions after the fact.
Filed Under Excel, InfoPath, Microsoft Access, Office, Outlook, PowerPoint, SA Benefits, Visio, Word |
Ever wondered when was the last time you corresponded with someone in your Contacts? It’s not as difficult as you might imagine.
Open the contact by double clicking on it. You should see an Activities tab along the top. Click on the Activities tab. You will see all of the “activities” you have with this contact; received and sent emails, calendar meetings and task assignments.
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