We all could benefit from tools to help keep our inbox from becoming cluttered and unruly. This new feature deletes older messages from a conversation while preserving the newest instance in the thread. Furthermore, you don’t have to worry about lost details because Outlook looks at the content of emails and deletes earlier messages that have duplicate content but will not delete messages with attachments.
To use this feature you must first turn on the Conversation View by going to the View tab and then checking the Show as Conversations button.
To later clean up a conversation, right click on the latest message in the thread, right click and choose Clean Up Conversation.
To use the default settings click Clean Up. To adjust or view the Clean Up settings, go to the File tab and click Options. Go to the Mail tab and go to the Conversation Clean Up region.
Microsoft Powerpoint 2010 features great tools to allow the user to create an eye-catching presentation.
1. Create a Theme
Microsoft Office introduced themes in Microsoft Office 2007 and they remain a popular feature in the 2010 version as well. Themes allow the user to create a consistent type font, graphic effects, and color scheme throughout Microsoft Powerpoint presentations, Microsoft Word documents and Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. Play around with themes in the Design tab.
2. Insert Videos or Audio
Recorded narration can enhance the flow of your presentation. Insert a brief video to expand upon the point of your presentation and it is embedded automatically with Powerpoint 2010. Video trim, fades and effects help to incorportate your video seamlessly into the presentation.
3. Use Graphics
Well-placed charts and diagrams can sometimes express more to your audience than bulleted points. If Microsoft Excel is installed on your computer, click the Chart icon to produce a diagram and insert it into your slide. If you are using a theme, the chart will match it automatically.
Make your Windows Live account soar into the clouds! By taking advantage of cloud computing, files can be stored in drives that are secure, have ample space and can be accessed from anywhere. Windows Live offers SkyDrive, an online file storage system that allows for easy management of your documents and favorite web links. To best utilize this service, we’ve outlined the steps required to create folders in SkyDrive for easy navigation and organization of your data.
Here we go:
1. Open a browser and go to www.live.com and sign in to windows live.
2. Click “SkyDrive” at the top of the screen.
3. Welcome to your SkyDrive! From here you can manage, add and remove data, and share documents with other Windows Live users. A toolbar at the top called “create” includes icons for MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and Folder. Click the folder icon to create a new folder. Click into an existing folder and click the create folder icon to generate subfolders.
4. Type a name for your folder. By default, this new folder is private. Click “Change” if you wish to adjust sharing permissions.
5. Click “Next”.
6. By clicking select documents from your computer you may add data to you new SkyDrive folder at this time. When you’re ready, click the continue button. Now you are viewing the contents of the new folder. Navigating back to SkyDrive will display all of the folders in your own little piece of the cloud for easy document storage, management and sharing.
Discover what Microsoft Office 365 can do for your workplace! Join us November 3rd for a live webinar. Use the code ‘LOB10′ at checkout to attend for free!
Product(s): Microsoft Office 365 Duration: 60 Minutes Start Date: November 3rd, 2011 Start Time: 3:00 PM EDT (US)
More and more we hear about the benefits of “the cloud”. What does this mean for you and how will it change your daily process? Well, we’ll show you. Office 365 is a new productivity and hosting solution from Microsoft that takes your Outlook, Office and SharePoint to the cloud. In this session we’ll uncover the foundation of Office 365 from Outlook Web Access and Office Web Apps to Lync and SharePoint. Whether your company has already made the leap to the cloud or whether you just want to get a glimpse of what’s rolling in, this session will clear up the mystery of the cloud!
Have you ever wanted to blur the background of a photo but you don’t want to use Photoshop? In the video below we show you just how to do this. We’ve also provided a step by step process below. This is an awesome photo technique in PowerPoint. It’s a technique that many designers have been doing in Photoshop. If you don’t have Adobe Photoshop you can still apply this effect. You do need to have Office 2010 (or 2011 for the Mac).
To begin you will need to choose a photograph, the best option is one that has people or an object as the main photo but has a distracting background that you would like to blur out, one that has a depth of field is ideal. For this technique you will use these functions in PowerPoint, Copy and Paste or the Duplicate Command, Background Removal and Artistic Effects.
Step by Step:
1.) Choose your photo. Again one with depth of field is ideal.
2.) Duplicate your image, you can select your image and copy and paste using the Ctrl-C (Copy) and Ctrl-V (Paste) keyboard shortcuts.
3.) Next align your two images. Click your Format Tab, select the Align option, then Align Left and Align Top.
4.) Select your foreground image. The best way to confirm you are selecting the correct images is to click on Select on your ribbon bar and choose Selection Payne. You will now see everything listed on this particular slide. You can rename the selections foreground and background. Select your foreground image, on the format tab select Remove Background option and the select Keep Changes.
5.) Select the background image, Select Artistic Effects and choose Blur.
This is a great video from Ron Owens from the Microsoft Word Blog. Ron shows us how to use the co-authoring (simultaneous editing) tool in Word 2010. He notes that you can “Cut your all-nighter in half”. He’s not kidding! This video also highlights how authors can be in different locations utilizing SkyDrive, Microsoft’s Cloud storage solution. Our two cents, at just under three minutes this is a great video and worth the watch.
How do you use Microsoft Word? Join us October 12 at 3:00pm EDT if you’d like to learn about Microsoft Word 2010.
Product(s): Microsoft Word
Duration: 60 Minutes
Start Date: October 12th, 2011 Start Time: 1:00 PM EDT (US)
Event Overview: Word, the backbone of the Office Suite and, for most of us, the application we
spend most of our time in no longer looks like Word. How dare they? Along with
the new look comes valuable and useful new functions. Many of the new features
either save time doing things we used to do, or help us share our documents with
other users or applications in the Office Suite. This webinar explores the new
user interface, galleries, review, prepare, the backstage view and the various
methods to distribute documents.
Would you like to enhance your Microsoft Excel 2010 skills? If so, join us October 12 at 3:00pm EDT. If you missed this date our event is now available on-demand.
Product(s): Microsoft Excel 2010 Duration: 60 Minutes
Start Date: (This event is now available on-Demand!)
Previously held Live on October 12th, 2011
Event Overview: This entire session is
centered on a single notion. Excel is a powerhouse. Many of us have only
scratched the surface of its potential. Formulas and Functions are the gateway
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get accurate results in a snap! We’ll discuss the difference between a formula
and a function and unlock the power contained in these tools. This session is a
must for moderate to heavy Excel users and those looking to expand their Excel
IQ.
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Via Log on to Learn, KnowledgeWave is pleased to offer this Great Mastering Queries in Microsoft Access 2010 Webinar event this August.
Product(s): Microsoft Project Audience(s): Business Professional Duration: 60 Minutes Start Date: August 31st, 2011 Start Time: 3:00 PM EDT (US)
Event Overview:
Get started and ignite your knowledge with this 60 minute webinar on Project 2010. Easily handle even the most impossible projects without the stress, frustration and worry. Learn how to unleash the power of Microsoft Project and complete all your projects, large and small, on time and on budget. This innovative webinar will walk you through many of the software’s incredible built-in features and you will learn how to use them to improve the way you manage your tasks.
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Via Log on to Learn, KnowledgeWave is pleased to offer this Great Mastering Queries in Microsoft Access 2010 Webinar event this August.
Product(s): Microsoft Access Audience(s): Business Professional Duration: 60 Minutes Start Date: August 31st, 2011 Start Time: 1:00 PM EDT (US)
Event Overview:
Queries are an essential part of any database; they are how you extract meaningful information from your database to help answer key business questions. We have designed this webinar to make the Query labyrinth easier to understand. This webinar will cover how Table Relationships and Queries interconnect to make a database more dynamic. We will begin the session with a swift overview of Table Relationships and then dig deep inside the world of advanced Queries. We will be covering Action Queries such as Make Table, Update and Delete Queries. We will take an in-depth look at Single Level and Multiple Level Parameter Queries. Lastly, we will demonstrate how Microsoft Access Crosstab Query enables users to summarize information in a compact format which is similar to a spreadsheet.
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