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.
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.
Interested in Microsoft Publisher 2010? KnowledgeWave and Log on to Learn have you covered! The below video is a great preview to an upcoming live webinar event scheduled for Thursday, May 26th at 1:00 PM EST. Priced at $99 this is a great event that no doubt with bring you a wealth of Publisher knowledge. As a reader of our blog we are extending a very special discount of $79 off the list price! Attend this event of only $20!
Video Tip: Getting a picture in Publisher 2010 is only the beginning. In this tutorial we cover the different text wrapping options so our images sit on the page in the way we’d like them to appear.
Text Tip: Hyphenation of Text in Publisher 2010
While in specific instances hyphenation in a document may be necessary, as a general rule, it’s best to turn off hyphenation in your design layouts. You can accomplish this several ways in Publisher. To make the change globally (throughout Publisher), go to the File tab and choose Options. Then select Advanced and from the Editing Options region, deselect Automatically hyphenate in new text boxes. To change hyphenation rules for a specific text box, select the box and go to the Text Box Tools, Format contextual tab. Click the Hyphenation button and deselect the Automatically hyphenate this story box. This will do away with hyphenation for this text box and all connected text boxes.
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This 60 minute Webinar covers the following topics:
• Exploring the Newsletter Templates
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• Moving and Nudging Objects
• Using Text Overflow
• Formatting Text and Headings
• Working with Bullets and Numbering
• Paragraph and Line Spacing
• Spell Checking and Autocorrect
• Using the Design Checker
• Printing your Newsletter
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Keyboard-shortcut lovers! Windows 7 finally includes the ability to add new folders from the keyboard with a shortcut key combination. To create a new folder, simply press Ctrl+Shift+N with an explorer window open and the folder will instantly show up, ready to be renamed to something more useful.
In this session, we will show you how to Freeze and Split panes in Excel 2010. Freeze panes allow you to freeze columns and rows making them visible as you scroll within a worksheet. Split panes allow you to split your worksheet into multiple views, letting you scroll in one pane of the worksheet, while other panes remain static.
Have you ever gotten lost in your own presentation?
PowerPoint 2010 has a new Sections feature that helps organize slides, similar to how folders organize the files you use. By using sections you can keep your slides in logical groups. Furthermore, the function makes a useful outlining tool at the point of creating your presentation.
To add a section go to the ribbon and click “Add Section”. Once the section is created right click on section label and select “Rename Section”.
Once your sections are created you can expand and collapse them as needed, apply themes to a section, print a section and drag and drop sections to change the order of your presentation.
Brand new to Excel 2010, Sparklines are tiny little charts located in a single cell that provides a visual representation of data. This allows you to, in most cases, view your data and the chart at the same time. In this session we will show you how to add and remove Sparklines from an Excel worksheet.
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