Learn how to share your calendar with other users in your company, and how to view their calendars as well. In this video, we will share our calendar with another user, and then we will open that user’s calendar side-by-side with our own.
Ok, now learn how to view multiple calendars in different ways. In this video, we will go over the three different views when working with multiple calendars. The side-by-side view allows you to see multiple calendars right next to each other. The overlay view allows you to have one calendar on top, with the others behind that calendar. You can then easily click on the tab for the calendar you wish to bring up front. Finally, the schedule view is useful when you need to see availability of the users when scheduling appointments.
Hey all you PowerPoint presenters. Ever wonder how to save a PowerPoint presentation as video?
Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 provides the ability to save a PowerPoint presentation as a video file. In this session we quickly look how to record timings in a presentation and then save the presentation in the Windows Media Video format. Depending on the content of your presentation, creating a video may take some time. Lengthy presentations and presentations with animations, transitions, and media content will likely take longer to create. Fortunately, you can continue to use PowerPoint while the video is being created.
Learn how to apply heading styles to titles and headings within a document, and then how to use those styles to easily create a table of contents. In this video, we will apply some heading styles, we will create a table of contents based on those styles, and we will hyperlink to different areas within the document using the links provided by a table of contents. We will also discuss how you can quickly update your table of contents as your document changes.
Learn the features and tools of Microsoft SharePoint 2010. This video will give you a general overview of what the program is and why you might use this as a collaborative, centralized platform for your organization. You’ll learn about the different Microsoft SharePoint 2010 products, the tools and features that make up a SharePoint site, and the integration possibilities available when you use the Microsoft 2010 Office Suite of programs with SharePoint 2010.
I’m not sure what I did, but now my ribbon bar and options have disappeared. Can you help me get it back? It’s only happening in Microsoft Word. I’m a Log on to Learn member and couldn’t find a specific video that addresses this. Thanks! We’ve received this question a few times so, we thought we’d share it here in our blog.
This is what the member was seeing when looking at their screen in Microsoft Word.
This is what the member wants to get back.
This is a common problem. A user has closed the ribbon bar without knowing how they did it and they need to get the ribbon to display again. First, don’t feel silly, this isn’t the first time a user has contacted us. In fact since it’s a popular item, we’ve created a video and I’ve included a link at the bottom of this thread. I’ll note the step-by-step process here for you as well.
Minimize the Ribbon (Microsoft Office 2010)
1. Click the Minimize Button located in the upper-right corner just below the X (close button). This button is a toggle, click once to minimize, click again to restore.
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2. Right click on the Ribbon and choose Minimize the Ribbon.
Microsoft Word Warriors cannot be bothered with flipping through style books or typing bibliographies. Mastery of Word leads one to discover the powerful tools behind the References Tab. Users can build and manage a list of sources easily while Word does all the heavy lifting. Inserting citations is a quick and seamless task, leaving the Warrior free to focus on analysis and research. This video shows you how to create citations, bibliographies and cross references.
This month we bring you a couple great events on September 27th.
Introduction to Excel PowerPivot
What is Excel PowerPivot? It’s a free add-on in Excel 2010 designed by Microsoft. It adds a lot of power to Excel by extending the capabilities of PivotTable and data summarization. Having the ability to import data from multiple sources has never been easier. Designed to add and integrate large amounts of data in Excel workbooks, this wonderful tool can create remarkably dynamic reports. If rumor has it correctly, you will see this feature built into the next version of Excel. Join us for this 30 minute introduction to this incredibly powerful (and free) tool.
Access 2010: Explore the Interface
Access 2010 features a user interface with significant changes from prior versions, especially versions prior to Access 2007. Two main components of the user interface are the ribbon and the Navigation Pane which were introduced in Access 2007. In this 15 minute “lunch bite” webinar, you will learn about several of the changes that have been made to the ribbon since the prior version, as well as a good overview of the third user interface component, the Office Backstage view.
This month’s lunch bite session touch on Microsoft Word and Excel topics.
Microsoft Word: Proofing Documents
Description: We all love spell check, but what else can Microsoft Word do to help you create a polished document? MS Word has powerful tools available to help you transform that first draft into an error free, grammatically correct document. In this tasty little lunch bite we’ll go beyond spelling and grammar check and learn how to set the proofing and autocorrect options and discuss how to apply the thesaurus, research and translation tools.
Description: Microsoft Excel is a widely used (and much beloved) business application, but there are still many users who haven’t begun the process of discovering the basic skills and functions that this versatile and powerful program has to offer. We are pleased to present 15 minutes of live basic training to give newcomers to Excel a nice jump start in their spreadsheet education. We’ll dig into the Excel interface; discuss what a worksheet is, how to enter data, begin formula creation, expanding rows and columns and copying.
Excel has great tools for creating beautiful charts, but what about a quick and easy trick for a simple graphical representation of your data? Here’s how the REPT function can be applied to whip up a quick and snappy looking chart.
Often when working with a spreadsheet, it becomes nessesary to extract specific bits of information from a string of data (called a substring). This video highlights the LEFT, RIGHT and MID functions that make doing this a snap.
