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Tips and Traps

Office 2010 Tip: Integrate Social Media with Outlook

Submitted by nstallings on Fri, 01/07/2011 - 12:08

Presently, Outlook 2010's Social Connector feature only lets you integrate LinkedIn updates (Facebook and other social networks slated to appear in the very near future.)

First, you'll need to download and install LinkedIn for Outlook.

Then click the View tab, People Pane, and then the down arrow to access Account Settings and log in.
 

Office 2010 Tip: Customize the Ribbon

Submitted by nstallings on Fri, 01/07/2011 - 12:07

Office 2010 finally allows you to customize the Ribbon in any application without having to learn the Ribbon X language.

Click the File tab to go to Backstage View, select Options then Customize Ribbon.

You can create a new tab or add a new group to an existing tab, remove or rearrange items already on the Ribbon.

Additionally, you can export your customizations to a physical file and share them on other computers.

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Outlook 2010 Tip: Recalling and Resending Messages

Submitted by nstallings on Tue, 11/30/2010 - 12:37

message recall.gifGo to the Sent Items folder and open the mail which you want to recall or resend. Click on the Office Button located on the top left-hand corner of the Ribbon.  Select the Info command, then click the Message Resend and Recall command.

The Recall setting works similarly to previous versions of Outlook. When you click the recall command, the Recall This Message dialog opens. You are prompted whether you simply want to delete copies of your sent message or replace them with a new one. This feature only works for unread messages.

Clicking the Resend command opens your original message in a new Message window. Click the Send button to send the message.

Outlook 2010: Quick Steps

Submitted by nstallings on Tue, 11/30/2010 - 12:30

The new Quick Steps feature in Outlook 2010 allows the user to perform one of several actions very quickly - send a meeting reply, create a group of users you can email quickly,  or move a message to a folder.

Click on the Home tab to find the Quick Steps command. Outlook comes with several predefined Quick Steps, or you can create your own.

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Office 2010 Tip: Background Removal Tool

Submitted by nstallings on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 16:34

The Background Removal Tool allows you to isolate part of an image and remove it from the picture.

Select the image, and then click the Remove Background button in Picture Tools tab. The Background Removal tool tries to figure out what portion of your picture is the foreground, the portion to keep, and which is the background, the portion to remove.

Everything marked with magenta is what Background Removal has marked as the background.

The normally colored portions are foreground, and will be kept. It also provides some simple commands to mark up and refine your selection.

Word 2010 Tip: Rearranging your document with the Navigation Pane

Submitted by nstallings on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 16:33

The Navigation Pane in Word 2010 replaces and improves the Document Map and Thumbnails panes in previous versions of Word, as well as integrates Find features. The headings view of the navigation pane is the updated replacement for the document map. It is basically a series of nested "tabs", each of which corresponds to a heading in the document. 080409_0017_thenavigati4.jpg

  • Clicking on a tab will scroll the document to that location, and put your insertion point at the start of that heading.

  • If you edit a heading, or type a new one, it shows up in the navigation pane in real time. The navigation pane tabs themselves aren't directly editable, but they stay in sync with the content as you edit in your document.

  • Drag and drop a tab in the list to move the heading plus all of its content to a new location in the document. If that heading has subheadings, the structure remains intact, and simply moves the whole branch. This makes rearranging your document incredibly quick and easy. Bonus: Ctrl+drag to duplicate the content.


 

Access 2010 Tip: New Macro Builder

Submitted by karenwade on Tue, 09/28/2010 - 10:59

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The Macro Designer dialog is completely revamped for Access 2010. The traditional grid design is gone, as is the action arguments section. There is an Action Catalog that allows you to quickly search for and drag an action you intend to use. Conditional expressions are listed as "If" statements. Arguments for each macro action are show in-line instead of in a separate action.

Access 2010 Tip: Intellisense in Queries

Submitted by karenwade on Tue, 09/28/2010 - 10:58

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Microsoft's Intellisense feature is now available when you create a query. An auto-complete will assist you in getting table and field names correct. For example, if you start typing your table column name, a list pops up from which you can select the field. Functions are also exposed in the Intellisense auto-complete list in the Criteria row.

Inserting Videos into PowerPoint 2007

Submitted by sanjay on Thu, 09/09/2010 - 21:32

What is HTML5 - and why should we care?

Submitted by karenwade on Fri, 08/27/2010 - 09:51

From this month's Learn @ Lunch, MicroAssist senior instructor Robert Olivieri shares focus.com's infographic - What is HTML5 and why should we all care?

For more information on HTML5, be on the lookout for our new HTML5 classes.