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• Four hot text tips from Crabby

  27 Apr 2011

  Over the years, I've often been asked—by friends, by family, by Crabby readers—what some of my best Office tips and shortcuts are. Honestly, it's hard to just spout, off the top of my head (which would be rather gruesome anyway), the miscellaneous tricks that I've discovered, unearthed, and...
• The ribbon: Who's a fan of the bread and butter of Office?

  4 Mar 2011

  If anyone is passionate about Office, it's Steven Sinofsky . Don't know who Steven is? Although now he's president of the Windows division here at Microsoft, he spent years in the Office division as head of product development. But it's as an Office customer that Steven is so excited about many of the...
• You create your own freedom: Go get your ribbon roadmap

  27 Dec 2010

  When Office 2007 first came out, what everyone noticed first was the new interface, namely, the ribbon. This ribbon replaced the menus and toolbars—yes, the self-same menus and toolbars that you constantly griped about and yet were suddenly so enamored of (you cannot imagine how much whiny feedback...
• Oprah's—I mean Crabby's—favorite things: PowerPoint 2010

  24 Dec 2010

  How could you not love PowerPoint? It's a total package: You get to write, design, add pictures, make movies... It's like a coloring book on 'roids. PowerPoint 2010 has some very interesting additions and improvements (oops...I said improvements again...). You get a lot more options for how to deliver...
• Baby, I've filled the bottle of collaboration for you—now go drink

  15 Dec 2010

  I've previously written posts about collaboration tools and techniques in Office; I've covered Communicator , PowerPoint , SharePoint Workspace , Outlook calendars and Word . I want to take today's post to comment on why collaboration is such a hot button topic these days and why you really should consider...
• Make it Great, win a bundle

  10 Dec 2010

  If you won ten grand—that's right, ten thousand dollars—what would you do with it? Follow in the footsteps of the elderly Canadian couple who gave it all away ? Pay off your college/grad school loans (one of my deepest fantasies)? Plop down a big mortgage payment (and be sure to tell the...
• Pretty darn fancy, those PDFs

  22 Nov 2010

  Sometimes the Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations or other things you've created using Office 2010 or 2007 cannot be viewed by others, inviting bad blood and general crabbiness. There are a couple of reasons why these folks cannot look at the files you worked so hard on: Your...
• Updated! Embed PowerPoint or Excel into web pages

  5 Oct 2010

  Update: See the end of this post for the newest how-to-embed info. What better way to explain how something works than by actually showing how it works? Below is a self-fulfilling prophecy: An embedded presentation showing exactly how to ...embed a presentation using Office Web Apps. Pretty nifty, eh...
• Be a part of something: Enter the Template Idol Contest

  9 Sep 2010

  Today I'm proud to announce that our yearly Template Contest has come 'round again and this year we want your very best 2010 or 2007 Word, PowerPoint, Excel, or Publisher calendars. You can enter as many as you like, and entries will be accepted through September 30th and winners will be announced October...
• Dear Crabby: Celebrating the control freak in all of us

  27 Aug 2010

  So...speaking of security, a fellow named Mike wrote to me this week and asked me the following question. It seemed like something many people maybe have wondered about so hopefully this will be helpful to the lot of you. "Hey Crabby, How can I lock templates to ensure that those who use them, do so...
• Dear Crabby: Dollars are lovely; cents make them what they are

  6 Aug 2010

  Tip #1 comes from Elizabeth S. who liked my tip from February about how to make a slashed zero so much that she came up with her OWN way to make cents symbol. (Note that this tip is for Word ONLY.) Elizabeth writes: "The Ctrl +/ then Ctrl +O (letter O) works great to give you a ø (a slashed zero...
• Come fly with Crabby: Office Web Apps

  1 Jul 2010

  When you use Office Web Apps (convenient little companions to the desktop versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote), all your documents are created, edited, and stored on a server...a server located somewhere near...in the clouds... This is where the term " cloud computing " comes in: web apps...
• A whole new world of art for Office: iStockphoto and Fotolia plug-ins (Crabby's Daily Tip)

  26 May 2010

  First, you may or may not be familiar with iStockphoto . It's a collection of royalty free images and other media that you can use, for a fee. Cost is dependent on several factors, including the size and complexity of the file. You can purchase a subscription, where you set your own daily credit limit...
• Co-authoring in PowerPoint 2010: Crabby's Daily Tip

  18 May 2010

  To use the PowerPoint 2010 co-authoring feature, you don't need to install any specific modules or add-ins; it's seamlessly integrated. One version of the file exists in a shared network location, and you and your co-authors can edit, save, print and present from that one location. When you save locally...
• Producer for PowerPoint, ready for its closeup: Crabby's Daily Tip

  12 May 2010

  But first...a very short admission: Some of you may know that this isn't the very first version of Producer. The previous version had a few bugs (a.k.a. issues, problems, nuisances) and we needed to fix a couple of incompatibilities with current browsers. And now it's ready for prime time. Here's what...
• Doing it your way with the Quick Access Toolbar: Crabby's Daily Tip

  10 May 2010

  If you know me (and many of you do), you know I'm about customizing. All of us are like snowflakes, each one a unique and special individual. We have our individual tastes, likes, dislikes, fashion sense, lack of fashion sense, love for the ribbon just as it is, want to make it our own... The Quick Access...
• It's a bird...it's a plane...it's a kid's first ever PowerPoint!

  7 May 2010

  In 2006, cartoonist Scott McCloud had a new book coming out, Making Comics , and had the unique idea of making a 50-state tour (plus a country or three) with his family. This meant speaking engagements, meetings with comic creators all over, occasional video podcasts, and blogs from the road, involving...
• All versions of Office CAN play nice: Crabby's Daily Tip

  21 Apr 2010

  There are a couple of ways to make sure that everyone is able to read, view, and work with Office 2007 documents, presentations, and workbooks. If you are the one who created the Office 2007 file, you can save a copy of it that is compatible with Word 97-2003, PowerPoint 97-2003, or Excel 97-2003. Read...
• Plan a birthday party (mine?): Crabby's Daily Tip

  19 Apr 2010

  So you're planning a birthday party...well, let me tell you, there are many things to think about beyond what kind of cake to make (or buy and pretend you made). I've picked out what I think are the critical steps to making sure your party is a success, for the birthday boy or girl and for their guests...
• Turn your mouse into a PowerPoint laser: Crabby's Daily Tip

  13 Apr 2010

  PowerPoint 2010, in Slide Show view or in Reading view: Do one of the following: To use the laser pointer in Slide Show view, on the Slide Show tab, in the Start Slide Show group, click either From Beginning or From Current Slide to start your slide show. To use the laser pointer in Reading view, on...