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  • 5 Office features you need to know about

    4 May 2011
    Some things we just can't do without in life: love, friendship, a bathroom door that locks. With Office, the same is true: Some features should not be overlooked. Today I'll list five features that I think should come as second nature to you to use. Friday I'll give you five more. Today: Bcc box Revision...

  • Outlook delegate access helps shoulder a principal's burden

    2 May 2011
    The issue of getting elementary schools—public or otherwise—on board with electronic communication has taken some time. It takes a strong leader, possibly in the form of a principal, to guide that effort. When you're a busy school principal or administrator, your administrative assistants...

  • Your workplace: Navigating the curves and styles

    21 Mar 2011
    Let's talk about the workplace and its influence over your work style, your worklife, your outside of work (space) life, and even your psyche. I'm riffing on this today (literally, just riffin') because earlier this week I had a really interesting and illuminating conversation with a fellow named Tom...

  • 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...

  • Office 365: Get in the cloud...and keep one foot on the ground

    1 Nov 2010
    In a nutshell: Office 365 combines the Office suite you're familiar ( Office Professional Plus ) with cloud-based, versions of our communication and collaboration services: Exchange Online (for emailing and calendaring), SharePoint Online (for portals and document sharing), and Lync Online (the artist...

  • Visions & Concepts: A walk through the Productivity Future Vision Video

    29 Sep 2010
    Working at Microsoft has its advantages: free drinks, casual Friday every day, and access to the latest and greatest technology. Today you get to see what's coming in the next several years in the area of collaboration, planning, and communication. This isn't a short blurb of a video; it's almost six...

  • Visions & Concepts: Bill Gates demos TouchWall

    22 Sep 2010
    In May of 2008, then Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates delivered his final CEO Summit keynote address titled "The Next Wave of Business Productivity and the Challenge of Continual Innovation" to more than 115 CEOs from around the world. He talked about a little of this and lot of that but we're interested...

  • Office Communicator: Underused and under appreciated

    7 Sep 2010
    After conducting a small, non-scientific poll, I learned that Office Communicator is NOT being used enough. Because I'm a full-time telecommuter (I live in a different state than my coworkers), I deal every day with communication and information sharing issues. When you need to see and hear the person...

  • Visions & concepts: StickySorter

    18 Aug 2010
    I love the StickySorter intro: "Ever found yourself lost in the eye of a brainstorm?" Um...yes, and apparently I'm not alone. This Office Labs project was created and inspired by a real-life problem at work: Two Microsoft employees, Julie and Sumit, were looking for an easier way to capture, sift through...

  • When readers write to Crabby: My Monday favorite

    26 Jul 2010
    During the week, I want you to write to me, Crabby, with your ideas, your tips, your complaints, and your praises. And I will choose one or more emails to address each Friday. And soon, we will be cultivating a community, bringing us closer together, and we'll grow our own organic food and live off the...

  • 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...

  • Collaborate in parallel universes with Word 2010: Crabby's Daily Tip

    21 May 2010
    Like I was saying: In Word 2010 you just open up the document and get to work. You get to see who else is working with you and where in the document they're working. It's like a parallel universe, man. Groovy. When you open the shared document Word automatically caches it (which basically means it creates...

  • Get a new Groove on with SharePoint Workspace: Crabby's Daily Tip

    19 May 2010
    SharePoint Workspace 2010 allows you to create three types of workspaces. Here is an overview, and if you want more in-depth info, I'll provide that at the end of this post. Workspace #1: SharePoint Workspace Simply put, a SharePoint Workspace is a copy of a SharePoint site on your local computer that...

  • 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...

  • Collaborative efforts with Communicator and Outlook 2010: Crabby's Daily Tip

    17 May 2010
    Here is just one neat-o way Communicator works with Outlook 2010: You can see your Communicator Contact List in Outlook, and see presence and status information for those on your buddy or contact list. You can read more about how Communicator integrates with Outlook 2010 here. Also check out how it's...