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  • Office ribbon Portal Page: *GET* it

    17 Jun 2011
    For customers new to the Office ribbon, we know there's a learning curve. While this learning curve is part of what we address with “Getting Started” content, for some customers 'ribbon angst' can persist far beyond "Getting Started." This is particularly true for folks who have a long history...

  • 10 ways to get Office help and support

    13 Apr 2011
    Admit it: sometimes you need help with Office. If you didn't, you wouldn't be reading this. (Then again, maybe you would. Maybe you just like to stop by and visit old Crabby every day. Or maybe you’re here by accident and have no idea how you got here. Either way—you’re getting help...

  • Finding and fashioning fonts

    11 Apr 2011
    If you read last week's two posts about fonts— Fonts I: The families and their styles and Traveling and tails: Best practices —you should be pretty up-to-speed about 1) some font terminology (families, styles, tails); 2) how to travel successfully with fonts (a BIG issue among my readers...

  • 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...

  • Romance in the office: Part II

    11 Mar 2011
    Think you can take a lesson from the lovebirds at Dunder Mifflin ? Jim and Pam met there, and their love blossomed. So why can't an office romance work for you, too? Wednesday , we talked about how "what the heart wants, the heart goes after" and how hard it is to have any control over that. Today, let...

  • Romance in the office: Part I

    9 Mar 2011
    Now that Valentine's Day is more than three weeks past, it's time to consider romance again, only this time, perchance with more common sense. Now, I mentioned the phrase "office romance" to several of my coworkers, and their reactions were almost unanimous: Don't go there. And while that is probably...

  • Celebrating Black History Month with computer science pioneers

    28 Feb 2011
    Today is the last day of February, and it's also the last day of Black History Month. But long after the month is over, the contributions of Black pioneers in the area of computer technology will remain. So let's end this month by commemorating a few of the Black men and women who were and are at the...