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• Oprah's—I mean Crabby's—favorite things: Excel 2010

  15 Jun 2011

  But even so, an old hat (like the Hogwart's sorting hat ) can discover new tricks that it didn't know were possible. Excel 2010 has some really great new additions as well as improvements (I probably shouldn't use that word-- improvements-- but everything and everybody can fashion some room within themselves...
• Delay that email! How Outlook 2010 can save your hide

  3 Jun 2011

  Today's topic is about how Outlook can save you from your own impetuous, fiery, trigger-happy self: I'm going to tell you how to delay a single message (akin to counting to 10 before speaking) or ALL your messages. To me, this is an invaluable feature; an escape of sorts. For although I've mellowed with...
• Confessions of a hardware slacker

  27 May 2011

  Today's post was written by Cathy Moya, a designer on the Microsoft Hardware team. Confession time: I completely ignored my extra mouse buttons and keyboard hot keys until I decided to interview for the group at Microsoft that makes mice and keyboards, and then I had to cram. It was actually pretty easy...
• Writing AND designing in Word: Your audience will stick around

  23 May 2011

  I've been sitting here for longer than I should, trying to write about how Word isn't just for text, that you can use it for just about any project you can think of because of some of its new-ish and most awesome design capabilities. But I haven't been able to spit out what it is I want to say, exactly;...
• Read receipts and the people who need them

  20 May 2011

  When you put all that work into writing the perfect email message, it's nice to know that someone has received and read it. Outlook has a feature that can help with that, but it's a two-way street: Your recipient has to be willing to cross it with you. I like to think of it this way: When you order a...
• Your Office Web Apps questions

  13 May 2011

  People have been using the Office Web Apps at an astonishing rate. And if you haven't, well, you're on the wrong bus headed to wrong station in the wrong town. You've heard the term cloud computing right? Well, this is it, folks, and with Office Web Apps it's free and it's easy and it's kind of silly...
• 5 more (more!) Office features you need to know about

  6 May 2011

  For Wednesday's post , I offered up five useful features that I feel you should know about and use. Today I want to continue that list, but I want to dig a little deeper into a few programs to uncover some features that, while useful and neat-o, may be underutilized (by you, by me, by the public at large...
• 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...
• OneNote for the iPhone: Keeps getting better

  29 Apr 2011

  I like notes; I take a lot of them and got into a lot of trouble passing them, as an overly chatty schoolgirl. Today I find notes here, there, on sticky pads, on my kid's homework, even on my own hand sometimes. But on my computer or my phones I only use OneNote and truthfully, all the other methods...
• 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...
• Excel poses file name problem; man seeks and finds answers

  18 Apr 2011

  Today's post is a little more... technical than I'm used to doing and I must say, right up front, that I did not come up with the answer on my own . Nope. Keep reading. A reader named Tim from New York had an issue that, while wasn't a work stoppage issue, exactly, was driving him nuts nonetheless. The...
• Triangulation: The latest dance craze or a work habit to be avoided?

  15 Apr 2011

  I'm handing over the writing reins today to a new friend I made through this blog. Tom Patterson and I have had some pretty interesting conversations about life, and more in particular, life at work. As a leadership coach, Tom works to provide insight and creative solutions for his clients, and it would...
• 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...
• Fonts: Traveling and tails—Best practices

  8 Apr 2011

  Now that you understand some of the basics of fonts , let's take a crack at some basic font etiquette and practices: How to make sure your fonts travel with you Print or screen: Choosing the right font for the job Consider your audience: Cautions about going overboard Best practice #1: Have font will...
• Fonts I: The families and their styles

  6 Apr 2011

  Welcome to my first post about fonts, those indispensable tyepface-y things that you need to make decisions about every day (which one for THIS doc; which one for THAT email; for whom, how big, how small, how readable, how...etc.). Today we'll go over some basics about fonts and then, in the next post...
• Demystifying a few computer terms

  4 Apr 2011

  It's come to my attention that some of you (who shall remain nameless thanks to my own sense of restraint and corporate responsibility) have been left behind in the world of computing. Let's just assume — for the time it takes to read this post — that it's not your fault. In fact, I think...
• Gardening with Office, not so foolish...

  1 Apr 2011

  Yes, today is April 1st, and this post is a light-hearted attempt to get you gardeners excited about using various Office programs to plan, plot, and perfect your garden. Really! When spring has sprung and you've finally flung all your sweaters and boots into storage, When the buds on the trees make...
• 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...