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• More tips from a guru: Get organized! (Part 2)

  1 Sep 2011

  Today’s guest post concludes the dish from Jon Gluck--an entrepreneur, connector, and marketer extraordinaire--on how he gets his (digital) life together. I started reading Jon’s tweets and blog a few months ago and liked his mix of style and substance, including a deft homage to the advance...
• Tips from a guru: Get organized! (Part 1)

  26 Aug 2011

  Today we have a guest post from Jon Gluck; an entrepreneur, connector, and marketer extraordinaire I started reading on the web. I invited him to give us his take on what he does with technology. Part 2 is also posted . –Doug Thomas Twelve-to-sixteen hour work days. 6-7 days a week. Dozens of emails...
• Office Casual goes to school (video)

  2 Aug 2011

  Look who's heading back to college? With some nifty computer tools for students and teachers, I reenter the college scene to demonstrate some of the magical things OneNote can do, showoff a free graphing calculator called Microsoft Mathematics 4.0, and a nifty PowerPoint tool found in Office for Mac...
• Out of Office, Casual: Creating accessible documents (video)

  21 Jun 2011

  Creating documents that can be digested by everyone is important in this day of digital documents. Think about it: people with low or no vision may have the document “read” to them by screen reader software. So to have descriptions about images or graphics is important. That’s just...
• The 411 for Office 2010 newbies (video)

  16 Jun 2011

  With any new program, you need some help in understanding it. The Office.com Getting Started site has plenty of info and guides for beginners, or those just updating to a newer version of Office. Here is a quick tour in this video recorded during the Microsoft Store celebration of the first anniversary...
• Find the right word with the Office thesaurus (video)

  24 May 2011

  In this excerpt from a previous Office Casual, I’ll show you the thesaurus that's available in Office programs like Word. It’s just one part of the Research Tool. You can view the video How to generate first-rate ideas, the Office Casual way in its entirety on the Office Blog. Read on Office...
• Ribbon Hero 2: How to play the game (video)

  26 Apr 2011

  Our friends at Office Labs have spun a sequel: Ribbon Hero 2 . Starting now, you can download this free game to learn some tips and shortcuts about Office. (Oh, to heck with that. Just download it because Ribbon Hero 2—featuring the time-travelling adventures of our old friend, Clippy—is...
• Don’t panic! But bring a sense of urgency to work

  14 Apr 2011

  A co-worker, Steven Thomas (no relation, honest), recently shared his thoughts after taking a workshop here at Microsoft on keeping projects moving forward. With his permission, I wanted to pass along the “good parts” of the workshop that expand on some ideas in John Kotter's book A Sense...
• How to generate ideas: The Office Casual way (video)

  5 Apr 2011

  Folks have asked me how I come up with my ideas for these videos. Hence, a video on the topic (with lots of links below). Can you share how you come up with your ideas? Add a comment below. Read more about the things I talked about in the video: Scene 1: My Office The best way to learn about dragging...
• Mail Merge - The key ingredients for labels, a flyer, and more (a video double bill)

  3 Nov 2010

  Mail Merge is not as easy as "click this button," it's more like using a recipe to cook a meal. In these two videos, let me show you how to “cook” with Mail Merge. The first video goes over label creation by using any contact list (via a CSV* file); the second is importing Outlook contacts...
• Getting Started quickly with Office

  22 Jun 2010

  Here are a few starting points for when you get a new copy of Office 2010 (or an earlier version). In this short video, I’ll show you how Office.com gives you great information about your new program whether you are a pro and just need to know about the latest bells & whistles, or you're a...