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The Office team has released a lot of new content to help students/teachers to kick off the school year. This includes a slew of templates and content for office applications as well as training and tools that "Educationalize" the Office platform. Inside
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Scott McLeod has posted a great resource over on http://www.dangerouslyirrelevant.org/ The tutorials on the web site highlight many of the Excel skills that are helpful when working with building- and district-level data. The tutorials are targeted at
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I have had an opportunity to meet with school administrators on the value of Vista/Office in Education. One common fear is whether students/teachers will be able to quickly transition to the new ribbon interface in Office 2007. It is not well advertised
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This is another trick that power users apparently are well adjusted to but haven't publicized. It's not limited to Vista or IE7. Just type the domain name you want in the address bar and then hit ctrl-enter to prepend "http://www." and append ".com".
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Each day I gain a bit more appreciation for a site called "Lifehack". It's the type of site I would love to contribute to. As a blogger I respect sites who bring real material almost every day without introducing a bunch of opinionated nonsense just to
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Quick tip - I've been a Franklin-Covey user for many years now. I might not have survived college without it faithfully by my side. I learned through their training to use the priority method of assigning things based on have to, need to, want to, or
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I use flagged items A LOT. I live and die by the Outlook To-Do bar. In fact, I always feel on top of Email because I can effectively triage it from my phone by moving it in to folders and then flagging those items when I get back to my laptop. I have
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I've been using this add-in for a couple of weeks now but Foxit has been my preferred PDF reader for several months. I find it to be very fast and functional. At last, with the preview handler I can open PDF files directly in Outlook! (update 3/7/2007
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It's a pet peeve of so many geeks... For years now people have crossed the names between Office and Windows by saying things like "I think I'm running Windows 97" or "umm, I believe I am running Office 2000", and then come to find out they are running
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Ken IM'ed me just after he posted this to see if I happened to have run in to the same problem. Ironically I have had a task in queue for a couple of weeks to build a public-facing WSS site for a side project I'm working on. I got all the way through
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I love reading the Student Tablet PC blog. This is a really interesting idea that includes the value of not just a tablet but the applications such as OneNote and how they can add value to studying. Link to The Student Tablet PC » Blog Archives » Expert
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Interesting post The gist of this article is even if the tool you're using does not support search folders you can place a search folder within a real folder and it should pick it up. That really gets my mind working on scenarios... Theoretically I could
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No really, it's unbelievable outside today. I'm going to take my phone and dog and take my next conference call outside on a short hike. Then I'm going to meet a friend and hit some bike trails... Link to This is Vista - Time to get Vistafied... : Vista:
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I listened to a Port 25 webcast yesterday and they mentioned the ODF Converter project on Sourceforge . The project is Microsoft sponsored and community driven . I pulled down the converter but since I'm going to rebuild my WDS environment for RC1 and
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Received a few good questions today on Rights Managemet Server: Does RMS work with PDF? RMS works with a defined set of applications out of the box but can be extended. We have several partners that provide value-add including Adobe Reader. The RMS site
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