Posted in Microsoft on Sep 9th, 2010
Quick Steps are a valuable tool for working efficiently in Outlook 2010. If you often find yourself completing a long series of actions for individual items, why not just create a Quick Step action to cover it? Microsoft has only just introduced this new feature in Outlook 2010, adding one more point to the list of Top 10 reasons to upgrade to Office 2010.
Posted in Microsoft on Sep 5th, 2010
As a hard working professional, you probably have hundreds of documents stored on your computer. When it comes to finding them, tags work great but the downside is that tagging documents can take up A LOT of time. There has to better way to find the document you’re looking for… Indeed there is – this groovy technique will allow you to find them visually via thumbnail pictures.
Posted in groovyReview on Sep 1st, 2010
Earlier, I gave a rather ebullient guided tour of Windows Live Sync Beta 2011 (which will be known as Windows Live Mesh when it is officially released), touting its groovy potential as a backup tool and cloud storage solution. But since that brief honeymoon phase, I’ve had a chance to move in some of my stuff and I’ll have to admit that I’m having trouble getting comfortable. It seems that much of the pampering I’ve received from old faithful Dropbox has given me some pretty high expectations when it comes to cloud-based syncing and in spite of my optimistic review, I think I’m going to have to stick with Dropbox—for now. Here’s why…
Posted in Microsoft on Aug 30th, 2010
A couple of days ago we showed you How-To Bookmark Parts of a Word 2010 Document and today we’ll bring you another neat Word 2010 trick. If you’re looking for that classic Office 2003 look and really hate having to change your line spacing options every time you start Word, then we’ve got a solution for you which quickly changes the default line spacing in word 2010.
Posted in Microsoft on Aug 28th, 2010
Recently Microsoft released a very interesting interactive guide which shows Office 2010 users how to “use their knowledge of Office 2003 to learn the basics in Office 2010”. The downloads are 100% free and you can get them from this page. Just a few things to review before you go out and grab it.
Posted in Microsoft on Aug 26th, 2010
Things are getting mighty cloudy over at Microsoft—and the addition of Sync to the Windows Live Essentials suite is making life in the clouds easier than ever. The latest version of Windows Live Sync is seriously upping the ante in the world of automated folder syncing and cloud storage. At first glance, it seems that the frontiers pioneered by the likes of Dropbox and Google Docs just might be tamed, civilized and finally be made accessible and intuitive for the masses by Microsoft. Let’s take a quick look at some of what Windows Live Sync is offering.
Posted in Freeware on Aug 25th, 2010
Over the last few years, students have really received the love from software companies. In the past I’ve spoken about Microsoft giving away free or discounted software (Windows 7, Office 2010, Everything else Microsoft sells), and today I’ve got a REALLY groovyDeal for College Students who need to get their hands on AutoDesk software!
Posted in Microsoft on Aug 20th, 2010
Back in early July Microsoft, released Windows Live Essentials Beta 2011 which included some really groovy upgrades over their exiting Live Essentials platform. On Tuesday, Microsoft announced that it had updated Windows Live Essentials 2011 beta to address some of the feedback and suggestions from early adopters. This latest “refresh” of the beta mostly includes performance improvements, but a few new features have been rolled out as well. Here are the highlights posted on the Windows Team Blog.
Posted in Microsoft on Aug 4th, 2010
If you use Outlook a lot for work or otherwise you’ve doubtlessly organized your contacts into groups or mailing lists. What though if you need to transfer this list to another computer, or send it to a colleague? In Office 2010, Microsoft included a quick method for doing just that.
Posted in Microsoft on Jul 31st, 2010
Starting late summer 2010 Microsoft will be moving into 113,000 square feet at One Cambridge. They will take up 6 floors from the New England Development Center in Kendall Square and have signed a long-term lease with Boston Properties of Massachusetts.