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While there are a lot of things I don't like about Microsoft Word, there are many more things I love about it. In particular, I love the ability to automate many of the tasks that you do often. One of those tasks is sending reports or emails. Most of us are faced with a job where you have to send a report to an entire team of people, so you find yourself spending hours writing up email after email.
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There’s a couple of decent, free office suites available these days. As well as the usual applications, cloud-based services like Google Docs make accessing your work from anywhere a doddle ““ but you’ll need a reliable Internet connection to do any work. It is for this reason that it’s always advisable to have a set [...]
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Many people install Linux on their machines for its simplicity, believe it or not. Distributions like Ubuntu and Mint target the curious inexperienced user and provide a complete suite of free software to tackle most PC-related tasks. If you’re regularly tapping away on a word processor, balancing the books with a spreadsheet or knocking your [...]
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Excel is an awesome data management tool. I use it a lot to store and organize the information I need to deal with on a daily basis. As I am working online, most of the time this information contains multiples URLs linking to web sources. Excel provides for plenty of flexibility to geeky, macros-savvy people. [...]
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Microsoft Office is kind of a big deal. Yes, there are some pretty nice free office suites available these days. But if you’re creating documents for use in the professional world it is difficult to get by without them. Businesses almost universally use Office, and it’s hard to tell how your stuff will look without [...]
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You never know when you might need to take a screenshot. It could be a quick one of a cover page you just designed in MS Word or a presentation template you want an approval for. Or perhaps you just noticed a funny typo and feel like spreading it around via Twitter. It could be [...]
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“Play On Linux” may sound like a toy, but if you want Microsoft Office working on your Linux machine it’s a seriously useful program to have around. User generated scripts make light work of the usually complicated process of installing Office in Linux: there’s no manually installing DLLs, no figuring out which version of Wine [...]
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Yes, MS Office has a quite a few add-ins (plugins) of its own. They do a lot to enhance work productivity when it comes to extending the way we work with documents and presentations. Do you use any of the 3 Microsoft Word Plugins to Boost Your MS Word Experience? Then there was the one [...]
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Excel, Microsoft’s spreadsheet application used by millions, is an incredibly powerful and versatile suite. And yet most users don’t reach past the fancy coloring and simple formulae. A lot of people don’t realize Excel’s support for the Visual Basic programming language. You can make use of this, even if you’re not a programmer yourself. Pre-written [...]
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Google Documents has its problems. Its features are not comprehensive enough for truly serious office work, and it can be a bit slow and finicky when compared to a traditional office program. Still, Google Documents has started a revolution. The ability to access a document from any computer and share it with co-workers is immensely [...]
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I think everybody will agree that Adobe’s PDF format is popular for document sharing because it offers constant appearance of a document regardless of the operating system or device. Converting any documents to PDF is also a snap. All you have to do is “print” the document as PDF. Mac users don’t even have to [...]
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It’s time once again for our featured Movers and Shakers post. Each week, we take one software category and list the top ten most downloaded free apps. This week we are looking at a CNet category entitled Business Software. These are applications that you can use to assist your day to day work. It doesn’t [...]
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In 2006 Google acquired Writely, an online word processor. Since then Google’s transformed the service into Google Docs, a complete online office suite with a word processor, a spreadsheet app and a presentation tool. We’ve written more than our fair share about Google Docs, the most recent piece being Tim’s about 5 New Google Docs [...]
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Scrap: (noun) a small piece or amount of something, especially one that is left over after the greater part has been used. Nothing earth shaking in that definition, but in terms of everyday usability we see it all around. A phone number tagged to a piece of paper and left lying around, a to-do list [...]
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I’ve always been interested in saving time. Cutting a few minutes from my projects or other tasks throughout the day can save a lot of time by the end of the day. One of the things that people take for granted is the time that they spend writing up the same documents over and over [...]
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