24Jun 2011 by Nancy Smyth

#Freebie Friday – 100 Essential Tips for Microsoft Office 2010

Microsoft Office
This week's Freebie Friday - 100 Essential Tips for Microsoft Office 2010 comes from PC Magazine. Most of us use Office, and most of us could make better use of it, too. Check out these tips, sorted by application to learn basic tricks and advanced tips for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Access. The editors have shaken down the programs and pinpointed 100 tips and tricks to help put you back in command.  These tips cover not only the basics, like deleting that infuriating line that appears when you type one too many hyphens in Word (one that I find especially annoying), to more advanced tricks, such as connecting your email to social websites and services. They've also included some tips about features that you might not know to search…
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06May 2011 by Nancy Smyth

Freebie Friday – Microsoft Office 2010 Ultimate Tips & Tricks

Microsoft Office
This week's Freebie Friday is an eBook - from MakeUseOf.com - Microsoft Office 2010:  Ultimate Tips & Tricks. Learn to get the most out of the latest version of Microsoft Office with the latest free guide from MakeUseOf! Office 2010 includes many improvements over 2007. As with all Office releases, however, these improvements are far from obvious to the average user. Enter Office 2010: Ultimate Tips and Tricks. This manual, by author Matt Smith, points out all the best new features of Microsoft’s latest office suite, and explains them all in one handy guide. In most programs, it’s not hard to find every single feature, but Office 2010 is so expansive that even veteran users will often find that they aren’t expert in even half of the capabilities the software…
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23Aug 2010 by Nancy Smyth

Quick Facts About Microsoft Office Click-to-Run

Microsoft Office, New Technology, QuickBooks Add-Ons
Microsoft Office Click-to-Run is a new way to download and install Microsoft Office Starter 2010, Home and Student 2010, and Home and Business 2010; when you purchase these versions directly from Microsoft. Office Click-to-Run products use a streaming technology (similar to watching a video on the web) to download and install the software to a “virtual” drive called “Q” (a section of the hard drive of your computer which is separate from the rest of your hard drive).   Normally your software is installed in the “C” drive of your computer in the Program Files OR Program Files (x86) folder, however, this “Q” drive is not your typical drive – it has no space that you as a user can access directly and it cannot be access by using Windows Explorer…
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