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Selling the IT vision
Insight perspective Does your organization understand what IT does--and why? IT director Peter Birley offers some advice on how to make sure the line-of-business counterparts do.
Tags: Mission and vision statements, IT Management, Corporate culture, Business, Sales, Rational Quantify, client relationship, Opposite, Mission and vision statements, CIO
Offline SharePoint tool promised for Mac users
News While Microsoft is not planning to produce a version of Groove for the Mac, the new tool will make SharePoint access much easier for Mac users, company executives say.
Tags: Office suites, Microsoft Office, Groove Networks Inc., Simple Object Access Protocol, SharePoint Workspace, SOA, Tool, Apple Macintosh, P2P, Microsoft PowerPoint
Zero-day PowerPoint flaw gives rise to attacks
News Hackers are trying to exploit an unpatched vulnerability in the Office software, leading Microsoft to issue a warning and workarounds.
Tags: Hacking, Microsoft Office, windows alerts, Microsoft Corp., Security, Attack, Microsoft Office 2003, SP3, Flaw, Environment
Print gridlines and headings in Excel
Techguide A printout of data can be more useful if you print gridlines and column and row headings. The gridlines help keep you on track.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Excel 2007, page layout, Microsoft PowerPoint, printing, Microsoft Excel, spreadsheet, Microsoft Office
Compress pictures to reduce the size of your PowerPoint presentation
Techguide While pictures improve the Powerpoint presentation's appeal, they increase the file's size.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Name, Presentation, PowerPoint 2007, Microsoft Corp., software, Cell, File, Tool, Mouse
How to display pictures that appear to be partially hidden
Techguide Sometimes, an in-line text picture doesn't display completely--you can see just the bottom of the image. Find out what you can do to correct the problem.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Slide, Cell, Training, Microsoft Excel 2007, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word
Microsoft fixes 26 flaws with 11 patches
News Updates, six of which are critical, affect Microsoft Office suite and individual applications as well as Internet Explorer.
Tags: Security, Network security, Office suites, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Vulnerability, Bulletin, Flaw, Execution, Attacker
10+ things that are broken in Access 2007
Techguide If you switch to Access 2007, you'll encounter more than just a radical new interface--some things are just plain broken. See what you can hotfix and what you'll have to live with.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Field, Slide, Microsoft Windows Vista, Tool, shortcut menu, Microsoft VBA, Microsoft PowerPoint, printer, toolbar
Calculate a conditional running total in Excel
Techguide A straight running total may be all you need to stay on top of a series of Excel values but sometimes, you have to accommodate special conditions to get useful results. Here's how.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Value, Graphics, PowerPoint Presentation, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel, JPEG, DPI, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word
Spot invalid imported data with help of custom Excel function
Techguide Anytime you have to manually review worksheet data to look for errors, something can slip through. Here's a handy safety net: a user-defined function that will flag one type of invalid data.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Animation, ALT, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel, dialog box, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word
Determine the sum of sales for a particular day using one Excel formula
Techguide You can build an Excel formula that makes it easy to track sales. Here's how.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Frame, Document, Animation, Frown, Smile, Sales, Property, F5 Networks Inc., Figure
Add a looping introduction to a PowerPoint presentation
Techguide You can set up your slide shows to include a little preview presentation that will help prime your audience for the main event. Susan Harkins shows this simple but highly effective technique.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Presentation, Slide, Template, Button, Invoice, PowerPoint Presentation, Microsoft Excel 2007, sales tax, Figure
Superhighway to heaven
Blogs It's that time of the year again when Filipinos troop to cemeteries to remember their departed loved ones. It's fascinat...
Prevent Excel from turning fractions into dates
Techguide Excel can recognize cell entries as fractions if the appropriate fraction format is applied to the cell before data is entered.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Fraction, Cell, Printer, Microsoft Excel, Printing, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Access, database table
Microsoft to issue patch for critical PowerPoint hole
News Patch Tuesday will feature one fix for a critical hole in Office PowerPoint that could be the same vulnerability the company said was targeted in attacks last month.
Tags: PC security, Microsoft Corp., Security, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, critical vulnerability, PC security, Microsoft Word
