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What’s “the Cloud” and should I be using it?

Cloud Computing

If you own a computer, you’ve probably heard someone talking about “the Cloud.” There are lots of Cloud services out there, including iCloud, DropBox, OneDrive, Google Drive and Amazon Cloud. And sales people at the big box electronic stores are pushing them all, plus one they claim can live in your home. The funny thing… Keep Reading

Password Protecting your Microsoft Word Form

The last step before circulating your form is to Password Protect it. You do this so that other people can fill out your form, but they can’t change it. If you’ve been following along this week, you now have experience Turning on the Developer Tab in Word 2013, Creating a Simple Table in Word 2013,… Keep Reading

Adding Form Fields in Microsoft Word 2013

We created a table in yesterday’s tip Creating a Simple Table in Word 2013 and we’ll be using that same document to create our form today. You can download the file, or create it yourself following the previously published tip. Today’s tip is also going to involve turning on the Developer Tab. Check out Turning… Keep Reading

Creating a Simple Table in Word 2013

Tables are great ways to hold and display data in Microsoft Word 2013. There are special tools built into the program that make it easy, and if you understand tables in Word, you’ll be able to apply that same information to Tables in PowerPoint and Excel. Caution: tables should only be used to hold and… Keep Reading

Turning on the Developer Tab in Word 2013

A lot of the more advanced features in Word are accessed through a tab that the majority of people never see; that tab is called the Developer tab. The most common reason people turn on the Developer tab is to access tools that create Macros and Forms. I’ll show you how to use some of… Keep Reading

Excel 2016 offers Business Intelligence… built in

Waterfall Chart

New chart types in Office 2016 Charts are critical for visualizing data, and Office 2016 promises you three news to look at your information. Microsoft promises that they are “particularly good for visualizing financial or hierarchal information and for revealing statistical properties in your data.” Financial: Waterfall Statistical: Histogram, Pareto, Box and Whisker Hierarchical: Treemap… Keep Reading

Real Time Co-Authoring in Word: Office 2016 New Feature

Real Time Co-Authoring in Microsoft Word

It’s so exciting that Microsoft won’t commit that it will be ready in time to ship, but the scuttle butt is that real time co-authoring is in our future. What does this mean for you? Team members will be able to store documents in the cloud on OneDrive for Business and Office 365 SharePoint servers,… Keep Reading

Accessibility Features in Office 2016 Strengthen

Office 2016 Accessibility Strengthens

Features that make computer software accessible are often over-looked by mainstream bloggers because they don’t understand them. People who work with the disabled, and those who work for organizations that want to communicate with them, however, know that this is the place where we need to put our strongest efforts. Like most people, I hadn’t… Keep Reading

Tell Me: Office 2016 New Feature Preview

Office 2016 Tell Me

I have often lamented when teaching classes that Microsoft’s Help features are so… yucky. In fact, I have a running gag: I offer people a secret website address where they can find all of the latest help information. It is spelled g-o-o-g-l-e-dot-c-o-m. The new Office 2016 Tell Me feature is trying to put my career… Keep Reading

Microsoft Office 2016 Coming Soon…

Office 2016 Coming Soon

In fact, it is coming sooner than many people expected. Even though Microsoft had already launched Office 2016 for Macintosh earlier this year, some people were expecting the launch of the Windows version to be delayed. Microsoft seems to be having a lot more success with their Windows 10 rollout, however, and is looking more… Keep Reading