The Productivity Hub
Get notified when people read your e-mails
Have you ever wondered if people are reading your messages? Perhaps you want to follow-up with a...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 04/06/2010
Color your Outlook mails with categories
If you're a visual person, you might appreciate this next tip. You can organize your e-mails...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 04/05/2010
Print long documents faster
By default, Microsoft Word and PowerPoint print your documents in the background, and most of the...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 04/02/2010
Quickly add placeholder text to a document
Someone showed me this trick the other day, and I just had to pass it along. If you ever have had to...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 04/01/2010
Turn off AutoFormat As You Type features
If you work on World Wide Web content where some newfangled characters won't display properly on...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 03/30/2010
Lock down your Office documents
If you're responsible for sensitive corporate documents, you might be tempted to just password...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 03/29/2010
Presentations with pizzazz: Using Themes in PowerPoint
Today, we have a guest blogger. Elyssa is an editor and project manager at Brainstorm, a leading...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 03/26/2010
Presentations with pizzazz: Applying your corporate colors to PowerPoint
Today, we have a guest blogger. Elyssa is an editor and project manager at Brainstorm, a leading...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 03/26/2010
The Productivity Hub is on Facebook
Two weeks ago, I extended the Productivity Hub to Twitter. Since then, I have been sharing our daily...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 03/25/2010
Preparing OneNote documents for distribution with power toy
It turns out that there is an easier way to prepare OneNote reference documents for distribution....
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 03/25/2010
Excelling at Excel - Use Filters to home in on the data you need
If you have a lot of data in an Excel worksheet, you should generally activate filters to make it...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 03/24/2010
The new Windows 7 taskbar: a (deliberately) quiet revolution
Windows 7 takes the trusty taskbar—that multi-purpose stripe at the bottom of the display—and gives...
Author: KeithPranghofer Date: 03/24/2010
Excelling at Excel - Keep an eye on your data
Whether you're working on a sales report or modeling revenues into the next fiscal year, there are...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 03/22/2010
Sharing a OneNote reference document
OneNote is a flexible and powerful tool: It can be used for both simple notetaking and collaborative...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 03/19/2010
Using the Twitter 'back channel' to attend virtual events
Your time and budget probably don't permit you to attend every major event or conference that you'd...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 03/18/2010
Windows 7: Recovering items lost in the shadows
Woe to those of us who have accidentally lost, altered, deleted, or corrupted a file. It happens to...
Author: KeithPranghofer Date: 03/17/2010
Doing the splits with Word
Ever wish you could be in two places at once? Microsoft Word 2007 has a handy feature called Split...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 03/16/2010
Boost your Office skills with Ribbon Hero
I just downloaded Ribbon Hero, a free add-in for Office 2007 and 2010 that scores your usage and...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 03/15/2010
Word to the wise: The fast and fabulous Format Painter
Today, we have a guest blogger. Elyssa is an editor and project manager at Brainstorm, a leading...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 03/12/2010
Twitter 101: Getting comfortable with tweeting
Twitter can be a valuable tool for finding out what customers are saying about your company and...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 03/11/2010
Productivity Hub v2 and new content packs
A new version of the Productivity Hub SharePoint Server site collection and two new content packs...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 03/10/2010
Staying organized with Windows 7 Libraries
Files and folders are great for keeping everything neatly organized, yes? But sometimes you might...
Author: KeithPranghofer Date: 03/10/2010
The Productivity Hub is on Twitter
If you're a productivity fan (and I know you are - that's why you're here, right?), you can now...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 03/09/2010
Tracking mileage in Excel
A friend of mine who is self-employed was preparing for his annual trip to the accountant and shared...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 03/08/2010
Create an Outlook distribution list
If a coworker asks you to keep them on the DL, they might mean "down low" but in my office...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 03/05/2010
Forget a keyboard shortcut? Just tap Alt
Have you ever pressed the Alt button and noticed that the Office Ribbon suddenly became covered in...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 03/04/2010
Counting sheep with Windows 7: Sleep and Hibernate
Snoozing on the job can be career-limiting—but not for computers, who all want to win green...
Author: KeithPranghofer Date: 03/03/2010
Save time on font and paragraph formatting
If you're like me, you spend more than a little time adjusting your text in Microsoft Word to make...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 03/02/2010
Use OneNote to create a mini notepad
If you're using OneNote and not the handy Side Note feature, you're missing out a real time saver....
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 03/01/2010
Word to the wise: Inserting symbols
Today, we have a guest blogger. Elyssa is an editor and project manager at Brainstorm, a leading...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 02/26/2010
Embedding documents in OneNote
Let's say you're writing a training manual in OneNote. Supporting material such as a job description...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 02/25/2010
Ultimate power over your laptop: The Windows 7 Mobility Center
Chances are your office doesn't allow pets (service animals excepted). Fortunately, laptops make...
Author: KeithPranghofer Date: 02/24/2010
Find search terms more easily with Reading Highlight
Recently, I shared some tips for tagging Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files to make searching in...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 02/23/2010
Find, finding, found in Word
One of the very first lessons I learned about computers is that they tend to take things very...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 02/22/2010
Make a professional-looking e-mail signature in Outlook
Is your signature plain and unengaging? Or just too informal for your business communications?...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 02/19/2010
Share your Outlook calendar with an e-mail snapshot
If you've ever want to share your upcoming calendar with a colleague or customer, there's a feature...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 02/18/2010
Big screens and presentations—no sweaty palms required
Among other things, Windows 7 addresses the second-most prevalent human phobia: Fear of the Big...
Author: KeithPranghofer Date: 02/17/2010
Set a picture as a background in OneNote
If you want to overlay text over a picture in OneNote, the important thing is that you should NOT...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 02/16/2010
Changing case in Word
Have you ever accidentally typed a sentence with CAPS LOCK on? Wait, don't delete it and retype!...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 02/15/2010
Presentations with pizzazz: Inserting a chart in PowerPoint
Today, we have a guest blogger. Elyssa is an editor and project manager at Brainstorm, a leading...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 02/12/2010
Use strikethrough to mark tasks done in Excel
If you use Microsoft Excel to track tasks, you'll probably want to use Strikethrough to mark them as...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 02/11/2010
Keeping desktop clutter at bay with Windows 7
With multi-tasking, the lifestyle of choice in cube farms everywhere, most of us keep a virtual pile...
Author: KeithPranghofer Date: 02/10/2010
Software Assurance Benefit #2: Get online training
Yesterday, you learned about the Home Use Program and how Software Assurance can provide you with an...
Author: Rosie1000 Date: 02/09/2010
Software Assurance Benefit #1: Get a copy of Office to use at home
My name is Rosie and I am the Software Assurance Senior Marketing Manager at Microsoft. Suzanne...
Author: Rosie1000 Date: 02/07/2010
Bookmark large documents
Long Word documents can really give you a workout. Sometimes I see people who need to add something...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 02/05/2010
Help Search find your documents when you need them
Do you forget where you put things? I think most of us do, and it’s not because we’re getting older...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 02/04/2010
What’s New in Windows 7— Wait, What?
I know, I know, this blog is usually about Microsoft Office, but knowing your way around Windows 7...
Author: KeithPranghofer Date: 02/03/2010
Excelling at Excel - How to quickly flip a chart
Have you ever created a chart in Excel only to find that the items appear backwards from what you...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 02/02/2010
Deleting a phantom image in Microsoft Word
I recently had to edit a file that someone sent me. In it, there was an image I needed to replace -...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 02/01/2010