March 28th, 2007
You know I love ClearContext for Outlook. The colour coding, the prioritization, the ability to just file messages with a click, and filing sent messages with a topic, all these things let me really manage my e-mail. A while ago Brad told me about the Vista gadget for CC and Outlook 2007. I’ve been trying […]
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March 14th, 2007
One of the big problems folks have been having with Office 2007 is Outlook. Frankly, it can be a serious dog. Sluggish, serious performance lags. All the things you don’t want in your “latest and greatest” e-mail client. Looks like, thanks to Mack D. Male, there is a solution:
DELL has gotten back to me with […]
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March 13th, 2007
Like Google Calendar but use Outlook to manage your day? That’s my problem too. Looks like there might a solution in gSyncit:
This Outlook plug-in supports one-way or two-way synchronization (you can go Google-to-Outlook, Outlook-to-Google or both) and works manually or automatically. After installing the program, look for a new two-button toolbar in Outlook; click the […]
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March 6th, 2007
It does pay to read your feeds! Today Brad has this great announcement:
Regular readers of the weblog may have noticed that posting has been light the last couple of months. Work on our v3.1 release has kept us busy. I’m pleased to finally come up for air and offer all of you early access to […]
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March 5th, 2007
Ever need to make a line break within an Excel cell? Sure, when you are typing a long description (like invoices). The secret to doing it is alt-enter. Yep, simple as that:
Quickie Excel tip: When you’re typing text into a cell, by default hitting Enter takes you to the next cell. However, to wrap your […]
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February 26th, 2007
As you know I’ve been battling with fixing a machine for Lorraine’s bosses since Friday. Sunday I thought it was licked and well I was wrong. Still getting Blue Screen of Death, still unstable (rebooting and shutting down randomly). I was getting really worried. If I couldn’t keep the machine stable, then I couldn’t even […]
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February 20th, 2007
I got an e-mail from Tom Hodgers today. Remember him? Yeah he was one of our contest winners. It sounds like Tom has been getting into MindMager and told me about a really cool new MM add-on called ThemeReader. Here is how Mindsystems describes it:
Mindsystems ThemeReader™ is the latest edition to the MindManager® family of […]
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February 16th, 2007
One of the anticipated features and Microsoft office 2007 is the ability to natively export files as PDF or XPS. I was looking for this feature today when I needed to send off an invoice but couldn’t find it. Luckily a quick search in help gave me the answer right away, I needed to download […]
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February 15th, 2007
So you need to create a new document. It doesn’t matter if you’re using Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint (or even OpenOffice), looking at a blank screen is almost as daunting as getting the document done.
Now, when you make this a complex task, like a form letter or invoice, you can waste a lot of […]
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February 14th, 2007
You jumped on the Office 2007 bandwagon, eh? Yeah me too. Like it? I do. I think it rocks. Yeah there have been complaints about Outlook 2007 being a tad sluggish, but eh, I can deal. But, we’re the cutting edge, we’re out there, trailblazing. The rest of the working world, well it might be […]
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