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December 29th, 2007

Video Demo: Getting Things Done

Getting Things Done or GTD is David Allen’s system for personal productivity. I gave away a free copy of the audio book in a contest before. Here’s a summary of the book:

This video shows how you can create your own GTD notebook easily and more economically in lieu of the folders and containers suggested in the book. (Then again I think they weren’t meant to be taken literally). Here’s the video:

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December 22nd, 2007

Video Demo: Make MS Office 2007 Documents Open in Earlier Software Versions

The annoying thing about MS Office 2007 is that it saves files in a completely different format from earlier versions of office programs such as Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc. So if you create a document at work on your MS Word 2007, you can’t open it properly at home on your MS Word 2003.

This video demonstrates how you can easily solve this problem (with the exception of not using Office 2007 at all):

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December 15th, 2007

Video Demo: MS Excel Tips and Tricks

For the uninitiated, MS Excel is a pretty intimidating program. If it scares you, you probably settle for creating tables in Word. That solution has its uses, but sometimes, you will get more flexibility, control, and power via Excel. For those who are unfamiliar with it, here’s a brief introduction (more tips for advanced users below):

Are you organizing the office New Year’s party? Or how about the next client meeting? For the obsessive compulsive corporate slave, here’s a video instruction of how to make seating charts in Excel.

Apart from those, here are other useful MS Excel video tips:

How to use MS Excel as a database

Additional excellent tips and tricks, including form creation

Cartesian coordinates and Venn diagrams in Excel

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