used with permission from the Microsoft Devices Blog Writing a report, research paper or even a novel is easy on your Surface. The Surface family of devices is known for its versatility, and nowhere is that more evident than in the many ways you can interact with your...
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Driving Us to Distraction: The Top 5 Time-Sucks in the Office
used with permission from Microsoft for Work The genius that happens every day in the offices of the world requires a certain amount of focus. Unfortunately, most offices are awash with both physical and mental distractions that pull our attention away from the task...
Methods for Searching Your Email in Outlook 2013
Do you have thousands of emails stored in your Outlook account? Do you sometimes need to find the one email from five months ago that mentions the access key for a software program you didn't think anyone was still using? We all have times when we need to dig through...
How to Remove Duplicates in Excel 2013
Very commonly you may be dealing with a spreadsheet of data, with many duplicates that you want to remove quickly. This happens often if you are dealing with mailing lists with repeated information (names, email addresses, zipcodes, etc.), an export of data from a...
10 Surefire Signs You’re a Supertasker
Used with the permission of http://thenetwork.cisco.com by Kati Dahm More than 4 out of 10 young professionals are Supertaskers, toggling seamlessly between apps and devices for personal and work tasks. With data from a 2014 survey of professionals and businesses who...
Convert Your Document to a Fillable PDF Form
If you have Adobe Professional instead of Adobe Reader (the latest version is Adobe XI Pro), you can edit PDFs and create and edit PDF forms. If you've ever seen a PDF form with fillable fields, like below… …this tutorial will show you how to quickly convert your...
SpireTech Launches Enterprise File Sync & Sharing solution
SpireTech has launched an Enterprise File Sync and Sharing (EFSS) service using private portal and server technology from CTERA networks. The new features include VPN-free office-to-office server synchronization, and fine-grained control over synchronization of data...
Beware of Hidden Markup in Office files
A useful feature for collaboration in Office documents is the concept of markups. This feature allows you to track changes made to a document and even offers the ability to mark comments that can be made invisible when looking at the "final" product. When trading a...
Windows Secrets – Snipping Tool
One of the most useful methods of communication is with images. I use screenshots a lot to either convey or understand a problem based on what a user or I are seeing. The Snipping Tool is an excellent time saving tool by Microsoft. It's a simple program that allows...