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Getting the most out of Microsoft Office at home and at work
How to take a screen-shot
One of the great parts of my job is that I get to spend time talking with other users of Microsoft...
Author: GillLeFevre Date: 10/15/2008
Redmond, we have a problem…
Queries about technical support are the most frequent type of email I get and while Microsoft has a...
Author: GillLeFevre Date: 10/03/2008
Made to Measure for Global Business
For Warren Bennett, teaching in a school in Nepal during his gap year changed his life in a most...
Author: GillLeFevre Date: 09/25/2008
(Probably) the most useful Office tip ever
With a computer, correcting your work is completely taken for granted. For example, I've rewritten...
Author: GillLeFevre Date: 08/27/2008
Office Online fabulous-ness
Sometimes I think Office Online is one of Microsoft's best kept secrets. Sure, most people have used...
Author: GillLeFevre Date: 08/12/2008
Take your Office with you
Today, an update on Office Live Workspace from Tim Kimber, UK Office Live Product Manager. (Plus, if...
Author: GillLeFevre Date: 06/25/2008
Inaccurate predictions
In April's At Work newsletter, I ran a competition asking readers to provide their favourite...
Author: GillLeFevre Date: 05/29/2008
Excel charts for Diabetic Blood Sugar Readings
A subscriber to the At Work newsletter sent me an email last month with an intriguing problem: I and...
Author: GillLeFevre Date: 05/15/2008
A picture tells a thousand words
Every now and then, I do something and come across a feature that I don't use very often. The...
Author: GillLeFevre Date: 05/08/2008
Desert Island Office #2
I wandered over to our Mobile team today and asked Emily Lambert which three Office features she...
Author: GillLeFevre Date: 04/15/2008
How Office Live Workspace saved my holiday -- and my sanity
Family holidays can try even the most patient temperament. Over the last few years, I've noticed a...
Author: GillLeFevre Date: 04/01/2008
Microsoft Office Live Workspace Beta and Windows Live™ SkyDrive
What’s the difference and which is right for me? Do you save your work on a flash drive or...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/31/2008
Formatting For-mi-da-ble!
Did you know that in Excel, Word, PowerPoint & Outlook 2007 you can preview formats, fonts, and...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/20/2008
Surviving work travel with Microsoft Office
I've just spent a week out of the office on a work conference. It's the first time I've been away...
Author: GillLeFevre Date: 03/10/2008
How I survive an overflowing inbox.......Frank Sinatra Style...!
We're all too familiar with emails.....(sometimes too many of them)....flooding into our inbox day...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/03/2008
SmartArt: The best thing since sliced bread?
I always used to hate the cliché, "a picture's worth a thousand words" because with...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/18/2008
Paste Options in detail
Paste is officially the most used command in Microsoft Office (based on data from the Customer...
Author: GillLeFevre Date: 02/12/2008
Defining value
We're trying to move house at the moment and in an uncertain market it's really hard to decide what...
Author: GillLeFevre Date: 01/29/2008
007 eat your heart out
I don't know about you, but I am constantly learning about new and cool things that are out there to...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/23/2008
A parliament of owls, a charm of hummingbirds?
So what would be the most appropriate collective noun for a gathering of Excel experts? A table of...
Author: GillLeFevre Date: 01/22/2008
How well do you know your Office trivia?
One of my colleagues has dug out a quiz about Office 2007 for a little light entertainment... makes...
Author: GillLeFevre Date: 01/21/2008
Desert Island Office
If I had a pound for every time someone told me they "only use about 20% of the features"...
Author: GillLeFevre Date: 01/17/2008
Happy Christmas
The office is rapidly emptying and work has long been replaced by mince pies. Christmas emails are...
Author: GillLeFevre Date: 12/24/2007
A brain of two halves
A little light diversion for anyone enjoying the "festive wind-down". (And if you're nowhere near...
Author: GillLeFevre Date: 12/20/2007
Microsoft Office Resources
Office Online, in particular: Microsoft Office product information Online training for the 2007...
Author: GillLeFevre Date: 12/06/2007
The meaning of life, well for this blog at least
I was having a catch-up with my manager last week and we started talking about the blog. Probably...
Author: GillLeFevre Date: 11/30/2007