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July 2006 - Posts

Deciphering the Gobbledegook

posted Tuesday, July 18, 2006 8:21 AM by Allister_Frost
I enjoy following Matthew Stibbe's blog at badlanguage.net. Matthew used to run a computer gaming company and now flies planes. He's also a writer. His freelance writing company handles assignments from several big companies including Microsoft. It's Read More
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Send a Calendar via Email in Outlook 2007

posted Monday, July 17, 2006 12:01 PM by Allister_Frost
I'm busy testing the latest dogfood version of the new 2007 Microsoft Office system. As I journey ever deeper into the new applications in the system I'm uncovering some really neat features. One of my favourites is Outlook 2007's new Send a Calendar Read More
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Genial Presentations by Genii

posted Friday, July 14, 2006 3:26 PM by Allister_Frost
If, like me, you regularly find yourself on your hind legs in front of an audience wondering how to make the next 30 minutes a pleasurable experience, check out this outstanding example of public speaking from the very brilliant Sir Ken Robinson. Read More
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Chunking up your time in Outlook

posted Friday, July 14, 2006 8:08 AM by Allister_Frost
  The default calendar view in the Microsoft Outlook shows the day broken up into 30 minute chunks. This make is really easy to add appointments of 30, 60, 90 etc minutes duration but don't feel constrained by this convention. For example, it's Read More
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More on The Best Tip Ever...

posted Friday, July 14, 2006 4:35 AM by Allister_Frost
Jonny_Day has posted a great follow-up comment to my Best Tip Ever posting in which he suggests a neat way to use Search Folders in conjunction with the Conversation View. Check it out here. That's one of the things I love about Microsoft Outlook. There's Read More
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An Autoschediastic Posting

posted Thursday, July 13, 2006 7:27 AM by Allister_Frost
Education Corner: Today's word is AUTOSCHEDIASTIC. This is an adjective used to describe something that is done on the spur of the moment or improvised. Much like this blog entry. Read More
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Showing two Timezones in Outlook

posted Wednesday, July 12, 2006 8:57 PM by Allister_Frost
If you travel a lot or work internationally it's very easily to tie your brain up in knots trying to make sense of different time zones. Outlook has a useful feature that allows you to show two different time zones on your calendar so you always Read More
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The End Of The World As We Know It

posted Tuesday, July 11, 2006 4:59 PM by Allister_Frost
Well, not quite. But I did just stumble completely by chance on a website that tells me that today is the last day of Microsoft support for Windows 98 and (everybody's favourite) Windows Me. Windows XP SP1 will also no longer be supported after today Read More
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The Joys of International Working

posted Saturday, July 08, 2006 11:58 AM by Allister_Frost
If you've ever had the "pleasure" of working for an international company the size of Microsoft, this short film parody will almost certainly raise a wry, if somewhat vexatious, smile. Enjoy! Read More
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Go on, see if you can make it bigger

posted Friday, July 07, 2006 7:07 AM by Allister_Frost
There are some things in life that we all wish would just be that little bit bigger. Now, I can't help you in every department but I know I can satisfy your text enlargement requirements with this natty little Microsoft Word keyboard shortcut. So, Read More
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Get back, get back to where you once belonged

posted Thursday, July 06, 2006 2:07 PM by Allister_Frost
Every so often a tip comes along that you really want to memorise. And The Beatles would have called this tip the 'Get Back To Where You Once Belonged" Tip. While editing a document in Microsoft Word (or while composing an email using Word as your Read More
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Are you ready for Vista?

posted Tuesday, July 04, 2006 10:36 AM by Allister_Frost
Want to know if your PC is up to the job of running Windows Vista? Or should you start saving your spare change to ensure you have enough pennies to buy a new PC when Vista reaches general availability early next year? Head to this website where Read More
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