For the sake of full disclosure, I was Technical Reviewer for O’Reilly’s newest book on Office 2010 ( Office 2010: The Missing Manual by Nancy Conner & Matthew MacDonald). That being said, it has quickly become my go-to ‘bible’ for all things Office. For years I have told my students, clients...
Several years ago a friend of mine told me about a seminar that he attended where the presenter – the inventor of the DayTimer, if memory serves, put all of our different data collection methods in perspective; he had the audience count the places where they collected information, and came up with, among...
I love Microsoft Office 2010. It’s not that I was not a big fan of the current Office 2007, but I feel that Microsoft has done its job – found ways to improve the new model. My current ‘favorite’ improvement is with Microsoft Office Outlook. It solves a problem that has caused me inconvenience for years...
I am sure you (like me) spend a lot of time in e-mail threads. Occasionally it can be embarrassing if you are not up to date. As I was composing an e-mail to a colleague a few minutes ago I noticed the following warning bar across the top: I was relieved that I caught this, else I could have...
<Edited July 14> Since May I have been telling people that they would have to wait for details of the new Microsoft Office 2010 applications coming down the pipe. Yesterday the veil was lifted, as the beta program was made available to a wider audience. With that I would like to share some of my...
One of the reasons I like attending conferences like TechEd is that very often attendees get news first… either by design or occasionally by accident. An example of the latter, I learned last night, is that one presenter accidentally showed off SharePoint 2010 to a packed room without realizing...
I owe a great debt to Microsoft Canada (Damir!) and Hewlett Packard Canada (Laurie!) who came through to supply me with a server for my last two projects. If you happen to find yourself in the market for a server for a small to mid-sized company I cannot think of a better product than the HP ProLiant...
A couple of months ago I effectively moved in with Theresa; that is to say I have not yet vacated my apartment, but have relegated it to being little more than a drop box, sometimes office, and place to store things until we actually hire a truck to move the lot down to Oakville. Other than the...