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Use Templates to Help You Learn a New Office Program

Jason Bean — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 03:25:01 +0000

Sometimes getting started with a new application can be a little bit daunting. I may be surprised, but I’d think just about everybody over the age of 16 these days has probably spent some time in Microsoft Word, maybe Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.

I find that when I’m staring at a blank canvas or a nice and blank “new document” I don’t have a good idea of what direction I could be heading with my thoughts or needs. If you start with a template and see what other people have done with the tool you’re using, it can help get your own gears of creativity spinning and give you an idea of what’s possible with the application you’re getting started using.

If you’re trying to learn what one of the Microsoft Office applications are capable of, starting with a template is a great way to see the power and features of the app.

You can look through templates based on themes, industry or in our case of learning a new program, by “Program Category”. The Microsoft Office Online website has templates available in the following apps:

So, whatever the business app you’re more than likely trying to learn, Microsoft probably has a template to help get you started.

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Use Templates to Help You Learn a New Office Program

Event Update: Microsoft Office Project Conference 2007 EMEA

Jerome Locson — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:36:08 +0000

Here is an upcoming event for Microsoft Office Project enthusiasts, which will be held in Madrid, Spain this December. Below are the details from their website.

Microsoft is pleased to announce the 3rd annual Microsoft Office Project Conference EMEA. The Conference will be held from 3-5 December 2007 at the Auditorium Hotel, Madrid.

Attend this 3 day conference and see how organizations everywhere are obtaining remarkable business value out of Microsoft’s Enterprise Project Management Solution. Learn successful best practices and approaches from the experts, including requirements for Project Management, organizational project maturity, business process mapping, resource management, time sheets, reporting, and project collaboration along with the deep technical details and information on how to adopt, deploy, configure and customize Microsoft Office Project and the Microsoft Office EPM Solution.

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Event Update: Microsoft Office Project Conference 2007 EMEA

Microsoft’s Unified Communications

Jerome Locson — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 07:08:11 +0000

Microsoft’s new streamline of Unified Communications tools, Business Communications Software, which according to Microsoft can reduce customers report savings of 25 percent to 30 percent from VoIP, conferencing software; more than 50 partners announce new products and services.

During its launch, Bill Gates said, “In the next decade, sweeping technology innovations driven by the power of software will transform communications. Working with partners, we’re making rapid advances that will enable fundamental advances in the way people communicate and collaborate at work.” Here are the following Unified Communication software:

Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007.
Software that delivers VoIP, video, instant messaging, conferencing and presence within the applications people already know and use such as Microsoft Office system applications and upcoming versions of Microsoft Dynamics™ ERP products and the Microsoft CRM release due later this year.

Microsoft Office Communicator 2007.
Client software for phone, instant messaging and video communications that works across the PC, mobile phone and Web browser.

Microsoft Office Live Meeting.
The next version of Microsoft’s advanced conferencing service that enables workers to conduct meetings, share documents, utilize video and record discussions from virtually any computer.

Microsoft RoundTable™.
A conferencing phone with a 360-degree camera that captures a panoramic view of meeting participants, tracks the speaker and can record meetings

Service pack update of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007.
The industry’s leading e-mail, voice mail, calendaring and unified messaging platform.

“Unified communications software will transform business communications as fundamentally as e-mail did in the 1990s. Today, Microsoft is in the VoIP game, and our customers and partners are already winning with better economics and new business opportunities,” Jeff Raikes said, President of the Microsoft Business Division.

Click here to read more about this press release.

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Project Scheduling with MS Excel

Jerome Locson — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 06:02:49 +0000

Proper project management aids business people to meet objectives in a timely manner. Speaking of time, it is necessary to consider adequate time allocation per activity involved in a project. Common method of allocating time or so called project scheduling with visual aids is by Gantt Chart of PERT Diagrams. But, I will be give you tips and links on how to do project scheduling using Gannt Charts with Microsoft Excel, you can also use other tools or Microsoft Project for that matter. Anyway, below are some quick links of tips and the how-tos to do project scheduling with MS Excel.

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The New Office 2007 Beta-gram

Jason Bean — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 01:47:15 +0000

Microsoft in partnership with Waggener Edstrom has released a new e-mail newsletter for those people participating in the Office 2007 beta.

The release of the 2007 Microsoft Office system is quickly approaching. We are excited to bring you this update that will highlight useful news, information and resources that will help you evaluate the next Office release. Look for this communication to arrive in your mailbox every other week to keep you apprised of the most current Office related information.

Consider this your own personal Beta-gram…a one stop shop for information and communication from the Office Reviews team!

This newsletter highlighted their new Live Meetings that they’ve started:

This month we started a Live Meeting series of educational briefings on the 2007 Office System. These sessions will cover all aspects of the 2007 release including client application features, server features and the core investments Microsoft is making in Office that are critical to enterprises. The following three Live Meetings will take place in the coming weeks.

Enterprise Search in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (October 4, 8am PST)
Windows SharePoint Services v2: Foundation for Collaborative Applications (October 11, 8am PST)
Microsoft Office Project 2007 (October 24, 8am PST)
Enterprise Content Management (ECM) in 2007 Office System (already occurred)
Professional Plus 2007 (already occurred)

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The New Office 2007 Beta-gram

Office 2007 Prodcasts

Jason Bean — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 05:42:29 +0000

Don’t check your spell check, I did say “Prodcasts”. It’s a new term coined for a productivity podcast by Shawn Murray. Not sure I like the term, let’s just call it what it is, an interview delivered in MP3 or WMA format that can be enjoyed from your computer or portable media device.

All that aside though, if you’re interested in learning more about the functionality of Office, but don’t have time to sit and read, this may just be the thing for you.

There are lots of topics now available, check the list out at the The IW Center, A community portal for information workers….

Jensen Harris is to be thanked for this heads up as well.

I’m downloading and listening to one on Windows Mobile 5.0 right now, I’ll let you know what I think of it and some others specifically related to Office 2007 soon.

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What’s in store for Project 12

Jason Bean — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 15:05:28 +0000

The following insights into these two products are taken directly from a recent article about Microsoft’s purchase of UMT, a leading project/portfolio management and consulting company.

Full article: Microsoft Completes Acquisition of UMT and Outlines New Innovations in Enterprise Project Management

Microsoft Office Project “12″

The next release of Microsoft’s Enterprise Project Management Solution, code-named Microsoft Office Project “12,” has been designed as a critical business application to help companies and business users deliver business results more quickly with an end-to-end, integrated enterprise project and portfolio management solution.

Project “12″ also delivers new innovations and greater benefits in the areas of visibility and insight, organizational adoption, enterprise readiness and extensibility. Examples of these new advances include these:

Better visibility and insight. Server-side capabilities in Project “12″ will draw on the newly acquired UMT technologies to enable organizations to gain greater business visibility and insight into all their work, helping them make key decisions about which projects and initiatives to fund. One example of this is UMT’s ability to federate data across the enterprise to get a holistic, top-down view of work in an organization.

Easy adoption. Project “12″ will help make it even easier for business users to manage projects using Microsoft Project. With Project “12,” project managers will be able to easily track project changes by having them visually displayed as projects are updated. In addition, the Project Server-based Web application, Project Web Access (PWA), will provide all Project team participants with a simple Web interface to perform critical business tasks such as project proposals, top-down budgeting, resource management, time-tracking and task status updating.

Enterprise readiness. Project “12″ will deliver significant advancements in performance and scalability. Project “12″ benefits from an improved architecture. Many new features will improve performance, such as local cache tools, which enable users to work offline and then resyncs automatically when they’re back online. Project “12″ will also incorporate new features such as those for deliverables, which makes it easier for managers to handle the complexity of master projects and dependencies across multiple projects.

Extensibility. Project Web Access “12″ has been built completely on Microsoft Windows® SharePoint® Services 3.0, and many functions will use the .NET Platform 2.0. This platform helps enable companies to take advantage of their existing Microsoft investments. The new API facilitates integration with line-of-business applications and development of custom applications. Furthermore, business users can easily build in business process workflows using Project’s new Event Services with the Windows Workflow Foundation.

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What’s in store for Project 12