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Google Search adds excellent voice search (pictures)

October 30, 2012 4:00pm PDT

Google Search comes with access to Google apps and docs, well-known search capabilities, and new Voice Search that's tough to beat.

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Tim Cook's most excellent Apple adventure (pictures)

October 5, 2012 4:10am PDT

In the year since his predecessor Steve Jobs died, Tim Cook has been sailing the Apple ship with few stumbles and great success in the company's financial performance.

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10 creative uses for Excel's conditional formatting feature

April 11, 2012 1:36pm PDT

Excel's conditional formatting feature has a ton of untapped potential. Here are a few cool examples of how versatile this tool can be.

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10 websites featuring an excellent use of HTML5

December 12, 2011 1:27pm PST

Ryan Boudreaux presents an exhibit of 10 websites that have put new HTML5 properties into action, including doctype, section, nav, canvas, and article elements, just to name a few.

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Combine the power of Microsoft Office 2007 and 2010

March 30, 2011 8:24am PDT

In a guest post, a TechRepublic member provided steps for uncovering a ton of Easter eggs by combining Microsoft Office 2007 with 2010. Here are the screenshots that walk you through the...

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Microsoft Project 2007 tutorial: Exporting an issue log to Excel

October 12, 2010 7:06pm PDT

Andy Makar walks you through the steps of exporting a task-based issue log in Microsoft Project 2007 to Microsoft Excel.

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How do I create and format tables in Word 2007

October 10, 2010 10:40am PDT

Take advantage of the Table features of Microsoft Word 2007 to create more compelling documents. This How do I tutorial shows you how to navigate the Ribbon interface to make it happen.

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How do I… Integrate mail merge in Microsoft Word with Excel

September 26, 2010 10:28am PDT

The true power of Word's mail merge is only revealed after you integrate it with the more advanced database features of Microsoft Excel.

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Look back at Microsoft Excel Easter Eggs

September 2, 2010 1:51pm PDT

Microsoft’s developers hid some really elaborate Easter Eggs in Excel 95/97/2000.

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Mac Office gets new tricks (images)

August 18, 2010 12:22pm PDT

Microsoft is adding both photo editing and Excel mini-charts to the next version of Office for Mac, due out in October.

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The world's best at Excel and Word (photos)

August 11, 2010 10:10am PDT

Students from around the world compete in Utah to see who is the most proficient at Microsoft Office.

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Calculate a conditional running total in Excel

August 9, 2010 7:47am PDT

Running totals are used to update totals within a series in Microsoft Excel. Usually, a simple expression that adds the previous total to the latest value does the trick. Occasionally, a business...

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How do I use And and Or operators with Excel's Advanced Filter?

July 23, 2010 12:16pm PDT

Viewing subsets of data is a routine task for many Excel users. An AutoFilter lets you limit the data displayed, but it's limited as it depends on the actual data. Excel's Advanced Filter feature...

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Image Gallery: Four Office applications running on the Apple iPad

June 22, 2010 4:28am PDT

The Apple iPad can be a very useful work device and with the latest crop of Office capable applications you can possibly leave the laptop behind. In addition to Apple's iWork suite, the Mobile...

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Office Web Apps Technical Preview

September 20, 2009 11:49am PDT

In September 2009, Microsoft made a partial technical preview of its new Office Web Apps suite available for a select group of testers and partners. What can you do with these "streamlined" Office...

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Image Gallery: Documents To Go for Google Android devices

May 28, 2009 12:52am PDT

There is no native Office viewer in the Android OS, but DataViz stepped up to the plate with a fully functional Word and Excel suite in Documents To Go. There are some features in this powerful...

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Eight excellent PC upgrade ideas

August 1, 2008 5:30am PDT

Why build a new PC when, with a few easy upgrades, you can transform your old PC into one that feels like new (or at least newer!)?

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Use an Excel spreadsheet to prototype your reports

June 19, 2008 7:28am PDT

Prototyping is a tried and true method for capturing the design details of user interface design. Less-experienced developers sometimes overlook the output requirements of a system when designing...

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