ms office News and Other Resources

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Accessing your SkyDrive files from Windows Phone 8

March 11, 2013 9:45am PDT

Jack Wallen highlights how to access files with the SkyDrive app and the Windows Phone 8 version of Office.

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Blog Post

10 advanced formatting tricks for Excel users

March 7, 2013 12:28pm PST

Your worksheets will be more polished and easy to read if you learn a few sophisticated formatting techniques.

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Discussion Threads

Connect LibreOffice with your Google Docs account by using OOo2gd

March 7, 2013 11:52am PST

Connect LibreOffice with your Google Docs account by using OOo2gd article root It's not seamless but it is better than nothing This is definitely not as seamless or smooth as Microsoft Office and...

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Blog Post

Connect LibreOffice with your Google Docs account by using OOo2gd

March 7, 2013 10:50am PST

If you use LibreOffice and Google Docs, you can merge the two by using the OOo2gd extension. You can also use OOo2gd to import/export to Zoho and export with WebDAV.

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Discussion Threads

Microsoft capitulates and some angst over Office 2013 is relieved

March 6, 2013 1:25pm PST

Not much change So the way I see it the only change is that if you want to install it on a second device you can now do it on your own instead of having to call microsoft. Seems they are getting...

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Blog Post

Microsoft capitulates and some angst over Office 2013 is relieved

March 6, 2013 8:27am PST

Reacting to customer feedback, Microsoft has decided to change the license policy for Office 2013.

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Discussion Threads

High-tech home security products: Who are they really helping?

March 4, 2013 2:12pm PST

Wi-Fi usually isn't the bottleneck, Col Unless you have a monster Internet pipe, that bandwidth is typically the issue. My son uses NetFlix and that is usually happy with 2 Mb for itself....

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Blog Post

In the post-PC era, information security must adapt to new realities

March 4, 2013 6:00am PST

Alfonso Barreiro identifies some fundamental changes that infosec personnel need to make to their approach in order to operate effectively in their organizations.

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Case Studies

Caltex Australia: Fuel Company Uses Online Tools to Energize Employee Communications, Drive Mobility Online Tools

March 4, 2013 12:00am PST

Caltex Australia has a large, dispersed workforce across Australia. Employees used an outdated, on-premises email solution with an unreliable web mail service. They needed better business...

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Discussion Threads

Screenshots: Five office suites that are not Microsoft Office

March 1, 2013 12:04pm PST

Screenshots: Five office suites that are not Microsoft Office article root 5 ? I counted only 2 google xyz and libre office. And where is openOffice ? This has been for years my preferred office...

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Whitepapers

An Exploitation of Visual Cryptography to Ensure Enhanced Security in Several Applications

March 1, 2013 12:00am PST

VC is a cryptographic technique that ensures the security of images by dividing a secret image into random shares, which makes the image data unreadable. Then decryption is performed by...

Provided by: Khulna University

Case Studies

Advocate Health Care: Healthcare Provider Drives Innovation, Improves Collaboration with Cloud Services

March 1, 2013 12:00am PST

Advocate Health Care is the largest healthcare provider in Illinois. Several years ago, Advocate subscribed to a hosted messaging service to help associates communicate, and it deployed...

Provided by: Microsoft

Whitepapers

Multi-Level Security for Automotive - RFID Based Technology With Lab VIEW Implementation

March 1, 2013 12:00am PST

Security has become a prominent parameter for all the electronic gadgets. This proposed paper aims at securing the automotive and also preventing the unauthorized persons from accessing it. The...

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Discussion Threads

10 underused Office features

February 28, 2013 7:11pm PST

10 underused Office features article root not a big fan of tables.. because code from prior versions of excel trying to determine whether an autofilter is enabled or not does not work. there are...

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Blog Post

10 underused Office features

February 28, 2013 1:56pm PST

Microsoft Office is so feature-packed, most users barely scratch the surface of its functionality. See if you're using Office apps to their full potential.

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Discussion Threads

Five alternatives to Microsoft Office

February 28, 2013 11:10am PST

Five alternatives to Microsoft Office article root Has the tide turned? The past few weeks we have been discussing Office 2013, the licensing scheme implemented by Microsoft, and its impact on...

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Blog Post

Five alternatives to Microsoft Office

February 28, 2013 11:07am PST

Microsoft Office is not the only game in town; Brien Posey suggests some suitable alternatives.

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Screenshots: Five office suites that are not Microsoft Office

February 28, 2013 10:59am PST

Microsoft Office is not the only game in town; Brien Posey suggests some suitable alternatives.

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Discussion Threads

Poll: Do you program against Office?

February 28, 2013 9:45am PST

Poll: Do you program against Office? article root I've been doing some Though I have to admit, Excel and VBA was one part that got me into the IT department from Accounting in the first place!...

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