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Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 : Creating Support Materials - Creating Handouts

To create handouts, you simply decide on a layout (a number of slides per page) and then choose that layout from the Print dialog box as you print. No muss, no fuss! If you want to get more involved, you can edit the layout in Handout Master view before printing.

Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 : Inserting and Updating Excel Worksheets

Always make modifications to the source document, not the linked object on the slide. Any changes you make to the linked object will be overwritten the next time you open the presentation, because PowerPoint will update the linked object to reflect the version in the source document.

Microsoft Excel 2010 : Printing in Excel - Adding Headers and Footers, Printing Worksheets

Printing a worksheet, workbook, or chart sheet is quite simple, but setting the options for printing can be complex. The number of options that must be set before printing depends on the amount of data stored in the workbook, how it is arranged, how much of it needs to be printed, and how you want the printout to look.

Microsoft Excel 2010 : Printing in Excel - Printing Cell Comments, Printing Cell Error Indicators & Printing Repeating Row and Column Titles

Some cells contain data or formulas that require an explanation or special attention. Comments provide a way to attach this type of information to individual cells. A red triangle in the upper-right corner of the cell indicates that a comment is present.

Microsoft Outlook 2010 : Creating and Sending Messages (part 2) - Saving and Sending Messages

At regular intervals while you're composing a message, Outlook saves a copy of the message in the Drafts folder. This is intended to protect you from losing messages that are in progress.

Microsoft Outlook 2010 : Creating and Sending Messages (part 1) - Troubleshooting Message Addressing

Outlook 2010 includes many features intended to simplify the process of addressing messages to recipients. As with any tool, these features can sometimes be more difficult to use than you'd like.

Boosting Your Productivity in Word 2010 : Share Building Blocks with Others

You can share the building blocks you create by embedding them in a Word template, which you can then distribute to others. Anytime someone applies the template you distribute to a document, the building blocks you embedded become available in that document.

Boosting Your Productivity in Word 2010 : Add a Header or Footer Building Block

Headers appear in the top page margin area, and footers appear at the bottom. Headers and footers are a great way to place repeating information on your document pages, such as a document title, page numbers, company name, and so on

Project 2010 as an Enabling Tool for Project Managers : When to Use Project

If you're working on a project and the end is unclear, stop and take the time to define the finishing point. Too often, confusion exists about when a project stops being a project and becomes part of operations or ongoing support.

Microsoft Project 2010 : Setting Up Cost Resources & Documenting Resources

Cost resources do no work and have no effect on the scheduling of a task. The Max. Units Standard and Overtime pay rates and Cost/Use fields do not apply to cost resources.

Microsoft Visio 2010 : Working Around the Diagram - Getting Started with a New Drawing

An alternative to starting from a template is to use an existing drawing as a basis. Visio 2010 offers several ways to start new drawings from existing drawings, creating new, unsaved copies for you and saving you the trouble of copying files in Explorer.

Understanding the Microsoft Visio Object Model : Connectivity API

The Connectivity API also provides easy methods for creating and deleting connections, but we are simply interested in traversing connections in order to check or export the process steps to another application.

Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 : Formatting Tables

You can use buttons on the Design contextual tab to switch to a different table style, instantly changing the look of the text and cells to make key information stand out. If you want, you can also format individual words and individual cells.

Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 : Inserting Tables

If you don’t already have a table on a slide, you can click the Table arrow and then click Draw Table to activate the pencil. You can then drag cells the size and shape you need to create the table.

Microsoft Excel 2010 : Printing in Excel - Printing in Portrait or Landscape Orientation & Centering a Worksheet on a Page

You don’t have to center your data both vertically and horizontally. You can choose one or the other, depending on how you want your printed worksheet to look.

Microsoft Excel 2010 : Printing in Excel - Working in Page Break Preview Mode & Printing a Worksheet on One Page

Page Break Preview mode displays the area you have selected for your set print area. It also enables you to click and drag where your page breaks are instead of using the Insert, Page Break command. You can also edit the text and data just as you can in Normal view.

Microsoft Access 2010 : Viewing a Sample Database & Creating a New Database

If you want to create a new database from scratch, you can do so by creating a blank database and then adding your own tables and other objects. You can also create a new database based on an existing database, saving yourself lots of time and effort.

Microsoft Access 2010 : Designing a Database

The most basic object in a database is the table in which you store your data. You might be tempted to jam every type of data you want to store into a single table, but that’s hardly ever the right way to design tables in a database.

Microsoft Outlook 2010 : Sending Text Messages from Outlook & Sending Mobile Alerts from Outlook

After you have configured an SMS account in Outlook, you can use it to send text messages from Outlook. The process is as simple as sending an e-mail, although a bit different.

Microsoft Outlook 2010 : Using Alerts and Mobile Features - Setting Up a Text Messaging Service

If you have an SMS service account, you can configure that account in Outlook so that you can send text messages from Outlook. This practice is handy when you’re in front of your computer most of the day but still need to send text messages to colleagues or friends.

Microsoft OneNote 2010 : Upgrading from a Previous Version

If you decline to update your OneNote 2003 notebook files as part of the OneNote 2010 upgrade, you can only view them in OneNote 2010 as read-only files, but you cannot edit them.

Microsoft Word 2010 : Customizing Word - Changing Advanced Document Properties & Changing Research Options

You can use document properties—also known as metadata—to help you manage and track files. Search tools can use the metadata to find a document based-on your search criteria, such as title, subject, author, category, keywords, or comments.

Microsoft Word 2010 : Customizing Word - Setting Advanced General Options & Setting Compatibility Options

If you have an older Word or WordPerfect document that doesn’t display very well in Word 2010, you can set compatibility options to simulate the layout of an older format to improve the display. Word 2010 provides compatibility for all previous versions of Word going back to Word for Windows 1.0 and WordPerfect 5.x.

Microsoft Project 2010 : Setting Up Resources - Adjusting Working Time for Individual Resources

When you initially create resources in a project plan, Project creates a resource calendar for each work resource. The initial working time settings for resource calendars exactly match those of the project calendar, which by default is the Standard base calendar.

Microsoft Project 2010 : Setting Up Resources - Entering Resource Pay Rates

When a work resource has a standard pay rate entered and is assigned to a task, Project calculates the cost of the assignment. Project does so by multiplying the assignment’s work value by the resource’s pay rate—both using a common increment of time (such as hours).

Microsoft Visio 2010 : Displaying the issues for the current selection

The Selection Issues button opens a dialog that contains just the issues for the selected page or shapes. If there are multiple issues on the page, or on a shape, then they are grouped together for clarity.

Microsoft Visio 2010 : Displaying the rule for a selected issue

The built-in Issues window, which is opened from the Diagram Validation group on the Process tab, provides an existing method for a user to select an issue.

Accessing PowerPoint on the Web and Mobile Devices (part 2) - Setting SkyDrive Permissions

You can edit any presentation that you create or save in SkyDrive. If one of your colleagues saves a presentation to SkyDrive, your ability to edit depends on the permissions this person gives you.

Accessing PowerPoint on the Web and Mobile Devices (part 1) - Setting Up SkyDrive

SkyDrive offers up to 25GB of free online storage that you can use to collaborate with colleagues anywhere in the world. SkyDrive is part of Windows Live and requires a Windows Live ID to access.

Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 : Managing Themes

Some themes are built into PowerPoint, and you can also create and save your own themes as separate files and apply them to other presentations or even to other Office documents, such as in Word and Excel.