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Getting the most out of Microsoft Office at home and at work

How to take a screen-shot

One of the great parts of my job is that I get to spend time talking with other users of Microsoft...

Author: GillLeFevre Date: 10/15/2008

Redmond, we have a problem…

Queries about technical support are the most frequent type of email I get and while Microsoft has a...

Author: GillLeFevre Date: 10/03/2008

Made to Measure for Global Business

For Warren Bennett, teaching in a school in Nepal during his gap year changed his life in a most...

Author: GillLeFevre Date: 09/25/2008

(Probably) the most useful Office tip ever

With a computer, correcting your work is completely taken for granted. For example, I've rewritten...

Author: GillLeFevre Date: 08/27/2008

Office Online fabulous-ness

Sometimes I think Office Online is one of Microsoft's best kept secrets. Sure, most people have used...

Author: GillLeFevre Date: 08/12/2008

Take your Office with you

Today, an update on Office Live Workspace from Tim Kimber, UK Office Live Product Manager. (Plus, if...

Author: GillLeFevre Date: 06/25/2008

Inaccurate predictions

In April's At Work newsletter, I ran a competition asking readers to provide their favourite...

Author: GillLeFevre Date: 05/29/2008

Excel charts for Diabetic Blood Sugar Readings

A subscriber to the At Work newsletter sent me an email last month with an intriguing problem: I and...

Author: GillLeFevre Date: 05/15/2008

A picture tells a thousand words

Every now and then, I do something and come across a feature that I don't use very often. The...

Author: GillLeFevre Date: 05/08/2008

Desert Island Office #2

I wandered over to our Mobile team today and asked Emily Lambert which three Office features she...

Author: GillLeFevre Date: 04/15/2008

How Office Live Workspace saved my holiday -- and my sanity

Family holidays can try even the most patient temperament. Over the last few years, I've noticed a...

Author: GillLeFevre Date: 04/01/2008

Microsoft Office Live Workspace Beta and Windows Live™ SkyDrive

What’s the difference and which is right for me? Do you save your work on a flash drive or...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/31/2008

Formatting For-mi-da-ble!

Did you know that in Excel, Word, PowerPoint & Outlook 2007 you can preview formats, fonts, and...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/20/2008

Surviving work travel with Microsoft Office

I've just spent a week out of the office on a work conference. It's the first time I've been away...

Author: GillLeFevre Date: 03/10/2008

How I survive an overflowing inbox.......Frank Sinatra Style...!

We're all too familiar with emails.....(sometimes too many of them)....flooding into our inbox day...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/03/2008

SmartArt: The best thing since sliced bread?

I always used to hate the cliché, "a picture's worth a thousand words" because with...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/18/2008

Paste Options in detail

Paste is officially the most used command in Microsoft Office (based on data from the Customer...

Author: GillLeFevre Date: 02/12/2008

Defining value

We're trying to move house at the moment and in an uncertain market it's really hard to decide what...

Author: GillLeFevre Date: 01/29/2008

007 eat your heart out

I don't know about you, but I am constantly learning about new and cool things that are out there to...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/23/2008

A parliament of owls, a charm of hummingbirds?

So what would be the most appropriate collective noun for a gathering of Excel experts? A table of...

Author: GillLeFevre Date: 01/22/2008

How well do you know your Office trivia?

One of my colleagues has dug out a quiz about Office 2007 for a little light entertainment... makes...

Author: GillLeFevre Date: 01/21/2008

Desert Island Office

If I had a pound for every time someone told me they "only use about 20% of the features"...

Author: GillLeFevre Date: 01/17/2008

Happy Christmas

The office is rapidly emptying and work has long been replaced by mince pies. Christmas emails are...

Author: GillLeFevre Date: 12/24/2007

A brain of two halves

A little light diversion for anyone enjoying the "festive wind-down". (And if you're nowhere near...

Author: GillLeFevre Date: 12/20/2007

Microsoft Office Resources

Office Online, in particular: Microsoft Office product information Online training for the 2007...

Author: GillLeFevre Date: 12/06/2007

The meaning of life, well for this blog at least

I was having a catch-up with my manager last week and we started talking about the blog. Probably...

Author: GillLeFevre Date: 11/30/2007

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