No Article this Week
The newspaper is not running my column due to Memorial Day. So you and I get a real day off. But I will see you next week! Ron
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Wi-Fi Down?
I go to many coffee shops, restaurants and other businesses which offer free Wi-Fi for their customers. And yes, sometimes the food is not my favorite and the coffee not the best. However, since I am a geek and like to have the Wi-Fi I visit and use their establishments anyway. Throughout time I have…
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Real Final Thoughts on Office 2013 & Internet Explorer 8, 9 or 10
I received several emails last week after my final Office 2013 article. They asked if I would use it or not. They wanted to know what I really thought, so this should be the absolutely, positively last Office 2013 column. I am also including a reminder about Microsoft Internet Explorer. Office 2013 has several revamped…
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Office 2013-Final Thoughts
Today is the wrap-up of Office 2013. Thanks for all of the positive emails you sent about this series of articles. Also, thanks for the ideas for future columns…keep reading, there is a good chance you will see them here eventually. First, two tips I received from readers need mentioning. Jennifer reminded me I should…
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Office 2013-PowerPoint
As with other components in Office 2013, PowerPoint offers the “Landing Page” and the capacity to save your slideshows to the cloud…you are your Microsoft SkyDrive. The landing page is a fancy term for the opening page of PowerPoint. It does have many options. The first you will notice is the, “Take a Tour” button. …
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Office 2013-Outlook
Well, not all of the Office 2013 applications have a lot new going for them and Outlook is one of them. It really has not changed that much. It is cleaner, which is the Windows 8 "look." As I stated in the past it is, in my opinion, boring. As with the other Office apps…
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Office 2013-Excel, Part 2
If you have been following along with this review of Office 2013 you know that today is Excel Part 2. So we will jump in now. The next most impressive feature to me is the new Excel start screen. When you start up Excel, on the left side you will find your most recently opened…
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Office 2013-Excel, Part 1
Before we start on Excel 2013 today, please accept my apology. Last week when describing "collapsing headings" in Word 2013 I stated, "…when you hover over that created section a small triangle appears to the right of the text." That should actually be the "to the left of the text." Thanks to the users who…
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Office 2013–Word, Part 2
Thanks for the emails showing your interest in the new Microsoft Office. We will look into it some more today. Last week we looked at the “Read Mode” and PDF conversion as well as editing options in Word 2013. Today we will look at some other features which are new to Word. Another new feature…
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Office 2013–Word
So I made the plunge recently and moved to Microsoft’s latest Office version which is blandly, yet I guess appropriately named "Office 2013." So far my evaluation leans toward… "Yawn." It performs as well as the previous version in most areas I have checked, looks a little different, saves to the cloud a little easier, …