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Microsoft Office 365 is an increasingly attractive option to enterprises thinking of moving to the cloud and according to Gartner estimates, 20 per cent of businesses will own no on-premises IT assets by the end of this year, 2012. At a recent...

PowerPoint 2010 offers many ways to improve presentations to make them look interesting, clearer and more professional. Better presentations can be the key to new job opportunities and for disseminating information about an important project. In a...

According to Wikipedia, the phrase, "A picture is worth a thousand words," expresses the idea that a complex concept can be easily understood using just a single image. It also aptly characterises one of the main goals of visualisation, namely...

Microsoft Excel 2010 fills the gap between Microsoft Project 2010 and a simple 'To Do' list, helping you plan and keep track of smaller scale projects. A home or office move, monitoring targets against performance, planning an event or a small...

When considering a move to a cloud solution such as Microsoft Office 365, you need to ask a few key questions - do you move exclusively to the cloud, maintain your Exchange in the office (on-premise) or go for a hybrid model? This straightforward...

In the first part of this article, I confessed my new found love for OneNote 2010. Although OneNote 2010 comes as part of Microsoft Office 2010, due to a custom setup, it had never been installed on my system, until the day my company migrated to...

In April 2012 Microsoft Corporation announced an agreement with the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) to deploy Office 365 for education in more than 10,000 technical colleges and institutes throughout India. The deal means that the...

As we have seen in our previous article, Enhance PowerPoint Slides with Animation, PowerPoint 2010 has a range of powerful features that can be used to make presentations more professional, more exciting and dynamic. A great set of PowerPoint slides...

Rows and rows of dry data can look dull and be difficult to navigate and analyse. With Excel 2010, you're just a click away from a professional looking choice of graphs (called charts).  These graphics are a godsend for making presentations...

Are you new to Office 2010? If you have used a previous version of Microsoft Word, the new more graphical approach may seem a bit daunting, but once you know where everything is you'll find Word 2010 easier to use. In this short article, we cover...

Microsoft Excel 2010 is great for working with calculations, statistics and large volumes of data. Looking through lots of information can be a little dry or hard on the eyes.  In this article, we'll look at the Format Cells dialog box to...

Excel 2010 allows you to work easily with numbers, quickly organising and calculating data. When amounts change, Excel will automatically recalculate the totals, percentages, and any other results. In this article, we look at the basics of a...

About Templates In previous articles, we've shown how a template is the format that a new document comes in, before you add any text or pictures of your own. The default template is a blank document, with standard margins and no text, but you can...

PowerPoint has been able to open more than one presentation in previous versions, but version 2010 is the first that opens each in a separate instance of the application, making it much easier to work between two or more shows. The obvious use for...

Microsoft OneNote became standard with Office 2010 and some packages of Office 2007 and 2003, but unfortunately has lain under the radar not getting the recognition it deserves for some time. Many non-technical users will have no idea what OneNote...

If you have never used Microsoft Office 2007 or 2010, you may be surprised and even a little bit confused (assuming you've used previous versions) by what you see when you first run an application. In Office 2010, the menus and toolbars in the main...

Word 2010 offers an exciting range of impressive-looking document templates that can save you time and give an extra professional feel to your documents. These templates are often used by companies to help users ensure that all the relevant...

As we have seen in our previous article, Enhance PowerPoint Slides with Animation, animations are important for helping slide content come alive, however there are several considerations that must be thought through when using animations. These...

Publisher 2010 offers many methods for designing pages quickly and easily. Obviously, you can start with one of the hundreds of templates provided with the program, or downloadable from Office.com, but if you prefer to start with a blank page, you...

We've all heard the phrase "Death by PowerPoint." The factors that cause this response could be anything; how the presenter presents, the mind set of the audience at the time, or the actual presentation. Although, we can't do anything about the...

Lync 2010 is available for Android phones, BlackBerry, iOS, Symbian and of course Microsoft Windows Phone. However, once Lync 2010 has been configured for a company, users will still be unable to use the Lync application unless they download the...

Lync 2010 is available for Android phones, BlackBerry, iOS, Symbian and of course Microsoft Windows Phone. However, once Lync 2010 has been configured for a company, users will still be unable to use the Lync application unless they download the...