With Exchange 2010, you get access to the newly designed Outlook Web App (OWA), which was called Outlook Web Access in earlier versions. When you travel as much as I do, you need a variety of ways to access your information. OWA is at the top of the list for me.
Here are the features I [...]

Did you know one of the top features used in Microsoft Office is Undo? It’s no big surprise to me. I use the feature all the time. Even in Outlook!
The Undo command can undo anything you’ve done in Word such as formatting commands, moving text, typing text, deleting text, adding tables…just about anything you can [...]

Like many of the legal assistants and legal secretaries in your firms, I am a keystroke person. And as such, when I was using Office 2003, I had several keystroke patterns I used regularly to navigate menus when working in Word documents.
With the new ribbon interface in Office 2007 and Office 2010, it was obvious [...]

I’ve been a big fan of the Ribbon interface in Office since it was introduced in Office 2007. But I wasn’t thrilled with having to go to school and learn xml programming to be able to make changes to the Ribbons in Office 2007. Let’s face it, Microsoft has provided a great interface with more [...]

In my technical writing projects and blogs, I often gather screenshots to give my piece more visual appeal. As a visual learner, I know how important it is to see the progression of steps through screenshots and examples. And, hopefully you’ve noticed the abundance of screenshots I’ve used in my blogs. Last week during our [...]

The Groups feature in Outlook 2010, combined with the Schedule View, makes reviewing schedules and setting up meetings with project teams quick and easy. 
Calendar Groups
To create a Group, in the Calendar View you can start by either displaying the calendars to be included then create the group, or create the group then select the calendars [...]

I consider myself to be a road warrior. I travel. Maybe not as much as George Clooney in “Up in the Air,” but I do log plenty of miles on American Airlines and can often be spotted in the hoard of platinum travelers that crush their way to the front of lines to get access [...]

Have you played with the Navigation pane in Word 2010? The Navigation pane has replaced the Document Map and offers some very cool new features.

Navigate
To work with the Navigation pane, you’ll want to have a document that is formatted using heading styles and perhaps numbering as well. From the View/Show, click the Navigation pane check box:

I had the opportunity to collaborate on a PowerPoint presentation recently and the person I was working with chose to use Google Apps so that we could both edit the file at the same time. After a few minutes of working with the slide show, it was obvious that this just wasn’t going to work [...]

Last week I was helping out with invoice approvals. While I was working through the process, I realized that I could work faster if I could record some quick steps for the repetitive process. Located on the Home tab, Quick Steps are new in Outlook 2010 and are easy to setup.

 I needed a Quick Step [...]