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1, 2, 3s of Time Management

Time Management is similar to money or diet management. If you are looking to make a change, you need to catch a new vision of yourself, monitor your behavior and let go of bad habits. Unlike money and food, there is no way to get your time back. In this ... Read >

Creating a Table of Contents using Word 2007

If someone asked you to write a short book on a topic of your expertise, your document would include a cover page, Table of Contents, Chapters, etc., etc. Finally, you are almost done but for a few last minute additions and you realize you now have to upd... Read >

New Access 2007 Form and Report Design Features

New Access 2007 Form and Report Design Features Access 2007 has some new features that are specific to form and report objects. As a programmer and Access database designer, much of my work focuses on Access forms, because this is where we want the typica... Read >

Some Impressive New Excel 2007 Features

As a PC user for over twenty years now, I started with a monochrome screen, DOS, and Lotus 123 as the major spreadsheet program of the day. Some of you go that far back too. As good as Lotus 123 was, I was very impressed the first time I used Excel in 198... Read >

Project 2007 New Features

Microsoft Project 2007 is a powerful tool for creating and managing projects. As a Microsoft Office software instructor, I have had the opportunity to use and train Microsoft Project for over ten years now. This has given me the opportunity to see the pro... Read >

Time Management Begins With Vision

So you've been to a bunch of dinner parties lately, and you're getting a little fat. What do you do? Easy--stop snacking and hit the gym. Likewise if your wallet is getting a little slim: you set up a budget and stick to it. These two common problems have... Read >

Several Valuable New Excel 2007 Database Analysis Features

As a Microsoft Office instructor for fifteen years, I have used and taught the numerous and powerful features that Excel has to offer. I enjoyed applying and sharing these great features since the first time I used Excel in 1989. I remember when I first u... Read >

Some Very Valuable New PowerPoint 2007 Features

As you probably know, PowerPoint is a powerful tool for creating and delivering presentations. As a Microsoft Office Suite software instructor for over fifteen years, I have enjoyed helping people get the most out of this robust application. It has been i... Read >

New Access 2007 Features

Having worked with databases over twenty years now, it never ceases to amaze me how much the storing and tracking of data has been improved. Basically, at their core, databases store data for your convenience, giving you the ability to easily enter the da... Read >

Do not be used by PowerPoint, Use PowerPoint to Present!

If you remember Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey, " you might recall when the space ship's HAL 9000 computer says to Dave the astronaut, "I know you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen." Is th... Read >

Access vs. Excel - Which should I use for my database?

As a Microsoft Office software instructor for fifteen years, I am sometimes asked whether to use Access or Excel to keep track of database information and calculate summaries, subtotals or complex formulas and functions with the data. The fact is that Exc... Read >

Top 5 New Features in Photoshop CS4

On the 23 September 2008 Adobe Systems announced the release of the highly anticipated latest version of Photoshop, Photoshop CS4. Photoshop has long been the industry standard professional digital image manipulation program. It fact it would be hard t... Read >

Why Learn PHP and MySQL?

PHP today is the most widely used back-end programming language used on the Web. PHP stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. PHP is an open source language, which effectively means it is free to use, it's very well supported with tons of books and online... Read >

The Future of Rich Internet Applications

Since my very first Adobe Max conference five years ago, the then Macromedia (before their acquisition by Adobe) were talking about Rich Internet Applications or RIA's as the future of the Web. At the time they had recently launch Flex 1 and were predicti... Read >

How to build an HTML website

As market conditions get tighter, management expect staff to become more multi-skilled. Often marketing and administration staff are tasked with the job of building or at least maintaining the company's website, a daunting task for someone with little or ... Read >