Killer Content

Who’s who? More than anything else, staff want to get in touch with other staff. Most organizations are poor at facilitating such interactions.
Much has been made of knowledge management over the years. We’re all living in the knowledge society and economy and we’re all knowledge workers. But what is the foundation-the corner stone-of knowledge management?
There [...]

Does Technology Make Manager Lazy?

Technology does not replace the need for good management.
Without such management, technology can create more problems than it solves.
It’s hard to resist the easy option. Buy this customer relationship management (CRM) software, and you will efficiently and cost-effectively be able to manage your customer relationships. Buy this content management software, and you will be able [...]

Truth Sells on the Web

It has rarely made sense for a business to advertise its weaknesses. Until the Web, that is.
There is a book on Amazon called “Introducing Operations Management”. It has received a one-star average from readers.
One review begins: “I am a senior in college and I have used and read many, many textbooks but this is the [...]

Exploding Word files seems to be a very common probelm for most people, myelf included.

 <Would appreciate any other advice you have regarding taming/controlling
auto updates on styles – as this is when the file size explodes….If this happens, it usually means something has crept into the Normal.dot template file. This is Word’s master template where all settings are saved.
1. What I do is locate this file and delete it (or [...]

Help! I need to go back to the way it was

You can tell Word to undo a mistake you’ve made and to change it back to what you wrote a few minutes ago.
If you’ve made a mistake when writing, for example deleted a few paragraphs by accident, the first reaction may be to panic. How do I get it back? Do I have to write [...]

Shortcut to View All Word Toolbars

Here’s a great trick to make Word easier to use.
You can customize Word so that is shows all the different toolbars on your screen. This saves you time looking for those special fuctions you’re always after. Of course, you can also turn off the ones you dont want later.
Here’s how to view all the toolbars.
1. [...]

Add-in Express – The First Visual Designer and Component Set

Add-in Express 2007 for VSTO is the first toolkit on the development components market that provides visual designers for application-level customization and enhancement of the Microsoft Office 2007 and 2003 on Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005.
Using the designers Office developers customize the Ribbon UI for their Office 2007 plug-ins, add elements to Ribbon tabs, [...]

See Office Communicator 2007 Video

David Berlind at ZDNet introduces Microsoft’s beta version of its unified communications suite adding that “The pair of solutions is known as Office Communicator 2007 (the client side) and Office Communicator Server 2007 (the server side). In favor of Office Communicator Server, Microsoft is dropping the old product name Live Communications Server (2005) or LCS.”
There is [...]

Sparklines – Word-sized Graphs

SparkMaker lets you visualize numerical data in dashboards and spreadsheets, reports and presentations. Sparklines compress large amounts of data into intense, word-sized diagrams (e.g. miniaturized bar or line graphs). They are created within a single spreadsheet cell or even directly inside a text paragraph.
The new Bissantz SparkMaker 3.0 empowers Microsoft® Office users to create their [...]

Password Recovery Software for MS Office Files

Accent OFFICE Password Recovery helps recover lost or forgotten passwords for documents created in Microsoft Office applications, including Access, Excel, Word.
• Point and click mask configuration – Use the on-screen mask representation to specify the range of possible values individually for each position in the mask of password that will be generated.
• Smart dictionary-based attack [...]