6 Ways to Work More Effectively on a Virtual Team

The number of people working virtually is growing day by day.  This article from Microsoft at Home has some great tips to follow when working virtually.

Working on a virtual team can be a challenge. Communications on global teams, with team members in different time zones, can be difficult. Managing remote teams and keeping track of where people store critical information can be tiresome. Here are some suggestions to help with virtual team management and to help your team work more effectively.

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Did You Know?

You can run a paper bag through your printer.

RSS 101: Get Online Articles Delivered to You

Have you felt overwhelmed by the information thrown at you when opening your web browser to your home page or other favorite websites? Have you ever wondered how you could pare down what you see to only what you really care about? Worry no more! You can indeed raise your efficiency to a whole new level by consuming web information using Really Simple Syndication, or RSS.

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Print Production Fundamentals with Lynda.com

Join author Claudia McCue on a journey that introduces the printing process and reveals the keys to designing a document that prints as well as it looks onscreen. This course takes you on the floors of two commercial print houses (BurdgeCooper and Lithographix), to better understand the life cycle of a print job and observe printing presses in action. Along the way, discover how to better communicate with your printer, choose the correct paper, inks, colors, and fonts for your project, and how to correctly lay out your documents in Adobe Illustrator and InDesign. This course is designed to help you and your printer produce a professionally finished print job, whether it's a business card, brochure, or multipage magazine.

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Basics for Safer Downloading

Whenever you download a file—whether you open a spreadsheet attached to an email message, grab a cool little screensaver or mouse cursor from the web, or download music or video files from someone else's computer—you could be putting your computer at risk.

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Microsoft Excel 2007 - Moving a Cell

Everyone knows how to cut and paste information from one cell to another cell, but did you know that you can drag a cell to a new location?

1.  Click on the cell that you would like to move.
2.  When the four arrow symbol appears, drag the cell to anywhere on your worksheet.

It's easy.  Try it!

Google Calendar Essential Training with Lynda.com

In this course, Google Apps trainer Susan Cline demonstrates how to use this web-based calendar to manage both your personal and professional schedules. The course shows how to invite attendees and assign resources for any event with the scheduling tool, and how to monitor attendee responses. Tutorials on setting up tasks and troubleshooting errors are also included.

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Wi-Fi: 8 Tips for Working Securely from Wireless Hot Spots

Wireless (also known as Wi-Fi) hot spots, are changing the way people work. These wireless local area networks (WLANs) provide high-speed Internet connections in public locations (and at home). You can access them with a wireless-ready mobile PC, such as a laptop, netbook, smartphone, or any other mobile device equipped with a wireless card.

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Did You Know?

Stuffing a dryer sheet in your back pocket will repel mosquitoes.

Microsoft Office - Undo and Redo Shortcut

The "Undo" and "Redo" buttons were the greatest tools ever created by Microsoft.  Here is the keyboard shortcut:

• CTRL+Z = Undo an action.
• CTRL+Y = Redo or repeat an action.

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Editing Video in Photoshop CS6 with Lynda.com

With the release of Photoshop CS6, Adobe introduced the ability to edit video footage. Author Rich Harrington guides you through this brand-new workflow, from building a sequence to working with audio and exporting your video in a variety of high-quality formats. The course also covers how Photoshop's strongest feature, its image enhancement toolset, translates to video, from fixing under- or overexposed footage, performing color balancing, and adding vibrance and contrast to special effects, such as converting to black and white and using Smart Filters to soften skin.

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Gaming Can Make a Better World

My only gaming experience comes at the hands of my nephew, Cole. Each time I visit him, he has a new game to humiliate me. I’ve crashed luxury race cars, fallen over cliffs racing cows and been boo’ed out of the guitar band. Don’t even ask about flying airplanes! So this TED talk fascinated me. Gamers can save the world?!

Games like World of Warcraft give players the means to save worlds, and incentive to learn the habits of heroes. What if we could harness this gamer power to solve real-world problems? Jane McGonigal says we can, and explains how.  “My goal for the next decade is to try to make it as easy to save the world in real life as it is to save the world in online games.” (Jane McGonigal)

Jane McGonigal TED presentation.

5 Productivity Tips for Windows

Here is a great article I've found on Microsoft at Work that has some tips for Windows.   Read the article to find out how to print more easily, find files faster, and send email right from your desktop.

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Did You Know?

The color on the bread tab indicates how fresh the bread is and those colors are in alphabetical order: b, g, r, w, y.

6 Useful Windows Tricks

You know that feeling you get when your friends or family see you do something on your computer that they've never seen before? If you’ve had this experience, you know that “world's coolest power-user” feeling. But if you haven’t, start here. Knowledge is power!

Read these six tips for Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP that will keep you schoolin' your friends and family.

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PowerPoint 2010 Power Shortcuts Videos from Lynda.com

Discover the power shortcuts the pros use to navigate PowerPoint 2010 with ease. Author Alicia Katz Pollock shows how to customize views, work with text, format slides, and publish your final presentation. The course also includes her top 10 tips for working with presentations, including autofitting text, creating custom bullets, and using shapes to mask images and video.

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Excel 2007 - Navigate Between Worksheets

Sometimes you have multiple worksheets and moving between the worksheets can be difficult, especially if not all the worksheets are visible.

Did you know there is a keyboard shortcut to move between worksheets?  Press CTRL and Page Down  to show the next worksheet to the right. Pressing CTRL and Page Up to show the next worksheet to the left.

Did You Know?

You can flip a toaster on its side and grill cheese in it.