Recover Unsaved Documents in Microsoft Office 2010

Have you ever forgotten to save a document or closed a document and hit "don’t save" on accident? Well you can recover it to the last auto save by following these simple steps.

• Click the File tab
• Click on Recent
• On the bottom right click Recover Unsaved Documents
• A window will open with a list of your recent unsaved documents

So the next time you accidently hit “don’t save” you don’t have to get frustrated trying to recreate your document.

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Using the Windows SkyDrive in Office 2010

Here is a neat tool that can especially help when you are working on team projects.  Using windows SkyDrive you can save your documents on a SkyDrive account and access them from anywhere you have internet access.  Also, this allows you to give permission for others to edit your documents as well, all without the hassles that come with emailing your documents.

Here are some quick steps on how to save your documents in your SkyDrive.

• Open the file you want to save
• Click the File tab on the ribbon
• Click Save and Send in the left pane
• Click Save to Web
• Click Sign In enter your Windows Live ID and password (if you do not have a Live ID you can get one here.) 
• Click OK

And now you are done! No need to go to another site and upload your documents.  Also, if you have an older version of Office you can still use this feature, it just requires you to download an Add-in.

Facebook Likes

Here is an interesting article I found in Spirit  Magazine’s January 2013 Edition.

“Facebook processes 2.7 billion ‘Likes’ each day. The social media site’s users—who total one billion, or 1/7 of the earth’s population—are giving this feature a big thumbs up.  But the ‘Like’ button wasn’t always so well-liked—or even called ‘Like.’  In a post on the Q-and -A site Quora, Facebook engineering director Andrew Bosworth explains that ‘like was deemed more universal than the company’s first choice, ‘awesome,’ even though initial employee response was lukewarm. ‘We [had] become attached to ‘awesome’ and, comparatively, ‘like’ seem[ed] bland,’ he says. The digital sentiment as we know it today made its official debut in February 2009. Since then, 1.3 trillion ‘likes’ have been recorded. A quite positive development, indeed.”

Microsoft PowerPoint 2010- Speed Keys

There are some easy ways to speed up your presentation and make it easier to maneuver. Rather than having to go through the slideshow tab to view your show you can just press F5.

Once you are in the presentation mode there are several keys that will make it more simple to show exactly what you want seen.  If there is some reason you need to pause your presentation and do not want a slide shown on the screen you can press B on your keyboard and then a black screen will appear. Also you can press W on the keyboard and a white screen will appear.  Once you are ready to resume your presentation press the Esc key to return to the show.

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Microsoft PowerPoint 2010- Slide Master

Slide Master helps make your formatting (background, font, etc.) the same throughout your presentation, without having to change it on every slide. Having consistent formatting throughout your presentation gives it a more professional appearance.   Also, when you have a lot of slides in a presentation, using the Slide Master will save you LOTS of time. So, with that said, here is how you can use it.

• Click on the View Tab on the Ribbon
• Then click Slide Master
• There you can make all your formatting changes and it will apply these changes to all your slides and to any new slides you create 
• To return to your Normal view, look on the far right side of the ribbon and click Close Master View