Powerpoint Presenter’s View on the Wrong Display
Suppose you’re trying to run a Microsoft PowerPoint 2008 slide show on your Mac, but the Presenter’s View with all your notes shows up on the projector, while the actual slide show is on your laptop. Here’s how to switch them: Within PowerPoint, click in the menu bar: Slide Show > Set Up Show… Click the Screen… button. Note that this only works while your laptop is...
Read MoreWashington D.C. shoots Goo over the bow of Microsoft
Washington DC has recently decided to hang up the keys to the Microsoft Upgrade Closet and adopt Google Apps for its city employees. The choice Washington DC has made will help to cut their budget by $3.5 million in software licensing fees alone. That looks good for taxpayers; not for Microsoft. Of course this doesn’t necessarily spell doom for Redmond, but it doesn’t necessarily look fab...
Read MoreThe Zoho Experiment
When I attended the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco last week, I did not know all of what to expect. I am not surprised that I saw multiple MS Office replacement products. Some were open source and some had minimal cost. But what did surprise me was the variation in quality of the offerings. I won’t name the ones I did not like, but the coolest one by far was Zoho Office. Zoho is...
Read MoreFirst Impression with Numbers
I love Microsoft Excel. The words love and Microsoft don’t usually go together for me. But I think Microsoft Excel is one of the best applications ever written. Microsoft Word has largely sucked–particularly on the Macintosh–ever since version 6. Microsoft did a lot of work to redeem Word when it released Word 98. Still, Microsoft forgets that Word is largely about, well, words....
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