Attendees
Stanton Biddle, Janey Chao, Arthur Downing, Jin Ma, Bob Makarowski, Rita Ormsby, Ryan Phillips, Kevin Wolf and Stella Varveris
This Tech Sharecase we focused on sharing of our comments, tips, tricks, complaints for using Microsoft Office 2010 products. The following is a list of the tips and tricks we covered:
- To minimize the ribbon, you can either double-click any tab or click the caret (a.k.a. chevron) in the upper right-hand corner.
- Pressing the Alt button will display hot keys for tabs or options within tabs. One can navigate the ribbon with these hot keys and forgo using the mouse.
- Office users can create sparklines within Excel using their spreadsheet data.
- Users are able to customize the ribbon to add or subtract new tabs or items within tabs. In order to do this follow: File>Options>Customize Ribbon.
- Conversion to PDF is standard in Microsoft Office applications under Save As. Users no longer need to purchase the Adobe PDF add-on.
- In PowerPoint, we explored SmartArt (Under Insert and Illustrations). This is a convenient way to add smart looking graphical displays of information not previously available in previous Office versions.
- The Quick Access tool bar above the tabs can also be modified to add or subtract different commands such as Print, Save, Open, Spell Check, et cetera–commonly used items.
- Screenshots of open browser or other application windows can be captured straight from PowerPoint under Insert>Images>Screenshot. Microsoft refers to the screenshots as Screen Clippings.
Also discussed were how Baruch may roll out global settings for Microsoft Office. Some options that may be a possibility follow:
- Standardize RSS Feeds with campus content
- Listen to voicemail messages from within Outlook.
- IM people through Outlook within the Baruch directory and outside public
- Web conferencing, one-to-many
- Voice over IP
