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Using Dia As a Free Replacement for Microsoft Visio (7)
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This article is part of Mysticgeek's Realm, a How-To Geek Blog focused on cyber geekery. The retail price of diagramming software Microsoft Visio 2007 ranges between $550 to $259 depending on if you choose professional or standard, which is a lot of money for somebody on a budget. Since we love to write about replacing expensive applications with high quality free alternatives, today we are writing about Dia, a free alternative. Dia is capable of ...Shared by Aaron R (61) Bill (17) Cai Chen (738) chris (285) Leena (781) Nigel Eccles (147) nparker13 (67)Contribute comment -
Not As Good As? No, Better! (1)
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I’ve often heard staff express concern that "that open source stuff isn’t as good as…." fill in the blank with whatever proprietary software they are familiar with. Funny thing is a lot of open source software isn’t less than or even as good as the other stuff - it’s better than it! Case in point - OpenOffice.org productivity suite. OpenOffice offers you the ability to use word processing (Writer), spreadsheets (Calc), presentations (Impress), database (Base), ...Shared by Glen Horton (1)Contribute comment -
Work With MS Office Documents Efficiently With Office Live Workspace (1)
onMicrosoft has actually come up with some impressive stuff with their Live services. One of the newer features still in Beta but open to anyone is Office Live Workspace. The purpose of Office Live Workspace is to allow more efficient access and use of documents both for yourself and other team members. Instead of having to email attachments or store data on easily to lose flash drives, all of your documents can now be stored ...Shared by Andre (5)Contribute comment
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Featured Windows Download: Free PDF to Word Doc Converter Is Exactly That (3)
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Windows only: There are many, many tools to convert Microsoft Word files into PDF documents, including those built into the latest office suites, but what about the other way around? Free PDF to Word Doc Converter is a small program that solves a big headache for some office and document workers. Load up a PDF, choose how you want to export the file—including images, shapes, and text layout functions—and hit the convert button. My own ...Contribute comment -
Personal.xls e Excel: coppia insopportabile (1)
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Post prettamente tecnico e risolutivo per tutti coloro che dovessero riscontrare il problema del quale vado a parlarvi e che ho risolto per conto di un utente giustamente seccato. La combinazione: Microsoft Excel per l’elaborazione di fogli di calcolo, utilizzo più o meno intensivo di macro anche personalizzate, un file personal.xls che si apre ogni volta che si avvia lo stesso Excel (da solo o aprendo un documento da modificare). La versione di Microsoft Office ...Shared by ilMatte81 (0)Contribute comment -
Making Engaging Digital Presentations With Freepath (5)
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Freepath 2.0 is a new application that lets you create presentations that are mashups of web content and content from your PC. So, instead of a traditional PowerPoint, for example, your Freepath presentation could combine a PowerPoint file with images, videos, music, PDFs, Word, and Excel documents and play them as a seamless digital presentation. You can integrate web content like YouTube videos, slideshow’s from slide.com, music from Pandora, images from flickr or photobucket, and ...Contribute comment -
Calling All Home Based Business Owners (2)
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This content from: Duct Tape Marketing Calling All Home Based Business Owners Was a time when home based meant - “not really a business” but, oh how times and technology and lifestyles change. Today home based often means, choice, family, hip, fireplace, dog, freedom, serious income and a host of other very cool things. That’s why I love that my friend Rich Sloan of StartUpNation has put so much energy into creating the HomeBased100 competition ...Shared by abrudtkuhl (0) Elise (2)Contribute comment -
Add More Functions To Office 2007 By Installing Add-Ins (3)
onThis article is part of Mysticgeek's Realm, a How-To Geek blog focused on IT geekery. Sometimes in your daily work routine you might need some extra features from the Microsoft Office Suite. One way to get extra functionality is through Office Add-Ins. Sometimes these are bundled with Office but not included with the initial installation. These are easily accessed and installed. Here I will show how to install an add-in with Excel. Open Excel and ...Contribute comment
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Add More Functions To Office 2007 By Installing Add-Ins (2)
onThis article is part of Mysticgeek's Realm, a How-To Geek blog focused on IT geekery. Sometimes in your daily work routine you might need some extra features from the Microsoft Office Suite. One way to get extra functionality is through Office Add-Ins. Sometimes these are bundled with Office but not included with the initial installation. These are easily accessed and installed. Here I will show how to install an add-in with Excel. Open Excel and ...Shared by James Dorminey (6) Joe (53)Contribute comment
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Create A Flow Chart In Word 2007 (4)
onThis article is part of Mysticgeek's Realm, a How-To Geek blog focused on IT geekery. Flowcharts are a very good way to get a new idea explained in a presentation. Office 2007 has some great new tools for creating a visual appealing flowchart which can be used from Excel, Word or PowerPoint. Here we will take a look at creating a simple flowchart in Word 2007. For the sake of this article I am going ...Contribute comment
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Flow chart in Word 2007 (6)
onThis article is part of Mysticgeek's Realm, a How-To Geek blog focused on IT geekery. Flowcharts are a very good way to get a new idea explained in a presentation. Office 2007 has some great new tools for creating a visual appealing flowchart which can be used from Excel, Word or PowerPoint. Here we will take a look at creating a simple flowchart in Word 2007. For the sake of this article I am going ...Contribute comment
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Create A Flow Chart In Word 2007 (1)
onThis article is part of Mysticgeek's Realm, a How-To Geek blog focused on IT geekery. Flowcharts are a very good way to get a new idea explained in a presentation. Office 2007 has some great new tools for creating a visual appealing flowchart which can be used from Excel, Word or PowerPoint. Here we will take a look at creating a simple flowchart in Word 2007. For the sake of this article I am going ...Shared by Tony S. (5)Contribute comment
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Bulk Convert Old Documents to Office 2007 Format [Microsoft Office Tip] (24)
onIf you have a bunch of older Office documents to convert to the Office 2007 format and you want to do it quickly, tech blog Digital Inspiration offers an excellent tutorial on getting it done. No need to open and convert each individual file—instead, you can convert entire directories in bulk.Shared by Alec Peden (6) bendi (0) Brenton (5) carruth98 (10) Christian Santos (59) danliebke (47) DaveBinM (4) Ed Kopp (20) Erik J. Heels (27) Evgeni L. / Reepicheep (8) Hasan (21) Jana (2) Jonas (2) Lido (5) Marcel (5) marcusmeisel (4) nick4eva (2) nilegomez (3) Rodrigo (6) Steve (1) Terren (0) Ulises (5) Xdroot (31) 攻疼新一 (200)
- Erik J. Heels said: If you value your data, don't convert it to a proprietary format. See:http://www.erikjheels.com/?p=233
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Bulk Convert Old Documents to Office 2007 Format [Microsoft Office Tip] (4)
onIf you have a bunch of older Office documents to convert to the Office 2007 format and you want to do it quickly, tech blog Digital Inspiration offers an excellent tutorial on getting it done. No need to open and convert each individual file—instead, you can convert entire directories in bulk.Contribute comment
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用 Outlook 收发 Windows Live Hotmail 邮件 (1)
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有了 Microsoft Office Outlook Connector，您就可以使用 Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 或 Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 免费访问和管理您的 Microsoft Windows Live Hotmail 或 Microsoft Office Live Mail 帐户，组织电子邮件、联系人和日历！所有 Windows Live Hotmail 帐户都可以在 Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 或 Office Outlook 2003 中使用，无论您使用的是免费还是付费的 Windows Live Hotmail 帐户。Shared by bunny (8)Contribute comment -
Persuading people that OpenOffice.org is the right choice? Accentuate the negative. (1)
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I blogged about this item recently. http://openoffice... It's about how people are more inclined to fear loss than to be motivated by gain. (And also about how a cheap placebo is less effective than an expensive placebo.) That was pretty depressing because it seemed like people are hard-coded to not be interested in Openoffice.org (free, and gaining money in the budget to do other things with), when they could clearly benefit from switching from MS ...Shared by Steve (4)Contribute comment -
Microsoft Brings Cheap Office 2007 Back; More Countries Coming Soon (2)
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Note: This deal is for the United States only, but details regarding other countries is below. Microsoft has brought back the Office 2007 Ultimate for students at a geekilicous price. When you visit TheUltimateSteal.com students will be able to receive Microsoft Office 2007 Ultimate for just $60. That’s a whopping 91% off of the retail cost. Office Ultimate 2007 comes with Access, Accounting Express, Excel, Groove, InfoPath, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint, Publisher, and Word. That’s not ...Shared by Chris K (2) Steve M. (14)Contribute comment -
Microsoft Brings Cheap Office 2007 Back; More Countries Coming Soon (2)
onNote: This deal is for the United States only, but details regarding other countries is below. Microsoft has brought back the Office 2007 Ultimate for students at a geekilicous price. When you visit TheUltimateSteal.com students will be able to receive Microsoft Office 2007 Ultimate for just $60. That’s a whopping 91% off of the retail cost. Office Ultimate 2007 comes with Access, Accounting Express, Excel, Groove, InfoPath, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint, Publisher, and Word. That’s not ...Shared by Chris K (2) Steve M. (14)Contribute comment
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Microsoft Office Slipstreamer (5)
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It has just been a week ago that I reviewed the Microsoft Office Integrator, a tool that made it possible to create a new Office installation disk containing all the official Office Service Packs and Updates that have been released by Microsoft. Microsoft Office Slipstreamer looks pretty much alike and one could think that both software programs have been developed by the same person. There are however some differences that are worth to be mentioned. ...Contribute comment -
Múltiples vulnerabilidades en Microsoft Office (1)
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Este martes, Microsoft publicó 11 boletines de seguridad correspondientes al mes de agosto. Entre las actualizaciones, se lanzaron algunos parches para Microsoft Office que corrige múltiples vulnerabilidades calificadas como críticas. Los problemas resueltos van desde fallos de corrupción de memoria hasta vulnerabilidades de ejecución de código remoto que podrían permitir a un atacante tomar el control del equipo de la víctima por medio de archivos maliciosamente modificados. Los productos afectados son Microsoft Office 2000/XP/2003/2007, Microsoft ...Shared by andresv.uy (3)Contribute comment
