Most people use Microsoft Office PowerPoint for creating presentations. I found some 90 useful PowerPoint shortcuts.
| To Do | Press | |
| 1 | Move clockwise among panes of normal view | F6 |
| 2 | Move counterclockwise among panes of normal view | SHIFT+F6 |
| 3 | Switch between Slides and Outline tabs of the Outline and Slides pane in normal view | CTRL+SHIFT+TAB |
| 4 | Promote a paragraph | ALT+SHIFT+LEFT ARROW |
| 5 | Demote a paragraph | ALT+SHIFT+RIGHT ARROW |
On July 2, 2008 Microsoft announced that it will release an all-in-one software subscription package Microsoft Equipt offers consumers Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007, Windows Live OneCare, Windows Live tools and Office Live Workspace. Microsoft Equipt customers will get the version upgrades as part of their subscriptions. This is the first time when Microsoft come with the concept of of Software as Service. Now Let’s compare both Google services and Microsoft Equipt.
Email and Online Storage: Both Microsoft’s Hotmail and Google’s Gmail offers a sufficient amount of storage. Both E-Mail services are easy to use and have most of the features common in each other. Gmail offers online storage via it’s E-Mail service while Microsoft offers online storage service via it’s SkyDrive service. So while using Google you get around 5 GB of online Storage but with Microsoft services users get 5 GB Storage for E-Mail and 5 GB online storage space.
Office Applications: Google offers office application through it’s GoogleDocs and Microsoft with it’s Microsoft Office Suite. Microsoft Office suite has more features as compare to Google docs but collaboration is missing in Microsoft office. Google docs offers only basic functions but GoogleDocs collaboration features is best as compare to Microsoft office. Microsoft Office Live adds some collaboration but the online editing feature is missing and GoogleDocs offers a better services here.
Security: Google services as of now does not offer any security services and here Microsoft has added it’s OneCare security programs. OneCare offers a number of services like Firewall, Backup, system tuneup and many other services to it’s users.
Price: Google docs and its application yearly subscription for a single employee is cost you around $50. Microsoft Equipt offers it’s all services with just $69.99 per year.Anytime a new version of Office or Windows Live OneCare is released, Microsoft Equipt customers will get the version upgrades as part of their subscriptions.
Download Microsoft Equipt Products and Services Guide
I think, Spammers and Phishers are always come with some new idea and targets to spread spam messages. This time they are targeting Google Calendar. Phishers sending message to Google calendar users to their Gmail Account, With a reference to a legitimate and sender name is Google Customer Care. These messages ask users to verify their account.
A Sample message and Screen shot taken from CNET Website a
We are having congestions (sic) due to the anonymous registration of Gmail accounts so we are shutting down some Gmail accounts and your account was among those to be deleted. We are sending you this email to so that you can verify and let us know if you still want to use this account
Google Calendar Spam Attack
According to SANS Internet Storm Center (ISC) spammers are now targeting Google calendar to spread spam messages. Spammers sending spam messages asking for meeting invites.
Actual content viewable via outlook calendar.
Google Agenda
donald smith, vous êtes invité(e) à participer à
Your pending transfers respond prompt.
sam. 5 avr. 20:30 – 21:30
(Fuseau horaire : Hawaï)
Agenda : donald smith
Compliments and Greetings,
This is an official notification of the availability of your full
entitlement valid 1.2 million which has not been affected due to official negligence. This transfer has been held pending and its original account suspended pending when the benefactor provided the TAX clearance document .but the impostors who are operating in syndicates all over the world today are misled and misguided you about the position of your fund with the sole aim of exporting money from you that explain why you have
not receive the payment up-to-date.However, you are advised to immediately reconfirm your telephone and currant contact/ payment receiving details to this e-mail address (richtransferoffice@yahoo.co.in) .You will receive your payment by:
(1) By wire transfer direct to your nominated bank account.
(2)Issuing you ATM CARD
(3) or by drawing a cashiers cheque payable in your name,
with strict procedures of the International funds transfer rules and regulations in avoidance of unhealthy intents and unnecessary delay.So, let us know which of option you like to receive your monies .But before we proceed, you are required to make a payment of the Non-resident tax of $150 only as the authorities demand which is described as selective payment to enable us effect maximum clearance on your file and automate your full information on the transfer script text to ensure that the payment reach your hand on time through a legal secure way from the exact time frame we initiate our service if you accurately furnished us with our requirement as instructed.
Note that we have no legal right to deduct or add to the value of your funds because your payment has already been keyed into the system for final transfer, thus the compliance with this condition this payment will reach you within 48 banking hour or less.
Yours faithfully,
Johnson Mark
International Clearing House West Africa- BENIN
Affiliate to the World Association of Debt Management.
Google Calendar users please be careful before accepting any meeting requests from unknown sender.
According to Microsoft Office Live Small Business has been subscribed by 1 Million subscribers. Microsoft has designed the service particularly those with fewer than 10 employees. The Redmond company explains that the number of Office Live Small Business has doubled in the past year. This indicates that entrepreneurs are steadily adopting the service and that more and more small businesses become convinced on the need to establish a foothold in the digital world.
Baris Cetinok, director of product management, marketing and planning for Microsoft Office Live Small Business said
From the outset we knew we wanted to tailor Office Live Small Business to the smallest of small businesses because they have unique needs that were not being addressed by any other service at the time. We focused on three key things:
We are able to entice small businesses to come to the Web by making the barriers so low, you can do it yourself and get started for free. Some of our most successful customers have told us that their Web site is their business. It’s not about a static online brochure. When you have back-office tools that talk to your front-office Web presence, your online activities go to a whole new level and help you grow your business.
Microsoft Office Live Small Business is the award-winning service that offers a complete, affordable set of easy-to-use Internet-based tools that help small-business owners get online, attract customers and manage their business. Office Live Small Business has more than 1 million customers in five countries: U.S., U.K., France, Germany and Japan. More information is available at Office Live Small Business.
Zoho Show, an online presentation creation suite has added a number of new features to their presentation services.
Source : Zoho Blog
GoogleDocs now allows users to upload and preview PDF files. GoogleDocs users can share their PDF files. PDF preview feature is similar to Google’s Book preview. Users not able to edit PDF files on GoogleDocs but they can use PDF files to copy and use this text to some other applications.
Source : GoogleDocs Blog
Creating GoogleDocs shortcut is very easy. First logon to your GoogleDocs account and simply follow these steps to create GoogleDocs shortcuts. GoogleDocs shortcut will help GoogleDocs user to quickly open their documents.
For the first time Microsoft has offered an offline campaign management for Ad-center customers, in response to customer requests to have the ability to bulk manage their Ad-Center accounts quickly and easily with an offline tool from a Desktop application which can be uploaded to an Ad-center account.
President of Microsoft Platform & services division, Mr. Kevin Johnson has mentioned this new tool called the Ad-center Desktop Beta.
Unlike other desktop management applications, Ad-Center Desktop includes the Creation Wizard, a tool that provides a step-by-step guide to create online advertising campaigns – from the selection of specific Ad features to previewing the final ad copy.
The adCenter Add-in is a keyword research and optimization tool, which enables you to rapidly build out or
expand keyword lists and plan keyword strategy based on a range of important attributes such as relevance, historical cost, volume, geography and demographics. This Add-in provides the ability to easily research keywords to help you reach the right audience, and capture and convert the right customer.
Google is working very hard to improve and add more-and-more new features to its online office suite. Recently GoogleDocs team has added one very good feature in their Spreadsheet that is E-Mail notification. When ever some one edited your Google Spreadsheet then you will be notified by the E-Mail.
Docs user Bob Yang picked up on this new feature and created an effective and dead simple video, showing the steps to setting up notification emails for your spreadsheet.
On 1st June 4, 2008 Adobe launched a web based alternative to its poplar PDF document format creation service. Acrobat.com has four principal components: a word processor called Buzzword; online file sharing via a feature called Share; a file converter that lets you convert up to five documents per month, free, to PDF format (offered within Share); and ConnectNow for personal Web conferencing. Adobe also makes API’s available for developers so they can create service mash-ups more easily. Have a closer look to each of these four components of Acrobat.com
Adobe has acquired Virtual Ubiquity that has developed an online flash based word processor named as Buzz Word. Buzz Word is not Microsoft Office Word, but it offers you some basic functionalities including document creation, formatting, inserting tables and images. Buzz Word has very simple to learn and use user interface. Users can import a verity of documents in Buzz Word including Word (.doc, .docx and .XML), .RTF, and .txt. You can also export to HTML or to PDF formats.
 |
|
