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4 Links about Microsoft Office in this week: 18 Dec 2009

Recipebeta — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:17:47 +0000

Microsoft Office ‘03 bug prevents access to protected documents
Back when Microsoft released Office 2003, with new digital-rights management features, watchdog groups were concerned that the software would hurt corporate whistleblowers by preventing documents from being forwarded or printed.Six years later, it turns out that the real challenge is simply allowing authorized users to open their own protected documents.
How to Give a Bad Presentation
Actually, how to give a good presentation. Scientists/Engineers are not really formally trained on public speaking/ data display, and this 6 minute video highlights four mistakes we see all the time. Help! You too can tell a good science story! … powerpoint bad good presentation public speaking science engineeering.
Get a Free PDF Book on Office 2010
Microsoft Office 2010 is an upcoming title by Katherine Murray that will quickly walk you though most of the new features in Office 2010 including video editing, photo effects, backstage view, co-authoring documents, sparklines, etc. The book has the following chapters. It was written before Office 2010 beta was released in public and therefore barely mentions Office Web Apps and Office 2010 for mobile phones.
Improved Security In Microsoft Office 2010
Microsoft has made Office 2010 available in public beta. After playing around with it for a while, I am not yet sure I need any of the new functionality. I was perfectly happy with the rather old Office XP, and the ribbon introduced in 2007 still confuses me. However, there are a number of interesting, out-of-the-box security enhancements in the 2010 version that make Office 2010 a recommended upgrade.

Frequently Used Drawing Tricks in Microsoft PowerPoint

Recipebeta — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:04:36 +0000

Drawing in Microsoft PowerPoint is not so troublesome since there are not so many drawing tools, filters or matte skills like Adobe PhotoShop. It’s possible that everyone could take control of it. Here I’ll introduce several frequently used drawing skills.

Draw Square Rectangle or Polygon

Press Shift key during Shape Drawing to generate square shapes is a common sense and very simple actually. However, it may be the most used trick to draw shapes, scale pictures even grouped objects.
Align Objects
There’s a powerful align tool in PowerPoint that could be ignored by freshman. Align objects appropriately could make presentation look neat and professional. To launch align tool, find Arrange from Drawing section under Home group:

Then follow Align submenu in Arrange drop-down menu. Here you could see several align mode like Align left, Align Top, Distribute Horizontally, Distribute Vertically, etc.

In addition, you can also change Grid Settings to determine whether snap objects to grid or other objects or not.
Layer and Objects Group
The order of Objects in the same slide is different and can be changed freely. You can bring an object to front or send to back to set the display layer of multiple objects.

Then the objects will be shown as follows:

Group objects is the skill that you must grasp to apply or create PowerPoint templates. It’s also very important to learn advanced graphics design in PowerPoint. You can get beautiful or 3D effects by grouping several objects.
Use Gradient Fill Effects for Shapes
Gradient Fill is the great way to bring gorgeous effects to your shapes and presentation. Mostly we get gradient fill effects by using two gradient stops of color or transparency.

4 Links about Office 2010 in This Week: 4 Dec 2009

Recipebeta — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:19:31 +0000

Office 2010 Beta Hits a Milestone!
Microsoft Office 2010 beta hits 1M downloads in two weeks. This means that more than 1 million people across the world are now experiencing and testing the next version of Office.
Microsoft Confirms Release Of Office 2010 In June.
Redmond, Washington — After quietly releasing the Office 2010 public beta, software maker Microsoft is reportedly prepping the next major release of its productivity applications suite — Office 2010 — right on time, in June of its namesake year.
Five security lessons learned from Office 2010.
The upcoming version of Microsoft’s productivity suite rethinks how desktop applications should approach security.
Enhance Office 2010 Beta with Filter Packs.
Office 2010 (Beta) Filter Packs are currently available at Microsoft Download Center at no charge, and they will enhance the way that end users can access information related to documents of the Office productivity suite.

Essentially, the Office 2010 (Beta) Filter Packs make it possible for data stored into files produced with the Office System to be searchable and indexable.

Best Alternative Solutions for Microsoft Office Word

Recipebeta — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:58:08 +0000

Word processing may be the indispensable in our daily. Microsoft Word is amost the monopoly of the market. However, the price is also expensive to many people. Hopefully, there are many excellent applications that could be the substitute for it. And here I’ll introduce several alternative to Office Word.

OpenOffice.org

OpenOffice.org is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more.Many of the components of OpenOffice.org are designed to mirror those available in Microsoft Office. The components available include: Writer (A word processor), Calc (A spreadsheet), Impress (A presentation program), BaseA database management program, DrawA vector graphics editor Math tool for creating and editing mathematical formulae.

Download OpenOffice.org | OpenOffice.org Portable
IBM Lotus Symphony

IBM Lotus Symphony is a suite of applications for creating, editing, and sharing text, spreadsheet, presentations and other documents, and is currently distributed as freeware.Symphony supports the OpenDocument and Office Open XML formats, as well as the binary Microsoft Office and Lotus SmartSuite formats.[1] It can also export Portable Document Format (PDF) files.Download IBM Lotus Symphony
AbiWord

AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks.AbiWord allows you to collaborate with multiple people on one document at the same time. It is tightly integrated with the AbiCollab.net web service, which lets you store documents online, allows easy document sharing with your friends, and performs format conversions on the fly.

Download AbiWord | AbiWord Portable
Jarte

JarteJarte is a word processor for users of Microsoft Windows, based around the WordPad engine. In terms of market appeal, Jarte sits between the feature laden Microsoft Word and other more basic word processors such as Notepad. The standard version of Jarte is offered free of charge, while an enhanced version called Jarte Plus may be purchased.

Download Jarte
NeoOffice

NeoOfficeJarte is a word processor for users of Microsoft Windows, based around the WordPad engine. In terms of market appeal, Jarte sits between the feature laden Microsoft Word and other more basic word processors such as Notepad. The standard version of Jarte is offered free of charge, while an enhanced version called Jarte Plus may be purchased.NeoOfficeNeoOffice

NeoOffice is an office suite for Mac OS X. It is a fork of the free/open source OpenOffice.org that implements nearly all of the features of the corresponding OpenOffice.org version, including a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation program, and graphics program.

Download NeoOffice for MAC OS X
Bean

Bean

Bean is a small, easy-to-use word processor (or more precisely, a rich text editor), designed to make writing convenient, efficient and comfortable. Bean is Open Source, fully Cocoa, and is available free of charge! MS Word, OpenOffice, etc. try to be all things to all people. But sometimes you just want the right tool for the job. That is Bean’s niche.

Download Bean for MAC OS X

Other Word Processing Applications you could have a try:

Kingsoft office 2009
Kingsoft Office 2009

Open, Save and Create any kind of Office document, Spreadsheet or PowerPoint Presentation, without any difference in style and layout – Yup.

KSO09 is not based on OpenOffice, It’s the quickest, smallest, 100% Microsoft™ compatible office system for Windows.

Learn more about Kingsoft office 2009
EIOffice 2009

EIOffice, also known as Evermore Integrated Office, is a proprietary Office suite by Evermore software. Supported operating systems include Microsoft Windows and Linux. It is marketed internationally in multiple languages. Dell Japan sells the Office suite in partnership with e frontier, Inc. as an optional package for their Ubuntu Linux netbooks. The EIOffice supports Office Open XML document file formats.Learn more about EIOffice 2009
EasyOffice/ONE SE (Special Edition)
EasyOffice

For those users who don’t quite need all the applications in ONE, but still require the basic office applications with some helpful utilities as well, ONE SE is a 20 title suite offering the core business programs. From a price/performance ratio, ONE SE rivals any office suite on the market today making it the true alternative

Learn more about EasyOffice (ONE SE)

Best Freewares to Convert PowerPoint Presentation to Video

Recipebeta — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:32:50 +0000

You may have created powerful PowerPoint presentations with beautiful transitions. However, if you want to enjoy your presentations on YouTube or DVD player, you have to convert PowerPoint to video files.

Here I’ll introduce several excellent freewares to easily convert PowerPoint presentations.

1. iSpring Free

PowerPoint Converter: iSpring_Free

Free PowerPoint to Flash converter promptly creates web-friendly Flash (.SWF) movies from your PowerPoint content (.PPT, .PPS, .PPTX, .PPSX) keeping its visual parameters, animation effects and slide transitions, audio narrations, video and Flash objects after conversion.

iSpring Free works within PowerPoint, transforming it into a fast and easy Flash authoring tool. It is compatible with any PowerPoint version 2000/XP/2003/2007 installed on a Windows machine. To create Flash files viewable on any device from your PowerPoint presentations, just install iSpring Free, open your PowerPoint presentation, click Quick Publish and get Flash slideshows from your PPT presentations in just a few seconds.

Download: iSpring Free.

2. Xilisoft PowerPoint to Video Converter Free

PowerPoint Converter: Xilisoft PowerPoint to Video Converter

Xilisoft PowerPoint to Video Converter Free converts PowerPoint presentations to video formats in AVI, MP4, WMV, MPEG-2 or MOV so you can play them on computers with no PowerPoint program installed or on popular multimedia devices, as well as convert your presentation to FLV video so you can upload them on YouTube or other video-sharing sites.

With Xilisoft PowerPoint to Video Converter Free, you are no longer limited to just Microsoft PowerPoint, but you are free to play them on other devices as you wish! Now supports Windows 7.

Download: Xilisoft PowerPoint to Video Converter Free.

3. authorPOINTTM Lite

PowerPoint Converter: authorPOINT Lite

You can share your presentations online on the web through authorPOINT Lite, by uploading to authorSTREAM (see how), a free online presentation sharing platform, and to WiZiQ (see how), a free online education platform. authorPOINT Lite is Microsoft® Windows® Vista® compatible and Microsoft Office® 2007 compatible. You can also directly share your PowerPoint’s on these servers, using aP Lite’s PowerPoint plug-in, for which the conversion to flash outputs is done on these servers.

authorPOINT Lite provides the option to share presentations either as “Public” or “Private”. The private option lets you share presentations securely with only registered users that you invite. Registration is free.

Download: authorPOINTTM Lite.

4. Acoolsoft PPT2YouTube

PowerPoint Converter: Acoolsoft PPT2YouTube

Free PowerPoint to YouTube Converter – Convert Your PowerPoint Presentation to Youtube Video.

Acoolsoft PPT2YouTube is a completely free tool which helps users easily convert fantastic PowerPoint to YouTube video for free. All you need to do is to import your PowerPoint files and click Start. This PowerPoint to YouTube converter will automatically convert PowerPoint to MP4 with animations, transitions, sounds and video clips retained. And then you can effortlessly upload it to YouTube for wide sharing.

Download: Acoolsoft PPT2YouTube

5. E.M. Free PowerPoint Video Converter

PowerPoint Converter: E.M. Free PowerPoint Video Converter

E.M. Free PowerPoint Video Converter is FREE an all-in-one PowerPoint to video converter. It can convert PowerPoint to AVI, MPG, WMV, BMP images and MP3 audio.

Easy-To-Use, High-Quality Program, Quickly converts PowerPoint to avi, wmv, mpg, bmp, mp3.
Support input ppt, pps, pptx, ppsx files.

Download: E.M. Free PowerPoint Video Converter

10 Links about Microsoft Office 2010 in This Week: 20 Nov 2009

Recipebeta — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:58:33 +0000

Ideas are everything. Microsoft Office 2010 gives you powerful new tools to express your ideas, solve problems, and connect with people.

Microsoft Office 2010: Public Beta

If you’re curious what”ll be new in Office 2010, the beta is worth a look. You can download Microsoft Office 2010 Beta right here.

If your are a developer, you’d better download Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 Beta. If you are an IT Professional, try to download IT Pro version of Office 2010 beta. [via Microsoft Offers Public Beta of Office 2010: Download Details]

Microsoft Office 2010: Installing

If you look into In-depth of office 2010 you can easily come to know these changes made in this product. There are some figure shows the Installation Options on Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus Edition.

The Office 2010 beta also provides an option to upgrade your existing version of Office 2007 to Office 2010. You can either chose to upgrade the current version of Office to Office 2010 beta or selecting Customize allows you to set your current version of Microsoft Office to coexist with Office 2010 Beta.

Microsoft Office 2010: Review & Analysis

Microsoft Office 2010 beta is an intriguing beta and Microsoft’s next big challenge. You can check the top new features of Office 2010 and also there are some videos for Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook 2010 beta.

Microsoft Office 2010: Several Learing Resources

Improving Microsoft Office 2010 via five ways

Backstage View in pictures of Microsoft Office 2010

Save Documents Directly to Your SkyDrive

Convert Word, Excel, PowerPoint To PDF in Microsoft Office 2010

Convert And Save PowerPoint To Video/Movie With Office 2010

Basic While Essential Excel Macros You Must Grab

Recipebeta — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:26:12 +0000

A macro is a rule or pattern that specifies how a certain input sequence should be mapped to an output sequence according to a defined procedure. A macro in Excel is a set of instructions that can be triggered by a keyboard shortcut, toolbar button or an icon in a spreadsheet.

Excel macro is extremely convenient for repeated tasks. In Excel, macros are written in Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). For those who cannot write VBA code, Excel allows you to record a series of steps – using keyboard and mouse – that Excel then converts into VBA.

1. Selecting the Active Workbook

ThisWorkbook.Activate

In case you want to select an opening Excel document, the file extension is necessary.

Windows(”Example.xls”).Activate

2. Selecting a Worksheet

Sheets(”Balance”).Activate

3. Selecting a Cell

Range(”A1″).Select

4. Selecting Continuous Cells

Range(”A2:F8″).Select

5. Selecting Non-continuous Cells

Range(”A2,C6,D9″).Select

Range(”A1,B5:B10,F9″).Select

6. Move/Offset the Cells

ActiveCell.Offset(12, 16).Select

Selection.Offset(-1, -6).Select

Range(”D8″).Offset(-2, -8).Select

7. Selecting the Entire Worksheet

Cells.Select

8. Selecting the Range Where the Active Cell Locates

Range(”A1″).CurrentRegion.Select

9. Select a Row or Column

Rows(”1″).Select

Columns(”A”).Select

ActiveCell.EntireRow.Select

ActiveCell.EntireColumn.Select

10. Select Contiguous Rows or Columns

Columns(”A:C”).Select

Rows(”1:10″).Select

11. Select Non-contiguous Rows or Columns

Range(”A:A, C:D, E:F”).Select

Range(”1:1,5:8,9:9″).Select

12. Select a Range downwards from the Active Cell

Range(”A1″, Range(”A1″).End(xlDown)).Select

Range(ActiveCell, ActiveCell.End(xlDown)).Select

13. Select a Range upwards from the Active Cell

Range(”A32″, Range(”A32″).End(xlUp)).Select

Range(ActiveCell, ActiveCell.End(xlUp)).Select

14. Select a Range rightward from the Active Cell

Range(”A1″, Range(”A1″).End(xltoRight)).Select

15. Select a Range leftward from the Active Cell

Range(ActiveCell, ActiveCell.End(xltoLeft)).Select

16. Select the first blank cell from the active row

Range(”A1″).End(xltoRight).Offset(0,1).Select

17. Macros about “If..Then…EndIf”

If there’s only one condition and action, you can write code as follows:

If Selection.Value > 10 Then

Selection.Offset(1,0) = 100

End If

Or:

If Selection.Value > 10 Then Selection.Offset(1,0) = 100

For more conditions and actions, you should do the following:

If Selection.Value > 10 Then

If Selection.Value = 12 Then

Selection.Offset(1,0) = 100

End If

Selection.Offset(1,0) = 20

End If

18. Macro about “f..Then…And…EndIf”

For bio-conditions:

If Selection.Value = 10 And Selection.Offset(0,1).Value = 20 Then

Selection.Offset(1,0) = 100

End If

19. Macro about “f..Then…Or…EndIf”

For bio-conditions:

If Selection.Value = 10 Or Selection.Offset(0,1).Value = 20 Then

Selection.Offset(1,0) = 100

End If

20. Macro about “if..Then…Else…EndIf”

If Selection.Value > 10 Then

Selection.Offset(1,0) = 100

Else

Selection.Offset(1,0) = 0

End If

21. Macro about “If..Then..ElseIf…EndIf”

If Selection.Value = 1 Then

Selection.Offset(1, 0) = 10

ElseIf Selection.Value = 2 Then

Selection.Offset(1, 0) = 20

ElseIf Selection.Value = 3 Then

Selection.Offset(1, 0) = 30

ElseIf Selection.Value = 4 Then

Selection.Offset(1, 0) = 40

ElseIf Selection.Value = 5 Then

Selection.Offset(1, 0) = 50

End If

22. Macro about “Select Case”

Sub Test()

Select Case Selection.Value

Case Is >= 85

Selection.Offset(0, 1) = “A”

Case Is >= 75

Selection.Offset(0, 1) = “B”

Case Is >= 65

Selection.Offset(0, 1) = “C”

Case Is >= 50

Selection.Offset(0, 1) = “D”

Case Else

Selection.Offset(0, 1) = “F”

End Select

End Sub

23. Example of LCase, Now() and UCase Functions

To convert uppercase to lowercase using LCase function:

Select Case LCase(Selection.value)

To show the current time in cell A1:

Range(”A1″).Formula = “=Now()”

To show current time in cell A1 as fixed value that doesn’t change until you execute it once more:

Range(”A1″).Value = Now()

To convert lowercase to uppercase:

Select Case UCase(Selection.value)

12 Sites to Download Wonderful PowerPoint Templates for Free

Recipebeta — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:30:44 +0000

Are you looking for professionally designed, pre-formatted Free Templates PowerPoint templates so you can quickly create presentations? Here there are 12 great sites to get wonderful and professional PowerPoint templates.

1. Microsoft Office Online
There are great amount resources on Microsoft Office Online such as tips, clip arts and templates. The template section for PowerPoint is also valuable.