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Office Excel 2013 – The Quick Access Toolbar, Your Way

Post author:Dirk Strauss
Post published:February 22, 2013
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I consider myself rather proficient with using a PC. In fact, I think that I take many of the features of the operating system and other applications rather for granted. Every once in a while, I slow down just long enough to notice something new.

Every day, I try to go through a few articles from some of my favourite bloggers of tech and just sit and absorb what they are writing about. It is during moments such as these that I usually learn something new. The following tip is (I am almost ashamed to say this) something I never knew, or took notice of.

I love finding little gems such as these, and it will make my life (and hopefully yours) a bit easier. (more…)

Edit PDF documents with Office 2013

Post author:Dirk Strauss
Post published:December 7, 2012
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Being consistent with securing your digital life, be it at work or at play, will pay dividends sooner rather than later. If you don’t take your online security seriously, opportunists will take advantage of that fact and have their way with your data. How many of you create documents in Office and save them as PDF documents? Did you know that you can edit PDF documents in Office 2013? Well as part from being able to edit and create PDF documents in Word 2013, you can now also password protect the PDF documents you create.

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Use Bing Maps in Office Excel 2013

Post author:Dirk Strauss
Post published:November 28, 2012
Post category:How To Office
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I quickly wanted to share a nice trick I learned today in Excel 2013. As we all know, visualizing data trumps any text representation hands down. In programming, when we as developers can create useful dashboards we give our applications a definite edge above other competing apps out there. It is no wonder that Excel is so good at charting and visualizing data.

To illustrate this nice trick, open up Office Excel 2013 and enter some random City Names in column A, and dummy sales figures for each city in Column B.

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