Tips and Tricks

When dealing with Outlook, there are a wide range of techniques to cut down on your wasted time and make you feel more effective. Today, we’ll explore three rules most people should be using.

The Pen tool is a very important piece of several different design programs. It is probably most integral, though, to Adobe Illustrator. It’s also a complicated tool to master. This is the first in a multi-part series designed to break down the tool and make it more approachable.

Everyone who changes from Office 2003 to Office 2007 has a learning curve. During the weeks and months after you transition, you’ll find yourself wondering: where is that tool I used to use all the time?

As a web designer, one of the biggest issues I have is finding the right typography for my sites. Using Cascading Style Sheets, we can plan out every facet of the type design on our sites, but you have to get a handle on each setting. That’s why CSS Typeset is one of my favorite sites.

The Office 2007 Suite has improvements sprinkled throughout; one of my favorites is one that’s long overdue. For all the academics out there, I’d like to explore the Citation and Bibliography tools in Word 2007.

I purchased slide:ology recently to help me in presenting information to my classes. After reading through it, though, I found a number of things that help with more than just presentation design.

One of my favorite bloggers posted something back in June I think is really valuable – a technical speaker doing everything right. I’ve included the post, and the video of the presenter.

Whenever you’re a self-taught user of a program, certain tools slip through the cracks. I’d like to focus on five tools that you may have missed in Microsoft Outlook, and what interesting functionality they add.