If you want to make a New Year’s Resolution that’s easy to stick to and will make a direct impact, try teaching yourself some new software skills. Here are ten tools that will have an immediate effect on your day-to-day production, from Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint:
1. Search Folders
As described in previous posts, Search Folders [...]
Note: This is the first post from Productivity Guru Alex Mozes. Alex is the creator of our Microsoft Office Maximized classes, which help you get right to the most efficient way of doing things.
You probably use folders to organize your e-mail, right? You’ve got a folder for all the messages relating to that big [...]
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.
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?
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.
There’s a metaphor for many things in life that’s derived from a nerdy concept in electrical engineering: your signal-to-noise ratio. Today, I’m going to apply the idea of increasing your ’signal’, or message and decreasing the ‘noise’, or everything else, to some office productivity ideas.
Here’s a talk Merlin Mann gave on the campus of Google back in 2007 about managing your time.
