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Microsoft 10 Presentation

21 Wednesday Jan 2015

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Microsoft came out swinging for the fence! This is a link to the complete presentation this morning. It may be the biggest set of announcements that Microsoft has ever made. This is a must watch! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ORs4990OAk

Highlights:

  • Windows 10 free upgrade for Windows 8.1 and 7 users
  • New hardware: Surface Hub
  • Windows 10 on all Windows devices including Xbox
  • Windows Holographic! (Amazing!)
  • New Office apps and browser
  • Cortana everywhere
  • Universal Apps
  • Music coming to OneDrive (also, some photo stuff)
  • Universal Chat App

Service translates languages on the fly!

12 Monday Jan 2015

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Services were part of the mix at CES, including Lexifone, which offers in-call translations in these languages: English-U.S., as well as English used in the U.K., and Australia; French Canadian, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Mandarin-China, Mandarin-Taiwan, Polish, and Portuguese both Brazil and EU, as well as Russian, Spanish-Mexico, Spanish-Spain.

A users dials into Lexifone, identifies the language that needs translation, and then reoriginates the call, or dials out to the other party. When a caller stops talking, the cloud-based system, after an approximately four-second pause, will translate. The accuracy for languages such as Spanish can be as high as 95%, and for Mandarin, the most difficult, about 70%, but it’s improving, said Patrick Tata, vice president of marketing. The service is available to consumers as well as businesses.

Welcome Excel Level 1 Students!

07 Wednesday Jan 2015

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Happy 2015! Thank you for your attendance. I am looking forward to the next 6 weeks together. I promise to make the class as enjoyable as possible, while teaching you all about Excel! The book ISBN for this class is Benchmark Excel 2013 L1&L2, 9780763853891. The Excel 2013 Level 1 only is 9780763853907. I would suggest looking for a used book at Amazon.com or half.com. It should save you some money. Make SURE and have it shipped expedited!

I suggest that you take a look at some of these books at Amazon as well. They will help you with the business math part of Excel.

  1. Business Math Excel Applications for Business Mathematics (2nd Edition) Paperback – August 29, 2008 by Edward D. Laughbaum (Author), Ken Seidel (Author), ISBN: 9780136071846
  2. Excel For Business Math (Quick Study: Computer) Hardcover – December 31, 2013
    by Inc. BarCharts (Author)
  3. Microsoft Excel 2010 Formulas and Functions Inside Out Paperback – January 1, 2012 by Egbert Jeschke (Author), Helmut Reinke (Author), Sara Unverhau (Author), Eckehard Pfeifer (Author), ISBN: 978-0735658028
  4.  Excel Formulas and Functions For Dummies, by Ken Bluttman
  5. Business Math Using Excel, by Sharon Burton and Nelda Shelton
  6. Mastering Financial Mathematics in Microsoft Excel: A Practical Guide for Business Calculations, by Alastair Day
  7. Working with Excel: Refreshing Math Skills for Management (Quantitative Approaches to Decision Making), by Priscilla Chaffe-Stengel

Power Point animations and tricks to improve your presentations!

08 Monday Dec 2014

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This first one is an older tutorial, but it still applies and uses techniques that many don’t know how to do. I encourage you to learn these tools and use them in your next Power Point presentation!

http://articulate.www.resources.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/community/blogdemo/Animation1/player.html

Here is some You Tube tutorials that will really help make your Power Point shine.

How to choose pictures

19 Wednesday Nov 2014

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We use pictures everywhere. They add to our documents, spreadsheets, and most certainly Power Point presentations. But are we picking the right pictures to use? Here are some links to websites that will give you some guidance.

http://photography.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-choose-your-best-photo-in-a-series-every-time–photo-193
http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/tutorials/picking-right-media-reporting-story/
http://www.almostsavvy.com/2011/04/06/8-tips-how-to-choose-the-right-profile-photo-linkedin/

Click to access visual_aids.pdf

http://www.howtogeek.com/school/microsoft-word-document-formatting-essentials/lesson4/all/

Working with Color and Fonts

19 Wednesday Nov 2014

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Your choice of color and fonts when creating documents are much more important than you may realize. Below is a couple of links to websites that discuss these important choices. I encourage you to think about them the next time you are putting together a report in Word or a presentation in Power Point.

Using Fonts:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Font
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/owlprint/705/

Perception of Fonts:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/12/14/what-font-should-i-use-five-principles-for-choosing-and-using-typefaces/
http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/81/PersonalityofFonts.asp

Using Color:
http://www.color-wheel-pro.com/color-meaning.html