I tell you, working for a larger organization, supporting 10 times the number of users I used to support and supporting a wider variety of tools, sure keeps you on your toes. This week I spent time battling a spyware infection, troubleshooting Word macros, Excel formulas, PowerPoint graphics, Outlook options, printer connections, and Acrobat Reader…
I have to admit, my expertise when it comes to Powerpoint is limited, to say the least. So I’m asking, in PowerPoint 2000, when you use the Insert menu to insert a multimedia file into a presentation, does it link the file, or embed the file? And if it only links the file, what steps…
I’ll be over here most of today, leafing through the latest Microsoft updates, 7 total, 2 critical. Then I’m going to go over here and check out a spellchecker Firefox extension, thanks to a recommendation from Geek News Central. In between, I’ll be helping set up a PowerPoint presentation for a meeting, dealing with some…
Taking time to eat my lunch and check the aggregator, and noting things I want to deal with later: Firefox 0.9 released. Windows XP SP2 Release Candidate 2 Beyond Bullets -a PowerPoint blog that Scoble pointed to. Moving .PST files Geek News Central is talking about a wireless device that you can hook up a…
If you’re a Linux zealot you probably don’t want to read this. Keep in mind that I would love for there to be a Linux desktop flavor that competes with Windows. In fact, I think in some ways they already do, but this is going to be about the one area where they just don’t…
Is it wrong to take so much pleasure from finding the errors in a PowerPoint presentation that was done at our Board Meeting earlier this week? It seems sort of mean, yet with every error I find, I laugh a little more… Let this be a lesson to you, when you’re recycling an old presentaion…