Microsoft Office Tips

Preston Gralla uses two videos to share a few tips about Microsoft Word 2016 and Excel 2016 .

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If this was of interest, consider that Microsoft offers free training videos on all members of the Office family.

Word 2016 Overview and Shortcuts

Preston Gralla provides an overview of the new features found in Word 2016 , including research tools and collaborative tools.

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Creating and Editing PDF Documents Using Word

Lamont Wood instructs on the use of Microsoft Word to create and edit PDF documents.

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Employment Sites as a Phishing Platform

Steve Ragan reports that hackers used CareerBuilder as a phishing platform to spread malware. Ragan suggests that the attack on CareerBuilder is a test, and that other document distribution sites will almost certainly be targeted.

CareerBuilder is designed to distribute resumes to human resources departments, and documents from the company are whitelisted by my firms. The hackers distributed resumes in Microsoft Word format, resumes which contained scripts which download software to control the user's computer.

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Microsoft Word Track Changes

Lucy Ferris explains why she does not use the "track changes " feature in Microsoft Word when grading undergraduate essays, and instead relies on corrections to a paper copy of the document. A vigorous set of comments follows her post.

I have some insights into the use of track changes in an online environment. There faculty do not have Ferris' option of requiring paper submissions, and track changes is a needed tool. However, any professor using track changes with new college students needs to explain how the technology operates. I have met several new online students who almost flunked their first course (and certainly frustrated their professor) because they did not have their software configured correctly to read the professor's comments.

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Transformation In Bibliographic Citation - Hypercitation

Tyler Lopez suggested in SLATE that bibliographic citation styles such as APA and MLA should be replaced by hypercitation . Microsoft founder Bill Gates has suggested that future versions of Word shall have a focus on linked electronic media, and the new version of the DOI system is designed to be serve as a document link, so this idea seems to be gaining traction.

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Microsoft Word Turns 30

Tim Greene talks about Microsoft Word which he reports is still the mainstay of the United States workplace. He notes that Microsoft has closely integrated Office with other Microsoft applications, making companies hesitant to quit the Office environment.

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