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Entries from October 2009

Delete a Document Workspace on SharePoint

March 31st, 2009 · Filed under: Collaborating · SharePoint

Posted by Holly Green

Last week, in preparing to write the post about shared attachments, I sent several test shared attachments and later found that my SharePoint site was littered with test workspaces.  This led to the question, how do you delete a workspace?
1.  Go to your main SharePoint site (not a document workspace).
2.  Click on Site Actions (top right [...]

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Save Mailbox Space by Sending Shared Attachments

March 26th, 2009 · Filed under: Collaborating · Outlook · SharePoint

Posted by Holly Green

Collaborating on documents through email can be a big headache.  Sending the document back and forth to people after each edit fills mailboxes, and leaves everyone with multiple copies of the same document.
If you are struggling with this, I think you might like using Microsoft’s shared attachments feature.  It works with Outlook and Sharepoint. The Exchange Server for the email [...]

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The Trainers are Tweeting

March 19th, 2009 · Filed under: General · Useful Web Sites

Posted by Holly Green

Follow the Training Team on Twitter.  Our username is McCombsTrainers.
If you’re interested in learning more about Twitter, you can read about it here.
Happy Spring Break!

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Default to Draft View in Word 2007

March 13th, 2009 · Filed under: Office 2007 · Word

Posted by Holly Green

The default view in Word 2007 is Print Layout, but I’ve heard from several people who prefer to work in Draft view.  Changing the default view to Draft view is a two step process.
First, enable a document to be opened in Draft view.

Close all but one of your Word documents.
In Word, click on the Office button.
Click on [...]

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The BCC Line

March 4th, 2009 · Filed under: General · Office 2007 · Outlook

Posted by Holly Green

Thanks to sskennel on Flickr for the pic.
Picture it - you check your email, and find that your friend Sue has sent you and twenty of her closest friends an email with pictures of a cat and a dog cuddling, saying that if cats and dogs can get along, can’t we all get along.  You smile at [...]

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