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Flickr is a free web site that allows you to upload, store, and share your photos. For document and presentation creators, it is a great place to find photographs with Creative Commons license agreements. These agreements allow you to legally download and use the photos on the site. Search Flickr to [...]

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Several months ago we linked to an article about how to embed a YouTube video in PowerPoint. We still get questions about it pretty regularly, so I though I’d write up some instruction and post them again.
NOTE: When presenting you must have a live internet connection or your embedded YouTube video will not play.
Step by Step Instructions [...]

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We received an email about using the Instant Search feature in Outlook. Instant Search is a great way to effectively go through and find specific email, attachments, contacts or notes in Outlook. Never again scroll through months of email looking for that lost message with the one thing you need. Instead use Instant Search to [...]

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Maybe you’ve had that one Excel workbook that you’ve used for years. It’s probably even traveled with you from one version of Excel to the next and even outlasted a desktop or two. But then one day the workbook with years worth of data won’t open. You click on it, nothing, you try to open [...]

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As a student of the University of Texas at Austin, or for that matter if you are a high school or university level student anywhere, you can download full suites of design software from Microsoft for FREE!
Go to: www.dreamspark.com
The DreamSpark site offers Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition, Expression Studio 2 for web designers, Robotics [...]

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As you work daily with your computer, probably somewhere in the back of your mind you think to yourself, “I’d like to know Excel a little better.” Then you just end up watching a YouTube video a friend sent you. Now you can do both! Watch YouTube and learn to be more proficient with Excel.
If [...]

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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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One of the lesser know programs in the Office 2007 Enterprise Suite and Ultimate Suite, Microsoft Groove is available for McCombs Faculty and Staff. Groove is a collaboration software program that helps teams work together even if team members work for different organizations, work remotely, or work offline. Microsoft provides a nice online demo about Groove. The [...]

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Although many students like to use Macs, the business school cannot provide support for them.  In addition to the student Mac users, there are a number of Faculty and Staff that use a Mac for their home or work computing needs. If we count all the iTunes and iPhone users we start to include almost everyone.
So, I wanted [...]

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Recently, we’ve had some questions about Photoshop.  While Adobe Photoshop is a great and very in depth graphic design and image editing program, inevitably questions about it receive the “Photoshop is not part of the McCombs Common Operating Environment” response. However, there are a number of places McCombs students, faculty, and staff can go for help [...]

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