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• Featured Download: Excel Gantt chart template

  Published: August 15, 2007, 9:30 am

  Tags: Downloads, Excel, Featured Download, Microsoft Office Tip, Project Management, Spreadsheets

  than actual software like Microsoft Project. A Gantt chart is a great way to see task dependencies in a big project - what delays will slow down the completion date and which won't. If you've got a huge deliverable on your hands and no expensive project management software, this spreadsheet template may be for you. The Gantt template is in

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• Scan Images to Text in Microsoft Word [Microsoft Office Tip]

  Published: January 9, 2008, 3:00 pm

  Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office Tip, Microsoft Word, Ocr, Optical Character Recognition, Windows, Word

  describes how to use Microsoft Office to do Optical Character Recognition (OCR)—that is, recognize text inside digital images (like scanned documents). The Microsoft Document Imaging application comes with Microsoft Office (who knew?) and can grok text from TIFF images. Haven't tried this one myself, but after wrestling with various

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• Control Microsoft Office with Your Voice [How To]

  Published: June 2, 2008, 8:30 am

  Tags: How To, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office Tip, Microsoft Word, Speech Recognition, Top, Voice Recognition

  a tip from Adam's recent look at Controlling your Vista PC with Speech Recognition Macros, the Productivity Portfolio blog takes an in-depth look at the speech recognition features built into nearly every Microsoft Office release since 2002. With a decent microphone and a little training, you'll be able to dictate, issue commands, and hear

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• Quickly Remove Formatting In Microsoft Programs [Microsoft Office Tip]

  Published: June 22, 2008, 10:00 pm

  Tags: Microsoft Office Tip, Keyboard Shortcuts, Microsoft Office

  something to or from a Microsoft application such as Word or Outlook and you want to remove the formatting there is a quick keyboard shortcut to do so. Rather than use the mouse and the Paste Special button, you can simply paste the text, highlight it, and hit Ctrl+Space to remove the formatting and convert the selection into plain text.

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