Play Ribbon Hero and Improve your Microsoft Office Skills!

Ribbon Hero is a game for Word, PowerPoint, and Excel 2007 and 2010, designed to help you boost your Office skills and knowledge. Play games (aka "challenges"), score points, and compete with your friends while improving your productivity with Office. ZDNet calls it a brilliant training tool from Microsoft Labs.

Have you tried the new template finder on the Brainy Betty site? What's your feedback?

Our Facebook Fana Page has grown in leaps and bounds to over 400 people! Every single day we post at least one or two giveaways or tutorials or useful links to sites. We do hope you'll come join and visit us!

Have a great week all!

Word 2007 Mail Merge Tutorial

If you need to understand how to perform simple or complex mail merges in Word 2007, this tutorial is for you. View as a PowerPoint Show here or download the pdf file here.

 

Happy Thursday!

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New 5 minute tutorial on how to modify pictures in PowerPoint

Enjoy!

Self Playing Presentation with video. Awesome!

 

Now. Imagine, using PowerPoint to create your own CBT. You don't have to be an educator, you can be anyone trying to make anyone else informed about any topic in the world. If you haven't downloaded the PowerPoint 2010 BETA - go do that now.... you know you'll be buying it.

And I cannot even start to begin talking about how this feature will benefit independent business people, organizations and such. Can you imagine? Creating coursework with your OWN video content and easily making movies to sell, share, or distribute within your organization?

www.brainybetty.com - Please email me at brainybetty at gmail dot com for individual consulting.

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Reduce Office 2000 – 2007 file sizes!

FileMinimizer Office reduces the size of PowerPoint, Word & Excel files by up to 98% using an intelligent compression technique which preserves the original file format and quality. The optimized files are then much smaller, safer and ideal for sharing and sending via email. Recipients don't need the software to edit or view the optimized files. Mailboxes, servers and networks are relieved and loading time is accelerated.

Only $44.95 here… or Download the trial software and TRY IT FREE!

 

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How to “Package” a Presentation

Learn in this video how to package a presentation for use on a CD, another system, a jump drive or other situations.

Happy Tuesday!

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Sneak Peek: PowerPoint 2010 Extreme Transitions

Take a sneak peek at the new transitions available in PowerPoint 2010.

Learn Something New: A Quick Tutorial on “Pinning” in Vista

If you are running Windows Vista as your operating system, here’s a quick 3 step tutorial on how to access programs you use all the time.

 

1. Go to the Start Menu, then the All Programs menu.

2. Choose the program you use frequently and right click on it. Choose “Pin to Start Menu”.

3. Now, every time you want to go to the program, simply open the Start Menu and it will be there!

Happy Tuesday All!

Nan @ brainybetty

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Family Safety - Windows Live

If you have young children in the household, this free Microsoft program may be useful for you. Family Safety allows you to block or allow websites, monitor the sites your children go to, and specify who they can instant message with if they are using Hotmail or Windows Live Messenger.

Windows Live has a host of other useful free programs for your use as well – including Windows Live Writer – if you are a blogger, you’ll find it to be indispensible – I am using that program as I write this blog right now.

Windows Movie Maker can also be downloaded from this site. (If you haven’t seen my video on how to convert your digital pictures into a movie – watch the YouTube video showing you how to use this program.)

As always, if you become a Facebook Fan, you can find all kinds of new and useful downloads every few days and our free toolbar will keep you connected to us as well.

 

Happy Spring All!

Nan @ brainybetty

Family Safety - Windows Live

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Amazing Presentation – Watch and learn from the pros!

Tuesday, March 9, 2010 - I think you'll be amazed at this presentation by Duarte; if you've ever wondered what are the possibilities with PowerPoint - I highly suggest watching this one! Even more fabulous, this particular presentation is available to you to play with as a part of the sample templates in PowerPoint 2010 Beta!