Microsoft Office Excel 2007 -

To quickly create a chart on its own sheet in a Microsoft Office Excel workbook, select the chart data, and then press the F11 key. This action generates a chart using your default chart type, which is originally set to be a clustered column chart.

To change your default chart type, on the Insert tab, in the lower-right corner of the Charts section, click the dialog box launch icon to open the Insert Chart dialog box. Select your preferred chart type, and then click Set as Default Chart. You can then click Cancel to close the dialog box without generating a chart. Though nothing appears to have changed, the next time you generate a chart by using the F11 key, you’ll automatically get your new default chart type.

Note: Keep in mind that after you’ve created a chart, you can still change the chart type. To change chart type for just the active chart, on the Chart Tools Design tab, in the Type section, click Change Chart Type.

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Andre Baltieri
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Microsoft Windows Vista - Collaborate with Windows Meeting Space

Do you need to connect with a colleague to share ad hoc, real-time work? By using Windows Meeting Space, you can share handouts and work together on applications. You can join or start a meeting where everyone participates or just watches, and it can be done immediately as long as you are all on the same network.

Here’s how to get started:
1. Click Start.
2. Click All Programs.
3. Click Windows Meeting Space. Notice that passwords are required, to offer a degree of security.

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Andre Baltieri
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Microsoft Office Side by Side - 2003 to 2007 Group Schedule

Checking schedule availability for your team in Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 means opening a fake meeting request, entering everyone's names, and then navigating the blue bars for an open slot of time. In Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, you can create group schedules to view availability for multiple people and resources, like conference rooms.

1. Click the Actions menu, and then click View Group Schedules.
2. Click New, and then type a name for the new schedule.
3. Enter the names of the people and resources whose schedules you want to view.
4. Click Save and Close.
5. To schedule a meeting or send an e-mail message to the group or an individual, open the group schedule, and then click the Make Meeting list.

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Andre Baltieri
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Microsoft Office Word 2007 - Find Tooltips for Keyboard Shortcuts

If you press and hold the ALT key, tooltips appear above the commands at the top of the page. You can then press the appropriate letter for a simple keyboard shortcut.

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Andre Baltieri
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Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 - Share Your Calendar via E-Mail

If you want to share your calendar with colleagues, here’s how:

1. Open your calendar, and then click Send a Calendar via E-mail.
2. Select the period that you want to share (such as today, tomorrow, or the next 7 days).
3. You now have an e-mail message ready to send with your selective calendar details attached. Enter the e-mail addresses of those you want to receive it, and then send the message.

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Andre Baltieri
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Microsoft Office 2007 System - Preview Formatting Before You Apply It

Need the perfect document design, or the right formatting to ensure that your text, table, or graphic coordinates with the rest of your document? Forget time-consuming trial and error.

In the 2007 Microsoft Office system programs Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, you can preview many types of document formatting before you apply them. Point to an entry in an applicable gallery, such as the Themes gallery to see font, color, and graphic effect formatting changes all at once throughout the document, or the SmartArt Styles gallery to preview a variety of formats for your SmartArt diagram.

Live Preview is available for Document Themes in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, as well as Quick Style Sets in Word, Table Styles in all three programs, and many graphic formatting galleries (such as Picture Styles or Shape Styles). Note that Live Preview is not currently available for Chart Styles.

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Andre Baltieri
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Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007 - Upload Files in Advance

When you’re using Microsoft Office Live Meeting to host a meeting, you can upload the documents that you want to cover in the meeting to a Microsoft SharePoint site in advance, and then tell everyone invited where those documents are. That way, anyone who can’t attend the meeting because of other commitments or network problems can still see the documents. Upload the documents as soon as they’re ready: Put them on a SharePoint workspace that everyone can access. A day (24 hours) before the meeting, send e-mail to all the invitees with a link to the files. Even those who can't attend will then have the benefit of seeing the meeting documents.

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Andre Baltieri
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