Chris Leong

Disoriented views from the rosy lens of an optimistic realist.

Tag: Office

Now you can Tweet with your MS Outlook

Ok if you are Tweeter fan, now you can actually tweet using MS Outlook. Some summary about TwInBox If you are a Microsoft ® Outlook ® user, you probably have it open all the time. Now you can have a fully-featured, powerful Twitter client at your fingertips without having to open any other applications. TwInbox [...]

Office 2010 coming your way

Office 2010 has its own website for anyone who wants to know more about what Office 2010 has to offer. They even created a preview video (transformer style) to promote it. Also for anyone who’s looking into testing the new Office 2010 can sign up for the technical preview. Here’s some explanation about the technical [...]

Changing the color scheme of MS Office

  You learn different things everyday. I just got to know today that you can change the color themes of your MS Office. I really need to spend more time playing around with Office, seems like there are little little things that you just don’t know. I like my office background to be black as [...]

How to enter data in multiple sheet at the same time in Excel?

Here’s another tip that I found on the web. Hope its useful. In Excel 2007, it’s possible to enter the same data into several worksheets without retyping or copying and pasting the text into each one. As an example, let’s say you want to put the same title text into different worksheets. One way to [...]

Excel Tips – View Worksheet Side by Side

It’s been very long since i posted another office tips and tricks page. I sometimes needs to do that and it really is frustrating when you need to switch between Excel files. I guess this tip will be useful for those who needs to compare worksheet side by side. So here how you can view [...]

Free Outlook add-in to organize your email and make your inbox better

Recently I am playing around with a free outlook add in to help me organize my inbox better. It’s call ClearContext Personal Here are some things that it can help you with suggesting the right folders to instantly file messages and entire conversations with a single click highlights the most important messages in your Inbox [...]

Import Gmail Contacts to Outlook 2007

My friend post a question to me about importing Gmail contacts to Outlook. It is actually quite simple to do it, here are some steps to do it. 1) In Gmail, click on contacts. Then select that contacts that you want to import. 2) Click Export 3) In the next screen, select Outlook CSV contacts [...]

Outlook Tips – Add a Second Time Zone

In my line of work, I do need to work with people from different time zones. Adding a different time zone can really helps to manage the time differences. To add a new time zone. Go to Tools menu > click Options > Under Calendar . Calendar options Under Advance options > Click Time Zone [...]

Outlook Tips & Tricks – Managing your folders

If you are like me, my Outlook mail have too many folders storing different types of emails. Searching for your folders can be messy. Here are some tips on how to add your frequently use folder in your favourite list.   Favorite folders are shortcuts to your most commonly used folder. Think of it the [...]

Record a webcast on your desktop

Try out Office Community Clip. This is a useful tool that allows you to record your voice and all the activities in the screen in your desktop. It is very useful tool for you to: record your presentation and share it with others Share your tips and tricks via video rather than text Download the [...]

Office 2007 Add-Ins – Save as PDF

A friend of mine asked me what software to install to print office documents to PDF. Microsoft provides an Add-In to allow Office documents to be save as PDF format. Hope this is useful for people who don’t know about it. Microsoft Save as PDF

Excel Tips & Tricks – Enter a Fraction in a Cell

When doing excel calculation, sometimes I want to display value as 1/3 instead of 0.33333. I just learnt that you can do that in Excel with just a few simple steps. Microsoft Office Excel can display, and take data entry as, fractions as well as decimal numbers. To enter a fraction, simply prefix it with [...]