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Microsoft Reinvents Hotmail As Outlook.com | Bruceb News
Microsoft Reinvents Hotmail As Outlook.com When Microsoft realized that it was on the verge of missing the implications of the Internet, it famously turned the company around in the mid-90s, building...
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This Week in the Garden - End of the Beginning Edition
The heat and drought finally broke. For good this time. I think...fingers crossed. Saturday was brutally hot; Sunday - rainy and humid; holiday Monday - perfection! The August holiday Monday always...
View ArticlePlease turn on two-factor authentication : Matt Cutts
Please turn on two-factor authentication by Matt Cutts on August 6, 2012 in Google/SEO You should read Mat Honan’s heartbreaking tale of a hack attack and the ensuing discussion on Techmeme. Much of...
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This Week in the Garden - Late Summer Edition
The week has been glorious - lots of rain, lots of sun and seasonal temps. The weeds are under control and a few new plants have found a home. I made my annual trek to Niagara on the Lake - to a...
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10 Awesome OneNote Tips You Should Be Using All The Time [Windows]
Home » Cool Windows Apps & Tricks » 10 Awesome OneNote Tips You Should Be Using All The Time [Windows] August 21, 2012 By Saikat Basu I am going to ruffle a few feathers here by saying that...
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Windows Logo Key “Fave 10″ Shortcuts - Attorney at Work
Windows Logo Key “Fave 10″ Shortcuts By Vivian Manning | Aug.22.12 | Daily Dispatch, Productivity, Technology Often I sound like a broken record. IRL (in real life), on my blog and here at Attorney at...
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Using The Typewriter Tool In Acrobat X | Bruceb News
Using The Typewriter Tool In Acrobat X Adobe made significant changes to the user interface of Acrobat X, the current version of the widely-used program for creating and sharing professional-level PDF...
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Troubleshooting: It’s Not Always the Technology - Attorney at Work
Troubleshooting: It’s Not Always the Technology By Andrew Z. Adkins III | Sep.13.12 | Daily Dispatch, Practice Management, Technology There are about 23 different business processes in most law firms....
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Document Deconstruction – Stylin’ It
This is the 4th post in a series on using Document Deconstruction to prepare a precedent document for future use. If you haven’t read the earlier posts, please click through to the below posts and...
View ArticleSix Tips to Avoid Text Message Scams on Mobile Phones
Users need to be careful about responding to text messages from people they don't know and need to carefully examine their monthly bills. There are plenty of unscrupulous scams out there via...
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This Week in the Garden - End of Season Edition
It's been a while since I've posted garden pics - life has been full of weekend activities. And during those times it was quiet, the weather didn't co-operate. We haven't had a frost yet and although...
View ArticleGet a Red-Tape Reduction Committee - Attorney at Work
We know it sounds like an oxymoron, but a “Red-Tape Reduction Committee” might actually be the thing your practice needs. Today, Vivian Manning describes how forming just such a committee is helping...
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Bruceb News - Microsoft Does Not Call To Fix Your PC
A few days ago I was contacted by a woman who had been tricked by a phone caller pretending to represent Microsoft. The caller claimed that her computer had viruses on it and convinced her to give up...
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This Week in Someone Else's Garden - Macro Photo Class Edition
I just completed a Macro Photography class given by Don Komarechka, hoping to improve my not-so-mad macro photo skills. 3 evening classes culminated in a day-long outing to a Wildflower Farm and...
View ArticleTrouble and Solutions Start Here - Word 2010 Options Reprise
Some time ago I put up a 13 part series on setting Word 2010 Options - working through all the various Word 2010 Options settings and describing what they did and whether it was (generally) best to...
View ArticleDropbox 101: Time to Dive In - Attorney at Work
You’ve heard the hype (Drop Your Data Into Dropbox, The Essential Cloud: Top Tools for Lawyers), read the warnings (Reasonable Care in the Cloud, Stepping Into the Cloud: Practice Management Tools)...
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It's a Date! Insert Date and Time in Word 2010
Most everyone knows (and if you didn’t before, you will now!) that the keyboard shortcut ‘Alt’ ‘Shift’ ‘D’ (press them all at the same time) inserts today’s date in your chosen default Word format at...
View ArticleOutlook Blog - Outlook 2013 deprecated features and components
From Outllook Blog: As much as we love adding new features to Outlook, for the maintainability of our product we sometimes need to remove those that are out of date and aren't utilized by a large...
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Have a (Date) Field Day – Word (all versions)
We’re coming to that time of the year when I see a lot of people calling up their precedent documents to update the year – from 2012 to 2013. From this: Dated at Barrie, Ontario this...
View ArticleNew Year Resolutions from Law Pro Mag
There's just too much good advice here from Dan Pinnington and Tim Lemieux of Practice Pro's main feature in the current issue of Law Pro Magazine to not pass this on to everyone. And I don't think...
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Don’t Let Track Changes Trip You Up by Deborah Savadra at Lawyerist.com
Click on over to the latest from Deborah Savadra at Lawyerist.com to read her latest always helpful post to learn how to ensure Word's helpful Track Changes feature doesn't blow up in your face: Don’t...
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Adding 'Advanced Find' to Word 2010's Quick Access Toolbar and/or Ribbon
Way back in September 2011, I wrote a couple of posts about Word 2010’s ‘Find’. Basically I was whining about how Word 2010 replaced the ‘Ctrl F’ keyboard shortcut with the Navigation Pane, rather...
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Adobe Reader XI: A Worthwhile Download for Lawyers
My latest is up at Attorney at Work, in my new regular 'Power User' column. Click through at the link below to read all about to goodness that is Adobe Reader XI. If you have an earlier version of...
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You ARE the Weakest Link | Law Technology Today
Remember that turn of the century game show where weaker players were summarily dismissed from the game by a snarling game show host? Wrong answer, off the game the player was ordered, as the weakest...
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Simple Calculations in a Word Table
I was working with one of our assistants yesterday – she was automating a set of documents to more efficiently serve one of our municipal clients – setting up ‘Ask’ fields', ‘Create Date’ and...
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Complete collection of Microsoft Office 2013 Quick Start Guides (Cheat Sheets)
For those brave / adventurous enough to have made their way to Office 2013 here is a great collection of Cheat Sheets from Microsoft: Links to Office 2013 Cheat Sheets, from Eric Ligman: Microsoft...
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Silencing Email Read Receipts: Why You Don’t Always Get What You Want
My latest is up at Attorney at Work this morning. Click at the link below to discover why you don't always get that email Read Receipt, even when you've asked for it very, very nicely... Silencing...
View ArticleThem’s The (Email) Rules!
My latest post is up at the ABA Law Technology Today blogPlease head off here to read the full post: A couple of weeks ago our offices installed a brand-spanking new VoIP phone system. I've been...
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Filed Under "You Learn Something New Every Day": Posting from Word to...
One of the many things I enjoy about my work is the constant learning and discovery. Even if it's a 'small' discovery, as this one is, it's often enough to make a difference in a workday. I'm always...
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Office 2013: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
My new post up this morning at Attorney At Work: Microsoft Office 2013 has been available for several months, but Office 2010 has been stable and mostly well-received in our firm. And with staff and...
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