Top 10 posts you may have missed from February

 Mar 03, 2015

What is a Concordance File?
By Liz French | Feb 26th, 2015

If you are doing long documents that require an Index to find things quickly for the reader then you need to know about a Concordance file. It will save you from having to individually tag or mark all the words you want to appear on the Index.
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How to be positive at work when you don’t feel like it!
By Fee Hosking | Feb 11th, 2015

You’re probably all familiar with the following scene: It’s Monday morning, you’ve had a busy/great/late weekend, and now it’s time to go to WORK! Aaargh! You drag your body out of bed, follow your routine, get to work [...]
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The science of presenting - Part 2
By Stan Thomas | Feb 4th, 2015

In my last post (Science of Presenting (Part 1)), I covered the elements of motivation, utilisation and stimulus. Please make sure you read it. In today’s article, I will take a look at the notions of interest, transfers and repetition. [...]
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Two DBAs walk into a NoSQL bar
By Adam Keats | Feb 13th, 2015

Two DBAs walk into a NoSQL bar and leave rather hurriedly when they can’t find a table. Insert geek laugh here. Weak, isn’t it? Well at least it gives me an opening to discuss NoSQL with you. I’m sure you’ve heard of NoSQL [...]
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What does Warren think about leadership?
By Tim Higgs | Feb 18th, 2015

If you were expecting Warren Buffet, I’m sorry to disappoint. Warren Bennis is a professor, author, management consultant and pioneer of modern leadership studies, and he believes there are seven attributes essential to [...]
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Creating custom task alerts in Microsoft Project
By Magdalena Todor | Feb 19th, 2015

Microsoft Project 2010 and 2013 have a built in functions which provides the user with powerful tools to monitor their project progress. One of the common issues in Project Management, is the inability of the Project Manager to visually [...]
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Manage emails in Outlook using the 4 Ds
By Matthew Goodall | Feb 12th, 2015

In an earlier blog post, I talked about some of the ways to manage the flood of emails in Microsoft Outlook that we all seem to get these days. I spoke about Flags and Categories which are great ways to mark something  [...]
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Me, Myself and I in the workplace
By Fee Hosking | Feb 25th, 2015

a.k.a - Self-respect, Self-approval and Self-motivation. I grew up in an era when respecting one’s elders, bosses, seniors, the elderly, and so on was the norm; and that’s as it should be although why set limits? I believe that we should [...]
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Control your code with GitHub
By Stan Thomas | Feb 5th, 2015

When it comes to software development especially big projects, it can be frustrating when you are unable to compare a current piece of code to the previous versions, or even worse, accidentally gets deleted. [...]
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Master mail merge to email in Microsoft Word
By Liz French | Feb 10th, 2015

Have you ever needed to send the same letter out to 100 clients? It would be very time consuming to have to create each of those on your own. A better option is to create the main document or the letter and then merge it with [...]
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