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		<title>Windows 7 Problem Steps Recorder</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 12:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mannie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are a user who has ever had difficulty explaining a tech support issue to a technician, or if you are a technician who has ever had trouble understanding a user&#8217;s problem, then you need&#8230;the Windows 7 Problem Steps Recorder. This is a nifty little feature of Windows 7 that lets you automatically record [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snap Windows Quickly in Windows 7</title>
		<link>http://www.ptraining.com/blog/2010/11/snap-windows-quickly-in-windows-7/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 12:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mannie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to snap a window to the left side of the screen quickly (technically Aero-Snap), hold down the Windows key and press the Left Arrow Key. If you want to snap a window to the right side of the screen quickly (technically Aero-Snap), hold down the Windows key and press the Right Arrow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Send To Menu on Steroids in Windows 7</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 12:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mannie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you right-click a file in Windows Explorer, and then select Send To, you&#8217;ll see the standard list of Send To options. To reveal a list of additional options on the Send To menu (in Windows 7), including often-used folders, hold down the SHIFT key before you right-click the file.]]></description>
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		<title>Drag Items in Outlook</title>
		<link>http://www.ptraining.com/blog/2010/11/drag-items-in-outlook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 19:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mannie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Office 2010]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Get used to dragging things around in Outlook. For example, if you drag an e-mail message to the Contacts button, Outlook will create a new contact for the sender, with Name and E-mail fields already filled in.  The body of the e-mail message will appear in the Notes field. If you drag a Contact to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Screen Capture Tool in Office 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 13:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mannie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[All Office 2010 applications now include a screen capture utility to help you quickly capture any area of the desktop screen. The tool will automatically take screenshots of all open applications on your desktop (that are not minimized), and let you insert them directly into your document. Inserting a Full Screen Screenshot To insert a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enhanced Text and Graphics Effects in Word 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.ptraining.com/blog/2010/10/enhanced-text-and-graphics-effects-in-word-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ptraining.com/blog/2010/10/enhanced-text-and-graphics-effects-in-word-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 12:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Office 2010]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Office 2007 introduced a new graphics engine that lets you add special effects to text and graphics.  These effects have been expanded and enhanced in Office 2010. Text Effects To add special effects to text: Select the text you want to change. Click the Text Effects button in the Font group on the Home tab [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using Range.Offset in Excel VBA</title>
		<link>http://www.ptraining.com/blog/2010/10/using-range-offset-in-excel-vba/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 12:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To select a cell in Excel, you have two basic methods: RANGE and CELLS: Range ("A1").Select Range("RangeName").Select Cells(3, 4).Select 'Selects Row 3, Column 4, i.e. cell D3 Range works well for hard-coded cells. Cells works best with calculated cells, especially when you couple it  with a loop: For i = 1 to 10      Cells(i, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Add Slicers to Pivot Tables in Excel 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.ptraining.com/blog/2010/10/slicers-in-excel-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 12:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mannie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Slicers are a new feature in Excel 2010 that let you add a snapshot view of a pivot table to a worksheet.  Slicers are like visual filters.  You may want to use a slicer when you only need to display a section of a pivot table. For example, the pivot table below shows conference registrations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sparklines in Excel 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.ptraining.com/blog/2010/10/sparklines-in-excel-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 12:52:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mannie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sparklines are miniature graphs that fit inside single worksheet cells.  They can show you trends or changes that may not be easily noticed by viewing the values in the spreadsheet. Although Sparklines can be located in any cell, they are most effective when placed next to the data to which they refer. Note that Sparklines [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Excel VBA – Constants and Cell References</title>
		<link>http://www.ptraining.com/blog/2010/10/excel-vba-constants-and-cell-references/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ptraining.com/blog/2010/10/excel-vba-constants-and-cell-references/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 17:37:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the techniques I have found very useful in writing Excel VBA code is to make the cell, row, and column references public constants rather than hard coding them. Take a reference to a row and column:    cells(4,27).value If row 4 is the first data row and column 27 is the last column [...]]]></description>
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