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Just installed Office for Mac 2011- first thoughts

So .. Thanks to Amazon and Royal Mail at 730am I received my copy of Office for Mac 2011. Most obvious change is that the floating palette or toolbox is gone, replaced by the Ribbon which has been in Windows Version for a few years. It now seems way way faster … Once one office [...]

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Best Apps for your Mac – after a clean install

So I have had to rebuild my Mac running OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard 3 times in the past 2 days after having problems with a t-mobile usb modem which corrupts the hard drive. Here’s the short list of my favourite, can’t live without em, just got to install them apps: Best Apps for your [...]

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Tip from a Windows Convert: Office for Mac – Excel Keyboard Shortcut

I’ve been using keyboard shortcuts for Microsoft Office on Windows for years. So here I am now using Mac Office on a Macbook Pro and still trying to figure out how to get around the keyboard. Tip of the Day – Windows Excel Alt+Enter    and in  Mac Office Excel keyboard shortcut is Fn+Ctrl+Alt This adds [...]

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15 minute guide to Virtualbox Windows 7 RC1 and your Mac

So this follows an earlier post of mine about Virtualbox and running Windows XP on a Macbook Pro. Virtualbox is a great piece of software for running virtual operating systems on another machine (like runing Windows 7 on a Mac OSX). Today’s guide shows that you can be up n running with Windows 7 RC [...]

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