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Hints and Tips for Windows Vista and Office 2007

David Overton - a Microsoft employee in the UK- has started publishing a series of demos on his blog. I've watched a couple of them and they are really good, concise video clips packed with useful hints and tips on how to achieve everyday tasks.

If you use Windows Vista or Office 2007, then these would be well worth your time watching. Each demo is just a few minutes long so you could watch one a day as and when David publishes them. I've been working with computers for years and I still learned something useful about Excel, so I highly recommend spending the time. If you learn one thing that saves you a few minutes each day, then you can either get more work done in less time, or go home earlier on Friday! So hop over to David's blog and take a look. If you use RSS then  subscribe to his RSS feed. If you want to see only the demos and not all the other stuff that David posts about, then use this link or this RSS feed instead.

Here are the installments so far:

How to find and use an Accounting template to use with Office Excel 2007 and then change it from US to UK currency, change the formatting of dates and drag lists

How to copy files to a DVD / CD, Use the recycle bin, Use previous versions for files and Use the built in Vista backup tools - all in a Video presented with SilverLight

If you don't have the Silverlight plug-in in your browser, just download the WMV file and view it in Windows Media Player.

I'd be really interested to know what you think of these demos, please let me know by adding a comment to this blog post.