Have you ever wanted to be able to input Excel data into a PowerPoint presentation or a Word Document but never known how to?

Well this latest Microsoft Excel tip will show you how to do exactly this.

First of all, copy the data which you want to paste into either PowerPoint or Word and then open up Word or PowerPoint.

In Word 2007 the paste button is located beneath the Office button in the top left hand corner of the page. Click the small arrow beneath the paste button which will open up the paste menu and then select ‘Paste Special’

In the menu, select the ‘Microsoft Office Excel 2007 Spreadsheet Object. If the button on the left just says Paste, then the data is inserted and when you click the object, it becomes editable as though you are working in Excel.

If you select Paste link, then any updates you make to the spreadsheet will appear in the object which has been put into the Document/Presentation.

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Dubbed Office 365, the new cloud version of Microsoft’s popular Office software will be available shortly as a test version before going on sale as a subscription service next year.

Office 365 will be available through most Internet browsers including Firefox, Safari and Chrome as well as Smart-phones and other mobile devices.

Office 365 will give users access to programs such as their Outlook e-mails and simplified versions of Word and Excel virtually anywhere without the need of having to install any software. If the user does have the software installed, then they will be able to access more features of the software

This is just the latest of shots in the Cloud Computing war between Microsoft’s Office software and Google’s Docs software with Microsoft determined to claw back ground it had lost when we compared the two in our previous article: Google Docs Versus Microsoft Office Web Apps.

Only time can tell now if Office 365 has enough firepower to help sink Google Docs or if Google can come up with a suitable response to this latest hit.

Don’t you hate it when you are typing away happily on your computer, only to look up and realise that you have forgotten to turn off Caps Lock and you now have delete what you have just written and start all over again?

There are a couple of simple solutions to combat this. The easiest solution is to use the SHIFT key to input upper-case letters. Holding down the SHIFT key whilst you type will change the letters into uppercase and then once you release the SHIFT key, the letters go back to lowercase so you can continue typing without worrying about an overload of uppercase text.

The second solution involves receiving a notification in the form of a beep that CAPS LOCK is still on. This notification doesn’t come from Microsoft Office but from Windows itself and alerts you with a beep each time the CAPS LOCK, NUM LOCK or SCROLL LOCK keys are pressed.

In order to activate this beep, following these steps:

Access the Control Panel and select Accessibility.

Then select the Keyboard tab and click the ‘Use Toggle Keys’ check box.

Make sure the ‘Turn off Accessibility Features after idle’ check box is not selected and then click OK and close the Control Panel.

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That’s right, the 18^th – 24^th October is ‘Get Online Week’ where people who haven’t used the internet before for one reason or another are being given the opportunity to get online at various events taking part around the country.

It has been suggested that over 9 million people are currently not using the internet and so the communications giant BT have revealed a campaign to help those who feel that they aren’t confident enough to use the internet.

In a recent joint poll carried out by BT in which they surveyed over 2000 people, they found that almost half of those surveyed had purchased products or services on behalf of somebody who didn’t know how to.

So if you know somebody who is struggling to get online or struggles, the best thing you can do for them is to take them step by step and guide them rather than just doing the job for them.

When you create a presentation using Microsoft PowerPoint 2007, can you be sure that if you have to send it to somebody else that they also have the 2007 version? If not then there is a simple way of ensuring that viewers can view the presentation, even if they have an earlier version.

In order to do this, you have to change the way you save your newly created presentation. Instead of simply clicking the Save button, you first go to the Microsoft Office button in the top left hand corner of the page and select Save As.

You then have to change the ‘Save As Type’ from a normal presentation to a ‘PowerPoint 97 – 2003 Presentation’ and then click save.

Now if the viewer you send the presentation to is using Microsoft PowerPoint 2007, then it will still show the presentation in ‘compatibility mode’

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Microsoft certainly seems to think so. With their new Internet Explorer 9 Internet browser blocked from working on XP systems and product support for XP stopping completely in 2014, Microsoft are determined to get everybody upgraded to Windows 7.

But is Microsoft missing the signs completely? Just before the release of Internet Explorer 9, even with the competition from both Windows Vista and Windows 7, Windows XP still accounts for over half of all Microsoft’s Operating Systems compared to just 22% Windows 7.

Microsoft XP & Internet Explorer: A match made in heaven? Not anymore it seems.

At least, not if you want hardware accelerated internet performance. With Microsoft refusing to add the new acceleration features found in its new Internet Explorer 9 into Internet Explorer 8, you are still left with standard performance.

If you are interesting in getting the accelerated performance, then you might want to look at getting a new Internet browser altogether. Both Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome offer the user this accelerated performance.

So as Microsoft readies itself to leave XP on the rubbish pile in favour of the more modern Windows 7, will you be upgrading also? Or are you sticking by XP?