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Take your company virtual!
Going into the office is so yesterday! Changing times has made it not only easy to work from home, but practical.
If you are thinking about taking your company remote, or if your an employee that is being, relocated to a home office, then this book will help you learn some of the most popular telecommuting tools.
The book covers the following online tools:
• Zoom
• Google Meet
• Trello
• Invision
• Slack
This...
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Take your idea to reality!
Think for a moment. Think about that one time--or maybe one of several times--where you said, "You know what would make my job easier? This..."
Innovation doesn't have to come from innovating minds. It can come from ordinary people who are just trying to make their everyday lives a little easier.
In my case innovation was twofold:
Modernizing every Shakespeare play
Putting it in a format that spoke to...
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Microsoft PowerPoint used to rule them all. It didn't matter what computer or operating system you had-if you needed to present something, you used PowerPoint.
Times have changed! Today there are many presentation solutions out there. Some, like Google Slides, are pretty barebones, and others, like Power-Point, feel at times feature creep-there are just so many options, it's easy to get lost. If you use a Mac, iPad, or iPhone, then you have a third...
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Goodbye Microsoft Word! Hello Google Docs!
There's a real good chance that you grew up in a Microsoft Word world. The first document you created were from the Office Suite. But, if you are reading this, then you are ready to make the leap to cloud-based (and free) word processing with Google Docs.
If you are thinking about making the switch to Google, or have already made the switch but want to make sure you are using it correctly, then this guide...
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Unleash the Power of Keynote!
Showing off your vacation slideshow or photo al-bum used to be boring. With Keynote for Mac, you can create a slideshow or photo album that will be, fun to create, and which will wow your audience!
Keynote is powerful software, and if you get a Mac, it's free. But let's face it: you've probably spent most of your life using PowerPoint. For a Mac user, Keynote can make your documents really shine... but first you need...
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For 40-some-odd years, the world of spreadsheets has been, ruled by one king: Microsoft Excel. Sure, there were far away challengers that tried to overtake the beast, I'm looking at you, Lotus 1-2-3, but none have come close to dethroning the powerful tool... until Google Sheets.
So what is Google Sheets? It's a cloud-based spreadsheet. Think Excel, but online. "But Excel is online," you say. Yes! But, Google was there first, and really has the advantage...
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Google isn't just for searching anymore!
Google isn't just a search engine anymore. It isn't just an email provider. It's a software suite of tools--from an operating system to productivity tools, Google kind of does it all!
This book is your crash course to all things Google!
The book covers:
• Chromebook
• G Suite (including Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Slides, Google Sheets, and Google Forms)
• Gmail
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Take your presentations to the cloud!
How many times do you work on a presentation that you will get absolutely no feedback on and want no help?
Maybe you're the type that likes to whip something up and have no practice or feedback at all? Most of us are the former. Before we stand in front of a group of people, we want to make sure we're as polished as possible.
The problem is PowerPoint wasn't built like that. It was built as a desktop program...
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Chances are you grew up a Word and Office user. Maybe you were a rebel and committed your herd to OpenOffice, or, dare I say, WordPerfect-but for the majority of people, our lives were loyal to Microsoft.
In 2005, a small little startup named Upstartle developed something unheard of at the time: a web-based word processor called Writely. It pioneered the idea of writing on the "cloud" and changed the way people thought about word processing.
Google...
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If you want to create a professional document like a resume or cover letter, then you know where to go: word processing software like Word or Pages. But, what if you just want to create well-organized notes?
If you are using a Mac, iPad or iPhone, then the choice is obvious: the appropriately named Notes app.
On the surface, Notes is a pretty basic text editor, but there's more than meets the eye, as Notes can do more than just give you a place to...
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Rethink communications It didn't seem so long ago that instant messaging and texting in the workplace was not only frowned upon but outright banned. Times have changed. Chatting online is now not only part of workplace culture, but the preferred way teams communicate. When it comes to this type of communication, there is one service that rules them all: Slack.
Slack lets you communicate with your company and teams within the company in a way that...
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Master Gmail!
If you are like millions of people, then your first email was probably AOL, Juno, or Hotmail. Email as a communication tool, however, has been around since the 60s.
Gmail is the most widely used provider today, and if you are using it (or considering using it) there's probably a good reason: it does more than perhaps any other email provider out there.
You can make phone calls with Gmail! You can make video calls with Gmail! You can...
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Discover how to use Word's most popular features
There's a good chance you grew up with a typewriter. Typewriters weren't exactly feature creep. They could bold, italicize, and underline things, but that's about as deep as their functionality went.
Modern word processing does so much more! It checks your grammar, let's you co edit documents with others, even add pictures and multimedia. And when it comes to Word processing, there's one software...
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★★★ Unleash the power of word processing ★★★ Chances are you've used Word before in your lifetime. But things have changed a lot over the years, and you might need a little refresher on where things are. This book is going to show you not only where things are that you're use to on Word; but it's also going to show you how to really take advantage of them. So if you've used Word before, it's going to help you use it even better. It will...
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Unleash the Power of Pages!
Pages is powerful software, and if you get a Mac, it's free. But let's face it: you've probably spent most of your life using Word-or if you were a renegade, WordPerfect.
For a Mac user, Pages can make your documents really shine...but first you need to know how to use it. This guide will help!
Instead of spending hundreds of pages on functions you probably will never use, it shows you what you really want to...
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Say goodbye to Word, and take your writing to the Cloud with Google Docs. Like hundreds of millions of people, you probably lived your whole, life using one-word processing tool, Microsoft Word.
It's great software! Powerful software! Resourceful software! And...expensive software! Google Docs is, the Google equivalent of Microsoft Word, but it's free. Free as, in ad-supported, right? One paragraph in and you have to watch a 30 second video of some...
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Microsoft Word used to rule them all. It didn't matter what computer or operating system you had-if you needed to type something, you used Word.
Times have changed! Today there are many word processing solutions out there. Some, like Google Docs, are pretty barebones; and others, like Word, feel at times feature creep-there are just so many options, it's easy to get lost. If you use a Mac, iPad, or iPhone, then you have a third option that's growing...
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Microsoft Excel used to rule them all. It didn't matter what computer or operating system you had- if you needed to create a spreadsheet, you used Excel.
Times have changed! Today, there are many spreadsheet solutions out there. Some, like Google Sheets, are pretty barebones, and others, like Excel, feel at times feature creep-there are just so many options, it's easy to get lost. If you use a Mac, iPad, or iPhone, then you have a third option that's...
20) The Ridiculously Simple Guide to Gmail: The Absolute Beginners Guide to Getting Started with Email
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Email as a communication tool has been used since the 1960s. Commercial use of email is still relatively young.
Today, email is dominated by one company: Google. Estimates show that over 50% of all people with email use Gmail! If you picked up this book, you probably have one or are considering getting one.
For its email service, Gmail is easy enough to use-compose email, send email, done! But there's more to Gmail than sending and receiving email....
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