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Today, I'm pleased to announce some great news for government customers in the United States.
First, we're introducing Office 365 for Government. Office 365 for Government is a new multi-tenant service that stores US government data in a segregated community cloud. Like other Office 365 offerings, it includes productivity and collaboration services including Exchange Online, Lync Online, SharePoint Online, and Office Professional Plus. Customers can contact their Microsoft representative for details and to explore the service.
We also know that security and privacy play a big role in any decision to move to the cloud. Today, Office 365 supports the most rigorous global and regional standards such as ISO 27001, SAS70 Type II, EU Safe Harbor, EU Model Clauses, the US Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the US Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), and the US Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA). To meet evolving needs, we also plan to support IPv6 in Office 365 for Government by September of this year, and we're taking steps to soon support Criminal Justice Information Security (CJIS) policies.
We look forward to working with our government customers on these initiatives in the coming months.
Kirk Koenigsbauer
Corporate Vice PresidentMicrosoft Office Division
VLOOKUP week ended. The idea of Excel MVP Bill Jelen, inspired the idea of all VLOOKUP, VLOOKUP track Oden haikus, vampires, and shark attacks.
If all beiseite-fun - Excel experts crazy several useful and innovative applications of VLOOKUP in seven days created. The week could be but thanks to the enthusiasm of the community Excel and on the Web, the information continue to have Excel users at all levels of experience. So thank you, Bill, and thanks to Excel community.
Here, Bill's wrap-up:
Many people from around the world submitted VLOOKUP week many exciting tips and tricks about VLOOKUP. I moved seven of the most innovative contributions for your enjoyment. Do she these contributions from one you like the best? Take the two-second poll below and let us know. The top vote-getter will win under the name "Great White Shark" VLOOKUP week and a copy of my book Microsoft Excel 2010 in depth.
= INDEX (MATCH (EXACT case search by Tom Urtis=RELATED() in Powerpivot by Rob Collie=INDIRECT() to a variable sheet by James Chen= VLOOKUP with select search links from Richard Schollarusing VLOOKUP in validation by JP PintoVLOOKUP, OFFSET, and MATCH double lookup by Javier Guillenimproving VLOOKUP with two VLOOKUPS from Charles Williams speed ))Bill Jelen is the host of MrExcel.com and author of 34 books on Microsoft Excel.
Premiere Pro work area / plug-ins and third-party hardware for Premiere Pro CS6by Todd Kopriva Date: Thursday, June 7, 2012 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM US/Pacific
Description:
Join Alice Acker, Adobe Captivate Expert along with Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to learn the nuances of selecting and using assets like images and videos for your elearning courses. During the session, we will also discuss how to make use of Adobe Captivate and Adobe Photoshop to select, manage and edit the assets for an effective use inside the course.
What’s in it for you?
After attending the session, you will be able to:
Carefully select the assets for your elearning course from different sourcesCreate assets from the internal sources like people images or office images etc.Edit images using Adobe Captivate and Adobe PhotoshopTo Register: http://adobe.ly/KT6XZY
The 99% Conference – “1% inspiration and 99% perspiration” – wrapped up a couple of weeks back, and there have been some amazing conversations among leading creatives and visionary speakers. We’ve excerpted a few of them below, thanks to the wonderful recap from the 99 Percent team, and included snippets of a visual documentary of the event from illustrator Wendy MacNaughton.
RILLA ALEXANDER | Designer & Illustrator, Rinzen
“Without the doing, the dreaming is useless.” Most creative professionals are dreamers. Sure, a tendency to be struck with ideas and inspiration means you’re in the right field, but it takes discipline to persevere past the “dreaming stage” and start chipping away at really making it happen.
JONATHAN ADLER | Founder, Jonathan Adler
Forget about strategy occasionally; missteps are okay. We’re trained to focus on a goal and make “strategic decisions” to reach it, but a rigid plan can stifle creativity. Give yourself the freedom to “make whatever is in your head” and do something risky from time to time. You never know how it might turn out.
JAD ABUMRAD| Creater & Host, Radiolab
Embrace “gut churn.” Gut Churn is that awful feeling of discomfort and uncertainty you have when you’re not sure if your idea will sink or swim. In the early days of Radiolab, Jad’s cohort remembered, “years and years of being sick to my stomach.” Greatness might not always feel good, but heading into unchartered territory is rarely comfortable. In fact, “gut churn” probably means you’re onto something.
JONAH LEHRER | Author, Imagine: How Creativity Works
“The answer will only arrive after we stop looking for it.” It turns out that scientists can actually predict when you’re most likely to have an epiphany. In fact, being relaxed and not thinking about the problem you’d like to solve ups your chances of having that “aha!” moment. Ergo, the most productive thing we can do when we’re stuck is: Forget all about work. Force yourself to waste time – take a walk, a shower, a day off – and you just may find what you’ve been searching for.
TONY FADELL | Founder & CEO, Nest
“Frustration is where my creativity comes from.” An early curiosity about how things worked, understanding how they were built, and then wanting them to be built differently – and better – is where Fadell’s unique brand of creativity came from. Inspiration is highly personal and often strikes unexpectedly; be attuned to the world around you to find more of it.
SCOTT BELSKY | Co-founder & CEO of Behance
A labor of love ALWAYS pays off. Even “failures” in the eyes of others are enriching for us. Every dead-end helps lead us in the right direction.
Get the full recap of in Key Takeaways on Making Ideas Happen along with the complete look at The Illustrated 99% Conference 2012.
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I don't know how it happened, but I've ended up being the designated organizer for our large, extended-family camping trips. I think it's because I love organizing things (some may call it being bossy) and I like laying out information clearly and visually.
This way, everyone knows what they are supposed to do and when they are supposed to do it. No one forgets the barbecue sauce or the key-lime pie we all look forward to!
Word tables make my job really easy, so I'm going to show you how I set up our meal plans using them.
To set up a table in Word, go to Insert, click Table, then drag your mouse over the boxes to add the number of rows and columns you need, then click. This inserts the table in your document. I need four columns and seven rows to keep all of the cooks and meals straight, so that's what I choose.
Here's my table for our weekend meals. Everything is clearly laid out, so it's easy to pressure Mark to bring his special dessert--see the star by his name?
Jazzing up the table will help me call out important information. Family members will most want to know what they're cooking and with whom. I'll make the top row (the header row) and the first column stand out so there can be no excuses. (See, told you I was bossy.)
To add these highlights, I select the the table, then on Design tab, go to Table Style Options, and select Header Row and First Column. Then I expand Table Styles by clicking the arrow at the bottom right.
As I mouse over the different table styles, I get a preview of each one. I choose this style because I think white against blue pops:
Everyone ribs me about being a micro-manager, but none of us ever goes hungry on our camping trips. Here's more information on working with table styles in Word:
Which table style should I use?
I’ve been thinking lately about community. Thinking about eLearning community, about the Captivate community, sure… but also about all sorts of communities. Do I really know what community is? Could I poke it with a stick if I saw it?
I’m originally from Wyoming. I mean that I was born in Wyoming. For those of you in the broader world, Wyoming is a rural state in the US known for its deep roots in the American West. With nostalgic links to cowboys and independence, Wyoming is among the most sparsely populated places in the United States. While my years in Wyoming were short and early, I remember those years fondly and they are filled with memories most often including family and close friends.
One of my paintings – Reflections on my childhood in Wyoming.
When I think of my uncles and my father running high into the sage brush to pee out a fire from a rogue rocket on the fourth of July, is that community? When I think of neighbors and friends gathering at the corner market and talking for far too long while mud-smeared companions run circles around plastic flying elephants, is that community?
Later in life my memories of belonging to a set tend to fall upon school. Most of my formative years were spent in the corn-and soybean shadows of Iowa. Thanks to facebook, many of my original classmates are still just an Instant Message away. We chased and swung and climbed together. We ate together, took naps together, read together and studied together. Most of us no longer live anywhere near one another, but still we chat and email and share stories. Is this community?
As I began my professional career I met tens of thousands of students, worked with hundreds of educators, created spectacles with a myriad of artists and performers. We drank and sang and swam naked together. We laughed and cried and learned together. Is that community?
More recently I’ve encountered modern social communities. I’ve been working with several friends over the past six months to help create a centralized resource for the Adobe Captivate and eLearning community. It wasn’t long after I joined the eLearning team that I began to notice a pattern. Upon joining the team I’d gone online and searched out thousands of documents across dozens and dozens of web sites all very helpful but also a bit difficult to find.
I realized fairly quickly that while there is an enormous, productive and very generous community of Captivate and eLearning Suite users, they had never really centralized upon a ‘common watering hole.’ This would present itself most often when I’d try to explain to someone where they could get help on a given issue. The answer was usually to point them to several different resources online. As we looked at the core problem, we wanted to identify a solution that would provide the community with a mouthpiece – something that would enable community members and leaders to share their amazing talents. We also realized that we’d need to create something that had the potential to fit into the lives and schedules of as many of our customers as possible.
It isn’t like our goal was to create community, after all – the community of Captivate users was already there, just a bit disconnected. And our goal wasn’t to denigrate in any way the amazing efforts that individuals were making to create great destination resources. Our goal was to enhance the potential for communication by creating a convergence in the stream. The core idea was to provide a common landing ground that would be an excellent way to share messages about everything that was being written, filmed, shared and created that might be of interest to users of Captivate and the eLearning Suite.
After quite a bit of investigation we decided that rather than re-invent social networking, we’d use the most popular channel online today for social networking, and focus on enhancing its functionality in order to provide people with valuable information via the channel most of them are already using. We decided to offer the Captivate community a watering hole, centered around facebook.
http://www.facebook.com/adobeCaptivate/
I think it is important to note here that community is a blessing. It is a gathering of people with common interests and goals. It isn’t something that any given corporation can control, buy, sell or claim ownership over. The eLearning community exists with or without any of its individual participants, so it is absolutely not appropriate for anyone to try to claim ownership of a community or steer a given community. Like each individual member of the community, the best a company can hope for is to facilitate that community.
I’m pleased to say that this mission is going quite well. Today there are nearly 35,000 people connected to the Adobe Captivate facebook page. We’ve held two great contests, displayed loads of great community created content, answered hundreds of questions for hundreds of customers, shared blogs, videos, projects and more focused on a variety of topics of interest to those creating eLearning. We’ve centralized the schedule listings of our eSeminars, making it simple to find and register for any of the amazing and innovative eSeminars we provide to community every week. We’ve shared our blog posts as well as those of dozens of bloggers from around the world, and have an extremely active core of more than a dozen Adobe eLearning employees and even more dedicated community evangelists that are constantly working to bring the latest news, stories, examples and experiences to our wonderful community.
The Captivate community is enormous, so big in fact that it may be difficult to spot that community if you aren’t standing far enough back. The Captivate community is extremely active. The Captivate community is proud of the amazing accomplishments they’ve made, and they have every reason to be so. The Captivate community is generous, patient and thriving. Every day I meet new members. Every day those choosing to join us via the facebook watering hole increases substantially. The Captivate community is you, and you are important to me, and important to the other members of this community.
So if you’ve got something to share: a project, a story, a tip, a trick, a problem or a bug, an announcement or anything at all you think your colleagues should know, I hope you’ll share it with us. You can post it right on the facebook page, tweet it with hashtag #AdobeCaptivate, add it to the support forums via http://captivate.adobe.com/ or GetSatisfaction on our facebook page, or join us for one of our amazing eSeminars.
What do you think community is? How does it impact your day to day experience? How has it helped shape who you are today? What have you done to be an active participant in your community? Post a comment in the section below – We’d love to hear your ideas on the subject.
A little bit about me … I joined Adobe about five years ago as a new grad from San Jose State University. My first job here was, in my opinion, the best first HR job one could have in corporate HR. It was as a member of the HRIC (HR Information Center), where I got a serious crash course in all things HR related. After an amazing year on the HRIC team, I moved over to the University Talent Team; I had always had a big interest in being a part of this team and have been with it ever since.
My current role in University Talent is program- oriented: in the spring and summer I plan for and manage the Summer Connections Program, our summer program for all university talent, to help interns get to know each other, learn about Adobe and have fun. In the fall and winter, I maintain relations with our target campuses, set up campus and Adobe on-site events and help with our recruiting and branding efforts. I truly enjoy my role at Adobe as well as the people I work with, not just in my greater team but across different functions as well.
On a personal note, I’ve been married for 5 years, the same amount of time I have been at Adobe; I actually accepted my offer with Adobe the day before my wedding. I’ve lived in the Bay Area my whole life but have always loved to travel. While in college, I was able to study abroad in Spain which really reinforced my travel bug. My husband and I travel whenever possible; we love exploring new places. Some exciting places I have be able to visit include most of Western Europe, Greece, Turkey, Egypt, and Jamaica.
Gina G., University Talent Program Specialist
If you’re looking for a rewarding career, explore exciting career opportunities at Adobe.
Adobe Digital Publishing / Cook’s Illustrated and Us Weekly Released This Week!by Adobe Digital Publishing Suite Team Reading Beyond The Lines / Adobe Community Help channel on YouTubeby Mallika YelandurCommunity Help (7)video (1) Have you ever had to find an email that was part of a long thread--an email with lots of replies about the same topic? For example, your boss might have asked for the results of last month's important meeting, and you know Sherry sent an email outlining them, but then you remember that Todd followed hers with more information. If you group your emails into conversations, you can find the emails you want more quickly.
Show emails as conversations
Most people organize their emails in a running list arranged by the date they were received. Grouping your emails into conversations helps you locate all the emails related to that conversation.
On the View tab, in the Conversations group, click Show as Conversations.
You can choose to apply the Conversations view to the folder you're in or all folders..
Your emails are now grouped by conversation. Click the arrow to expand the conversation and find the specific email you're looking for.
Clean up conversations in Outlook
To make it even easier to find specific emails in Conversation view, you can delete replies that contain the same information.
On the Home tab, in the Delete group, click Clean Up, and click Clean up Conversation.
Click Clean Up to remove emails with redundant information.
You'll see that your ten emails were reduced to eight.
Don't worry, you won't lose any information - the only emails that are deleted are those with the same content. For example, let's say someone replies to the latest email in the conversation, but then someone else comes along and ingores that email by replying at an earlier point in the conversation. When you choose to clean up your conversation, the email that was ignored isn't deleted because its content is different than the others.
Adobe Creative Suite 6 (CS6) is here. Have you taken it for a spin yet?
Adobe CS6 is a collection of several industry-leading software such as Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Flash, Premiere Pro and several others. If you want to see for yourself what the new software is like, you can download a trial. Adobe offers trials for individual products as well as the suites (with multiple products). If you want to try out all products, Master Collection is for you.
To get a trial, Go to the Downloads page, select a product to Try, and click Download now.
If you need Trial Download instructions, see the following self-paced demo on how to download and install a CS6 Trial. In the demo we use After Effects as an example, but the process is the same for all products.
With all of the excitement around the Creative Cloud & Creative Suite 6 launch I wanted to reminder you that back in March we released version 4 of Photoshop Lightroom following a two month beta trial period which started in January. For anyone not familiar with Lightroom, its our professional photo management application used by photographers – both amateur and professional – to quickly import, manage, enhance and showcase their snaps.
With this latest upgrade, there are a raft of workflow improvements and features which nod to the increasing use of, and need to integrate, both still images and video within photography workflows. With new video capabilities increasingly being built into cameras, more and more photographers are finding they are expected to also have key video editing skills.
This means that today’s students will also be expected to have these skills when they enter the workplace, whether straight from school or after having completed their higher education. To make Lightroom 4 more accessible to a broader range of students and teachers, a Student & Teacher edition of the new software is available for £59.09 inc VAT, which is 50% less than previous versions of the product. If you want to learn more about how you can use Lightroom 4 in your lessons, then check out our series of how-to videos.
Liz Wilkins is Senior Marketing Manager for Education at Adobe Systems UK. Her involvement with Adobe Education products has seen her work closely with a range of educational institutions, championing the use of digital media tools in the curriculum, and their integration into a number of subject areas in order to better prepare students for the future demands of the workplace. Liz works closely with teachers and administrators integrating software, curriculums, and instructional resources as well as certification options and professional development tools. Through promoting digital literacy in cross-curricular education, teaching essential career skills, and streamlining administrative processes Liz has experience working in partnership with a diverse portfolio of schools and further education institutions. 
Edna Jean's parents aren't sure about Conrad taking her to the prom, even though he's her "hunky wunk". Then she tells them that in Word, he can make table headers repeat over multiple-page tables. Will this seal the deal with Edna Jean's parents?
Rather brilliant. (I won’t spoil anything by revealing what it’s about.)
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Posted by John Nack at 7:25 AM on June 09, 2012(Note: We first published this post in 2010, but since then so many of you have looked it up that we thought we'd share it with you again.)
As we noted in the last post about inserting a screenshot, a lot of the work for Office 2010 has been about improving workflow for image insertion and editing.
I’m going to show you how to use the new Remove Background tool on pictures to make a slide like this:
The Remove Background button will isolate the foreground object in an image and remove the background elements. Here’s the original image of my skateboard:
If you click the “Remove Background” button on the Picture Tools Format tab, you’ll enter the Background Removal contextual tab:
You’ll also see that PowerPoint makes an initial guess about what to remove. In many cases this will be the end of the story, so you can just click “Keep Changes” and move on:
This all depends on the characteristics of the picture and which object you are trying to isolate. When the guess is incorrect, there are a couple of quick steps you can take to get the result you want. First, drag the rectangle to fit around the object you want:
Then, click the “Mark Areas to Remove” button and draw lines over the unwanted areas, such as the wood floor. If part of the object you want is under the purple mask, then use the “Mark Areas to Keep” to make sure they aren’t removed accidentally:
In a couple minutes you’ll have just the areas you want, and everything else in the image will become transparent. As a final step, you may wish to use the crop tool to remove transparent areas so that the bounding box fits tightly around the object. Since it’s just a picture, you can apply effects, rotation, and scale just as you would to any other picture in PowerPoint (notice how the shadows project only from the isolated skateboards):
This is a very powerful tool that opens the doors to a whole new realm of creativity. You’ll be pleased to find it in other Office apps such as Word, Excel and Outlook. Have fun.
-Christopher Maloney
Adobe enterprise product blog – David McMahon / LC ES3: ReaderExtensionsService – PKI Intialization failed. Exception: com/rsa/jsafe/provider/JsafeJCEby dmcmahoncertj (1)Jsafe (1)PKI (1)ReaderExtensionsService (1) 
Join Tuesday's free Office 15-Minute Webinar to learn about uncluttering your inbox with Outlook. You can join the webinar live with the link below at 9:15 am PDT or go to http://aka.ms/offweb for complete information on our webinars.Join online meetinghttps://join.microsoft.com/meet/dougt/F274WBQZWhat you will learn at the webinarHow to search in Outlook Clean-up with Conversation ViewDelete: a personal philosophyWhat are Quick StepsWe will add the video to this blog post after the webinar.
References for this webinar:
Clean up, Ignore buttons (Outlook 2010) Best Practices (looking at all of Outlook, no just clean-up)--Doug Thomas
Adobe Education Technologies / Create a Swirl Pattern Using Illustrator CS6by Scott Trudeauadobe (34)CS6 (1)Illustrator (1)Pattern (1)tutorial (4) 