Microsoft Office 2013 has been available for several months, but Office 2010 has been stable and mostly well-received in our firm. And with staff and lawyers already overwhelmed by the never-ending stream of new technologies hurtling toward them, I wasn't eager to push yet more change on them. So I put off the idea of installing the new Office on any of our firm’s computers.

Until now, that is. Having nabbed a new desktop computer that came bundled with Office 2013, I've finally had a chance to complete an install of it. It didn't make much sense to downgrade to Office 2010. It was time to take the plunge. And what better workstation to start with than mine!

One of the many things I enjoy about my work is the constant learning and discovery.  Even if it's a 'small' discovery, as this one is, it's often enough to make a difference in a workday. 

I'm always looking for more efficient ways to deal with the mountain of information our office produces and must deal with daily.  Some time ago we established a 'Red Tape Reduction' committee to identify workflow process that could use improvement.  This post addresses one of those identified processes.  Solving it resulted in the discovery of a simple process buried deep within Word that increased the efficiency in our workflow.

If you aren't running an Exchange server, with Outlook connected as the desktop email client, you can stop reading right here - this post won't be of any interest to you.  But if you are working with Outlook connected to Exchange and use Exchange Public Folders, you may find this a helpful tip.

Essentially we were looking for the most efficient way to post to an existing Word .doc to a public folder to reduce duplication of work. We knew we could drag and drop the .doc from Windows Explorer to the Outlook Public Folder (but that required Windows resizing, so both the origin and destination locations were visible to allow for the drag and drop - and that can be fiddly).  We knew we could copy and paste the .doc (or any file) from its original location to the Public Folder (but that requires a lot of clicking).  There had to be a better way.  It turns out there is - it's just buried in Word, and until today, I didn't know it existed (which is possibly negligence on my part, but let's keep that to ourselves...!)  It's called the 'Send to Exchange Folder' command - and you can add it to your Quick Access Toolbar (Word 7 and later versions) for easy access.  This command allows you to directly send the open Word document straight to the Public Folder, right from within Word - no drag and drop, no copy and paste required.

Here's how you do it:

Add ‘Send to Exchange Folder’ to QAT

• Click the down arrow at the far left of the Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) to customize it to make the change
• Click More Commands

• In the ‘Choose commands from’ box, click the ‘down’ triangle to change the list from ‘Popular Commands’ to ‘All Commands’
• Scroll down the (alphabetical) list of commands
• Click once on ‘Send to Exchange Folder’ to select it
• Click the ‘Add’ button (you’ll see the ‘Send to Exchange’ folder appear in the right side box, as shown below)
• Click ‘OK’ 

That’s it – you’re done.  You’ll now see the ‘Send to Exchange Folder’ on your QAT. 

This is a one-time customization that should remain available to you at all times, now that it has been placed on the QAT. 

To use this ‘Send to Exchange Folder’ function

 Just do the following, with your Word document (In this case, the Pickup and Delivery Form) open: 

• Click the ‘Send to Exchange’ icon on your QAT
•  In the dialog box that opens – expand the ‘Public Folders’ (by clicking the + to its left)
• Expand ‘All Public Folders’ (by clicking the + to its left)
• Click to Select the Public Folder you wish to send the .doc to
• Click ‘OK’ 

Live and learn!

Please head off here to read the full post:

A couple of weeks ago our offices installed a brand-spanking new VoIP phone system.  I've been geeking out for the last little while, figuring out all the cool things we can do with the new system that we couldn't do with the old one.  I love that I can log out of the phone at our desk, drive over to our other city office and log into a phone over there. Everything travels along to the new location with me – my extension, my voice mail, my direct line, phone customizations – all of it. It’s as if I am sitting at my own desk and not half-way across the city! 

We can now also receive our voice mail messages as a .wav (sound) attachment to an email. I always have my email available to me – either directly in Outlook, or by way of Outlook Web Access, or on my mobile devices.  Each one easily plays the message for me, without having to dial into my voice mail.  And icing on the cake: the recordings can be saved permanently to a matter file. 

And that’s what this column is really about – not a cool new phone system, but all the additional email now landing in my mailbox.  The first day the new system was operational, I watched those incoming voice mail messages and watched everyone else doing the same – and then I watched as some manually dragged each message into a folder they created in Outlook, so the messages wouldn't ‘mix’ with the other email in their Inbox. 

Painful.  Very painful.  I'm thinking repetitive stress injury territory, given how many voice mail emails arrive at the office….  Why do Outlook’s work for it, when you can lay down the law and make it do what you want it to do – make Outlook follow your Rules.

Remainder full post here

Silencing Email Read Receipts: Why You Don’t Always Get What You Want

Back in the day when I was a young and naive pup, I didn’t pay much attention to how my email was set up. I’d sometimes be surprised by a little pop-up that accompanied an email I’d just opened in Microsoft Outlook, asking me to please confirm receiving and reading that email: aka a “read receipt.”

I may have been naive in those days, but I was also (and still am) private and paranoid. My reflexive privacy twitch always caused my finger to click “no” every time that box appeared. (“No, you can’t know that I received and read your email—that’s my business, not yours.”) Eventually, I began poking around for a way to turn off those occasional, annoying pop-ups.

Links to Office 2013 Cheat Sheets, from Eric Ligman: Microsoft Small Business Community Blog:

Yesterday I sent out a series of tweets pointing people to the various

different Microsoft Office 2013 Quick Start Guides, which are printable guides that contain useful tips, shortcuts, and screenshots to help you find your way around. In other words, I like to think of them as your “Cheat sheets” for the various Microsoft Office 2013 programs.  

Well, throughout the day yesterday, I started receiving pings and inquiries from some of my followers saying how much they liked the different Microsoft Office 2013 Quick Start Guides and asking if I had the full series posted in one place to see all of the ones available, as well as access and download them all from a single location. Since I had not put the collection together in one place yet and there seemed to be a consistent ask for this, I thought I would pull them all together here for you in a single post so you can see all of the ones available and download the ones you want for yourselves. Simply click on the pictures or names of the ones you want and download them, or right-click on them and select “Save target as,” to directly save them to your machine.

Microsoft Office 2013 Quick Start Guides (“Cheat Sheets”):

I was working with one of our assistants yesterday – she was automating a set of documents to more efficiently serve one of our municipal clients – setting up ‘Ask’ fields', ‘Create Date’ and 'PrintDate' fields and more (I was pretty thrilled by this, to tell the truth!).  Her precedent document also contained a simple Word table with some figures in a column, causing her to ask a question I don’t get asked very often:

“Can Word add up a column of numbers in the same way an Excel spreadsheet does?”  (she wanted to avoid having to link a separate Excel spreadsheet to the precedent document).

And my answer was “Yes, it can” (though my 'Yes' was very qualified).

Below, I’ve created a single column table and put a number in each cell.  If you add the numbers, you will see that they total 15, and that’s what the table shows.

However I didn’t type the number 15, I used Word’s ‘Formula’ command (when you the table, Word will display the 'Table Tools' Ribbon - look at the' Layout' Tab, then the 'Data' group and you'll see the 'Formula' command) to total the column and insert the total automatically in the last cells (Place your cursor in the bottom cell first and ensure it's empty)

Word inserts the total (sum) as a field (this is the default action in the Formula command), allowing you to change the column numbers in the future and update the total by updating the field. 

This is pretty handy for very, very simple calculations directly in Word, but Word Tables are subject to serious limitations you should be aware of:  None of the cells can be empty.  Word will only total contiguously numbered cells – if one cell is empty, it will not sum the entire column of numbers correctly.  That means you **must** put a number in each column cell, even if that number is ‘0’.

Word will let you do other calculations than Sum in a Table, but I haven’t tried them and wouldn’t recommend them.  If you want move involved calculations, use an Excel spreadsheet and link it to your Word document.

Remember that turn of the century game show where weaker players were summarily dismissed from the game by a snarling game show host? Wrong answer, off the game the player was ordered, as the weakest link – no second chance. Only the strongest, most strategic players were left standing at the end to compete for the prize.

When it comes to computer security, YOU are that weakest link. If you lose, you might not only be sent home in humiliation, you may take your entire office and your clients’ confidentiality with you. Losing the computer security game is not a chance you want to take.

My new post is up at the ABA's Law Technology Today blog. Click on over for the full post and don't forget to stay vigiliant out there.

Adobe Reader XI: A Worthwhile Download for Lawyers

By Vivian Manning | Jan.15.13 | Daily Dispatch, Power User, Productivity, Technology

Mostly in life, you get what you pay for. And when you pay nothing, you don’t often get much in return. Sometimes you get more than you bargained for, but not in a good way. Once in a great while, though, you get an unexpected prize. Adobe Reader XI, Adobe’s free PDF reader software, is one of those prizes: A rare, good, free thing.

Way back in September 2011, I wrote a couple of posts about Word 2010’s ‘Find’.  Basically I was whining about how Word 2010 replaced the ‘Ctrl F’ keyboard shortcut with the Navigation Pane, rather than Word’s old ‘Find’ Dialog box (and I preferred the old Find box).  This change made the old ‘Find’ box more difficult to get to – and it required extra clicking to get there.

• Finding where Microsoft buried Find – Word 2010
• From the Comments: More on Buried Find – Word 2010

My original post laid out the various ways to access the old-fashioned ‘Find’ box, for those still wanting it, and my follow-up post elevated an extremely helpful comment from Deborah Savadra, Legal Office Guru, showing how to re-apply the old keyboard shortcut to the Find dialog box, allowing you to bypass the Navigation Pane and go straight to Find.

But I realized, the other day, while working on a Word issue, that I missed an additional way to access the old Find dialog box from the Quick Access Toolbar and/or the Ribbon.  Because Microsoft never makes it easy, you know?  They actually did do make the ‘Advanced Find’ command available for both the QAT and the Ribbon, it’s just not where I expected to find it – you know, next to ‘Find’!  It’s up with the ‘A’s – under ‘Advanced’…

Add ‘Advanced Find’ to the Quick Access Toolbar

• Click the ‘down’ triangle at the right of the QAT to reveal the drop-down menu
• Click ‘More Commands’

In the ‘Word Options Dialog box

• Choose commands from: ‘All Commands’
• Scroll down the list of commands until you see ‘Advanced Find’ (choose the command with the binoculars) and click to select it
• Click ‘Add’ button to add the command to the QAT (moved it up or down the list of commands as desired)
• Click ‘OK’

You’ll now see the Advanced Find command icon on your QAT and clicking on it will bring up the old dialog box: 

Add Advanced Find to the Ribbon 

I wrote an extended post on how to Customize Word 2010’s Ribbon here: Word 2010 - Ribbon Customization (to add Print Preview and more).  Please refer to that post for basic instructions on how to customize.

Essentially though, after you start the Ribbon customization process, you are looking in the ‘All Commands’ selection for ‘Advanced Find’ as you saw in the earlier instructions for customizing the QAT.  Once you find that command, and move it into the new custom group created to hold it on the Ribbon (I think it’s best on the ‘Home’ Ribbon, right next to the default ‘Find / Replace / Select’ editing commands, you’ll see it appearing like this on your newly customized Ribbon.  Clicking on it takes you straight to that lovely old-fashioned Find dialog box, where you can carry out your ‘find’ magic in your document : 

Don’t Let Track Changes Trip You Up

I know that I'm going to take a few of thse more personal resolutions to heart, especially taking my lunch hour away from my desk. 

Happiest of New Years to all.

We’re coming to that time of the year when I see a lot of people calling up their precedent documents to update the year – from 2012 to 2013.  From this:

Dated at Barrie, Ontario this                        day of             , 2012

to:

Dated at Barrie, Ontario this                        day of             , 2013

And you might think – what’s the big deal?  I only have to make that change once to the precedent each year – that’s not a lot of work.  But you have to *remember* to do it (it’s easy to forget); you have to do it multiple times (more precedents = more times), *and* you have to repeat this process every year.

What if the next time you made that change, it was your last time?  Because Word does allow you to set just the year in a document, and have it update automatically every year.  Here’s how using Word Fields.

Word’s ‘old’ Fields are still available in Word 2010 – you just have to dig a little to find them – and that’s where you’ll find this trick:

• Place the insertion point in your document at the location you want to insert the year (date).
• Click the Insert tab to go to the Insert Ribbon
• Click ‘Quick Parts’ to drop down the list
• Click ‘Field’

In the Field box

• Scroll down the Field names until you see ‘Date’ and click on it
• In the Date Format area, look at the list of available Date formats

These are the (current) date fields that Word will let you choose from to insert into your document.  You’ll note that there isn’t a format that lets you choose **just** the year – and that’s what we’re looking for.  All is not lost hower, because you can easily edit the date format and remove all the field info except for the year.  It works like this:

You can see I’ve selected a date that has the full year (2012) in it, rather than the shortened version (12).  Once I select a date, the date formatting appears in the box above my selection.  If I clicked ‘OK’ at this point, the date would insert into my document in exactly the format shown.

But, I don’t want the day and the month, just the year.  So I just edit out all the information except the four ‘yyyy’ s, so I get this:

Now I have only the year in my field.  And this year will update automatically, so on the stroke of midnight, January 1 (according to my computer system clock), the precedent’s date will automatically update.  It’s one less thing for me to think about during a busy year-end.

These date fields work like this (screenshot from Word 2010 Help file): essentially this 1 symbol (y) gets you the most shortened version of the field (12) and 4 symbols (yyyy) gets you the longest (and if the symbols are for the month or day, the 4 symbol version will get you the actual word – play around a little with the fields to see the results)

You can have any combination you like – not just the defaults that Word presents in the date format list.  Going back to my example at the top of the post – I’m not limited to adding just the year as an automatically updating field, I can add the month also, in its proper location.  I would just use the same process as above, but rather than removing all the date formatting info except for the year, I would remove all the date formatting info except for the month, leaving just four ‘MMMM’s, will get me the current month name only, so now I have this:

(Note: I work with my Field Shading turned ‘on’ so I have an easy visual that these dates are field, not plain text.  I can see here that I have 2 separate fields – although I could have done it with just one.)

It’s also important to understand that the date field being inserted is the **current** date, making this method most useful for documents printed out for paper signing.  The date will update electronically to current if you later open the document (that’s what makes it so useful in a precedent) – and this can lead to confusion as to the proper date.  If you want to ‘lock’ the date electronically in your ‘real’ document, allowing you to open it in the future without having the field update, just select the fields (you can select the entire line or paragraph to save yourself time) and use the key combo:

• To lock a field so that field results are not updated, click the field, and then press CTRL+F11.

If you change your mind, you can always unlock it again: 

• To unlock a field so that field results can be updated, click the field, and then press CTRL+SHIFT+F11.

If you want to completely unlink the field (turn it into plain ol’ text): 

• To unlock a field so that field results (the current date) convert to text, click the field, and then press Ctrl+Shift+F9.

Thursday, December 13, 2012

 (Note – I work with my field codes always ‘on’ (more on this below), so I can see where fields are – and the date, in this case is a field.  For more on how to set this and related options in Word 2010, see: http://vmanning.posterous.com/troubles-and-solutions-start-here-word-2010-o-99891 ) 

 So the next question is (after the comment – that’s nice – I don’t have to type out my date?  Or remember what the date actually is?) – how do I set a default format?  Make today’s date always pop into my document the way I like to see it?  Fortunately, this one’s easy – a ‘set it and forget it’ option.  Although you won’t find it in Word’s comprehensive Options, as you might expect…While Microsoft makes it easy, they don’t always make it intuitive… 

 Head on over to the ‘Insert’ tab, then click on ‘Date & Time’.  You’ll see the ‘Date and Time’ box pop open 

But there is something you want to be very, very careful of in the Date and Time box before you press ‘OK’ to set your default – it’s the ‘Update automatically’ selection.  It’s important to understand what this option means and what it does:  If this option is unchecked, the default date will insert as plain text – just like any other text you manually type in your document.  The only thing ‘special’ about it will be that you didn’t have to actually type it.  If this box is ‘checked’, then every time you resave or print the document, the date will update to the current date, and this may be a very undesirable outcome, depending on your needs!  Whatever you choose, update automagically or not, the selection will stay that way unless you change it.  This is one of the very many reasons why I like to work with Field Shading ALWAYS TURNED ON.  That’s my visual clue as to whether text is just plain ol’ text, or is really a field. 

Before you make your final choice, though, take a look at the Language setting.  Assuming you have more than one Language loaded, select one of the other languages and look at the associated dates for that language, because you may find something that you like better.  I know I did.  I prefer the full date in the U.S. style, over the Canadian style.  But here’s the kicker: Even if you select that other language style date as your default – it won’t stick, unless you actually change your default Language choice in Word.  And that has a whole whack of consequences that you probably won’t want to deal with. 

Next I’ll show you how to chose any date or time format you like, any time you like, by using Word’s old-fashioned Fields.  Microsoft tried to hide them from us in this version of Word, but they’re still there for the taking if you want to use them.  And they can be pretty useful!

You’ve heard the hype (Drop Your Data Into Dropbox, The Essential Cloud: Top Tools for Lawyers), read the warnings (Reasonable Care in the Cloud, Stepping Into the Cloud: Practice Management Tools) and have decided to take Dropbox for a test-drive. Just one problem. Even though you’re sure about the “why,” you’re not so sure about the “how”—how to sign up, how to install, how to use.

Well, now’s the time to throw away that uncertainty because you’re about to learn, in excruciating detail, just how to dive into Dropbox.

Your Step-by-Step, Get-Going Guide

My latest is up at Attorney at Work. If you've been reluctant to dive into Dropbox (or other cloud services), because you're not sure how it works and how to set it up, the post provides step-by-step instructions on 'how-to'.

I've had a couple of requests for a compilation of that series - more people are bemused and annoyed about various default Word 2010 settings than I thought!  So, I pulled the series together in a .PDF file and have uploaded it to the blog.  Please feel free to download, use and distribute it as you wish, as long as you don't do so for any kind of monetary profit. (Because, really, who would be silly enough pay for a 60 page manual on Word 2010 settings!)

So here it is.  I've been trying to put it in an epub format also, but it's not that easy to do without a Mac.  If there is a reader kind enough to take the .PDF and turn it into an ebook and send it back to me, I'll post it too.

Edited to add: If the document doesn't pop up below (it's showing as an error on my computer) - just click on the download link below error - the .PDF will download to your computer despite the error.  It almost a 2 mb download)

We had to submit our favourite photo of the day, along with one of our best refraction shot.  This was my favourite of the day.  During our lunch break, Don advised to try stop thinking of the flowers as 'flowers', but think instead of lines, shapes, angles, colours and light.  It was great advice and I think this picture benefited from it.

This was the original, from which I cropped and converted to the B& W, above.  I think it's a sedum, but I'm not entirely sure.

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A few days ago I was contacted by a woman who had been tricked by a phone caller pretending to represent Microsoft. The caller claimed that her computer had viruses on it and convinced her to give up a credit card number as well as letting the caller make a remote connection to her computer.

I know a couple of people who have been subjected to this scam also - thankfully they didn't bite. Please read bruceb's full post and make sure you're not caught either. Stay skeptical - it's your best defense.

We know it sounds like an oxymoron, but a “Red-Tape Reduction Committee” might actually be the thing your practice needs. Today, Vivian Manning describes how forming just such a committee is helping her newly merged firm dispense with frustration and “silent suffering” among lawyers and staff, tighten up processes and, yes, get rid of some red tape!

In “Troubleshooting: It’s Not Always the Technology,” Andy Adkins discussed the concept of “the three-legged stool,” one of the legs being “modifying the steps in the process.” His post (which I hope you’ve read) reminded me of two things. The first is a quote from Bill Gates:

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

My latest is up at Attorney at Work. Give it a read and see if Red Tape Reduction will work for you.

The anemone is beautifully in bloom.  If it didn't spread so aggressively, it would be the perfect plant.

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I've received a few of these scam text messages recently and assume others are also, so this seemed like a timely reminder. If it seems too good to be true - don't click! And if it seems legit - don't click. And check your cell phone bill carefully to make sure you haven't already been caught by this scam.

• ease auto numbering of paragraphs, including Multi-Level numbering
• ease creation of Tables of Contents
• ease cross-referencing
• ease use of Word’s Navigation Pane and Outline View
• ease conversion of Word documents to .PDF files 

Applying the Heading Style is as simple as selecting the text, and then clicking on the Heading Style you want to apply: 

Troubleshooting: It’s Not Always the Technology

By Andrew Z. Adkins III | Sep.13.12 | Daily Dispatch, Practice Management, Technology

There are about 23 different business processes in most law firms. They range from new client intake to check requests to conflicts checks. When there’s a problem with one of them—maybe it takes too long or there are too many errors—believe it or not, it isn’t always the underlying technology that is to blame.

There's been a paucity of posts on the blog lately as I deal with vacations and workload, but I had to post a link to this morning's Attorney at Work column, because it touches on something I think is crucial - you can't throw technology at a broken process and think that the technology will improve the process. It won't.

Using The Typewriter Tool In Acrobat X

Adobe made significant changes to the user interface of Acrobat X, the current version of the widely-used program for creating and sharing professional-level PDF files. Like many design changes, the new layout is jarring for people familiar with Acrobat 8 and 9 but most of it works well after you become familiar with it.

Acrobat 8 and 9 had a typewriter tool that made it easy to add text to a PDF – click the typewriter tool button, click in the document, and start typing.

The typewriter tool is still there in Acrobat X but it’s been moved and renamed. I’ve discovered that even long-time Acrobat users don’t always know how easy it is to type extra text in a PDF.

bruceb with another very helpful post - this time on using the Adobe Acrobat X typewriter tool. If you haven't used it in the past, follow along with his instructions, including how to add it to your toolbar for easy access.
Then toss that no-longer-tempting typewriter

Windows Logo Key “Fave 10″ Shortcuts

By Vivian Manning | Aug.22.12 | Daily Dispatch, Productivity, Technology

Often I sound like a broken record. IRL (in real life), on my blog and here at Attorney at Work, I’m constantly repeating this mantra: “Don’t work for your computer, put your computer to work for you.” Sometimes small bits of information that would make our day more efficient are overlooked (or forgotten). But over the course of a work year, a few less keystrokes here … and fewer mouse reaches there … can add up to a lot of time saved!

Judicious use of the Windows Logo key is one of those simple ways you can easily work smarter, with very little up-front effort—great bang for your keyboarding buck.

My latest is up at Attorney at Work. Click through to find my list of favourite Windows Logo key combos. Work smarter, not harder.

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10 Awesome OneNote Tips You Should Be Using All The Time [Windows]

• August 21, 2012

• By Saikat Basu

I am going to ruffle a few feathers here by saying that Microsoft OneNote is just as good as Evernote. Evernote is probably more barebones and easier to handle, while OneNote is the digital equivalent of a binder, giving you more organizational control.

The showdown will continue, so for the sake of productivity and peace, let’s say that both are great note-taking apps with their pros and cons. I use both, as and when the purpose dictates it. And I have come to love both because they have made me more organized with my note-taking.

From Makeusof, more tools to add to your OneNote arsenal - click at the link above for this post.

The garden has definitely taken on a late summer feel - with few blooms and leaves fading, but still beautiful

Helenium is in full swing.  Now that the rain is plentiful, so are the blooms.

I cheated with this pic - these are growing wild at the bottom of the yard and I couldn't bring myself to yank them.

Veronica has a whole different look from the top than it does from the side.

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Please turn on two-factor authentication

by Matt Cutts on August 6, 2012

in Google/SEO

You should read Mat Honan’s heartbreaking tale of a hack attack and the ensuing discussion on Techmeme. Much of the story is about Amazon or Apple’s security practices, but I would still advise everyone to turn on Google’s two-factor authentication to make your Gmail account safer and less likely to get hacked.

Two-factor authentication means “something you know” (like a password) and “something you have,” which can be an object like a phone. Here’s a simple video about how it works:

I turned on two-factor authentication after my gmail was hacked (thankfully my experience, while awful enough, was not nearily as horrific as Mat Honan's). Two-factor verification is a minor inconvenience for a major step-up in security. Totally worth it. Watch the video first, if you have a google account, then head off to your google security settings and set up the two-step.

The society garlic is in full swing.

And the bees are having a ball with it.  This one was so intent on going about its business that it totally ignored my hovering camera

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Microsoft Reinvents Hotmail As Outlook.com

When Microsoft realized that it was on the verge of missing the implications of the Internet, it famously turned the company around in the mid-90s, building web access into all of its products and working out the implications of online access more thoroughly than anyone else.

The turnaround that Microsoft is engaged in this year might be even more impressive. It is straightening out its product brands, giving virtually everything a consistent design, and adapting to a world where mobile devices and multiple form factors are replacing traditional desktop computers.

This week’s announcement potentially carries as much weight as Microsoft’s other 2012 blockbusters – the radical reinvention of Windows and Office, the Surface tablet, the revamped server lineup and more.

I've been playing around with Microsoft's new Outlook.com email this week and have been quite pleased with the results! For a full review, please click on the link above and read bruceb's post. I think you'll like what you read!