Working with a touch-screen device can present a challenge when working with the Ribbon in Microsoft Office Applications. You may wonder how to enable Touch Mode in Excel, for example. Can you make the buttons bigger? Absolutely. You can create more open space on the Ribbon so commands are easier to tap.

In a Forbes contribution by Josh Bersin, founder and principal at Bersin by Deloitte, he writes: "US spending on corporate training grew by 15% last year (the highest growth rate in seven years) to over $70 Billion in the US and over $130 Billion worldwide." With these numbers, it's evident that there are a lot of options out there when it comes to training and developing your employees. We know that it can be tough to sort them out and determine which are best for your particular business.

Can you customize the branding of the Office 365 Web based sign in experience? Yes you can with Microsoft’s release of Azure Active Directory (AD)!

Can you add Apps to the App Launcher in Office 365? With the continuous adding of new innovations and features by Microsoft, it is very easy to add single sign on apps to improve the user experience. For example, if you want to add a specific HR app to help users access tools without having to go to the external website, you can! Can you add a Twitter app to Office 365 for single sign on to your organization's Twitter account? Yes, you can! There are hundreds of apps to choose from.

Micromanagement is a burden on everyone involved. It takes time away from a supervisor's day and only frustrates the person being managed. It goes without saying that the best-case scenario is for an employee to prove his or her ability to manage his or her own time, thus earning a degree of independence and negating the need for micromanagement altogether. In order to help you encourage your colleagues to take this initiative, we've gathered some tips for you to share with them.

With the rollout of Office 365 Government, there are some interesting decisions to make when upgrading potentially old and expensive servers. There is an increasing need to find a long-term solution to meet governmental needs for compliance, modern mobility, collaboration, archiving and, of course, security. Office 365 meets all federal information security and privacy requirements. So why migrate to Office 365 Government? It is an opportunity to modernize, boost productivity, be more efficient and reduce cost.

Today, staffing can feel a bit like a revolving door. Employees come in and employees go out on a seemingly constant basis, which is especially frustrating when you consider the costs of turnover—both hidden and evident. An Inc. article estimates that the hidden costs, including those related to interviewing, training, lowered productivity and overworked remaining staff, can "run as high as 150 percent of an annual salary." It continues: "Turnover is expensive. Sometimes it cannot be avoided, but when it can, you should avoid it by doing the right things for your employees." The right thing, in many cases, manifests in added learning opportunities.

FLASH FILL: Excel 2013 has an awesome feature called Flash Fill. How does Flash Fill work? It gives you the ability to take a part of the data entered in a column of a worksheet table, type part of it into the next column over, and fill a series.

Excel detects patterns in your initial data entry! The application then figures out the data you want to copy and even offers a few choices to match exactly what you want. Fill a series without a formula! Instead of manually entering your data or copying and pasting, let Excel do the work. Here’s how...

In this webinar, you’ll learn ways to gain control of your Outlook. This can be very challenging and we’ll show you ways to streamline your workflow and make your Outlook experience so much better. Many of us use Outlook all day but may be unaware of some of the amazing tools and underutilized options that will help you be more productive and organized!

In this introductory webinar, you’ll receive a tour of the user interface and the many Google Apps for Work offerings. Our goal is to help you better understand how using Google Apps will streamline your workflow. Users will learn about this all-in-one suite to communicate, store and create. We’ll dive into communication tools like Gmail, Hangouts and Calendar. You’ll gain a better understanding of the cloud-based storage solution called Drive and collaborate with Apps like Docs, Sheets and Slides.

How to collaborate with your colleagues 

Get a look with our latest member recorded webinar, you’ll get an inside look at sharing and collaborating with Office 365 and SharePoint Online. We’ll show you a side-by-side view of two users collaborating in a Word document. Watch how changes John Keller makes are tracked and noticed by Samantha as they work and collaborate together within the same Microsoft Word document.

When do I get Skype for Business? If you’re currently use Lync Online in Office 365, you’ll get Skype for Business sometime by the end of May 2015! It is automatically replacing Microsoft Lync as a robust and unified collaboration and communication platform. What is Skype for Business?

Join KnowledgeWave, and our Excel expert David Thibault, for our specialized Excel 2013 Power User for CPA's. After you’ve exported data from QuickBooks to Excel what’s next? In this custom course, students will learn the advanced skills necessary to create business applications using Conditional Formatting, various Functions, Formulas and PivotTables. This is a great class for the Excel user looking to boost there skills to Power User status. This session is eligible for 7 CPE credits for Certified Public Accountants.

This is the last in a series of 4 posts about simple computer adjustments that can make a world of difference for older workers. Microsoft Windows has some great tools to help accomodate changes in vision and dexterity.

If you haven’t quite mastered the double click, are having problems with moving the mouse on the screen, or are a left-handed user, then read on! You are not alone and you can adjust various settings to meet your needs.

All About the Computer Mouse

Many of us struggle with this thing they call the mouse. Do I single or double click on something? What’s this I hear about right clicking?

The mouse can be a great tool helping users move their on-screen pointer to different items on the screen. A traditional mouse has a left and right button as well as a scroll wheel located in the middle of the two buttons. The left button is the primary mouse button. This is the button used to select, open, and move items on your screen. The right button provides a drop down menu of options (a list). Click the right button anytime you are interesting in viewing the options on whatever item you have clicked on. The scroll wheel moves back and forth to scroll through items such as webpages and documents. It can also be used to increase the viewing size of documents and webpages. 

The Train the Trainer approach has expanded its reach into many contexts, including laboratories, schools, hospitals and the corporate world. Its breadth speaks to its intuitive design and ease of adoption, as Train the Trainer simply involves "initially training a person or people who, in turn, train other people at their home agency," according to a report by the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness. In other words, one subject-matter expert shares his or her expertise with a group of trainers from your organization. This group then uses this information to instruct others.