Editing Master Slide in Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation

To edit the master page:
Surprisingly enough, you can do that not from the Design or the SlideShhow menu, but from the View menu


View --> Master Views --> Slide Master

Microsoft Outlook: Retain read status for message

Many of us consider our official mailboxes as our task lists. Without regard to whether that is a good or bad practice, and for those who adopt this habit; maintaining the messages status as un\read is crucial to identify whether as action has been taken or not.

To overcome the behavior of the messages status change while previewing the list of e-mails without the intention to actually consider this as read, the following option can be uncheck to transfer the responsibility of un\marking your messages statuses.

Microsoft Outlook: Restoring the envelope icon in the taskbar after hiding it

File --> Options --> Mail --> Show an envelope icon in the taskbar

Snapshot for Microsoft Outlook 2013

Tip (MS Excel): To skip empty cells

To skip empty cells and to get directly to the next non-empty cell:

Keyboard Shortcut:
Ctrl + one of the 4 arrow keys (in the direction required) 

Merge Outlook calendars together

Easy like copy & paste, the trick is to change the view to accept copy\paste:

Open the seconary calendar to merge:
- "View" from the menu
- "Chnage View" from the Ribbon
- "List" from the submenu
- Select All "Ctrl+A" then "Ctrl+C"
- Move to destination calendar "Ctrl+V"

Enabling Developer tab within Excel Ribbon

Applies to Microsoft Excel with ribbons, starting from Excel 2007 as far as I can remember!

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The really killer feature from my point of view is editing few office documents online!

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The really killer drawback, if not remedied the earliest is the performance. It requires a lot of tweaking; for example, saving to skydrive  requires a significant amount of time!


Another important but acceptable issue with this revolutionary interface is the lack of most features in the office applications, frankly, I only played for some time with Work and PowerPoint.