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January 18, 2016

Adding Thumbnails within Recipe Elements Using Author Tools for PowerPoint

Writing walkthrough guides is easy. It’s the formatting of the content that will take you forever to do, especially of you are wanting to repurpose the content into other formats like scripts, blog posts, summaries and even books. And if you want to make a change to a guide, or correct mistakes then that can take just as much time because you might break some of the formatting, or pagination, or you may miss one of the formats. And if you wanted to have specific page breaks, formatting requ...

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Published on January 18, 2016 15:09

January 17, 2016

Author Tools For PowerPoint Student Edition Available For Free Download

Last week I published out an eBook on Building Walkthrough Guides Using The Author Tools and made it available for you all as a free download. I was a little surprised at the response and the number of downloads that I got for the first edition. And to all of you that did download the book, you may want to re-download it because over the past day or so I added in a lot more content showing some of the more advanced features within the Author Tools for PowerPoint including:

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Published on January 17, 2016 06:51

January 15, 2016

The New Dynamics AX Tip #15: Using the list filter

The New Dynamics AX is a big change from the previous releases. The majority of the changes are around the new web based user interface, the new way that you navigate around in the application and also new sets of tools that have come along for the ride.

For those of you that are familiar with the older user interfaces then you may have to learn a couple of new tricks to get around the system like the pro that you are, and for new users of the New Dynamics AX environments then you will proba...

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Published on January 15, 2016 04:52

January 14, 2016

Free Download: Building Walkthrough Guides With PowerPoint Using The Author Tools

Writing walkthrough guides is easy. It’s the formatting of the content that will take you forever to do, especially of you are wanting to repurpose the content into other formats like scripts, blog posts, summaries and even books. And if you want to make a change to a guide, or correct mistakes then that can take just as much time because you might break some of the formatting, or pagination, or you may miss one of the formats. And if you wanted to have specific page breaks, formatting requir...

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Published on January 14, 2016 16:08

Building Walkthrough Guides With PowerPoint Using The Author Tools

Writing walkthrough guides is easy. It’s the formatting of the content that will take you forever to do, especially of you are wanting to repurpose the content into other formats like scripts, blog posts, summaries and even books. And if you want to make a change to a guide, or correct mistakes then that can take just as much time because you might break some of the formatting, or pagination, or you may miss one of the formats. And if you wanted to have specific page breaks, formatting requir...

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Published on January 14, 2016 12:29

The New Dynamics AX Tip #14: Undocking forms

The New Dynamics AX is a big change from the previous releases. The majority of the changes are around the new web based user interface, the new way that you navigate around in the application and also new sets of tools that have come along for the ride.

For those of you that are familiar with the older user interfaces then you may have to learn a couple of new tricks to get around the system like the pro that you are, and for new users of the New Dynamics AX environments then you will proba...

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Published on January 14, 2016 04:16

January 13, 2016

The New Dynamics AX Tip #13: Accessing the ribbon bar commands

The New Dynamics AX is a big change from the previous releases. The majority of the changes are around the new web based user interface, the new way that you navigate around in the application and also new sets of tools that have come along for the ride.

For those of you that are familiar with the older user interfaces then you may have to learn a couple of new tricks to get around the system like the pro that you are, and for new users of the New Dynamics AX environments then you will proba...

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Published on January 13, 2016 04:35

January 12, 2016

The New Dynamics AX Tip #12: Accessing detail forms

The New Dynamics AX is a big change from the previous releases. The majority of the changes are around the new web based user interface, the new way that you navigate around in the application and also new sets of tools that have come along for the ride.

For those of you that are familiar with the older user interfaces then you may have to learn a couple of new tricks to get around the system like the pro that you are, and for new users of the New Dynamics AX environments then you will proba...

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Published on January 12, 2016 03:30

January 11, 2016

The New Dynamics AX Tip #11: Showing the fact boxes

The New Dynamics AX is a big change from the previous releases. The majority of the changes are around the new web based user interface, the new way that you navigate around in the application and also new sets of tools that have come along for the ride.

For those of you that are familiar with the older user interfaces then you may have to learn a couple of new tricks to get around the system like the pro that you are, and for new users of the New Dynamics AX environments then you will proba...

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Published on January 11, 2016 04:19

January 8, 2016

The New Dynamics AX Tip #10: Using the search feature to fund functions

The New Dynamics AX is a big change from the previous releases. The majority of the changes are around the new web based user interface, the new way that you navigate around in the application and also new sets of tools that have come along for the ride.

For those of you that are familiar with the older user interfaces then you may have to learn a couple of new tricks to get around the system like the pro that you are, and for new users of the New Dynamics AX environments then you will proba...

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Published on January 08, 2016 04:08