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Features 16 EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT YOUR OFFICE SUITE Whether you use Microsoft Office, iWork or Google Docs on your Mac, here are the things you should know how to do. Three of the smartest office-app users we know take a close look at the best ways to use the most popular word processor, spreadsheet and presentation apps.
38 AUSTRALIAN MADE: LOOKING DOWN UNDER Among the wave of apps developed overseas, Australia has a number of quality developers, producing worldclass content. ANTHONY CARUANA takes a moment to look at those producing innovations in our own backyard.
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MAIL HOT STUFF iSNAP GUEST COLUMN Apple is not here to entertain you GADGET GUIDE MAC GEMS APP GUIDE SECRETS HELP GROUP TEST: Network attached storage (NAS) drives THE SETUP
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STM trust messenger bag Apple MacBook Air (mid 2014) Microsoft Word for iPad Microsoft Excel for iPad Microsoft PowerPoint for iPad Foxtel Presto
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Everything you need to know about your office suite WHETHER YOU USE MICROSOFT OFFICE, iWORK OR GOOGLE DOCS, HERE ARE THE THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW HOW TO DO. For all the talk about cloud this and web app that, the fact remains that, for many of us, using a Mac at work means using an office suite such as Microsoft Office, iWork or Google Docs. Some of us like to take pride in our accumulated expertise when it comes to using our spreadsheet, word processor or presentation program of choice. But many of us also harbour a sneaking suspicion that we don’t know everything we could or should know about those work-critical apps. So we asked three of the smartest office-app users we know – Rob Griffiths (spreadsheets), Jeffery Battersby (word processors) and Franklin N Tessler (presentations) – to come up with a list of the things they think every savvy user of those apps should know how to do. Not the basics, but the stuff beyond the basics, the things that separate novices from power users. We’ve said it before in other contexts, but we’ll say it again here: we’ll bet you know some, or even a lot, of this stuff already. But we’ll also bet you don’t know it all.
Illustrations by Harry Campbell
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In this technological world that consumes us all, we spend vast amounts of time using technology atnd apps developed overseas, but what about this great country of ours? Australia has a number of quality developers, producing world-class content. ANTHONY CARUANA takes a moment to look at those producing iOS and OS X innovations in our own backyard.
Australian made – it’s a slogan we should be proud of. Despite our relatively small population, we punch well above our weight in many areas. One that doesn’t get a lot of attention is software development. It can be a tough market to crack. In a world where Flappy Bird can become a huge hit with mediocre, or should we say ‘retro’-style, graphics, it can be hard to get a foothold. Apple’s iOS App Store passed the million app mark last October and the number of OS X apps, both in the App Store and distributed independently is almost impossible to count. Among all those apps, there is a lot of repetition and some apps that were perhaps best left on the drawing board. So, what are local developers doing? Thankfully, there are some great innovators, who are creating some innovative applications that are making a huge difference – not just locally but globally.
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