Palomar College pays for the rights for its faculty to work at home with certain Microsoft products.  This is a benefit that is often under-appreciated.   When I give workshops on Office 2010 products, I mention that faculty members can get it though the FCCC (the Foundation for California Community Colleges) and walk them through the steps.  I often see people make notes, but then we move on to other things.  I’ve got a feeling that those notes get lost in the grand rush of things, because I am often asked by workshop attendees later—often much later—how to obtain Office 2010 for $45, our price...

Have you ever noticed that with a few of the built-in themes in PowerPoint 2010, and even more of the themes available at Office.com, some of the so-called color-coordinated colors don’t work very well, especially when placing a URL–and most especially with a visited URL–on a slide?  Here are a couple of examples with built-in themes: Visited URL with TREK theme: URL using Paper theme: URL with Apothecary theme: Other built-in themes such as “Concourse,” “Metro,” and “Perspective” have this same problem.  Sure, you can see the URL text (and what...