Improve the tablet experience, revamp your help desk, get creative with Word formatting

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Five tips for improving your tablet experience If you need more than a smartphone but less than a laptop, you may be a happy tablet user. But there are still some peculiarities to work around and new habits to develop. Read more Resource of the day Achieve an effective service catalog. Here's how. The service catalog is not a new concept, but it?s evolving along with the new requirements of today's IT, and has become the centerpiece of effective IT service management. Download the three-step approach to delivering effective IT service management through automated catalog and request here. Hottest new tips   Five tips for revamping the role of your help desk In the current IT environment, your help desk staff must take on more responsibilities than ever before. Here are a few ways they can address the new challenges and extend their reach. Read more Five tips for using creative Word formatting You can take advantage of a few less obvious formatting features to add polish and design interest to your Word documents. Here are some simple but effective tricks that can make a big difference. Read more Five tips for a smoother Linux command-line experience Many Linux users find the command line intimidating and avoid it like the plague. But these tricks and shortcuts can make the command line more manageable -- and downright useful. Read more Additional TechRepublic resources   Lock down stand-alone Windows machines with Multiple Local Group Policy Bill Detwiler shows you how to create user-specific Group Policy configurations on Windows 7 and Vista with Multiple Local Group Policy. Read more Security or convenience: Does it have to be a choice? There are stacks and stacks of research explaining why we prefer convenience over security. Does that mean we can't have both? Read more Use an Excel style to identify data input cells Susan Harkins shows you how to format and unlock input cells in Excel at the same time by assigning a modified style. Read more Quick Tip: Change the conversation view in Gmail Some people love it, some people hate it, but everyone should know how to change the conversation view in their Google mail account settings. Read more Four time-wasters you don't even know you're doing Many people waste time at work without realizing it. Here are four things to watch out for. Read more Featured multimedia   The best of Paris Air Show's civilian planes (photos) Road Trip 2011: The Paris Air Show is a place to check out the latest and greatest, as well as some classic, civilian airplanes. View on site Today's recommended downloads FICO inspires IT value with HP Service Manager Accelerate Modern Application Delivery with HP Software Apps Key Steps to Proper Planning, Execution and Analysis of Performance Testing Methodology How to Perform Rapid Test Data Preparation, Subsetting and Masking How HP and Fortify helped FICO Implement a Secure Development Lifecycle Introducing two new TechRepublic newsletters Google in the Enterprise and App Builder are new TechRepublic newsletters that will launch by the end of June. Go to our subcenter to sign up for (and to learn a little more about) these newsletters. TechRepublic newsletters   Get Mac tips, product reviews, and smartphones news in the following TechRepublic newsletters. Automatically sign up today! Macs in Business Smartphones 10 Things 25 must-read Word tips Five Word tips that could change your life Five tips for making sense out of the Word 2007/2010 style tools Five tips for using Word's Track Changes feature more efficiently Five tips for working beyond Word's page-numbering basics Five tips for working with headers and footers in Word 2010

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