James Gray

Get Facebook Updates in Outlook

The Microsoft Outlook Social Connector Provider for Facebook is now available for download to enable Facebook updates within the Outlook client. Note you will need to first install the Microsoft Outlook Social Connector.

PowerPoint 2010 Co-Authoring Enables Simultaneous Editing and Collaboration

I use Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 every day and one of my favorite features is co-authoring.  This feature enables multiple authors to simultaneously edit the same PowerPoint file and collaborate in real-time.  This time saving feature eliminates the need for one author to check-out the file and resort to serial updates when there are multiple colleagues that are required to contribute content. Your PowerPoint 2010 view shows the author names and a visual icon on each slide that others are updating.  You can simply refresh your view to see the new updates made by these authors.  PowerPoint 2010 integrates other collaboration features such as using Office Communicator or other IM applications to view the status of other authors and initiate conversations directly from within PowerPoint 2010.