Microsoft Office is the best tool for any business owner, student, administrator, or professional that just wants to be more productive. It is filled with tools that are designed to make your life easier and help you get more organized. When you learn to use the tools that Microsoft Office has to offer, you will find that you are more efficient and effective in everything you do.

One of the tools that most people love is Microsoft Outlook. This is the email program created by Microsoft. Outlook allows you to do multiple things to improve your efficiency. Let’s say you work at an insurance company like 21^st Century Insurance. You can flag emails that are insurance quotes that need to be followed up on so that they are easier to find when you need them. You can use a color coded system and flag email quotes for auto, motorcycles, home, renters, etc each with different colors.

Outlook also allows you to create to-do lists and maintain several calendars for different purposes. If you have a personal calendar, a work calendar, and a special project calendar, you can view each one individually or as a single compiled schedule. You can sort emails into folders to help keep your inbox clean, and you can set up automated functions. For example, any email with auto insurance quote in the subject could automatically be sent to your auto insurance folder instead of being sent to your inbox.

Microsoft Office has many other tools that can help you be more productive, such as Word, Access, and Excel. Whether you are compiling rates and other data from your 21^st Century Insurance home office or writing letters to potential clients regarding their insurance coverage requests, Microsoft Office can help you do it more efficiently.

If you have Microsoft Windows (and really, the only people who don’t probably also don’t have a computer… which leads one to wonder how they might be reading this), you have probably never noticed that there are some strange things involved in the operating system. If you ever want to frustrate yourself over nothing, you need only try to make a folder named Con. No matter how many times you try to create it, that folder will always revert to being called “New Folder.” But if you think that little tidbit is strange, you really haven’t seen anything yet. The strangest thing that has been identified with Windows actually concerns Microsoft Word and its commands.

Believe it or not, there are actually commands you can issue to Word, in much the same way as you can program Excel (and modify its user interface) using Visual Basic. While there is no known exhaustive list of these commands, there is a quirky one which has been making the rounds lately. All you have to do is type in “=rand(200,99)” on the first line of Word, then hit Enter, and you will find that it does a great deal of typing for you. So much typing, in fact, that you may not want to do this if you are running a lot of programs at the time. While it can be an amusing way to leave a friend a “present,” the effect is only mildly amusing – you probably won’t impress anybody with it.

The first time you enter “=rand(200,99),” you will receive about 13 pages of “the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog,” repeated over and over… and over and over again. If you really like that old typing meme (which is notable in that it uses every letter, thus making sure they actually work), try entering the command again. It will actually continue entering the repetitious wording for around 53 more pages. In some cases, if you enter the code a few times, it will actually just keep on entering the same text. Then try getting rid of it.