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Microsoft Office Outlook 2010 QuickSteps by Malestrom

centre right, Firefox, functional programming, macro virus, mail merge, New Journalism

These can then be dragged to the new folder or used directly in Outlook’s Mail Merge feature. 99 USE OUTLOOK’S MAIL MERGE FEATURE This technique is often used when you are ready to do the mail merge in “real time.” You have the contacts and the letter or document you are going to send them, and 10 Continued . . . 200 200 There are three steps to performing a mail merge using the Contacts list in Outlook with a Microsoft Word document. First, within Outlook, you prepare the contacts you wish to use in the mail merge, and then you export them in a form that Word can use with its Mail Merge feature. Second, in Word, you create the document that will be used to perform the mail merge.

If you wish, save your new merged document, and once more save the original mail merge document. 205 205 10 Microsoft Office Outlook 2010 QuickSteps Using Forms, Labels, and Mail Merge PC QuickSteps Getting to Know Your PC 1 2 Print Labels Printing labels is done the same way as the mail merge. First, you prepare your data file in Outlook (which you’ve already done while preparing for the mail merge). Then switch to Word, create a blank document, and perform a mail merge. 3 1. If you haven’t already prepared a contacts file for the mail merge, follow the steps described in “Prepare Contacts” and in the “Selecting Contacts” QuickSteps earlier in this chapter to get a data file for the names and addresses. 2.

Click OK to continue. 8 If you have chosen either Mailing Labels or Envelopes, a Mail Merge Helper dialog box appears. 10. Continue through the Mail Merge Helper to complete your document. A new Word 10 9 document appears, with the Mailings tab displayed. 100 100 Microsoft Office Outlook 2010 PC QuickSteps Getting to QuickSteps Know Your PCManaging Contacts 1 11. Click Start Mail Merge. From the context menu, choose between the following types of 2 documents: 3 • Letters • E-mail Messages • Envelopes • Labels • Directory • Normal Word Document to begin the mail merge. The Mail Merge task pane appears at the right side of your Word window. 44 12.


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Is It Just Me? by Miranda Hart

banking crisis, Bob Geldof, Donald Trump, ghettoisation, Live Aid, mail merge, period drama, Rubik’s Cube, wage slave

The Stationery Cupboard Definitely deserving of its own category, if only because the stationery cupboard provides the most wonderful refuge from the occasional ravages of office life – indeed, from life itself. In one office I worked in, the stationery cupboard was large and well appointed enough to house at least four people for up to five hours before anyone started running out of oxygen. A bunch of us – when we were hung over and meant to be mail-merging for a big event – used to pretend we were going in there for a ‘very important mail-merge-based meeting’. We would then bed down for the morning – lying on the bubble-wrap, heads resting on Manila envelopes – and snooze peacefully, like monkeys in a cage. Even when you’re fighting fit, the stationery cupboard can provide a welcome bolthole.

Even though the dream seemed further and further away as I trundled through my twenties and early thirties in offices, I kept at it. I kept writing sketches in office stationery cupboards, kept trying them out in grotty London pubs, every summer went to the Edinburgh Festival and every September, when back in the office, would do another mail-merge to casting directors. And, get this – we are now a comedy actress. Professionally. *mouth falls open* Seriously, we are a comedian. SHUT UP! Are you bouncing up and down? I am bouncing up and down. Me too, although I have to hold on to my breasts to do so without damage. I can’t actually believe it.


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The Little Book of Hedge Funds by Anthony Scaramucci

Alan Greenspan, Andrei Shleifer, asset allocation, Bear Stearns, Bernie Madoff, business process, carried interest, corporate raider, Credit Default Swap, diversification, diversified portfolio, Donald Trump, Eugene Fama: efficient market hypothesis, fear of failure, financial engineering, fixed income, follow your passion, global macro, Gordon Gekko, high net worth, index fund, it's over 9,000, John Bogle, John Meriwether, Long Term Capital Management, mail merge, managed futures, margin call, mass immigration, merger arbitrage, Michael Milken, money market fund, Myron Scholes, NetJets, Ponzi scheme, profit motive, proprietary trading, quantitative trading / quantitative finance, random walk, Renaissance Technologies, risk-adjusted returns, risk/return, Ronald Reagan, Saturday Night Live, Sharpe ratio, short selling, short squeeze, Silicon Valley, tail risk, Thales and the olive presses, Thales of Miletus, the new new thing, too big to fail, transaction costs, two and twenty, uptick rule, Vanguard fund, Y2K, Yogi Berra, zero-sum game

According to recent surveys, hedge fund job listings increased by 32 percent in 2010. Unfortunately, there isn’t a scientific recipe that I can give you to help you land a job at the next hedge fund powerhouse. But, below are some suggestions on how to score an interview. The Blind Outreach Program: The blind outreach program occurs when you hit the mail merge on your computer and e-mail your resume to all of the personnel departments in the hedge fund universe. Although this may be the coldest of cold calls—and probably the least effective approach—I still think it is necessary as it forces you to get your arms around the many different names in the industry.


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Bit Literacy: Productivity in the Age of Information and E-mail Overload by Mark Hurst

en.wikipedia.org, Firefox, Google Earth, mail merge, off-the-grid, pre–internet, profit motive, social bookmarking, social software, software patent, web application

A macro is a series of steps—commands, keystrokes, clicks—that users can program into the computer once, and then run many times with a single keystroke. (If you’re not sure how to get started, ask the nearest techie—or IT department—for a tutorial on macros; someone may be happy to teach you.) For example, say someone hands you a text file and asks you to “clean up the data” (perhaps to prepare a mail merge or some other task) by deleting the second comma on every line. One way is to do it manually: search twice for a comma, delete, go to the next line; search twice, delete, next line; and so on. But for a file with thousands of lines it would be impossible. A macro, however, could loop these steps into one command, allowing you to execute the process with a single keystroke.


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User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product by Jeff Patton, Peter Economy

anti-pattern, Ben Horowitz, business logic, business process, card file, index card, Kickstarter, Lean Startup, mail merge, minimum viable product, performance metric, software as a service, tacit knowledge

If this were Asteroids, you’d have lost. But since it’s not, try bundling up your small stories into bigger stories: If your stories are in an electronic backlog, get them out onto cards or sticky notes. Whatever tool you’re using should be able to print or export to a spreadsheet. I’ll use a simple mail merge in a word processing program to create labels for all the stories and then stick them to a card, or print directly onto cards. Ask for help from a group of team members who understand the system. Schedule a room with lots of wall or table space where you can work. Give everyone a handful of story cards and ask them to start placing them on the tabletop or sticking them to the wall.


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Running Money by Andy Kessler

Alan Greenspan, Andy Kessler, Apple II, bioinformatics, Bob Noyce, British Empire, business intelligence, buy and hold, buy low sell high, call centre, Charles Babbage, Corn Laws, cotton gin, Douglas Engelbart, Fairchild Semiconductor, family office, flying shuttle, full employment, General Magic , George Gilder, happiness index / gross national happiness, interest rate swap, invisible hand, James Hargreaves, James Watt: steam engine, joint-stock company, joint-stock limited liability company, junk bonds, knowledge worker, Leonard Kleinrock, Long Term Capital Management, mail merge, Marc Andreessen, margin call, market bubble, Mary Meeker, Maui Hawaii, Menlo Park, Metcalfe’s law, Michael Milken, Mitch Kapor, Network effects, packet switching, pattern recognition, pets.com, railway mania, risk tolerance, Robert Metcalfe, Sand Hill Road, Silicon Valley, South China Sea, spinning jenny, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Suez canal 1869, Toyota Production System, TSMC, UUNET, zero-sum game

It wasn’t an ordinary business, so we couldn’t just say, “File these correspondences.” We didn’t quite know what we were doing, so it was hard to have someone help you learn on the fly. We set up our own meetings, sent out our own quarterly letters to investors, got our own coffee and took out our own garbage. Voice mail and e-mail and mail merges are just easier to manage than people. It was just me and Fred—Fred and me. The economics were 50-50. Everything was by consensus, which meant that we each had the power of veto. I was his boss and he was mine, and I told Fred that I have a history of hating my bosses. We signed each other’s checks—when we had enough money after expenses to pay ourselves, that is.


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Confessions of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell

Airbnb, British Empire, cashless society, credit crunch, Donald Trump, fulfillment center, mail merge, Neil Armstrong, period drama, Skype, zero day

Emily is going to sleep in the bed in the shop. Supper here with the twelve from the Retreat; vegetarian shepherd’s pie. Up late drinking and chatting. Bed at 1 a.m. Till Total £378.47 17 Customers TUESDAY, 17 FEBRUARY Online orders: 3 Orders found: 2 Flo in the shop again today so I set her the task of setting up mail merge for the Random Book Club spreadsheet. Me: Flo, have you finished that spreadsheet? Flo: I’ve sort of half done it. Me: Well, you’ll sort of half get paid then. Flo: Fuck off, you should be paying me more. This is typical of the high esteem in which I’m held by members of staff. Telephone call after lunch from someone in Edinburgh whose father died recently, leaving 30,000 books, mainly classics.


Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models by Gabriel Weinberg, Lauren McCann

Abraham Maslow, Abraham Wald, affirmative action, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, Airbnb, Albert Einstein, anti-pattern, Anton Chekhov, Apollo 13, Apple Newton, autonomous vehicles, bank run, barriers to entry, Bayesian statistics, Bernie Madoff, Bernie Sanders, Black Swan, Broken windows theory, business process, butterfly effect, Cal Newport, Clayton Christensen, cognitive dissonance, commoditize, correlation does not imply causation, crowdsourcing, Daniel Kahneman / Amos Tversky, dark pattern, David Attenborough, delayed gratification, deliberate practice, discounted cash flows, disruptive innovation, Donald Trump, Douglas Hofstadter, Dunning–Kruger effect, Edward Lorenz: Chaos theory, Edward Snowden, effective altruism, Elon Musk, en.wikipedia.org, experimental subject, fake news, fear of failure, feminist movement, Filter Bubble, framing effect, friendly fire, fundamental attribution error, Goodhart's law, Gödel, Escher, Bach, heat death of the universe, hindsight bias, housing crisis, if you see hoof prints, think horses—not zebras, Ignaz Semmelweis: hand washing, illegal immigration, imposter syndrome, incognito mode, income inequality, information asymmetry, Isaac Newton, Jeff Bezos, John Nash: game theory, karōshi / gwarosa / guolaosi, lateral thinking, loss aversion, Louis Pasteur, LuLaRoe, Lyft, mail merge, Mark Zuckerberg, meta-analysis, Metcalfe’s law, Milgram experiment, minimum viable product, moral hazard, mutually assured destruction, Nash equilibrium, Network effects, nocebo, nuclear winter, offshore financial centre, p-value, Paradox of Choice, Parkinson's law, Paul Graham, peak oil, Peter Thiel, phenotype, Pierre-Simon Laplace, placebo effect, Potemkin village, power law, precautionary principle, prediction markets, premature optimization, price anchoring, principal–agent problem, publication bias, recommendation engine, remote working, replication crisis, Richard Feynman, Richard Feynman: Challenger O-ring, Richard Thaler, ride hailing / ride sharing, Robert Metcalfe, Ronald Coase, Ronald Reagan, Salesforce, school choice, Schrödinger's Cat, selection bias, Shai Danziger, side project, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley startup, speech recognition, statistical model, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Steven Pinker, Streisand effect, sunk-cost fallacy, survivorship bias, systems thinking, The future is already here, The last Blockbuster video rental store is in Bend, Oregon, The Present Situation in Quantum Mechanics, the scientific method, The Wisdom of Crowds, Thomas Kuhn: the structure of scientific revolutions, Tragedy of the Commons, transaction costs, uber lyft, ultimatum game, uranium enrichment, urban planning, vertical integration, Vilfredo Pareto, warehouse robotics, WarGames: Global Thermonuclear War, When a measure becomes a target, wikimedia commons

Repairing or programming them is another story, though! When you think about using tools to get your work done faster, you should start by discovering all the off-the-shelf options available to you. These are effectively design patterns you can purchase. For example, when printing address labels, you can use mail-merge programs, preprinted sheets of labels, and full-service copy centers. You will want to invest some time in figuring out the pros and cons of your various options, because you can easily get yourself into trouble (in wasted money or time, or worse) if you select the wrong tool. Experts can help you identify your options, like when you go to a home improvement store and ask for tool advice on a DIY repair.


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Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

Aaron Swartz, airport security, Bayesian statistics, Berlin Wall, citizen journalism, Firefox, game design, Golden Gate Park, Haight Ashbury, Internet Archive, Isaac Newton, Jane Jacobs, Jeff Bezos, John Gilmore, John Perry Barlow, mail merge, Mitch Kapor, MITM: man-in-the-middle, Neal Stephenson, RFID, San Francisco homelessness, Sand Hill Road, Silicon Valley, slashdot, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Thomas Bayes, web of trust, zero day

Computers -- which had been geeky and weird a few years before -- were everywhere, and the modem I'd used to connect to local bulletin board systems was now connecting me to the entire world through the Internet and commercial online services like GEnie. My lifelong fascination with activist causes went into overdrive as I saw how the main difficulty in activism -- organizing -- was getting easier by leaps and bounds (I still remember the first time I switched from mailing out a newsletter with hand-written addresses to using a database with mail-merge). In the Soviet Union, communications tools were being used to bring information -- and revolution -- to the farthest-flung corners of the largest authoritarian state the Earth had ever seen. But 17 years later, things are very different. The computers I love are being co-opted, used to spy on us, control us, snitch on us.


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Track Changes by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum

active measures, Alvin Toffler, Apollo 11, Apple II, Apple's 1984 Super Bowl advert, Bill Gates: Altair 8800, Buckminster Fuller, Charles Babbage, commoditize, computer age, Computer Lib, corporate governance, David Brooks, dematerialisation, Donald Knuth, Douglas Hofstadter, Dynabook, East Village, en.wikipedia.org, feminist movement, forensic accounting, future of work, Future Shock, Google Earth, Gödel, Escher, Bach, Haight Ashbury, HyperCard, Jason Scott: textfiles.com, Joan Didion, John Markoff, John von Neumann, Kickstarter, low earth orbit, machine readable, machine translation, mail merge, Marshall McLuhan, Mother of all demos, Neal Stephenson, New Journalism, Norman Mailer, off-the-grid, pattern recognition, pink-collar, planned obsolescence, popular electronics, Project Xanadu, RAND corporation, rolodex, Ronald Reagan, scientific management, self-driving car, Shoshana Zuboff, Silicon Valley, social web, Stephen Fry, Stephen Hawking, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Steven Levy, Stewart Brand, systems thinking, tacit knowledge, technoutopianism, Ted Nelson, TED Talk, text mining, thinkpad, Turing complete, Vannevar Bush, Whole Earth Catalog, Y2K, Year of Magical Thinking

Even more significantly, the typing mechanism could be halted while in “playback” mode to allow for the manual insertion of additional text; this made it ideal for forms and form letters of all types. With dual tape reels in the storage unit (and Deighton would opt for such a model) a skilled operator could retain two different bodies of text at the ready “on-line,” and blend them with one another in the course of producing hard copy—what we would today call a mail merge. Finally, and perhaps most tantalizingly, reference codes could be invisibly inserted into the stored copy of the text to act as markers or flags for later search and retrieval. (For a project such as Bomber, which involved continuous cross-referencing between the different narrative episodes, this was to prove a particular asset.)9 Development on what was to become the MT/ST had begun as early as 1956 at IBM’s main offices in Poughkeepsie, New York—some four or five years before the Expensive Typewriter program was written for the TX-0 at MIT.


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The Future of the Internet: And How to Stop It by Jonathan Zittrain

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, algorithmic bias, Amazon Mechanical Turk, Andy Kessler, barriers to entry, behavioural economics, book scanning, Brewster Kahle, Burning Man, c2.com, call centre, Cass Sunstein, citizen journalism, Citizen Lab, Clayton Christensen, clean water, commoditize, commons-based peer production, corporate governance, Daniel Kahneman / Amos Tversky, digital divide, disruptive innovation, distributed generation, en.wikipedia.org, end-to-end encryption, Firefox, folksonomy, Free Software Foundation, game design, Hacker Ethic, Howard Rheingold, Hush-A-Phone, illegal immigration, index card, informal economy, information security, Internet Archive, jimmy wales, John Markoff, John Perry Barlow, license plate recognition, loose coupling, mail merge, Morris worm, national security letter, old-boy network, One Laptop per Child (OLPC), OSI model, packet switching, peer-to-peer, post-materialism, pre–internet, price discrimination, profit maximization, radical decentralization, Ralph Nader, RFC: Request For Comment, RFID, Richard Stallman, Richard Thaler, risk tolerance, Robert Bork, Robert X Cringely, SETI@home, Silicon Valley, Skype, slashdot, software patent, Steve Ballmer, Steve Jobs, Ted Nelson, Telecommunications Act of 1996, the Cathedral and the Bazaar, the long tail, The Nature of the Firm, The Wisdom of Crowds, Tragedy of the Commons, web application, wikimedia commons, Yochai Benkler, zero-sum game

These were devices like the Friden Flexowriter, a typewriter that could store what was typed by making holes in a roll of tape. Rethreading the tape through the Flexowriter allowed it to retype what had come before, much like operating a player piano. Cutting and pasting different pieces of Flexowriter tape together allowed the user to do mail merges about as easily as one can do them today with Microsoft Word or its rivals.6 Information appliances were substantially cheaper and easier to use than mainframes, thus requiring no ongoing rental and maintenance relationship with a vendor. However, they could do only the tasks their designers anticipated for them.


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Bernie Madoff, the Wizard of Lies: Inside the Infamous $65 Billion Swindle by Diana B. Henriques

accounting loophole / creative accounting, airport security, Albert Einstein, AOL-Time Warner, banking crisis, Bear Stearns, Bernie Madoff, Black Monday: stock market crash in 1987, break the buck, British Empire, buy and hold, centralized clearinghouse, collapse of Lehman Brothers, computerized trading, corporate raider, diversified portfolio, Donald Trump, dumpster diving, Edward Thorp, financial deregulation, financial engineering, financial thriller, fixed income, forensic accounting, Gordon Gekko, index fund, locking in a profit, low interest rates, mail merge, merger arbitrage, messenger bag, money market fund, payment for order flow, plutocrats, Ponzi scheme, Potemkin village, proprietary trading, random walk, Renaissance Technologies, riskless arbitrage, Ronald Reagan, Savings and loan crisis, short selling, short squeeze, Small Order Execution System, source of truth, sovereign wealth fund, too big to fail, transaction costs, traveling salesman

DiPascali, in turn, allegedly relied on two computer programmers who had joined the firm a few years earlier and who were later accused of designing software for one of the firm’s new IBM AS/400 computers that simplified the process of generating the fictional account statements. DiPascali and some of his staff allegedly researched the necessary trades from the historic record, and then the customized Ponzi software would allocate those trades, in perfect proportions, among the various customer accounts using a simple “mail merge” computer function. Besides reducing the manual labour involved, this automation provided new opportunities for deception. It was around this time that Madoff leased separate space on the seventeenth floor of the Lipstick Building—ostensibly for his new IBM computers but actually to create a more secure environment for his increasingly elaborate fraud.