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Publisher 2013 gives you a lot of great ways to use pictures within your documents. To add a picture to your document, click on the Insert tab. From there you can choose to insert a picture from a file by clicking the Picture button, or you can click the Online Pictures button to select a picture from Office.com, Bing, or OneDrive. If you’re connected to Facebook or Flickr, you also have the option to choose a picture from those accounts. If you insert multiple pictures, they will appear in a column in the scratch area beside the publication.

To quickly switch pictures form the publication to the scratch space, select the first picture. Click the mountain icon that appears and drag it to the second picture. When the border glows pink, release your mouse button.

To use a picture as a background in your publication, right-click on the picture that you want to use, and select Apply to Background from the resulting menu. Click the fill button to set the whole picture as your publication’s background, or select Tile to set the picture in a tile pattern.

OneNote is a great note taking tool that lets you keep all of your information in one place. You can organize your notes easily, and never have to worry about losing a note. Notebooks are the top level of OneNote organization. Sections are contained within notebooks, and pages are contained within sections and include your note information. You can also have subpages that contain additional information under a page.

One of the new features in OneNote 2013 is the ability to send content to OneNote from other Office programs. In the page you are working in, click the OneNote Tool on your taskbar, and select the content that you want to send. Then, click the Send to OneNote button on the OneNote Tool, and select a location to send the content. Click the OK button, and your content is on its way.

You also have the ability to send content from OneNote to other programs or formats. Open the page you wish to send. Then, click on the File tab, and click Send. From there you will select the format that you would like to use to send the information. 

Have you ever sent an email, and then realized you forgot a key piece of information? Ot that you sent it to the wrong person? If the recipient is using the same version of IBM iNotes 9 mail, you can cancel the email. To cancel an email, click the Sent shortcut on the Navigator. Then, click Recall Message, and the Recall Message dialog box will open. From there you can decide if you want to cancel the message for all recipients, or just specific recipients. You can even recall the message after it has been read by checking the Recall the message even if it has been read box. Click the OK button twice to recall the message. 

The Outlook Web App in Office 365 gives you all of the functionality of Outlook in a cloud based environment. A new feature in Outlook Web App is the ability to schedule an event. Click the Calendar button on the Navigation bar, and click the New Event button. You can add details for your meeting, and add attendees. You also have the option to set a reminder for the event, and to make the event recur. If you want to schedule an online meeting, you can click the Online Meeting button to insert a link to your meeting.

The Scheduling Assistant lets you check attendee and location availability within your organization. You can view your attendees schedules, and avoid conflicts. Create the event you want to use the scheduling assistant for, and be sure to enter the attendee information. Then click the Scheduling Assistant.

If you need to quickly edit an event, simply select the event in your calendar, and click the Edit button. Make the changes you need, and click the Send button.