Microsoft Office 365 is an online business service that was purposely built to optimize the flexibility, responsiveness, and efficiency of the cloud. It was also created with a strong emphasis on data protection and with Microsoft's three tenets of privacy - responsibility, transparency, and choice - at its core. This week we'll explore each principle as explained in the Microsoft whitepaper "Privacy in the Public Cloud: The Office 365 Approach" and on the Office 365 Trust Center , which provides...

Outlook offers several ways to filter emails. A filter lets you see only those messages that meet certain criteria. For example, you could pick a filter that lets you see only emails that have attachments or are unread. Here's how it works.

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In this week’s webinar, you’ll learn about Office 365. For small and big businesses, it gives secure, anywhere access to email and calendars, and lets you collaborate with others using Office Web Apps, instant messaging, conferencing, and file sharing.

 

What you will learn at Tuesday's webinar:

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Who could be better than a Business Intelligence analyst at teaching us a thing or two about Excel? We asked our own number-crunching wizard Stacey Armstrong to share some Excel tricks she's learned along the way.

In this first one, she shows us how to change the default width of a column in a pivot table. Knowing this is especially helpful when you're working with data that that makes a row really long.

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Have you ever had to find an email that was part of a long thread--an email with lots of replies about the same topic? For example, your boss might have asked for the results of last month's important meeting, and you know Sherry sent an email outlining them, but then you remember that Todd followed hers with more information.

If you group your emails into conversations, you can find the emails you want more quickly.

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If Hilary Powers can teach editors tricks about using Word, then we ordinary folk can definitely benefit from listening to her. Hilary's the author of Making Word Work for You , a handbook for editors, and the maker of creatures out of felt. As an editor, I collaborate with a lot of people and so continually use Track Changes . If you know how to use it, your back and forth with co-workers, or in my line of work, with authors, speeds up getting a document from first draft to final draft. Here are...

Conditional formatting is an Outlook tool for making sure your important email messages stick out in your Inbox. The tool lets you customize how different messages appear in your Inbox based on criteria that you set. This post shows you how.

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Microsoft Office 365 provides small businesses with simple tools to create professional-looking websites. Powered by SharePoint Online, you can choose your own domain and use the provided tools and templates to build, publish and maintain your site. Gadgets, which are standalone applications that come with SharePoint Online, allow you to further enhance your website with everything from videos to a PayPal button.

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(This post, originally published in 2010, announced the availability of the PowerPoint 2010 Viewer. This post remains incredibly popular because so people find the Viewer to be a useful tool. We're republishing it so readers of our blog can find and use it, too.) I’m excited to announce that our new PowerPoint Viewer is now available here for free download . By installing the PowerPoint Viewer, you can open and watch PowerPoint presentations in all formats, no matter what computer you’re...

Edna Jean's parents aren't sure about Conrad taking her to the prom, even though he's her "hunky wunk". Then she tells them that in Word, he can make table headers repeat over multiple-page tables. Will this seal the deal with Edna Jean's parents?

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