• Welcome to Office News!

    Welcome to Office News-the new home for Microsoft Office announcements! Over the next several months, this is the place where we'll be sharing news related to the Microsoft Office Division.

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  • Pack fun into summer before it flies away

    Instead of scratching ideas for activities on pieces of paper, printing screenshots from websites, or emailing bits of information, guest bloggers Janice Croze and Susan Carraretto organize all their summer planning research into a OneNote notebook.  Janice and Susan are identical twins, work-at-home-moms, and founders of the top Mom Blog, 5 Minutes for Mom.)

     

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  • Office 365 saves your domain, and Jake’s business

    Poor Jake, his smart business proposal has them in the palm of his hands, but his fatal mistake is too many online places to call home. Office 365 has a better way to bring all your business email addresses and domains together and give your customers an easy way to interact with you.

     

     

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  • 5 tips to make your Access database super-fast

    You fire up Access and load your favorite app only to see its performance drag like molasses in winter. Access MVP Juan Soto and founder of IT Impact, Inc. shares five performance tips that will tune up your database.  

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  • Leading the way in security, privacy and compliance

    As the engineering lead for Office 365, I'm proud that we build and operate our service to lead the industry in security, privacy and compliance.  This commitment is more than just words-it takes significant, sustained engineering investment to help ensure our customers can meet increasingly complex, global compliance requirements while using our services. 

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  • Too much data to view? Use Auto Outline to group it

    use auto outline to group data in excelPuget Sound Pets can't keep enough dog chews on the shelves for all the corgies they sell. And they can't keep up with the sales data they generate from their booming business. To better understand their revenue stream, they need to view it on a month-to-month and a store-to-store basis.

    Excel's Auto Outline feature offers a simple way for them to do that by letting them group--limit or expand--the types of data they can view.

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  • Webinar: Create and use watermarks

    In this week's webinar, we explain what a watermark is and how to insert one using Word 2010. We also go over the different types of watermarks you can insert, such as text or picture watermarks.

    What you will learn in this webinar:

    • How to insert a "Draft" watermark to pages
    • How to insert a picture watermark
    • How to add a watermark to just one page
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  • Tight Teamwork: OneNote on SharePoint

    Using OneNote on SharepointOne developer has a sofa in her office for quick snoozes; a tester has a pyramid made of Red Bull cans. We're working overtime and need a break. It's up to me and my co-workers on the morale committee to figure out how to relieve some stress.  Since I am a self-professed Office geek, I know that OneNote on SharePoint will make a great collaboration tool. Each time one of us adds or changes the content in a OneNote notebook, OneNote will automatically save and sync the notebook on SharePoint. And, we can set up SharePoint to alert us when changes occur.

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  • Email stuck in your outbox? Try this.

    Email stuck in outbox in outlook"What do you mean you didn't receive it? I sent it last night!" At least you thought you did. Now you're red-faced in a meeting set up to review the PowerPoint presentation that never made it to your recipients.  You check your Outbox and there it is. If you ever find yourself in this situation, here are some reasons why and some steps you can take.

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  • Want a way to send email to a group?

    Send email to a contact groupIt's your turn to organize a BBQ or highway litter patrol (or whatever) with your group of friends and you don't want to type each individual name (or email address) on the To: line.  There's an easy way to avoid that mind-numbing task--create a Contact Group.  

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