• Outlook Best Practices: Maintaining the system

    In this final video installment, Harry has really learned some effective time and schedule management, and he knows that all that depends on consistently applying the principles he's learned-fundamentals that can happen naturally after they become part of a normal routine.

    But Renée has one more fun little tip for Harry before she's off on her new job.

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  • OneNote Rewind: Stuff you may have missed in September

    OneNote Rewind: Stuff you may have missed in SeptemberIt's time for our roundup of news, stories, and tips about OneNote 2010, the OneNote Web App, and OneNote Mobile from right here on the Office Blogs and from all around the Web during the month of September. Read the full blog post for the monthly list!

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  • Office 2003 Turns Eight - Time to Upgrade
    Chris Barry, Director of Office Enterprise, Microsoft Eight years ago this month we launched Office 2003. In honor of that anniversary, we took a trip down memory lane for some of the momentous shifts in technology since 2003: 2003: Smart phones were making headlines for their cutting-edge built-in camera s . 2004: Facebook got its famous start-imagine living in a world without it. 2005: YouTube became a destination for online videos. 2006: Twitter introduced the world to 140-character tweets. 2007...
  • Excel Web Apps Releases New Features
    This post is brought to you by Jenny French, a Product Manager in the Microsoft Office Team. On the Excel Web App team, we are committed to improving our products based on your feedback. Since we launched the Web Apps just over a year ago, we’ve been listening to you, and today we’re releasing new features based on what we’ve heard. To everybody who has shared their opinion with us, we want to say a big THANK YOU! Here’s what we’re delivering to you today, based on your...
  • The 7/365 Review – Collaborating in the Cloud
    A Look Back at the Last Seven Days Here is a snapshot of news and information from the last week about Office 365 and collaboration in the cloud. Non-Profit Moves to the Cloud for Global Relief Shane O’Neil from CIO.com writes about how NetHope has moved their on premise collaboration tools to the cloud via Office 365. The result? Better information sharing among agencies and more time for IT staff to work on mission critical projects instead of monitoring servers. Read more... A Customer’s...
  • Poll: Pick the next famous author to write Help
    To date, we've published five parodies of famous authors writing Publisher Help articles: Tom Clancy - Major Tamilla Kortovna shows us how to create place cards in a war zone using Publisher 2010's Mail Merge. Raymond Chandler - An LA private eye comes to Seattle to help an old flame use catalog merge before her ne'er do well husband gets home. Gabriel Garcia Marquez - The Colonel gets help from his son Ruiz to create a bleed for printing posters that then turn to butterflies. William Shakespeare...
  • Ways to use Access data in Excel
    When you need to use Excel to analyze data in an Access database, you have several options: you can copy and paste the data, create a data connection from Excel, or export the data to an Excel file. Your best choice depends on what you want to do. Copy/Paste If you just need some values from Access one time -- and you don't care whether the data changes in Access later on -- copy/paste is a quick and dirty way to get the job done. Export If you don't care whether the data changes but expect to get...
  • A Seamless Solution from a Single Vendor—Heaven
    Today we have a guest post from one of our customers, Robert Richard, President of Southern Valve & Fitting USA. Learn how he is focusing more on his core business and saving money. You can read more guest posts from customers here . Southern Valve & Fitting USA has been in the industrial pipes, valves, and fittings business for more than 50 years, providing these products and related items to wholesale distributors in the plumbing, irrigation, and waterworks business. When I purchased the...
  • Outlook Best Practices: Scheduling

    Although you don't have much say about when and how many meetings are scheduled, you do have more control over your calendar than you might think.

    In this video, Renée talks to Harry about some of the things he can do to take more control over his calendar such as 1) Setting aside time each morning to review his calendar and task list; 2) Blocking out appointments for completing the work he plans to do; and 3) Schedule more time for himself to do a thorough review about what's planned for the current week and beyond and how to prioritize those things

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  • Cut your all-nighter in half with co-authoring (video)

    I don't know about you, but collaboration hell always seems to happen right before a deadline. This is usually when the emails start flying back and forth with multiple versions of documents attached. But with the co-authoring feature in Word 2010 and Word for Mac 2011, you can collaborate without worrying that email will get you out of sync.

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