Today's author: Mark Gillis is an Excel writer. He was born October 3, 1952. Does his birthday fall on the same weekday as your birthday? Do you have nagging, unanswered questions floating around in the back of your mind like: "What day of the week does the date, January 23, 4589 fall on?", "What's the date of the eighth Thursday of 1922?", and "Is 9000 a leap year?". If you're like me, the answer is clearly no. Nevertheless, there's a remote chance that someday a question like this will arise and...

Just last week we introduced a new personal email service called Outlook.com. In a previous post, we described how to upgrade from Hotmail to Outlook.com. Today, Dick Craddock, who runs the Program Management Team for Outlook.com, shows you how to upgrade from Gmail to Outlook.

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Over the past few months, I have had a number of questions about the Excel 2007 viewer – mostly, will there be an Excel 2007 viewer, and when will it be ready. (For those that are not familiar with the term “viewer”, viewers are applications that Microsoft provides for free that enable people who do not have Office programs to open and look at Office files. There are viewers available for Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, and they work with files created in any version of Office between Office 97 and...

Today’s Author: Scott Ruble, a lead program manager on the Excel team who focuses on the area of data visualization. Scott is going to discuss how to create an intraday time series chart. Periodically, users need to create a chart where the data occurs within a single day such as by the minute or hour. This is actually fairly easy to do but unfortunately isn’t very obvious. A typical scenario is you own a restaurant that takes phone orders and you want to reduce the wait time for customers placing...

Today’s author is Jan Karel Pieterse, an Excel MVP, who describes the process of importing text in great detail. You can find more useful tips from Jan Karel on his website: http://www.jkp-ads.com/ . In this article, I'll explain how to ease importing of .txt, .prn and/or .csv files into an existing sheet in Excel. Introduction If you've ever tried to open a text file, you have probably used the Text import wizard. If you have ever opened a CSV file, you have probably noted you can't set up...

Schedule View is a horizontal layout for the Outlook calendar that shows you many calendars at the same time.  If you and your co-workers share calendars, this feature makes it much easier to schedule meetings with each other.

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The Living in Outlook series is about sharing tips and workflows around real-world scenarios. We’ll start the conversation with a topic – you can add to it by posting your tips and workflows in the comments! In my last blog post I talked about how I use Message Templates and how to create them. You may have noticed in my example template that I have special text to remind me to insert updated graphs and tables into my status reports. While I could continue to do this manually and risk forgetting...

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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On Friday, April 16, 2010, we shipped the final build of PowerPoint 2010 to manufacturing. We also shipped SharePoint 2010, with support for the new PowerPoint Web App. Read more about the RTM milestone in this post from Office Corporate Vice President Takeshi Numoto , and about the SharePoint release from SharePoint Server Vice President, Jeff Teper Top 10 benefits of PowerPoint 2010: 1 Bring more energy and visual impact to your presentations. Save time and money by applying sophisticated photo...

Using Outlook to manage and read your RSS feeds has several advantages over a stand-alone aggregator, including the ability to place flags and run rules on any RSS feed to which you subscribe. Some of you might be wondering what is RSS? Really Simple Syndication (usually referred to as RSS) is a way to get updates to websites sent to you instead of having to go back to the web to see if any changes have been made. In this way, you can keep up-to-date on news and information from many different sources...