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Office 2010

• Office ribbon Portal Page: *GET* it

  17 Jun 2011

  For customers new to the Office ribbon, we know there's a learning curve. While this learning curve is part of what we address with “Getting Started” content, for some customers 'ribbon angst' can persist far beyond "Getting Started." This is particularly true for folks who have a long history...
• Oprah's—I mean Crabby's—favorite things: Excel 2010

  15 Jun 2011

  But even so, an old hat (like the Hogwart's sorting hat ) can discover new tricks that it didn't know were possible. Excel 2010 has some really great new additions as well as improvements (I probably shouldn't use that word-- improvements-- but everything and everybody can fashion some room within themselves...
• Communicator + LiveMeeting=Lync

  8 Jun 2011

  In the past I've touted Office Communicator and frankly, I am and have always been quite fond of that program. But I have to admit that like some past presidents and ever-present politicians, I also have a bit of a wandering eye; I've often wondered if there might be something, well, cleaner, more integrated...
• Delay that email! How Outlook 2010 can save your hide

  3 Jun 2011

  Today's topic is about how Outlook can save you from your own impetuous, fiery, trigger-happy self: I'm going to tell you how to delay a single message (akin to counting to 10 before speaking) or ALL your messages. To me, this is an invaluable feature; an escape of sorts. For although I've mellowed with...
• New Excel macro training videos for beginners

  16 May 2011

  Today's post was written by Angela Chu-Hatoun, a senior programmer writer on our big Office team who's, frankly, much more technical than I am and is good at exploring the deep underbelly of programming, how it works, and how YOU can do it too. This post originally appeared last Friday, May 13, on the...
• 5 more (more!) Office features you need to know about

  6 May 2011

  For Wednesday's post , I offered up five useful features that I feel you should know about and use. Today I want to continue that list, but I want to dig a little deeper into a few programs to uncover some features that, while useful and neat-o, may be underutilized (by you, by me, by the public at large...
• 5 Office features you need to know about

  4 May 2011

  Some things we just can't do without in life: love, friendship, a bathroom door that locks. With Office, the same is true: Some features should not be overlooked. Today I'll list five features that I think should come as second nature to you to use. Friday I'll give you five more. Today: Bcc box Revision...
• The ribbon: Who's a fan of the bread and butter of Office?

  4 Mar 2011

  If anyone is passionate about Office, it's Steven Sinofsky . Don't know who Steven is? Although now he's president of the Windows division here at Microsoft, he spent years in the Office division as head of product development. But it's as an Office customer that Steven is so excited about many of the...
• Crabby + Accessibility: Create for all audiences

  19 Jan 2011

  Last week I wrote about what accessibility is and who it's for , and this past Monday I talked about what accessibility features are already available to you in Windows . For today's post (which is the last one in this series) I'm going to give you a snapshot of what accessibility features and technologies...
• Crabby + Accessibility: What is it?

  10 Jan 2011

  Since I'm going to be writing some accessibility-related posts in the coming weeks and today is the first of that series, I want to refresh your brains about (or maybe tell you for the first time) what "accessibility" means in the context of computing. First let me tell you this (and yes, I've said it...
• Crabby's—I mean YOUR—2011 New Year's resolutions

  31 Dec 2010

  This is my ninth Crabby Office Lady "New Year's Resolution" column ( I mean, blog post ). For the past nine years, I've done a “New Year’s Resolutions” piece at the end of each December (and even if it rolls into January, I leave the date as "December"). To be frank (who me? candid...
• You create your own freedom: Go get your ribbon roadmap

  27 Dec 2010

  When Office 2007 first came out, what everyone noticed first was the new interface, namely, the ribbon. This ribbon replaced the menus and toolbars—yes, the self-same menus and toolbars that you constantly griped about and yet were suddenly so enamored of (you cannot imagine how much whiny feedback...
• Oprah's—I mean Crabby's—favorite things: PowerPoint 2010

  24 Dec 2010

  How could you not love PowerPoint? It's a total package: You get to write, design, add pictures, make movies... It's like a coloring book on 'roids. PowerPoint 2010 has some very interesting additions and improvements (oops...I said improvements again...). You get a lot more options for how to deliver...
• Baby, I've filled the bottle of collaboration for you—now go drink

  15 Dec 2010

  I've previously written posts about collaboration tools and techniques in Office; I've covered Communicator , PowerPoint , SharePoint Workspace , Outlook calendars and Word . I want to take today's post to comment on why collaboration is such a hot button topic these days and why you really should consider...
• Make it Great, win a bundle

  10 Dec 2010

  If you won ten grand—that's right, ten thousand dollars—what would you do with it? Follow in the footsteps of the elderly Canadian couple who gave it all away ? Pay off your college/grad school loans (one of my deepest fantasies)? Plop down a big mortgage payment (and be sure to tell the...
• Remembering those good old tips (oops, I did it again)

  3 Dec 2010

  For the last 12 months, I've provided you with ideas, tips, tricks, a bit of humor, shopping ideas, comments on popular and inane American culture, and ways to get out of working with difficult people. Since everyone seems to be in shopping list mode—except perhaps our Jewish friends who've already...
• Get the lowdown on downloads

  29 Nov 2010

  Think of a trip to the Microsoft Office Downloads Web site like a trip to the bank, the grocery store, or even the cosmetic surgeon: Sometimes you just need to boost your power, stock up on necessities, or perhaps add a little fluff and well-being to your computing lifestyle. There's a significant difference...
• Pretty darn fancy, those PDFs

  22 Nov 2010

  Sometimes the Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations or other things you've created using Office 2010 or 2007 cannot be viewed by others, inviting bad blood and general crabbiness. There are a couple of reasons why these folks cannot look at the files you worked so hard on: Your...
• Dear Crabby: Turn it off! Turn it off!

  12 Nov 2010

  This week's Dear Crabby post is about turning things OFF that were ON by default. See, sometimes the developers and other creators of these features try to imagine what you want. Sometimes their magic works...and sometimes it doesn't. A few of you wrote to ask how you can disable the little floating...
• Dear Crabby: Sit with me side by side...not on my shoulders

  5 Nov 2010

  For this week's Dear Crabby post, I picked an issue that several readers commented on and wrote emails about this past month. My tenet is that if one or two people report a problem, chances are many others are experiencing the same thing. And so, Gentle Readers, let us cut a wide swath through this week...