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  • Your Office Web Apps questions

    13 May 2011
    People have been using the Office Web Apps at an astonishing rate. And if you haven't, well, you're on the wrong bus headed to wrong station in the wrong town. You've heard the term cloud computing right? Well, this is it, folks, and with Office Web Apps it's free and it's easy and it's kind of silly...

  • Updated! Interactive Excel files on web pages: An Excel PM explains

    25 Feb 2011
    Update: See near the end of this post for the latest Office how-tos on embedding Excel and PowerPoint files. Hi everyone, My name is Larry Waldman and I'm a program manager on the Excel team. This week, the Crabby Office Lady was nice enough to let me combine a couple of Office's cool features to highlight...

  • Telecommuting: Workin’ it from home

    11 Feb 2011
    I was talking on the phone to a fellow in Seattle named Dave (who is helping me get some cool Crabby swag made) and the subject of telecommuting came up. He said he tried it but with three kids around, he just couldn't do it. (I suggested hiring out the kids during the day but that idea didn't really...

  • Office 365: Get in the cloud...and keep one foot on the ground

    1 Nov 2010
    In a nutshell: Office 365 combines the Office suite you're familiar ( Office Professional Plus ) with cloud-based, versions of our communication and collaboration services: Exchange Online (for emailing and calendaring), SharePoint Online (for portals and document sharing), and Lync Online (the artist...

  • Office for Mac 2011: Better than a pancake breakfast

    27 Oct 2010
    Now that we've established that the big news of the day isn't the NPR/Fox News co-hosted pancake breakfast, it's time to talk about the REAL news of the day: The availability of Office for Mac 2011. When I've written about Office 2010 for the PC, I've been talking about some of the newer features such...

  • Updated! Make sure your interactive embedded files really ARE interactive

    6 Oct 2010
    Updated: See the bottom of this post for the latest Office how-tos on embedding Excel and PowerPoint files on web pages. OK, so you read yesterday about how to embed an interactive Excel file on your web page using the Excel Office Web App to do it. But somehow, it is NOT being interactive (although...