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• Writing AND designing in Word: Your audience will stick around

  23 May 2011

  I've been sitting here for longer than I should, trying to write about how Word isn't just for text, that you can use it for just about any project you can think of because of some of its new-ish and most awesome design capabilities. But I haven't been able to spit out what it is I want to say, exactly;...
• 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...
• Four hot text tips from Crabby

  27 Apr 2011

  Over the years, I've often been asked—by friends, by family, by Crabby readers—what some of my best Office tips and shortcuts are. Honestly, it's hard to just spout, off the top of my head (which would be rather gruesome anyway), the miscellaneous tricks that I've discovered, unearthed, and...
• 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...
• ScreenTips, document tooltips, & other things readers have taught us

  2 Mar 2011

  Today I'm engaging in a bit of laziness but still trying to help out as much as I can: I'm going through the comments and emails I've received the past few weeks and picking out a few that I think might help the great majority of you. These are comments where people have asked questions, I've provided...
• Footers, footnotes, headers and titles: Word terms defined

  7 Feb 2011

  Today's post is about Word. Here are a few of the most requested terms calling for attention from your feedback and comments. Some of them are pure definitions, while others explain the difference between two or more related things (you'll see what I mean). Again, some of you know these like the back...
• 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: Word 2010

  20 Dec 2010

  I know I know: Another version of Office. If we didn't think it would be of value to you, we wouldn't keep making them. So before you pass judgment, I think you should take a look at some of the improvements and new features we've added. We really listened to what our customers wanted...and gave it to...
• 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...
• 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...
• Be a part of something: Enter the Template Idol Contest

  9 Sep 2010

  Today I'm proud to announce that our yearly Template Contest has come 'round again and this year we want your very best 2010 or 2007 Word, PowerPoint, Excel, or Publisher calendars. You can enter as many as you like, and entries will be accepted through September 30th and winners will be announced October...
• Crabby's effective meeting mantra

  17 Aug 2010

  So you want to call a meeting. What's the best way to do it? And once everyone is gathered together and staring at you, anticipating your pearls of wisdom, what's next? Step 1: Determine the purpose of the meeting What's the best way to get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice. And what's one...
• That bandied buzzword: Efficiency

  11 Aug 2010

  You have two hands, two eyes, two ears, one brain … and 17 things that must get done before the end of the day. If you're like me, you try to tackle nine of them all at once, eventually losing track of what got done—and what didn't. I've figured out a few ways to manage all my tasks by making...
• Dear Crabby: Dollars are lovely; cents make them what they are

  6 Aug 2010

  Tip #1 comes from Elizabeth S. who liked my tip from February about how to make a slashed zero so much that she came up with her OWN way to make cents symbol. (Note that this tip is for Word ONLY.) Elizabeth writes: "The Ctrl +/ then Ctrl +O (letter O) works great to give you a ø (a slashed zero...
• Crabby's Word shortcut: Access keys and KeyTips

  8 Jul 2010

  The point of this post is not to teach you about a feature — no. Today I'm going to supply you with a shortcut—a technique, really— to access any feature at all. See, most everyone can get by in Word, but is that enough, to just "get by"? You want to soar; you want to finish that document...
• Come fly with Crabby: Office Web Apps

  1 Jul 2010

  When you use Office Web Apps (convenient little companions to the desktop versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote), all your documents are created, edited, and stored on a server...a server located somewhere near...in the clouds... This is where the term " cloud computing " comes in: web apps...
• Accessibility features make all of us less crabby

  30 Jun 2010

  In Office and at Microsoft (and, hopefully, at other companies that make computing software and hardware), we really do strive to build technology for everyone, including those who experience physical difficulties or disabilities. I'm here to point you toward some resources that will help you get the...
• A whole new world of art for Office: iStockphoto and Fotolia plug-ins (Crabby's Daily Tip)

  26 May 2010

  First, you may or may not be familiar with iStockphoto . It's a collection of royalty free images and other media that you can use, for a fee. Cost is dependent on several factors, including the size and complexity of the file. You can purchase a subscription, where you set your own daily credit limit...
• Collaborate in parallel universes with Word 2010: Crabby's Daily Tip

  21 May 2010

  Like I was saying: In Word 2010 you just open up the document and get to work. You get to see who else is working with you and where in the document they're working. It's like a parallel universe, man. Groovy. When you open the shared document Word automatically caches it (which basically means it creates...
• Doing it your way with the Quick Access Toolbar: Crabby's Daily Tip

  10 May 2010

  If you know me (and many of you do), you know I'm about customizing. All of us are like snowflakes, each one a unique and special individual. We have our individual tastes, likes, dislikes, fashion sense, lack of fashion sense, love for the ribbon just as it is, want to make it our own... The Quick Access...