Back to school! 20 tips to ease the pain

As you reluctantly come back from vacation and return to your regular school schedules, you might need a jumpstart to get you back into your routines.

What do you need to do? Keep track of class notes? Write a report with an MLA-formatted bibliography? Or collaborate on a presentation? How are your math skills?

I've pulled together 20 Office tips to hopefully help you learn faster and easier ways to crank out your school work.

General advice

• Office 2010 for back to school: 10 tips + free OneNote 2010 student planner
• 5 security tips for your computer
• Take a look at Microsoft’s back to school deals

OneNote

• Livescribe smartpen users can now easily connect to OneNote
• OneNote for school (video)
• My favorite back to school features in OneNote 2010

Word 

• Which table style should I use?
• MLA, APA, Chicago- Microsoft Word formats bibliographies for you
• How to insert symbols and special characters into a Word document (video)
• Using styles, quick and easy
• Win with a dream theme

PowerPoint

• Office for Mac: PowerPoint (video)
• Post your PowePoint presentations onto your blog
• The secret to converting your presentation into a video

Excel

• Why not use Excel as your calculator?
• How to do percentages in Excel

Publisher

• Free upgrade to Office 2010 Professional Academic includes Publisher

Office Web Apps

• When's a good time to use Office Web Apps?

Microsoft Mathematics 4.0

• What Mathematics 4.0 can do for students (video)

Chemistry Add-in for Word

• Blinded me with Science: Introducing the Chemistry Add-in for Word

-- Jennifer Bost