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  • Office for Mac, Office for PC: Yes, we can be friends (video)

    20 May 2011
    Can we talk? We all know that in the past, Office for Mac hasn't necessarily played that well with Office for PC. On this episode of The Office Show , we'll show you how that's all changed with Office for Mac 2011. You might not believe this, but around here we don't consider "Mac" to be a dirty word...

  • Jennifer Egan's PowerPoint novel one of NY Times' 10 best books

    2 Dec 2010
    The New York Times recently came out with its 10 best books of the year list , and on it is Jennifer Egan's "A Visit From the Goon Squad." Jennifer is an amazingly innovative author, and created a chapter of her book entirely in PowerPoint. Jennifer was featured on an episode on the Office Show recently...

  • More on PowerPoint with author Jennifer Egan (video)

    4 Oct 2010
    In the last episode of The Office Show , award-winning author Jennifer Egan ("A Visit From the Goon Squad") filled us in on how she created a chapter of her new book with PowerPoint. It's an amazing chapter, as are her insights on using PowerPoint's features for compelling storytelling. We had to keep...

  • The Office Show: Storytelling with Microsoft Office

    20 Sep 2010
    In this episode of the Office Show, you'll see how three very creative storytellers use Microsoft Office to realize their ideas. Joannie Stangeland uses OneNote 2010 and a digital pen to capture inspiration and organize her poetry. David Salaguinto uses a Visio template to create comics for his popular...

  • 10 tips for great storytelling from a PowerPoint novelist

    18 Aug 2010
    People do astonishing things with PowerPoint, but author Jennifer Egan has brought PowerPoint into a whole new level: literature. She's written a chapter of her latest novel, "A Visit From the Goon Squad," (Knopf) entirely in PowerPoint . You read that correctly. What she's done is frankly amazing. SmartArt...

  • More new Office 2010 design features

    22 Jun 2010
    In this demo with Channel 9's Laura Foy, Microsoft design guru March Rogers shows more of the design features of Office 2010, including how Word makes it easier to work with text boxes and more about animation and editing shapes in PowerPoint . Also: How Stylistic sets enhance fonts in Publisher, and...

  • How PowerPoint broadcast could have saved my life (or at least a lot of time)

    16 Jun 2010
    PowerPoint 2010 has a lot of improvements, but there are two that I think are absolutely game-changing features: Video embedding and PowerPoint broadcasting. These are the kinds of "if only" features that make you slap your forehead and go, "Dang, if only I'd had that X years ago." Like, if I'd only...

  • Welcome to "The Office Show: PowerPoint Design"

    9 Jun 2010
    PowerPoint is one of the most effective business tools ever invented, but we all know PowerPoint presentations can go horribly wrong. That's why we created this episode of "The Office Show," to help you use the great design capabilities of PowerPoint, and thus avoid those dreaded presentation sleepfests...

  • Cool stuff in PowerPoint: Remove backgrounds, crop to a shape, and combine shapes

    9 Jun 2010
    What you saw in my segments of The Office Show was a mixture of old PowerPoint and new PowerPoint 2010 features. The Design Tab Changing design to a new look and color is as easy as it looks in the video. In PowerPoint 2007 and above, you can preview changes as you mouse over the icons. You can change...

  • Design principles and animation in PowerPoint

    9 Jun 2010
    I had a lot of fun shooting the first episode of the Office Show . I never thought that while being a designer at Microsoft I'd end up playing with a blow-torch, but I'm not complaining. In the show we talked about some of the great design features in PowerPoint. There's a host of powerful tools built...