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UPDATE 3/2013: Current webinars can be found at http://aka.ms/offweb. Below are older recordings.
Join us every Tuesday for free webinars about how to use Office programs. You can watch the Office 15-Minute Webinars live, or view them later. They run 9:15 am-9:30 am Pacific time on Tuesdays with a live Q&A session to follow. We'll add links to previous recordings below as they become available. You can also download a calendar reminder for the series.
To join the meeting, click the link below after 9 am Pacific Time on the day of the webinar and read the instructions below if you need help connecting. We'll be online to help you solve any technical matters at 9am, and the webinar will start promptly at 9:15 am.
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Click this link if you want a calendar reminder for the current webinar series. Links below are older webinars.
Date
Product
Title/Link to Reference Materials & Recordings
What
New webinars
Can be found
at http://aka.ms/offweb
March 19
Outlook
Sharing calendars into Outlook
Want to place your calendar next to your work one? We'll show you how and import other calendars into Outlook.
March 12
Excel
Freeze and lock Excel panes
Working with a huge spreadsheet? We can show ways to master all that real estate.
March 5
Office 365 Small Business
What is Office 365 Small Business Premium?
On February 27 Office 365 for small and large businesses goes on sale. We'll show you the advantages of buying (or trying) it and some of the new features.
February 26
PowerPoint
What you need to know about PowerPoint Slide Masters
We'll show you the value of creating a Slide Master when making a PowerPoint deck.
February 19
Office
Tips from Microsoft MVPs
MVPs are independent third-party professionals that Microsoft recognizes for their exceptional achievements. We will get their tips for Office and Windows.
February 18
Office 365 Home Premium
MVP Special: Favorite new features
A Monday afternoon special from the MVP Conference in Redmond. We'll be presenting a regular webinar on favorite features in the new version of Office.
February 12
Word
Setting margins in Word
Get that Word doc looking the way you want with different size margins and other formatting advice.
February 5
Word & Publisher
Creating business cards
Need a business card quickly? We'll show you how to make one in Word--plus offer ways to make them more vital. Also: why you should try creating in Publisher.
January 29
Get to know the new Office
The features and benefits of subscribing to Office 365 Home Premium you'll want to know about.
January 22
Using sounds in PowerPoint
Adding sounds to a presentation can and impact or becoming annoying. We'll show you how to tastefully add sounds including how to trigger them with animations.
January 15
Word, PowerPoint & Outlook
Working with Photos in Office
Insert and adjust photos, remove background, enlarge pictures and wrap around text. Plus a new tool in PowerPoint 2013.
January 8
Spell Check and Proofing a doc
We’ll dive into the tools in Word to polish your document spit-spot. We'll show how to change AutoCorrect and Proofing options.
December 11
The Office Top 10: Your favorites and ours
You tell us your favorite things about Office, we'll tell you ours.
December 4
Reviewing and copyediting in Word
How to work with the Review tab in Word, including Track Changes. Plus, a look at the upgrades in Word 2013.
November 27
Presenting and sharing docs on the go
You have an online presentation to give, but you're stuck. Dash into a coffee shop and deliver a presentation with Office and Microsoft hardware. Filmed on location.
November 20
The Holiday Show
How to personalize an invitation template for your upcoming parties, plus some stocking stuffer ideas.
November 13
What's Office like on Windows RT devices?
We'll show you how Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote work on a Windows RT device like Surface.
November 6
Access
What is Access?
Learn how to track inventory and customer information even if you're not a database expert. Plus, preview Access 2013.
October 30
Office.com
A tour of Office.com
Where can you find 150,000 free templates, images, in-depth training, and Office help? We'll give you a tour, including the latest changes.
October 23
SkyDrive & Office Web Apps
How SkyDrive works with Office
All about storing, sharing, and using your Office documents privately in the cloud.
October 16
Visio
What is Visio?
Learn how creating diagrams can bring information to life visually, plus preview the latest version, Visio 2013.
October 9
OneNote
OneNote on Windows 8
Preview the new version of OneNote and how it works on the next series of touch devices.
September 25
The Next Office
Office Preview: Things you'll never have to say again
Some of the new features in your next version of Office will change the way you know.
September 18
Excel 2013: New powerful tools
You can see what a chart will look like before pushing a button or have a pivot table recommended to you.
September 11
PowerPoint 2013: More ways to impress
There are new templates available for PowerPoint 2013, plus upgrades to Presenter's View to give you more confidence at your next presentation.
September 4
Outlook 2013: Take control of your email
Looking deeper into the preview of the next Office and Outlook 2013, featuring new ways to peak at information.
August 28
Word 2013: Enjoy the read
More with the free preview of the new Office. We explore Word 2013 starting with a fantastic new way to read documents.
August 21
OneNote & PowerPoint
Back to School With Office 2010
Tools and advice for your computer as you-or ones you love-head back at school including a few free things and discounts.
August 14
Office Web Apps
Preview of the new Office Web Apps and Outlook.com
We'll explore these free, online services and the new features recently released.
July 24
Office Mobile
Working with Office on a Windows Phone
How Office Mobile on a Windows Phone becomes your office on the go.
July 17
All
What is the Quick Access Toolbar?
In Office you can place your favorite commands in the aptly named Quick Access Toolbar to always have them at the ready.
July 10
Creating and using Watermarks
All about Watermarks, a way to brand documents with key information.
July 3
PowerPoint 2010 tips and tricks
Giving you the scoop on one of our most popular training courses.
June 26
Your favorite timesavers and tricks for Office
In May, we told audiences about our favorite timesavers. Now it's you turn.
June 19
Creating a form in Word
Locking fields, customizing, and using a template to create forms.
June 12
Excel Pivot Tables and Slicers
Going over this much asked for subject and tools at Office.com to help.
June 5
5 Cool Things about OneNote *
* That you probably don't know about
May 29
Office 2010
Our favorite timesavers and tricks for Office
The Office help writers & blogger Jen Singer give you some tidbits to save time in Office.
May 22
Office for Mac
Working with Office for Mac 2011
A quick tour including some things created for the Mac audience
May 8
Keyboard Shortcuts
Those handy short cuts in Office programs
May 1
Mail Merge
A walkthrough of mail merge and our step-by-step guide
April 24
Better PowerPoint talks
Tips for better presentations including using Presenter's View
April 3
Intro to OneNote
Your digital notebook, scrapbooking the web, sharing, mobile apps
March 27
Simplifying your data in Excel
Conditional Formatting, Chart tips
March 20
Unclutter your Outlook inbox
How to search, clean up, ignore, and archive your email
Join us live every Tuesday, and find current webinars at http://aka/ms/offweb.
--Doug Thomas
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Looking forward to it! Quite frankly your invitation alone is another fine example as to how flexible and extensive MS Office 2010 can be. I mean; you guys are in a totally different timezone than I am. Now, odd times are (usually) no problem for me but you always need to calculate what your time exactly means in my timezone.
SO I click the link (calendar reminder), I tell Outlook to copy it to my agenda as well and guess what? I don't get it placed on /your/ time; no, I get the item placed on /my/ time. The event on 13th of March begins at 17:15 my time. When I open it I see that the original time is 9:15 UTC-8 (your time). That's what I call flexiblity!
Ok, suggestions.. Now, I know you guys are probably aiming at beginning / low level stuff to appeal to as many people as possible but still, I have 3 suggestions:
Excel: "Import pasting". This allows you to paste & format data which sits on your clipboard. For example, say you copied a table of numbers from notepad and you want to make a table (or more). You can normal paste this into Excel but then you need to split it out yourself. If you use "import pasting" (import wizard which sits under the big "paste" button in the Start tab) you can tell Excel to pick up the space as a delimiter. Thus your numbers end up in separate cells. Many people in my surrounding didn't know about this one. Heck; this is a key feature which seperates Excel from "other free alternatives" (at the time of writing).
Outlook: Quick steps (I think that's what its called). Allows you to chain several actions which can then be performed on a single message. /Ideal/ if you need to quickly perform several actions on a message while you want to rule out making mistakes.
OneNote with Outlook (perhaps this is too advanced, but I'm mentioning it anyway): If you use both OneNote /and/ Outlook then Outlook features also find their way into OneNote. As such you can quickly setup a reminder for a "quick note" (as I tend to call it; the stuff you get when you press Win-N) which will then find itself into Outlook. Considering that Outlook usually remains longer active than OneNote its the (IMO) ideal option to get reminders about made notes.
I wrote a small entry about this on TechNet, maybe it helps you guys to see what I mean. See here:
social.technet.microsoft.com/.../3d97ece1-6fea-49a8-a471-29c315cea08d
And that's what I can come up with, hope it may turn out to be helpful for you guys.
And good luck with the webinair, as said; looking forward to it :-)
Thanks for the ideas, Shel. Quick Steps seems a logical choice, and I'm sure we can tackle more complicated things once we get our rhythm down.
--Doug
Hi, Doug! I just joined & have a suggestion for an upcoming webinar topic..."Using Infopath 2010 with Access 2010 to collect data from remote users". Thanks!
I think Quick Steps would be a great start too. I find that many users who upgrade from older versions of Outlook continue to use Outlook the old way... without realising the power of some of the newer features.
I use Quick Steps for quickly forwarding emails to my team. It saves a few minutes of my time every day.
Sanjay
Tips on Making Outlook Work for Your Business
http://blog.standss.com
Creating forms in WORD
Thanks Rabs46: Mail merge could test us. It's a bit tricky to be sure.If I just went
through step-by-step for 15 minutes, would that be a good webinar? --Doug
You may want to check our guide: office.microsoft.com/.../mail-merge-made-easy-TC102129550.aspx
Hi, are you conducting webinars beyond June?
srudolph: That's the plan at this time...
I am excited to find that you have webinars and plan to start attending. I would like to see classes on Movie Maker and on Formulas in Excel. Thanks.
Formulas may be good webinar, we'll put that one into the idea bin for Office Webinars. Thanks. We are going to stick with Office products, so Movie Maker is out. The help page is at: windows.microsoft.com/.../movie-maker-get-started.
Journal use as a notebook with multiple subjects for recording notes and idea's to keep track of to refer to at a later date.
Liked your PowerPoint Presentation View session this morning. Highly recommend you do a Slicers (Excel 2010) session. I work with a lot of folks who are power Excel spreadsheet creators (I am not one, but I am a frequent consumer of other people's spreadsheet creations). Slicers are the way that spreadsheet builders can make data from their hard work easy to consume by others (as well as themselves).
I had one Excel power user say to me just a couple of weeks ago, "Slicers are the best innovation to come out of Microsoft in 10 years".
Thanks, Joe: I'll put that suggestion in the hopper for the Office 15-Minute Webianrs. Seems a good subject for the length of the webinar.
I was able to attend last weeks live webinar and appreciate you made the all of them accessible for reference. I also like your delivery. Quite entertaining and at the same time very informative. I too would like to see a webinar on formulas. BTW I am starting to use OneNote and find it very useful. I just recently recorded a couple of interviews and then on the same page transcribed. Thanks!
Great to hear, thanks for the comment about Office 15-Minute Webinars.
--DOug
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