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• Download our free Office 2013 Quick Start Guides

  4 Feb 2013

  Thinking about making the change to Office 2013? Changes bring exciting new features, but new versions of your favorite software can take a bit of getting used to. To help ease the transition, we've put together nine handy Quick Start Guides that introduce you to the newest versions of Microsoft Word...
• Microsoft Office 2010 migration guides go multilingual

  9 Feb 2011

  Shortly after the release of Microsoft Office 2010, three of my co-workers and I published a set of free training guides to help customers who were upgrading from earlier versions of Office learn the new ribbon interface and features in Access 2010 , Excel 2010 , PowerPoint 2010 , OneNote 2010 , Outlook...
• New Office Blog homes for Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word

  6 Jan 2011

  Besides celebrating our first birthday this week, we've also fired up 3 new product blogs and beefed up 2 others. The Excel , Access , and Outlook team blogs have moved here from MSDN. The Word and PowerPoint MSDN blogs have moved over too, joining the Word and PowerPoint blogs we started in 2010, and...
• Download our free Office 2010 migration guides

  7 Sep 2010

  Thinking about upgrading to Microsoft Office 2010? Each upgrade brings exciting new features, but new versions of your favorite programs can take some getting used to. It's no different for those of us here at Microsoft who create the Office programs than it is for our customers. To ease the transition...
• MVP Summit: Access deployed via the web = No more IT headaches

  27 Apr 2010

  At the recent MVP Summit, Access MVP (Most Valuable Professional) Albert Kallal discusses web databases, the big new feature of Access 2010. Essentially, the web becomes another way of deploying applications, one that doesn't require that users have Access installed--but it gets better if they do. With...
• MVP Summit: Data on steroids with Access 2010

  1 Apr 2010

  From the recent MVP Summit, Access MVPs Arvin Meyer of Data Strategies and Teresa Hennig of Data Dynamics Northwest answer questions about the services an Access consultant provides, how Access and Excel can be used together, and how Access "excels" when it comes to rapid application development and...
• MVP Summit: Fall in love with your data the Access way

  31 Mar 2010

  At the recent MVP Summit, Access MVPs Arvin Meyer of Data Strategies and Teresa Hennig of Data Dynamics Northwest stepped in front of the Office.com camera to encourage you to try Microsoft Access 2010 , the Office database program that lets you quickly get started tracking all kinds of data, such as...
• Calling all Access geeks. Uh, sorry: Access 2010 Lab for power users

  8 Feb 2010

  If you are really into the world of Access 2010, there is a new Access Lab over at Channel 9. The hands-on lab has several exercises to get you up to speed with features in the product. Even though Channel 9's Office 2010 Workshop is a developer's lab, our resident Access expert says power users will...
• Top 5 Office training courses

  16 Jun 2009

  A bad economy is good time to put your best foot forward, whether that means becoming the Office products expert in your workplace, or adding new job skills to your resume. Office Online offers a catalog of free training courses , each one anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour long, a perfect fit for most...
• Like it or not: Help with the Office 2007 ribbon

  7 Jun 2009

  Some learning curves are steeper than others. It takes most folks a while after upgrading to Office 2007 to get used to the new user interface (UI) introduced in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access, (also known as “the ribbon”), so I've pulled together a little help. These items aren’t new, but they...
• Zen in the art of data management

  18 May 2009

  Being at a Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) summit -- where I was surrounded by subject matter experts from around the globe speaking passionately about their journeys in the art of database management -- was a humbling experience. Yet, it was also a Zen moment for me to hear these masters...
• Power to Access aficionados!

  13 May 2009

  The Access team here at Office Online realized we weren’t doing a great job of helping our power business users get what they want out of Access applications. We have a lot of “getting started” help on Office Online and there’s the developer help on MSDN, but nothing to help customers who aren’t developers...