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• Extend your networking reach with social apps for Office

  15 Apr 2013

  Social apps can make working with Office 2013 more engaging, efficient, and fun. They combine the networking and outreach capabilities of social media sites with the mobile productivity power of Office. Together, Office and social apps give you more insight into your contacts, allow you to monitor your...
• Get started with Business Intelligence in the new Office

  3 Apr 2013

  This post is brought to you by Seayoung Rhee, Product Marketing Manager in the SharePoint Product Marketing Group. Reliable business intelligence and insight are key to a thriving business. Excel, SharePoint and Office 365 make business intelligence (BI) in the new Office more accessible to everyone...
• The new Office lets me work from home–and everywhere else

  2 Apr 2013

  Jen Singer started blogging before anyone had put the words "mom" and "blogger" together. As blogger-in-chief of MommaSaid.net for the past 10 years, she has a unique, expert perspective on how the new Office supports her on-the-go, working mom lifestyle. I have been working from home since before everyone...
• And the winner is…you! Use the Oscars Ballot Predictor

  20 Feb 2013

  Don't have time to watch all the Oscar-nominated movies, but want the inside scoop on the likely winners? Try the new Oscars Ballot Predictor app, which brings a bit of Hollywood fun to Excel 2013 and gives you a competitive edge at your Oscars party. The interactive app lets you see the Oscar nominees...
• Taking higher ed even higher with Office 365 University

  11 Feb 2013

  Guest blogger Devin Pastoor is a University of Maryland grad student working on his PhD in pharmacology and biomathematics. Devin shares how he uses Office 365 University to manage his life and stay organized and productive with constantly demanding deadlines. My life is a whirlwind of classes, assignments...
• 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...
• Your top 10 favorite Office posts of 2012

  11 Jan 2013

  The Office Blogs is really 14 blogs rolled up into one. The posts on this list were the most popular across all of them. Find out what most piqued people's curiosity about the new Office and which how-to's they found the most useful. If you haven't yet tried the new Office, visit the Customer Preview...
• Download the Office 2010 “Getting Started” Screensaver—a new way to get tips from Office.com

  13 Jul 2011

  These aren't your father's flying toasters. If you have Office 2010, you really need to check out the Office 2010 "Getting Started" Screensaver. This free screensaver automatically downloads short 60-90 second tips from Office.com (like the one shown below) and displays them when you're not using your...
• Office Web Apps: Life before and after

  14 Jun 2011

  This is post #10 in the Ten Days of Office series celebrating the one-year anniversary of the release of Office 2010 with tips and tricks for getting the most from your Office experience. Today, Office Web Apps enable people to access documents from virtually anywhere with an Internet connection. But...
• Microsoft acquiring Prodiance, ERM software specialists

  7 Jun 2011

  Spreadsheets and data are key to many organizations' operations, yet they are oftentimes created in uncontrolled environments. Today we took another step in helping customers mitigate this risk and improve data compliance and control. Microsoft has acquired Prodiance , a leading provider of Enterprise...
• Small Business: Top 10 productivity tips in the office and on the go

  17 May 2011

  If you're a small business owner, you're probably always on the lookout for resources to help you run your business more easily. Whether you're a Windows fan or a Mac lover, the following 10 tips and tricks from the Office team will help you get more done whether you're in the office or on the go. Top...
• What's with that pesky spell checker?

  20 Apr 2011

  Today's post about the Office spelling checker is contributed by Daren Obenaus, a manager and writer for Office.com . We all know it's important to spell check our documents before we present them to others, but sometimes it's not so easy to use the spelling checker in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook...
• Bite-sized spreadsheets (video)

  15 Apr 2011

  I get the feeling that people think spreadsheets have to be gigantic, unwieldy things. They don't. I loooooooooooooooooooooove using Excel for even simple little one-off tracking projects, like my daily expenses for this trip. Here's a super, free training course to get you started with tables in Excel...
• Create labels for mailings, case inserts, tags, and more

  30 Mar 2011

  You know what you want--labels! Ah, but what do you want to label? Mail? Gifts? CDs or DVDs? Be sure to check out the available label templates on Office.com . Or perhaps you want to label an Excel chart? Read on for links to help with common labeling tasks you can get done using Office. Create labels...
• Roundup: Print with Office

  21 Mar 2011

  Every Office user of every Office application needs to print at some point. Naturally this shows in the searches on Office.com where "print" is one of the top queries. For easy reference here are some of the top resources for help with printing on Office.com. But first, a note of caution; many of the...
• 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...
• CES: Excel 2010 on Windows Phone 7 (video)

  9 Jan 2011

  Mobile enthusiast and reporter Laura Foy hadn't even taken off her coat at CES before Office expert Doug Thomas grabbed a moment with her. Watch as Doug shows a little bit of the Office hub on the Windows phone, and especially the fidelity and navigation features of Excel 2010 on the phone. Beautiful...
• 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...
• Top 10 Holiday tips & tricks with Office 2010

  22 Nov 2010

  The holiday season is upon us! Looking for creative, thoughtful, and inexpensive ways to make friends and loved ones feel special? Want to kick the New Year off with a new job? Here are 10 ways to Do-It-Yourself this holiday season with Office 2010. 1 Earn refrigerator status this year by using photo...
• Mail merge in Word and Publisher made easy

  1 Nov 2010

  Mail merge in Office is not always the easiest thing to pull off correctly. But once you do, it can save you enormous amounts of time. Plus you can really impress your friends and customers with the results. Right now, when you're getting ready for the holidays, is a great time to learn how to do it...