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MOM 2-0

• Word brings a book to life (video)

  16 Apr 2011

  Colleen Padilla and Audrey McClelland, bloggers par excellence, have a book coming out ( http://www.digitalmomhandbook.com ). With Colleen in Philadelphia and Audrey in Rhode Island--and 200 interviews and 6 kids to manage between them--how did they get the work done? They used all the great digital...
• Dishing about OneNote at the Mom 2.0 Summit (video)

  16 Apr 2011

  Jevon Fark from the Microsoft Office group spent three days talking to moms at the Mom 2.0 Summit about Office tools they could use at work and at home. Here we chat with him about one product that kept coming up: OneNote. For example, using OneNote to collect, organize, and search recipes. (Comes naturally...
• 4 Moms Media: Whitney Wingerd on working virtually with Office (video)

  16 Apr 2011

  Whitney Wingerd and her blogging colleagues are the brains behind the 4 Moms Media company and their web site, www.giftguidegirls.com . The four women met online. They're in three different locations, have three different versions of Office, and work with both Windows and Mac Office. Sound familiar?...
• Impressions of the Mom 2.0 Summit (video)

  16 Apr 2011

  What did the moms at the Mom 2.0 Summit want to know from the Office folks? Amanda from the Office for Mac team gives us her impressions of her time in the Office/Windows Live lounge. Give Office for Mac 2011 a spin with a free trial . --Doug Thomas
• Instant interactivity: Put a PowerPoint presentation in your blog (video)

  16 Apr 2011

  Bloggers who want new, creative ways to engage their readers can take advantage of the PowerPoint Web App to put interactive presentations into their posts. Great for a team photo album or product overview presentation. Even better, viewers don't have to have Office to be able to flip through the slides...
• Simple formulas can make you an Excel hero (video)

  16 Apr 2011

  More on Excel spreadsheets. Like a lot of working parents, I like to volunteer when I can to help kids' sports teams and clubs. Sometimes that means getting out on the field and helping run a practice, and sometimes it means... work. Work like I do at work. Tracking things, corralling people, communication...
• Why Erica lives in Outlook (video)

  16 Apr 2011

  Think Outlook is only for the cubicle? Blogger and author Erica Diamond ( 99 Things Women Wish They Knew Before Starting Their Own Business ) has been using Windows and Office from home “forever." Here the woman behind the blog Women on the Fence dishes on her favorite part of Office. Need to revisit...
• Blogger Carissa Rogers is good and crazy about Outlook 2010 (video)

  16 Apr 2011

  Former molecular biologist and now-blogger Carissa Rogers ( goodncrazy.com ) has three kids, a husband, and a non-stop stream of business projects, meetings, and events. Her husband has been using Outlook; she's been using web-based calendars. It's long past time to get it all together, so she's taken...
• Windows Live tools quickly find a fan in Charlene at the Mom 2.0 Summit (video)

  15 Apr 2011

  Charlene DeLoach Oliver's blog, the Charlene Chronicles , focuses on health and exercise for moms and families. After a few minutes in the Office/Windows Live lounge at the Mom 2.0 Summit, Charlene focused in on some of the free tools available to her from Windows Live Essentials . Find more Office Blog...
• How come Cindy uses Live Writer for her WordPress blog? (video)

  15 Apr 2011

  Blogger and social media watcher Cindy Meltzer uses Windows Live Writer , a free download from Windows Live Essentials, to write thesocialcraft.com blog, even though the blog is on WordPress. Hear why in this brief interview with Doug Thomas, almost live from the Mom 2.0 conference in New Orleans. You...
• New PowerPoint tools allow new forms of (better) presentations (video)

  15 Apr 2011

  With the photo and video tools in PowerPoint 2010 and Office for Mac 2011, you can tell better stories in your presentations. For example, you can create video backgrounds now, and playing videos is a snap—no more having to start and stop your PowerPoint to show a video. Want to try it? Download...
• Mom 2.0 Summit Keynote: 2 outsiders find out what it’s all about (video)

  15 Apr 2011

  We came, we listened, and this is what we thought being a mom blogger and being at the Mom 2.0 Summit are about. Our perspective after listening to the opening keynote. See the roundup of our Mom 2.0 coverage here . --Jessica Reading & Doug Thomas
• Customize OneNote for you or your conference (video)

  15 Apr 2011

  Let’s take a short video tour of OneNote via a special notebook that Office.com created for the Mom 2.0 Summit . You can customize a notebook for a special event to send to attendees so they have all they need to know right on their computer. You can download the Mom 2.0 Summit OneNote notebook...
• Headings keep long documents in order (video)

  15 Apr 2011

  Long documents don't have to be unruly messes. Tame them with the simplest of tools: Styles. I know, you think this is going to be a complicated up-do, take hours to sculpt, and more bobby pins and product than you ever thought were possible to apply on a single surface. You don't have to go wild with...
• Let your fingers do the formatting, and more (video)

  15 Apr 2011

  Before leaving for a recent trip, I sent a tweet out to our internal social network, as follows: "Do you have a favorite Office shortcut key combo? I'm a fan of SHIFT+F3." The replies came out of the woodwork, and reminded me what a great efficiency the shortcuts in Word are for a writer. When you want...
• Live Writer: A great tool for blogging…and did we mention it’s free? (video)

  15 Apr 2011

  Sure, I work for Microsoft. Yes, I use our tools. And yes, some of them I really, really love. For blogging I use Windows Live Writer 2011 . It’s a free tool from Windows Live, and I’m using it to write this post. Why do I love it? Let me count the ways: See the roundup of the Office Blog...
• 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...
• Multi-multi tasking and Office everywhere (video)

  15 Apr 2011

  We just got out of the keynote panel discussion here at Mom 2.0. Three hundred folks were seated around tables in the grand ballroom--and 295 of them had more than one device in front of them. Phones of every stripe, iPads, and computers of every size, shape, and color. This was extreme multi-tasking...
• Mom 2.0 Summit: Moms at the office

  15 Apr 2011

  We were busy at the Mom 2.0 Summit in New Orleans April 14 - 16! Find all of our coverage right here in this collection of Office how-to videos, demos, and interviews from this exciting event. And don't miss the free downloads we created to help conference-goers prepare: a Mom 2.0 Outlook calendar schedule...
• Share files across Office 2010 and Office:mac (video)

  14 Apr 2011

  Cell formatting, sparklines, and data bars look great in Office 2010 and Office:mac 2011, and you can easily share files across the two systems without losing your formatting. Doug and Jessica show you right here, almost live, from Mom 2.0 in New Orleans. Keep watching over the next few days for fresh...