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Office 2010

• Webinar: Tips from the experts: Microsoft MVPs

  18 Feb 2013

  In this week's webinar you’ll learn about nifty tips and timesavers from Microsoft MVPs. These “Most Valuable Professionals” share their real-world technical expertise with the community. We have a few tips and may even have a few stop on by to chat as we broadcast from their annual...
• Need help with Office? Try our new and improved search

  25 Apr 2012

  Here on the Office team, we want you to be able to find a good answer when you search for help in whatever program you happen to be using. One way to do that is to show you search results in Help from other reputable web sites, alongside our own articles and videos. For example, when you search for ...
• DIY business cards with Office 2010

  17 Apr 2012

  These days we meet and greet people on social media or get introduced to them in email. But electronic handshakes have yet to replace handing out business cards at conferences, meetings, or even at parties (yes, the personal and professional have merged). Office 2010 gives you several ways to create...
• New Office.com templates for families of children with autism

  3 Apr 2012

  Less than five years ago, one out of every 150 children was diagnosed with some form of autism. Now that number has risen to one in 88. This April, Microsoft is joining a range of corporate and philanthropic partners taking part in the Light It Up Blue campaign, which is part of a month-long effort to...
• A quick look at what it took to build an Office Blog app for Windows Phone 7

  22 Feb 2012

  This post is written Craig Kerwien, the Director of Site Management in the Office Division Product Management Group; he helped bring this app to life. Building an Office Blog app for the Windows Phone began as a weekend DIY project. Although many people are familiar with RSS readers as a way to monitor...
• Three Power Tips for Reading the Office Blog

  22 Feb 2012

  This post is written by Craig Kerwien, the Director of Site Management in the Office Division Product Management Group. We're all about productivity and getting things done here in the back offices of the Office Blog command center. We've made a few changes to the blog in the past several months that...
• Office 911: Help for hard-core gamers (video)

  21 Feb 2012

  How do you get a gamer to stop playing a secret agent in Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City long enough to learn Office 2010? The Office Labs developed a free game so gamers can learn to chart numbers along with enemy captures. In this episode of the Office Show, the Office 911 team separates a gamer...
• Most popular posts at the Office Blog for 2011

  13 Jan 2012

  A blog post can take on a life of its own. Something we wrote yesterday can disappear as the blog rolls on. Something written a few years ago can live on as search engines find it and customers click on it. Here are the 10 most popular posts at the Office Blog in 2011 and the reason you might want to...
• Tips from Al Roker, plus your chance to win Xbox with Kinect and more...

  13 Jan 2012

  Do you want a chance to win a copy Microsoft Office 2010, a Windows Phone, and an Xbox 360 with Kinect? See below for full details. Each year, extreme winter weather brings life to a grinding halt for millions of people. Most likely your home is stocked with winter essentials, but do you have the right...
• Savoring the Season: Tips & Tricks + Free Office 2010 Templates

  7 Nov 2011

  The Halloween candy isn't even gone and you've likely started thinking about the 2011 holiday season. It's that time to collect wish lists, decide where to shop, and prepare for all those big meals with family and friends. This is certainly one of the busiest times of the year. But all that time and...
• Office 2003 Turns Eight - Time to Upgrade

  10 Oct 2011

  Chris Barry, Director of Office Enterprise, Microsoft Eight years ago this month we launched Office 2003. In honor of that anniversary, we took a trip down memory lane for some of the momentous shifts in technology since 2003: 2003: Smart phones were making headlines for their cutting-edge built-in camera...
• New Open Document Format (ODF 1.2) Announced

  5 Oct 2011

  No that's not a tag cloud. It's a Wordle of the people from around the world who contributed to ODF 1.2, a new standard announced today by OASIS . Why should you care about what those acronyms mean? Because defining and supporting open standards ensure that you can share and access information with virtually...
• Help your favorite nonprofit get a Microsoft software donation (video)

  27 Jul 2011

  Here's some good news if you work for a nonprofit organization: Starting today, we're donating Microsoft software to more nonprofit groups. Since 1998 we've donated over $3.9 billion worth of software - including over $2.6 billion worth of Microsoft Office products - to nonprofits around the world. We...
• Office 2010 for back-to-school: 10 tips + free OneNote 2010 student planner

  21 Jul 2011

  The annual back-to-school routine is right around the corner, and this year a projected 55.5 million K-12 students and 19.7 million college students will head for the classroom (according to the U.S. National Center for Education Statistics). That’s a lot of laptops and jeans! Whether you’re...
• Reimagine History and win Xbox 360 + Kinect or a free trip

  13 Jul 2011

  What did our Founding Fathers , Thomas Edison , the Wright brothers , and the Apollo 11 mission crew all have in common? Well, for starters, not one of them had Office 2010...and they all achieved political, engineering, or technological breakthroughs that changed the world. But looking back on those...
• 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...
• Download Office 2010 Service Pack 1

  29 Jun 2011

  The Office 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) -- a bundle of updates based on what we've learned during Office 2010's record-breaking first year -- was released yesterday. Learn more about it in the SP1 announcement on the Microsoft Updates (Sustained Engineering Team) blog, or just go ahead and download it now...
• 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...
• Pictures pop with easy photo editing in Office 2010

  13 Jun 2011

  This is post #9 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. The cliché "a picture's worth 1,000 words" persists because a great picture gets to the point in a way that...
• Corporate "Facebook"? My Sites in SharePoint 2010

  3 Jun 2011

  Post #3 in our Ten Days of Office anniversary series is about how My Sites in Microsoft SharePoint 2010 helps colleagues work together. Read SharePoint team Director Christian Finn's 5 tips for implementing My Sites in your organization. Here's an excerpt from his post on the SharePoint Team Blog : ...