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• Crabby's guide to Office downloads

  3 Jul 2009

  (Read the entire column on Office Online) Sometimes you just need a little something to tide you over until a new version of Office is released: an add-in, an update, a white paper to prevent your Office programs from going all flabby on you. A nip here, a tuck there ... a quick visit to Office downloads...
• Women empowered with career change

  15 May 2009

  Dear readers and job seekers, the women in my life amaze me. I polled all my friends for stories about how planned or unplanned career changes turned out to be positive. Women replied with brave, interesting, and compelling stories. Today is part two of a five-part series: Pat (Seattle) - Four of us...
• Obama, Osama, and the Office Spellchecker

  12 Mar 2009

  A recent blog post at U.S. News & World Report asks this question: When Will Microsoft Word Stop Making Obama into Osama? When this writer runs his spellchecker, Word is suggesting that he change the word “Obama” to “Osama.” Fortunately, this problem was solved two years ago . My advice to this writer...
• And the Oscar for best screenplay goes to ...

  19 Feb 2009

  Do you love movies? Is the Internet Movie Database bookmarked in your browser? Are you secretly giddy in anticipation of the Academy Awards this Sunday? Well, then I’ll bet it’s also true that you have an excellent idea for a screenplay that you’ve been threatening to write for years. I know I do! There...
• 1000 resumes? One extreme job-hunting strategy that worked.

  17 Nov 2008

  My colleague David Salaguinto recently shared the bizarre story of how he got here— here being Microsoft's caffeinated halls. He took an extreme approach to job hunting after the start-up he was working for downsized overnight, back when startups everywhere were shedding payroll fast. He had a new mortgage...
• Sneak Peek of Office in the Cloud

  29 Oct 2008

  You may have heard about "cloud computing" as the future - where you will be able to access all of your information from any connected device. This week Microsoft unveiled some of what the future holds for Office users. Watch this review and tell us what you think: --Nancy
• Share Community Tips on Office Online

  3 Jul 2008

  At Office Online, we've opened the site up to more community contributions. (The site has accepted templates from the community for some time.) When you have questions or advice about the content you find, you can sign in with a Windows Live ID and post questions or bits of advice for the rest of the...
• Looking for a new identity? Try free small business templates

  20 May 2008

  The free templates we offer on our site are consistently among our most popular content with Office users. That's in part thanks to the fact our templates team keeps coming up with great ideas. In the past few months, they have been busy pulling together some design collections to help people who don...
• I can finally tell you about Community Clips

  16 May 2008

  If I wrote code, I would go work at Office Labs , a new group at Microsoft that finally let the cat out of the page and went public this month with their site . This lively group makes and tests prototypes; aka features and tools. I've worked with a few things they created for a few months, and now you...
• How should we collaborate with you?

  15 May 2008

  “Community” and “social networking” are popular buzzwords among Web site owners these days. Everyone’s talking about Web 2.0 , which simply means people communicating directly with each other, using the Web as their interface – either through a social networking site, such as Facebook , responding to...
• What happens to the feedback you send us?

  14 May 2008

  I told you a while back that we’re listening to you . In fact, we love to hear from you. Not a day or a meeting goes by that we don’t review and discuss your feedback. Almost everything that goes on around here is identified and prioritized and implemented based on your ratings and comments. On behalf...
• Who needs help?

  15 Apr 2008

  Our ongoing mission at Office Online is to help our customers understand how to use our products so that they can become more effective, more efficient and productive. (Read: get out of the office early because you're so good at what you do!). One of our co-workers, Michelle Valeriano, manages the Help...
• Beyond the resume - job hunting advice from a Microsoft HR professional

  19 Dec 2007

  Since resumes are among our most popular template downloads on Office Online, and particularly from our Career Center we thought it might be worthwhile to offer you job seekers even more assistance as you start the journey of finding that perfect position. So, it just made sense to go directly to the...
• A few of your favorite things

  13 Dec 2007

  If you haven't noticed yet, we've now published our Top Hits for 2007 . This is our annual collection of readers' favorite templates, downloads, columns and more. Some of them are perennial favorites, while there's always a good sprinkling of new items that moved to the top of the ratings this year....
• Job hunting in the 21st Century

  4 Dec 2007

  My how things have changed since I stumbled into the job market a while back. I'm gathering ideas for a page about how to approach finding a new job or changing jobs in today's world of giant job boards, email thank-you notes and unacknowledged application submissions. I have plenty of ideas about what...
• Are you ready for the holidays?

  29 Nov 2007

  I don't know about you, but I am always surprised at how quickly the days fly by this time of year. I shop online because I don't have time to go to stores. I do send Christmas cards, but often in a 'reactionary' mode - as a response to cards I receive from friends who are either more thoughtful or more...
• Cyber Monday reminder

  26 Nov 2007

  Easy to buy. Easier to wrap. Check out our featured offers from partners in the Office Online Gift Guide today as you're traveling around cyber space making your purchases. If you're in the mood to give Office, you can buy it right over here . Happy holidays!
• Is anyone listening?

  14 Nov 2007

  How many times have you clicked on our "was this information helpful?" link at the bottom of an article and given us feedback? Did you think it just went off into the ethers and no one would ever see it? Well, that's actually not the case. Real people here in our office download those comments all the...
• Advertising on Office Online

  8 Nov 2007

  You may have noticed Office Online recently started advertising. If you think your company has products or services that Office customers would love you should take a look at our advertising products. But if you want to advertise things like fortune telling, think again. Office Online customers are smart...
• Our gift to you

  5 Nov 2007

  Now that the Hollywood writers have elected to strike , you will have plenty of time on your hands to get a jump start on holiday shopping. You may have been looking forward to new episodes of "Desperate Housewives" or "Two and a Half Men." Sorry. Wisteria Lane is blocked off for a bit. Charlie and Alan...