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• 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...
• Webinar: Organization charts in PowerPoint and Visio

  25 Mar 2013

  Need to create an org chart? Unsure of whether to use PowerPoint or Visio? In this week's webinar, we'll show you both ways and the advantages of each depending on your audience, plus we'll share tips and best practices for creating organization charts. A video of the webinar will be posted shortly after...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• Zombies, but in a good way: 20 how-to posts that just won't die

  13 May 2011

  Which need-to-know info on Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Word do Office users keep returning to? Ever since George Romero's 1968 movie Night of the Living Dead , zombies have kept popping up in pop culture like, well, like zombies. They appear when and where they're least expected, creating fun for...
• 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...
• 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...
• New free add-ins boost accessibility for Office 2010

  17 Mar 2011

  Do you know anyone with hearing, sight, or reading disabilities? The public beta starts today for two add-ins that help make Office documents more accessible: STAMP and DAISY: STAMP, the Subtitling Add-In for Microsoft PowerPoint, lets you add closed captions to the video and audio files in your PowerPoint...
• 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: Office for Mac 2011 - The magic of image background removal in PowerPoint (video)

  7 Jan 2011

  Put the focus on the most important element of a photo by eliminating the background. You don't have to go to a separate program to do this common task--that yields classy design results--anymore. You can do it from right within PowerPoint 2011 (and Word 2011, and Excel 2011--and in the 2010 programs...
• 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...
• Edit photos in PowerPoint, save a turkey

  24 Nov 2010

  Thanksgiving is generally not a happy occasion if you're a turkey. There are, however, a few lucky birds who get a new lease on life from the President of the United States, via a presidential pardon . To honor their escape from the block, we've created a tongue-in-wattle history of pardoned turkeys...
• 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...
• Nancy Duarte’s new book resonates

  25 Oct 2010

  In her touchstone book Slide.ology , author Nancy Duarte wanted you to make better PowerPoint slides. With her new book Resonate , the author wants you to be Martin Luther King, Jr. OK, not exactly, but stick with me here. I guess Resonate is a sequel, the book is big and beautiful like Duarte’s...