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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...
• 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...
• Webinar: Create business cards quickly in Word & Publisher

  4 Feb 2013

  Need business cards right this minute? Whether you're forming a new start-up business or just need something in a pinch, Office has built-in business card templates to help. In this week's webinar, we'll show you how to create a business card in Word and Publisher at a moment's notice. Can't see this...
• 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...
• Co-author Word docs on PC, Mac AND the browser

  12 Jul 2011

  Last week the Office Web Apps and Windows Live teams announced real-time collaboration in Word Web App on SkyDrive. Now you can update your newsletter’s calendar as soon as you need to, without having to wait for the other contributors to get out of the doc. You can easily work on your group paper...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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?...
• 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...
• Where is Word Count? (video)

  14 Apr 2011

  A lot of you made the switch to Word 2007 or Word 2010 and lost track of your favorite feature, Word Count. It's still there, in two places: 1. The status bar in the lower-left corner of the screen. Word tracks the number of words in your document as you type. Select a block of text and Word will show...
• Use mail merge to streamline mass mailings

  11 Apr 2011

  Today's post about using mail merge to create a mass mailing is contributed by Kristin Beck, a writer and editor for Office.com . Many of you want to know more about how to set up and run a mail merge. Mail merge streamlines the mass-mailing process by allowing you to send out a set of documents or messages...
• 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...