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  • Download our free Office 2013 Quick Start Guides

    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...
  • Download the Office 2010 “Getting Started” Screensaver—a new way to get tips from Office.com

    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

    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...
  • Download our free Office 2010 migration guides

    Thinking about upgrading to Microsoft Office 2010? Each upgrade brings exciting new features, but new versions of your favorite programs can take some getting used to. It's no different for those of us here at Microsoft who create the Office programs than it is for our customers. To ease the transition...
  • Connect your Inbox to Facebook and Windows Live with the Outlook Social Connector

    Starting today, you can plug Facebook and Windows Live right into Microsoft Outlook through the Outlook Social Connector. You can view your social network as you look through your email to stay connected with your friends, family, and colleagues. Here are the key links of what Outlook users can do starting...
  • LinkedIn, Facebook join the Outlook 2010 Social Connector (The what?)

    Starting today you can download the new Outlook 2010 Social Connector to see what your contacts are up to on LinkedIn from right within the Outlook 2010 beta . When Office 2010 ships, you'll also be able to see your contacts' Facebook and MySpace actions in the same place. But let's take a step back...
  • Template du jour: School supplies design for PowerPoint 2007

    Today’s featured template from Office.com is a school supplies slide design for PowerPoint 2007 . Just click the image to download the template to your computer.
  • Crabby's guide to Office downloads

    (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...
  • Steal this blog [post]

    The best things in life are free. Sixties activist and rogue, Abbie Hoffman , outlined how to get most of them in his 1971 “survival manual” Steal this Book . It’s the only book I know of that begins with a Table of Discontents. What fascinates me about Hoffman’s book is that the means of communication...
  • Office Casual: How to work with the ribbon

    Did you know the interface used in Office programs before 2007 was designed way back in 1992? That's something I learned when researching the Office 2007 interface, the ribbon. Here's some cool tools to help you get the most out of it. The interactive guides mentioned in this video are here for Word...
  • No Foolin'; SharePoint Designer now a free download

    Lots of rumors out there about SharePoint Designer. But's its true, the tool to make your SharePoint sites come alive and customized is a free download starting today. So if your company has SharePoint Server 2007 or Windows SharePoint Services, you can starting playing in the sandbox with a new toy...
  • No more Death by PowerPoint: Free downloads by a savvy pro sharpen your presentations

    In a rush? Jump straight to the example decks . The PowerPoint team here had a great idea: Instead of relying on Help articles, why not use PowerPoint 2007 to explain and show off PowerPoint 2007? So they hired Julie Terberg , a presentation design expert and PowerPoint MVP , to create 157 top-notch...
  • Is anyone listening?

    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...
  • All things new in spring

    Today's entry comes courtesy of Doug Thomas, a new addition to the Office Online editorial ranks. Welcome, Doug. Howdy. When last I wrote for a blog it was about the dandy DVD set of The Larry Sanders Show and the passing of forgotten director Stuart Rosenberg. In other words, I had another job. So now...
  • Brackets are beautiful

    Whether you root for Butler or Belmont, George Washington or Washington State, you will want to check out our free Excel and Visio templates for the NCAA hoops tournaments. Our Templates team was hard at work yesterday updating the brackets with all the teams selected for the Big Dance. Download them...
  • Our greatest hits of 2006

    Each year we take a tally of what you liked most on Office Online. We just finished the 2006 version . Not too surprisingly, little has changed since 2005. A heart was the most popular piece of clip art; a service pack dominated the download world; fax cover sheets were the top template. Demand for help...
  • Greatest template ever?

    Hopefully you know by now that we've opened up the template world to the general public in an effort to allow sharing of your creations with like-minded individuals. As expected, this brings certain challenges. We've done our best to filter the templates with settings for "Strict," "Moderate," and "Unfiltered...
  • Free trials are here! Free trials are here!

    Remember Steve Martin in "The Jerk?" One of my favorite scenes is when he runs around yelling, "The new phone books are here! The new phone books are here!" My family has long since stopped thinking it was funny when I repeat that scene when our new phone books arrive. This morning it's feeling like...
  • Never forget Ed Asner's birthday again

    Who can't claim to love the work of Ed Asner ? He was the gruff but fair Lou Grant, a slave ship operator in "Roots," and Jedi Master Vrook Lamarr in "Star Wars: Knights of the New Republic" (not to mention a neighbor of Jerry Pournelle ). So what better way to thank Ed for what he has brought to your...