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• 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...
• Customizing the Office ribbon: Advice from an MVP

  14 Sep 2010

  In the first post in a new weekly series from the MVP Awards Program blog, Word MVP (most valuable professional) Doug Robbins describes how to customize the Office ribbon to suit the way you work. If you're migrating to Office 2010 from Office 2003, the Office ribbon is the most striking change you'll...
• Work the way you want in Office 2010 with the fully customizable ribbon

  13 Apr 2010

  Check out the improved Ribbon in Office 2010! Across applications you can access your favorite commands more quickly by customizing Ribbon tabs or by creating your own to suit your work style. " One of the features I've enjoyed using the most is the updated ribbon. The ribbon has made life much easier...
• Our 7 best tools to use The Office Ribbon (updated)

  24 Mar 2010

  Like you, we went through a stormy honeymoon with the Ribbon in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other Office programs. Here's some mental balm to soothe the transition and make you a Ribbon afficionado. 1) Office Casual: How to work with the Office Ribbon I wanted to explain what the Ribbon was. First off...
• Considering Office 2010? Here's what our beta users love about it

  17 Mar 2010

  Did you know that over 5.5 million users have downloaded our Office 2010 Beta ? This makes Office 2010 Beta the largest beta program we have had in the history of Office. We asked this broad set of beta users for feedback, and the response has been terrific. The level of positive feedback we have received...
• See and use cool pictures without leaving home

  14 Oct 2009

  Do you use stock photos? Well, as you might have read in Robin Wauter's post on TechCrunch today , you're in luck because you can have access to over 7 million royalty-free, high-resolution images with a free (yes, free ) add-in ribbon for Microsoft Word and PowerPoint 2007, courtesy of our friends at...
• Like it or not: Help with the Office 2007 ribbon

  7 Jun 2009

  Some learning curves are steeper than others. It takes most folks a while after upgrading to Office 2007 to get used to the new user interface (UI) introduced in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access, (also known as “the ribbon”), so I've pulled together a little help. These items aren’t new, but they...
• Office Casual: How to work with the ribbon

  6 Apr 2009

  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...
• Check out this new Ribbon tab

  13 Feb 2007

  A few doors down the hall some mad scientists have been cooking up a great add-in for the Ribbons featured in 2007 versions of Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. You can now add a Get Started tab in those applications and pull in some great content from our training and demos teams. The effort does more than...
• We're "Fluent." But why?

  7 Feb 2007

  We've given the new user interface in Office 2007 a name -- Fluent. Here are some things you will hear from MS folks who get questions from the media: Q: Why Fluent? A: The name "Fluent" captures perfectly the key benefit the new user interface delivers to users - it makes it much easier and quicker...
• An Office comic strip? Yup

  4 Jan 2007

  Check out this comic strip: http://www.enchantedoffice.com . It's something we're trying out (Recognize any of the characters?). Your comments are welcome. Be gentle.