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• Webinar: Tips from the experts: Microsoft MVPs

  18 Feb 2013

  In this week's webinar you’ll learn about nifty tips and timesavers from Microsoft MVPs. These “Most Valuable Professionals” share their real-world technical expertise with the community. We have a few tips and may even have a few stop on by to chat as we broadcast from their annual...
• Webinar: Customers share their favorite shortcuts

  25 Jun 2012

  Last month, we shared our favorite timesavers and tricks for Office and we asked listener’s for their favorite shortcuts. In this week’s webinar, we'll show you the best ones. What you will learn at Tuesday's webinar: Customer’s favorite timesavers for Word and Excel The Power of the...
• MommaSaid Office can keep you organized

  30 May 2012

  (Guest blogger Jen Singer is the creator of MommaSaid.net , a Forbes Best of the Web community for moms, and ParentingWithCancer.com . She's the mother of two middle-school boys and author of several parenting books . Jen's work has appeared in American Baby, Family Circle, Newsweek, The New York Times...
• Webinar: Our favorite Office timesavers

  25 May 2012

  In this week's webinar, author and popular blogger Jen Singer ( Momma Said.net ) joins us to share some of her favorite Office timesavers. Plus, you'll learn more of them from the Help writers at Office.com who use every day. Here are the timesavers we mentioned: PowerPoint (or using shapes) Move items...
• Webinar: Working with Office for Mac 2011

  21 May 2012

  Office for Mac 2011 and PCs are working better together. In this week’s webinar we’ll show you Office for Mac 2011 including some features that make that possible. What you will learn at Tuesday's webinar: Outlook now on the Mac SkyDrive for the Mac How a Mac and a PC work better What about...
• Webinar: Keyboard Shortcuts for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

  7 May 2012

  In this week’s webinar, you’ll learn about nifty keyboard shortcuts in Excel, PowerPoint, and Word. There’s a lot more than Ctrl+X for Cut and Ctrl+V for Paste. What you will learn at Tuesday's webinar: Why shortcuts? Keyboard shortcuts in Word Keyboard shortcuts in PowerPoint Keyboard...
• Free Office webinars every Tuesday, watch videos anytime

  7 Mar 2012

  UPDATE 3/2013: Current webinars can be found at http://aka.ms/offweb . Below are older recordings. Join us every Tuesday for free webinars about how to use Office programs. You can watch the Office 15-Minute Webinars live, or view them later. They run 9:15 am-9:30 am Pacific time on Tuesdays with a live...
• Quick! Recall that email message

  27 Jan 2012

  It happens. You made a mistake. How do you "take back" or recall an Outlook email message that you already sent? How do you recall a message and replace it with another one? Go to your Outlook Sent Items folder first, and then recall that message! Quickly! Here's how: Recall a message in Outlook 2003...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• Out of the office? Reply to messages with Outlook

  4 Apr 2011

  Matt Shelton contributed today's post about how to use Out of Office and Automatic Replies to send email responses when you're away from the office. Matt, a senior writer, focuses on creating Office content for teachers and students. If you can't reply to e-mails during the work day (or if you're away...
• Include your signature in email or documents

  16 Mar 2011

  Your correspondence is electronic now, but a signature personalizes even electronic email and documents. Many of you are asking about how to include signatures in Outlook email and in Word documents. You can find instructions for creating signatures at Office.com , but for easy reference, we've rounded...
• Your job search needs a little love

  14 Feb 2011

  Can't remember when you last spent quality time with your resume? Avoiding an honest review of your relationship with your job search? Kim Isaacs, a resume professional and the Monster.com resume expert, provides a few tips and some ideas to help you refresh your relationship with your resume and your...
• Start your job search with a new and improved resume

  10 Jan 2011

  Resume expert Kim Isaacs explains how to refresh an outdated resume in this first of five series. As a longtime PC user, I was thrilled when Microsoft introduced the System Restore tool . This little tool saved me hours of troubleshooting on several occasions, easily banishing unwanted, buggy programs...
• Take a shot and share a screen recording

  23 Nov 2010

  I'll never forget the day a colleague showed me how pressing SHIFT+F3 would change the case of selected text from all lower case to sentence-style caps to all caps and around and around and around again. As a technical writer, this tip was like a minor miracle, and I never would have discovered it on...
• 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...