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• Office with a Touch Mouse (video)

  6 Dec 2011

  Looking for a new and nifty gift for your favorite techie (or geek)? The Touch Mouse is a mouse you have to feel to appreciate. The new Microsoft Touch Mouse brings the best of mice and touch technology into one cool device. In this short video, I give it a test drive on an Excel workbook. Read more...
• How Excel 2010 wakes up your data (video)

  15 Jun 2011

  Life in a spreadsheet is a sea of numbers, and it’s no fun to be lost at sea. With tools like conditional formatting (new in Office 2007) and sparklines (new for Office 2010), a sea of data becomes a clear mountain lake. Okay, okay, enough of the colorful metaphors. Let me show you how color makes...
• Better numbers: Visualization of data

  27 May 2011

  Last week my team was trading emails on cool sites showing graphs and other plotting of numbers in a visual way. Yes, we are geeks. But the results seen here are intriguing, sometimes beautiful images that deliver a story about numbers. Kristin started it on The Inspiration Blog with 22 charts that look...
• Ribbon Hero 2: How to play the game (video)

  26 Apr 2011

  Our friends at Office Labs have spun a sequel: Ribbon Hero 2 . Starting now, you can download this free game to learn some tips and shortcuts about Office. (Oh, to heck with that. Just download it because Ribbon Hero 2—featuring the time-travelling adventures of our old friend, Clippy—is...
• The fastest way to Search Commands in Office (video)

  12 Apr 2011

  Love the ribbon or hate it, here's a way to find things more quickly: Search Commands , a free download from Office Labs: Get the Search Commands free download for Office 2007 and Office 2010 at Office Labs. It works for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. --Doug Thomas
• Mail Merge - The key ingredients for labels, a flyer, and more (a video double bill)

  3 Nov 2010

  Mail Merge is not as easy as "click this button," it's more like using a recipe to cook a meal. In these two videos, let me show you how to “cook” with Mail Merge. The first video goes over label creation by using any contact list (via a CSV* file); the second is importing Outlook contacts...
• What do Slicers slice in Excel 2010?

  2 Jun 2010

  Excel 2010 has many new ways show data, like the new Sparklines . Other new features allow you to work with data faster, like Slicers. Here's what I know about them. You can read more about Slicers from Anneliese and the Excel team at Office.com and read a quick overview at the Excel blog . --Doug Thomas
• Office Casual: How to shortcut your shortcuts with a (right) click

  9 Feb 2010

  Take a look at your computer mouse. That other button--the right-click button--can lead you to the best keyboard shortcuts so you don't have to remember them. Let me be your guide in this short video. --Doug Thomas
• Office Casual: How to play the game of Office with Ribbon Hero (Video)

  19 Jan 2010

  Now you can learn about using Word, Excel, OneNote, and PowerPoint 2007 (or the 2010 beta ) in a new and fun way: Ribbon Hero . The folks from Office Labs have created a free add-in game that I have found very helpful and addictive. You can even score points and beat your Facebook friends. Watch the...
• Office Casual at CES: How to add spark to Excel 2010

  9 Jan 2010

  Graphics can vastly improve how you digest Excel data. In Office 2010, great graphics get even better with Sparklines--an "executive summary" for each row of data in your data . The first video is from our time at CES, the second goes over the same information in my usual setting with better screenshots...
• Office Casual at CES: Why F1 helps (Video)

  9 Jan 2010

  With Office products--and nearly all Microsoft programs--help is a click away: just press F1. See how customers have improved the experience in Office 2010. <div><img alt="DCSIMG" id="DCSIMG" width="1" height="1" src="http://m.webtrends.com/dcsygm2gb10000kf9xm7kfvub_9p1t...
• Tech Preview of Office Web Apps for SkyDrive users

  18 Sep 2009

  The first public look at the online version of Office Suite is now in Technical Preview. Online versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint can be used and tested by several thousand users. If you have used Windows Live SkyDrive (a free 25MB online storage tool) you might be able to give a test drive (or...
• Office Casual: How to work with the Office 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...