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• Behind the scenes of a future vision (video)

  2 Nov 2011

  Want to see what the future looks like based on where today's software and devices are headed? Kurt DelBene, the President of the Office Business Division, recently introduced the world to a future vision of productivity . This elegant, non-narrated video is based on reams of research. The video certainly...
• Office tips from a screensaver? (video)

  14 Jul 2011

  Yesterday we launched the Office 2010 Getting Started screensaver . It’s not your father’s typical screensaver. Watch how you can learn a few tips on using Office 2010: The screensaver is the brainchild of a writer here, David Salaguinto ( watch an interview ). He writes about the genesis...
• 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...
• How to change your color scheme in Office (video)

  3 May 2011

  Here is how to subtly change your “background” color in Office 2010 and Office 2007 products (you can do it in earlier versions too). A comment in this blog led to this video, and a confession about how—and why—you should change your color scheme in Office. Here are instructions...
• What’s NUI? What's next?

  7 Apr 2011

  My daughter is passionate about drawing and animation. For the holidays, I happily bought a highly rated animation program and a Bamboo drawing board for our computer. She played with them for less than an hour and gave up frustrated. There was too much to learn to just animate objects. Meanwhile, she...
• Better PowerPoint presentations: The Office Casual Way (video)

  11 Oct 2010

  Here’s a little balm to sooth your nerves about presenting at your next meeting. I’ve collected some advice from presentation masters Seth Godin , Guy Kawasaki , and Garr Reynolds to help you create better PowerPoint Slides and give better presentations. Plus we'll look at that ace you have...