Last week I introduced you to our new "see similar" images feature. Predictably, some people are not happy with our site changes, so I thought I'd offer a little more direction on how to navigate the new site.

Read on to learn more. . .

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Starting today, September 8th, you are invited to apply your template creativity to our 2011 calendar template contest. Entries will be accepted through September 30th and winners will be announced October 6th - 13th on our templates home page.

How To Win
What do you have to do to win? First, create an exceptional 2011 calendar template for Word, PowerPoint, Publisher or Excel. Then....

 

Read on for the details

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Many of you ask how to create templates, plus how to apply them to another document or share them with other people, so here are the instructions you need to get started! For guidelines on how to create templates that are easy to use or that will print correctly, and for tips on using some Word 2007 features, see this article: Creating Microsoft Office Word 2007 templates Don't forget to submit your templates to the Office Online community! Submit a template To create a Word template, you need to...

If you’re looking for some contemporary artwork to jazz up your Word reports and PowerPoint templates, you might want to check out all the colorful templates from our new partner, BoxedArt.

Their collection includes Word 2007 report covers and matching content pages, as well as PowerPoint  2007 designs. These are just two examples from the collection. To view everything available from BoxedArt on our site, go here.

--Nancy

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You may have noticed that our web site, Office.com, has had a lovely facelift to support the refreshed Office 2010. When you are in a document in Office 2010, and you are also online, it’s much easier to search for images from our online collection than it has ever been.  Find out why.

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Today’s template is an entry-level Administrative Assistant Resume for Word 2007 and later, provided by Monster.com.

You can download this template now,  or get more free templates or free clip art & photos from Office.com.

Have you designed a useful template? Now you can create your own profile on Office.com, and share you own templates here. You never know when we might feature yours!

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Phavanhna Douangboupha submitted her template to the Microsoft Office Make it Great contest. Her inspiring idea of "Urban Forests" captured more votes at our Facebook page, and she walks away with a cool $10K. John Erwin Magno and Jerrit Wolfe took the runners-up rewards.       

Here's Phavanhna's entry:

If you are looking to add some pizzazz to your presentation, we can certainly help. Take a look in the full post at some easy lessons in PowerPoint...

--Doug Thomas

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Doug's slides are boring. Ron's are not. Doug started with a blank PowerPoint slide. Ron started with a group of professionally made designer templates from Office.com called PPT165. Watch:

These slides work for PowerPoint 2007 and PowerPoint 2010. Find out more about the program and download the slides at Office.com. You can remember the handy short URL: http://bit.ly/ppt165.

--Doug Thomas & Ron Owens

See more episodes of Top Templates at The Office Blog

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L ike you, and many people out there, we wanted to start this decade right, by streamlining our processes and getting organized. Our number one wish for the new year is to have more interaction with you - our customers. To facilitate that conversation, we have created this - a new home for all information about our templates, images, clip art and other downloads. This free content we provide has one thing in common - it's all stuff you download from Office.com - so we have combined our old blogs...

If you are a World Cup soccer (football to some) fan, you know that following the entire series of games can be challenging. Fortunately, we have a very enthusiastic World Cup fan who also happens to be on the Excel product team. So, Excel Program Manager Diego Oppenheimer put his expertise to work and created this terrific new template for all World Cup fans to use.

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