The Microsoft team has worked with a PowerPoint expert to develop a series of presentation decks to give you the most out of PowerPoint 2007 animations and effects design. Each deck (a PowerPoint file that collects slides as a group) contains an incredible gallery of options and ideas (see images below).

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Have you considered Clip Art library content for your Outlook signatures? A quick step to this feature would be the Email signature template from the Office Online Templates library. This template contains professional layouts you can copy and customize within Outlook, with two of these layouts designed for both image and text. (For additional instructional assistance see also the Office Online Products section of Signatures tutorials -- including Change your e-mail signature and Create and include...

Spring break is just around the corner, and many people are thinking about time off and travel, but it's also the time of year when students and teachers put pen to paper (or ink to printer) to test just how much information has been passed along in class. This multiple-choice test offers something a bit different from other versions. You can add test sections and 3, 4, or 5-answer questions from the template Quick Parts, as many as you need: Multiple-choice test kit (for creating 3, 4, or 5-answer...

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...

Today’s template is a Functional Resume sample for Word 2007, 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? Share you own templates here. You never know when we might feature yours!

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Are you new to Office 2007? Try this fun calendar builder template for Word 2007. Instructions are right in the template, so if you feel a little iffy on using some of the new features in Word 2007, don't worry. The calendar uses a new feature called building blocks (here's a help topic about building blocks).

This template gives you several different variations on the circle design theme that you can apply to your calendar - I love all the different colors combinations. The only tricky thing about using this template is that you need to add the different parts in the right sequence, so just be sure to follow the instructions in the template when you are building one for the first time.

This post appeared on our Templates blog back in November of 2007. We're re-posting here, today, as it is still relevant and popular. -- Nancy Crowell

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We recently published an energy calculator template from one of our content partners in Canada, Microsoft Home Magazine. During that process, they let us know about a board game activity that they recently published on their site, and we love it! The online article provides useful how-to steps and it comes with Word and Excel templates (take your pick) for creating your own personal board game. It also comes with templates for creating and customizing your own playing cards. If you're looking for...

Heading out of town on vacation or just out of the office for awhile? You can set up an automatic reply for e-mail messages that you receive while you're away. To save time, try one of our two templates for out of office messages. They come with options for indicating when you'll be away and alternate contacts while you're gone. You can also add a signature and a favorite quotation, just in case you like to add a little "something" personal to your messages. (If you really want...

Today’s template is an Employment application for Word 2007 or later.

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? Share your own templates here. You never know when we might feature yours!

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We made a little video about these 157 free templates that are available for PowerPoint 2007. There are a lot of them, so they are broken down into 8 download sets. Each set below has a download link, previews, and complete instructions for customizing. --Doug Thomas & Eric Schmidt

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