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Customers can rate the video demos on Office.com , so every month we check what's hot and what's not. Here, according to our customers, are the 10 most highly-rated help-and-how-to videos for August 2009. The first one, "Create a basic (PowerPoint) presentation
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You might have seen Doug's Office Casual video about the Microsoft Translator . Well, with more than 500 million Office customers around the world, globalizing Office itself is also a high priority. Did you know that Office 2007 comes in over 80 languages?
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Saving time is everyone’s goal, right? My, arguably twisted, logic tells me that memorizing keyboard shortcuts offsets the time I’d save by using them. However, co-workers assure me that I am missing out on valuable time savings by sticking to only CTRL+C
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The best things in life are free. Sixties activist and rogue, Abbie Hoffman , outlined how to get most of them in his 1971 “survival manual” Steal this Book . It’s the only book I know of that begins with a Table of Discontents. What fascinates me about
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Some learning curves are steeper than others. It takes most folks a while after upgrading to Office 2007 to get used to the new user interface (UI) introduced in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access, (also known as “the ribbon”), so I've pulled together
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What? You haven’t heard about Office Podcasts ? Then you probably don’t know that we published our 100th amazing podcast episode . Neither did my boss, so I’m sharing my hot top 10 Office podcasts with you and him. If you haven’t experienced the growing
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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
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Lots of rumors out there about SharePoint Designer. But's its true, the tool to make your SharePoint sites come alive and customized is a free download starting today. So if your company has SharePoint Server 2007 or Windows SharePoint Services, you can
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Have you seen wild or superb examples of what people with an obsessive or inventive streak can do with Office programs and add-ins? Think, for example, of PowerPoint as performance art, as in David Byrne's strange wonders of some years back. We're always
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A recent blog post at U.S. News & World Report asks this question: When Will Microsoft Word Stop Making Obama into Osama? When this writer runs his spellchecker, Word is suggesting that he change the word “Obama” to “Osama.” Fortunately, this problem
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Do you love movies? Is the Internet Movie Database bookmarked in your browser? Are you secretly giddy in anticipation of the Academy Awards this Sunday? Well, then I’ll bet it’s also true that you have an excellent idea for a screenplay that you’ve been
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I found this Vista widget in my wanderings through the tons of info we have online about using Microsoft Office. I tend to clutter my desktop with docs and files I then, periodically, shove into proper folders or into my recycle bin. Zen-like it's not.
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Nothing could be less newsworthy than standard fonts in Outlook and Word, right? Wrong. Sean Fallon on Gizmodo: The Gadget Blog, reports that the Microsoft font Calibri, introduced in 2007 and used as the default font in Outlook, helped uncover a strange
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I use Excel all the time because working with data is part of my job, but when I'm home surrounded by my art supplies (aka clutter), budget-planning does not appeal. Unless, that is, I can make it colorful. This video—another light-hearted look at adult
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Okay, say it's Friday. Have you ever found yourself decompressing in true TGIF spirit one minute and scrambling to meet some deadline-from-Hell the next? (Maybe even today?) If that deadline happens to involve a presentation, this tongue-in-cheek video
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