Sheila, from Office Online, described a new feature called Community Tips. Here's a video demo about how to browse to Community Tips for a template. This was created by Matt, also from Office Online:
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With such a lovely summer that's just begun, who can think about school? Our traffic and trends indicate that many of our customers start planning early (so organized!) to ensure a smooth start to a new school year. We've put together a collection of templates for students, teachers, administrators, and parents. Click on this image to go to the Back-to-school template collections page:
You can also share your own great back-to-school templates or let us know what other kinds of templates will help with your school year planning.
And don't miss the Office Online At School section for parents and teachers, which contains a wealth of ideas and other resources.
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Summer time is all about vacations, warm weather, BBQs with friends, and family reunions! We had a lot of requests for family reunion templates, so we've provided you with a set which includes a flyer, photo album, family tree, and newsletter. Take a look at the entire family reunion collection.
We'd love to see other family reunion design sets. If you have some to share, please submit your templates and, in the description area, indicate they're part of a set.
There are a lot of Gay Pride celebrations happening this weekend and through the month of July. For these occasions, we have an invitation and flyer for you to customize, post, send to friends, and so on. You can also find Pride images to add to your documents.
Enjoy the festivities!
Each month we, the template folks, comb your comments in the hopes of finding issues that we can fix. Sometimes it's the template which is faultly and other times, we find all that's required is a little education.
Back in May, we published an Any year calendar creator in Excel 2007. Many comments came in saying that it was broken because the dates didn't automatically populate when the year was changed. One thing to try if this happens is to make sure Excel 2007 is set to automatically calculate.
I also wanted to take a moment to introduce a new flavor of the Any year calendar called the Perpetual yearly calendar.
Please let us know what you think and keep those comments coming!
We just added a new feature to our web site called "Community Tips." This feature is for you - so that you can add comments, ask questions, and give advice about using our templates to other Office Online visitors.
Millions of people visit our site every day, and a lot of them come to use Templates. Your comments and questions could really help someone else, and you might end up learning something as well. We hope you'll jump in and join the conversation.
I just posted my first tip - here it is:
You've liked these designs for Word in the past, so we've updated them for the 2008-2008 academic calendar year. True, it's summer break right now, but back to school days are just around the corner.
These designs are just in time for those of you who like to plan early or organize in advance:
Prefer another Office program? See all 2008-2009 academic calendars on Office Online. To see the latest, sort by "Date".
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Check out this great article, Pump up your PTA publicity, by Jessica Reading. She describes two background techniques - a gradient fill and photo with a washout effect - she likes to use when making posters and flyers in Publisher. The article also has links to some of the posters she's created, which you can download and customize for yourself.
Want to know more about Publisher? The Publisher 2007 Help and How-to page has tons of topics. You can also consult the Publisher discussion group, in which you can ask a question or join a discussion thread.
Our coworker, Rhea, is due any day now, and we're so excited to see her new little addition! We've asked for a million things while she's on maternity, such as, "When can we see photos?" "When are you bringing her in?" "Are you going to keep a baby blog?" and "Can I have your stapler?"
Luckily for Rhea, we have some great baby photo album templates for her to customize while baby is napping:
Word photo albums
Publisher photo albums
If you have your own baby photo album template, you can share it with others.
Congratulations to Rhea and all new parents out there!
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For many of us, summer means travel. Hooray! We've put together a collection of templates for personal travel, business travel, and travel professionals. Click on this image to take a look:
You can also share your own great travel templates or let us know what other kinds of templates will help with your travel plans.
Taking a staycation instead? You may end up faced with the "honey-do list," in which case you may want to consult our Improve your home with Office collection.
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If you want to install Office 2007, Office SharePoint Server 2007, or Office Project Server 2007, we have deployment templates to assist:
You can find more information about Microsoft Office Project on Office Online and also consult the Office Discussion Groups. Check out the Project team blog for lots of great information, too.
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It’s that time of year to celebrate your favorite graduate! But, why spend so much money on generic graduation cards and announcements that everyone else has? We have new graduation templates you can customize, personalize, and print on beautiful paper (I recommend lightweight card stock with matching envelopes).
Let’s go through the steps of changing the colors in a graduation template. I definitely want to add a picture, so I’m going to download and use this Word 2007 graduation announcement with photo:
On the Page Layout tab, I'll click on the Colors dropdown menu in the Themes group to see all my options:
I like the Opulent colors, so I select it and my graduation ceremony announcement now looks like this:
Are you a Publisher 2007 user? No problem. We have graduation templates for you, too. In fact, you can use the same graduation announcement, if you like. In Publisher, change the colors by going to the Format Publication task pane and selecting a Color Scheme.
Many congratulations to the Class of 2008!
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You've liked these designs in previous years, so Avery has provided us with postcard versions for 2008! My favorite is the one with the green squares, since I live and die by sticky notes and that's exactly what the design reminds me of. The calendars are also designed to work with Avery 3263 and 8387 so you don't need to guess about paper size or print setup:
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We love to hear from you! Not a day, or a meeting, goes by without reviewing and discussing your feedback. Almost everything that goes on around here is identified, prioritized, and implemented based on your ratings and comments.
On behalf of the entire Office Online team, thank you for taking the time to rate a topic or leave a comment, especially if the topic isn’t helpful.
Here are some things we’ve done based on your feedback:
· Created photo calendars in Word and Publisher
· Provided a quick reference guide for Project 2007
· Built an “any year” calendar in Excel for easy use
· Provided instructions for how to display network templates in the Word 2007 New Document pane
· Created free receipt templates with automatic numbering and more than one receipt per page
We know we can always do a better job listening to you and acting on your advice. We’ve seen a few suggestions about ways in which you would like to engage with us and other users on the site, so are curious to learn how you communicate with your favorite sites today. How do you like engaging with the site, other users of the site, and experts? What brings out the “chatty” you? For example, do you read reviews by other users before you purchase something on Amazon or book a hotel on Expedia? Later on, do you go back and add your review to help others with their decisions?
What about sites, such as Wikipedia, that allow you to add and edit? If you could edit a Web page or share a how-to video on a site, would you?
Inquiring minds want to know and learn. Please share with us a few of your favorite ways to engage online with the general community, experts, and companies.
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As you might remember from a previous blog post about themes, you can apply a theme to any Word 2007, Excel 2007, or PowerPoint 2007 document or template from the Themes gallery, which is located on the Design tab in PowerPoint and on the Page Layout tab in Word and Excel. You can mix and match theme elements by applying separate theme fonts, theme colors, and theme effects from their respective galleries that are located beside the Themes gallery in each program.
While Office 2007 comes with 20 great built-in themes, we have a number of new themes available on Office Online. Here are the six newest themes in the collection (in order: Firelight, Fresh, Panels, Mod, Slate, and Tailored):
You can also see the entire Office document themes collection on Office Online and download as many as you like. If you want to see themes in action, watch how to apply a built-in theme to add color and style to your presentation.
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