We think our customers are very clever. You submit some wonderful templates to our site, but not everyone knows they are there. That’s why we have decided to start featuring a customer-submitted template each work day on this blog. You can tell when you’re looking for templates if they were submitted by a member of our community, because we have clearly identified them in our collection.
We hope these clever ideas will inspire you to submit your own templates for others to use. And don’t forget to leave comments on the templates we showcase – let us know what you think!
Look for the new Template du Jour feature to appear shortly.
-- Nancy
I’m not hosting Thanksgiving this year, but I am creating the menu and place cards for our dinner with some friends. If I WAS hosting, I’d send these super cute Thanksgiving postcards as invitations (template courtesy of Avery Dennison, one of our template partners). This postcard is a Word 2007 template.
By the way, if you don’t like the image on the postcard, you can replace it with one from our Clip Art Thanksgiving images collection. To do this -
1. Download an image from our Thanksgiving images collection. Here are some links to different Clip Art searches that will give you lots of FREE images to choose from:
Cornucopia, Family, Food, Happy Thanksgiving, Harvest, Native Americans, Pilgrims, Prayer, Pumpkin Pie, Turkey.
2. Select the image in the template.
2. Right-click the image, and then click Change Picture. Go to your Picture | Microsoft Clip Organizer folder and find the image you want.
The menu and place cards I’ve selected are part of a Harvest design set created for Word 2007 templates and very easy to update with your own text.
I hope this inspires you to create a few extras for Thanksgiving this year that will make the day feel even more special. Happy Thanksgiving!
-Sheila
If you have used our very popular Monster.com compatible resume templates in your job search, we are happy to let you know we have now made that job search even easier with our new Easy Submit add-in for Word 2007.
Just follow these simple steps to download and use the add-in.
And don’t forget to leave us feedback and let us know how it works for you and what other types of add-ins you would like to see.
--Nancy
Over the past few weeks, our Submit a Template pipeline has been undergoing some construction. This has caused intermittent downtime and potential delays in getting the cool templates you submitted during this time to show up on Office Online. Well, I am happy to report that we are officially done with construction and community submitted templates are flowing once again. We hope any delay in getting your templates up and visible wasn't too much of an inconvenience to you. The templates submitted by the Office Online community have quickly become the backbone of our library. Keep up the great, creative, and productive work!
Click here to browse the latest submissions.
Sincerely,
Office Online Templateers
Get your Halloween groove on and plan a party. We’ve got templates and illustrations that will make putting together your party invitations, menu, etc. quick and fun.
Steps for making your own flyer, menu, place card, or gift certificate:
Here’s a new set of Halloween party templates we just published. They use free illustrations from the Clip Art site – to find them search for style 1450.
New Halloween Templates Design set
1. Download any of the templates above or find a different Halloween template on Office Online.
2. Edit the text in the template, save, and print.
Optional: Change the images in the template – you can find more Halloween illustrations on the clip art site.
Here’s a tip for adding images to templates in Word: Draw a text box first, and then paste your image into that text box. You can move the image freely around the document when you do this. When you’ve got the image placed, remove the text box background and outline color.
--Sheila
We've been getting a little press today for a new plug-in available for Word and PowerPoint 2007 that enables you to search Fotolia's stock photos and add them directly to your documents.
We think this type of add-in helps our users be more productive. Why not give it a try and tell us what you think!
--Nancy