2011 Calendar Template Contest Winners Announced
Thanks to everyone who entered our 2011 calendar template contest. There were 52 entries this year, and I think you will agree that there are some clever people out there, as the entries are widely varied in functionality and appearance. Your contribution
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VLOOKUP: No more #N/A
Today’s blog post is brought to you by Anneliese Wirth, who writes about Excel for Office.com. To grow your skills with Excel, it’s helpful to familiarize yourself with a core set of functions, or predefined formulas that are built into Excel. On
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Making sure your interactive embedded files really ARE interactive
Yesterday I told you about how you can now embed Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations in your web pages and blogs from Office Web Apps. I even tried it myself with the embedded Vehicle Loan Payment Calculator and it was quick and simple to
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Live chat October 14 : Ask the experts about Office 2010 and Windows 7
The Microsoft MVP squad--Most Valuable Professionals who know more about our software than is probably healthy (remember your Vitamin D, people)--is hosting a live chat on October 14, 2010 from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. Pacific time. Si
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Use this: Embed PowerPoint or Excel into web pages
Last July I told you about the new Office Web Apps, where all your documents are created, edited, and stored on a server...a server located somewhere in the clouds (hence the term `cloud computing`). Since then more than 20 million folks have used Office
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Got math homework? Try the free Mathematics Add-In for Word and OneNote
Did you know that you can insert professionally formatted formulas and equations into your Word documents? That means you can do your math homework in Word and not get docked points for your illegible handwriting. In addition to that, the free Microsoft M
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Header and footer recap
Headers and footers--and page numbers--can get tricky. That`s why we`ve spent some time with them on this blog. But if you come to one post, you might not realize that the answer you need is already in a different post. I thought I`d list each of them he
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More on PowerPoint with author Jennifer Egan (video)
In the last episode of The Office Show, award-winning author Jennifer Egan (`A Visit From the Goon Squad`) filled us in on how she created a chapter of her new book with PowerPoint. It`s an amazing chapter, as are her insights on using Powe
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Crabby Monday tip: Call someone out on their big fish story
Hey, let`s take the day off and go phishing! (No, let`s not!) `Phishing` in email jargon really does mean `fishing`: Bait? Check. Hook? Check. Unsuspecting target? Check. Fresh fish for dinner? Check. Here`s how you get phished: You will get an email from
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Add a bookmark
How do you add a bookmark to your document, so that you can jump to a specific location later? People have been asking... In Word 2010, click the location in your document where you want to add the bookmark. Click the Insert tab, and then click Bookmark i
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