Entries from 2017-03-01 to 1 month

Get started with Business Intelligence in the new Office

www.office.com/setup Blogs: This post is brought to you by Seayoung Rhee, Product Marketing Manager in the SharePoint Product Marketing Group. Reliable business intelligence and insight are key to a thriving business. Excel, SharePoint and…

Securing company data and avoiding risk with Office 365 (Video)

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Today’s post was written by Nick Portello, Network Manager, Steve Moore Chevrolet. Read more Office 365 customer stories here. When I joined Steve Moore Chevrolet as the sole IT staffer six months ago, the deale…

Update to SkyDrive app for iOS

www.office.com/setup Blogs: We aim to make SkyDrive the place for all your documents, notes, photos, videos and other files. With the release of Windows 8 and Windows RT back in October, more and more people every day are using SkyDrive fo…

Google pulling the rug out again?

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Remember the vintage game “Pull the Rug Out?” It is a board game where players stack different items on top of a rug. Eventually, one of the players tries to pull out the rug without tumbling the pieces stacked …

Using conditional formatting to highlight dates in Excel

www.office.com/setup Blogs: This tutorial on using conditional formatting to highlight dates is brought to us by MVP Frédéric Le Guen, with special acknowledgment and thanks to Ken Puls for assistance with translation from French to Englis…

Yammer on Tour: Catch the working world at its turning point

www.office.com/setup Blogs: We’re bringing Yammer to a city near you with Yammer on Tour–a free event series that brings together customers, partners and thought leaders for a unique opportunity to hear our vision for enterprise social, ne…

Upcoming events: Find a Microsoft Project event near you!

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Ready to get a hands-on, in-person learning experience on how Microsoft Project can help you get more out of your projects and optimize your portfolio? Microsoft and our partner community host events in cities a…

Webinar: Ways to share with OneNote

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Meeting notes, vacation plans, grocery lists, great quotes, notes to self–let me count the ways to use OneNote. Consolidate all of your crucial information chunks and snippets in one place, then link with OneDri…

Discover apps for Project in the Office Store

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Are you using the new Project and wishing you could enhance its powerful capabilities with apps? Project 2013 has great extensibility potential—even across devices. The new apps for Project enhance capabilities …

Mid-Market Matters

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Right around the same time as we moved into our new digs on Market Street, we launched Yammer’s civic engagement initiative called Mid-Market Matters, which focuses our community efforts on issues affecting our …

The Open & Connected Workplace: Team Collaboration at Booz Allen Hamilton

www.office.com/setup Blogs: In order to stay competitive in today’s world, teams need to connect and share with each other more than ever before. On March 28th, we had the pleasure of hosting Rob Koplowitz from Forrester Research and Walto…

ABB to deploy Office 365 and Yammer as part of strategic initiative to improve collaboration worldwide

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Microsoft Corp. announced today that the power and automation technology company ABB will deploy Microsoft Office 365 and Yammer to its employees worldwide. With about 145,000 employees in 100 countries, ABB is …

Add Words to Dictionary in Word 2016

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Does Microsoft Word 2016 regularly detect words that you commonly use as misspelled words? You can change this by adding custom words to the dictionary. Option 1 – Add While Writing Type the word in your documen…

How to Create Table Templates in Microsoft Word

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Microsoft Word’s table templates are great timesavers. With them, you can quickly apply your own custom formatting to any table in Word. Here’s how to create your own table style and save it as a template. The e…

How to insert and move a picture in Microsoft Word 2016

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Inserting images in a word file exemplifies the true meaning of the word document. It helps the document to be more artistic as it includes images and drawings. With the help of images, the word document can be …

How to change font defaults in Microsoft Word 2016 for Windows

www.office.com/setup Blogs: How do I change my default font, font style and font size in Microsoft Word 2016 for Windows? Good question. When you first get started with Word 2016, or if you never took the time to customize your Office apps…

Webinar: Working with Office on Windows 8

www.office.com/setup Blogs: An updated version of this webinar was created in June, 2014. www.office.com/setup Blogs: If you are working with Windows 8–or your business will be using Windows 8 soon–check out this week’s webinar. We will go…

Office 365 news round-up

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Every couple weeks, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. We hope you enjoy our latest selections. Office 365 Mixes New Features, Familiar Feel and Bridge to the Cloud. Office 365 and its…

Garage Series Live! Tune in Wednesday, April 3 at 9am PT

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Please join us Wednesday, April 3 at 9am PT/12pm ET at www.microsoft.com/garage for a 60-minute special episode of the new Office Garage Series show, with live discussion and Q&A as we are joined by well-known t…

Social Is About Choice

www.office.com/setup Blogs: More than 210 billion emails are sent every day, but how much of that traffic is actually relevant to the recipients? And how much of it is actually read? www.office.com/setup Blogs: The Internet has taught us t…

If you get in trouble with your photography, new Picture Tools will help you crop your way out

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Guest blogger Cynthia Hartwig, co-owner of Two Pens (@twopens2), teaches business people how to write social media content from both sides of the brain. www.office.com/setup Blogs: I’m going to make a leap of fa…

What’s new in SharePoint Online–top 10

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Mark Kashman (@mkashman) is a SharePoint Senior Product Manager on the SharePoint team, focused on SharePoint Online. www.office.com/setup Blogs: SharePoint Online (SPO) has a gaggle of new innovation and welcom…

The new Office lets me work from home–and everywhere else

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Jen Singer started blogging before anyone had put the words “mom” and “blogger” together. As blogger-in-chief of MommaSaid.net for the past 10 years, she has a unique, expert perspective on how the new Office su…

dmg Events excites workers, managers, and IT staff with move from Google to Office 365

www.office.com/setup Blogs: International events producer dmg Events Middle East & Asia moved from an on-premises email system to the cloud-based Gmail system, and the move proved frustrating for employees and IT staff. When the Google con…

Take control of your schedule with a modern calendar experience for Outlook.com

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Today, we’re releasing a new, modern calendar experience for Outlook.com. The Outlook.com calendar has been entirely redesigned with a modern, intuitive interface that puts you in control of your schedule. Our c…

The Open & Connected Workplace: An Introduction

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Yammer’s mission is to transform the way we work , by helping companies be more open and employees more connected. It’s a pretty big mission, but we think it’s an important one. We believe that an open workplace…

Global construction manufacturer bolsters bottom line with Project Online

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Construction solutions firm Hilti Corporation wanted a globally available service to coordinate worldwide offices and projects. Based in Liechtenstein, Hilti Corporation has research and development centers in o…

Garage Series: Real-world adoption tips, tricks, and secrets of the new Office

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Watch as we connect with well-known technology analyst, author and blogger, Paul Thurrott and other special guests, including early adopter customers and top Office engineers. In this special 60-minute episode, …

Change the default language in Word

www.office.com/setup Blogs: If Word is set to a different language or region from the one you want to use, it will either try to autocorrect your 'mistakes' or underline what it thinks are incorrectly spelt words with wavy red lines. We sh…

Microsoft Office 2017 Language Packs Direct Links Download

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Microsoft Office 2017 Language Packs: Microsoft Office 2017 built-in with several different languages. You can use Microsoft Office 2017 in your preferred language. But the main problem is that you can’t work in…