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HOW TO ENTER BASIC FORMULAS IN EXCEL 2010

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Formulas are the real workhorses of an Excel 2010 worksheet. If you set up a formula properly, it computes the correct answer when you enter it into a cell. From then on, it keeps itself up to date, recalculatin…

Office Sway: What Is It and When to Use It

www.office.com/setup Blogs: For the first time in a long time, Microsoft recently released a new app for Office product family called Sway. Office Sway is a presentation tool used to deliver captivating presentations. Figure 1: A collectio…

What is Microsoft Sway?

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Last week Microsoft announced the general release of its Sway digital storytelling app. Sway, which is part of Microsoft Office and designed for creating presentations, is in many ways an alternative to PowerPoi…

How to Publish With OneNote

www.office.com/setup Blogs: The OneNote program comes as part of the Microsoft Office software package. Using OneNote, you can post text entered into the program directly to a blog that you own or have access to. OneNote allows you to publ…

Microsoft’s new WordPress plugin lets you directly publish your OneNote documents

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Microsoft announced a new partnership today that makes it a lot easier to transfer your OneNote writings over to WordPress. The company has created a WordPress plugin that inserts a OneNote button into your edit…

Check out PowerPoint 2016's best new features: charts, effects and more

www.office.com/setup Blogs: PowerPoint 2016’s changes include new transitions and charts, and some powerful new research tools. Other features may follow the Office 2016 trend of being individually subtle, but taken as a whole they add up …

How to Use Microsoft Word as a Desktop Publishing Tool

www.office.com/setup Blogs: High-end desktop publishing programs, such as Adobe InDesign and QuarkXPress, feature lots of tools to help designers produce stunning pages. But these programs are expensive, and novices require training to use…

How to Create a Document That Looks Like a Book

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Create a document that looks like a book by using book templates available in template galleries. The galleries are available on your computer -- and free templates are available online. The benefit to using the…

Exporting Word files to HTML

www.office.com/setup Blogs: In this article we will first discuss the case for and against using Word as your HTML editor. Then we will see how to properly save a Word file to smaller, more compact HTML files. Third and last, we will see h…

Skype for Business drives digital transformation

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Today’s post was written by Ron Markezich, corporate vice president for Office 365 Marketing. Office 365 is a universal toolkit for collaboration with more than 85 million monthly active users, designed to addre…

What’s new in Office 365 administration—public preview of Microsoft Graph reporting APIs

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Since March 2016, the usage reports in the Office 365 admin center have been providing admins with insights about how their users adopt and use Office 365. Today, we’re pleased to announce the public preview of …

Assigning multiple users to a task is now possible in Microsoft Planner

www.office.com/setup Blogs: As of today, Microsoft Planner users can assign multiple people to a task—a feature that tops the list at planner.uservoice.com. Now, users can assign more than just one user to a task in Planner, and every user…

AXA Group accelerates digital transformation with the Microsoft Cloud

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Today’s Office 365 post was written by Ron Markezich, corporate vice president at Microsoft. When one of the world’s leading financial institutions invests in Microsoft Office 365 and Azure, it’s a testament to …

How to Encrypt and Decrypt a Word 2016 Document

www.office.com/setup Blogs: If you are now using the newest Microsoft Office 2016 and wonder how to encrypt and decrypt a Word document, read this page to get the tricks. Part 1: How to encrypt a Word 2016 document with password There are …

Microsoft Project REVIEW

www.office.com/setup Blogs: What is Microsoft Project? www.office.com/setup Blogs: Microsoft Project is a flexible tool for project portfolio management (PPM) and daily work, delivered through Office 365. The first place in this category o…

WHAT’S NEW IN MICROSOFT OUTLOOK 2016?

www.office.com/setup Blogs: The Outlook 2016 release focuses mainly on de-cluttering the user interface and simplifying your workflow. Microsoft Outlook is the world’s most favored business email client. The application already offers exce…

How to activate Microsoft Office 2016

Pre-installed copies of Office may come with a product key, or it will activate over the Internet with no product key being required. If the product key is not required, please note that this is a limited time offer and expires six months …

Public preview of project codename “GeoFlow” for Excel delivers 3D data visualization and storytelling

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Editor’s note: Since this article was originally published in April 2013, Project codename “GeoFlow” has been renamed Power Map as part of the new Power BI for Office 365 offering. Today we are announcing the av…

HOW TO MAKE A PDF OF A DOCUMENT IN WORD 2016

www.office.com/setup Blogs: It’s possible to save your Word 2016 document in the Adobe Acrobat document format, also known as a PDF file. This type of electronic publishing is secretly a form of printing your document. Obey these steps: Fi…

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 …

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…

What is Microsoft Forms?

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Microsoft Forms is a new part of Office 365 Education that allows teachers and students to quickly and easily create custom quizzes, surveys, questionnaires, registrations and more. When you create a quiz or for…

Install Microsoft Office Project 2016

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Select your version of Project for the steps to install. Download and install Project 2013 or 2016 (1 user and 1 PC) If you have a one-time purchase of Project 2013 or 2016, follow these steps to install it. Wha…

10 Microsoft Office 2016 features you’ll love

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Office 2016 offers many enhancements that integrate more tightly with SharePoint and OneDrive. It can be confusing to keep track of all the features, so we pick 10 you are sure to love. Collaboration is the key …

What Types of Things Can I Do with Microsoft Access?

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Access offers a variety of features for different database needs. You can use it to develop five general types of applications: Personal applications Small-business applications Departmental applications Corpora…

How to Build Your First Database With Microsoft Access

www.office.com/setup Blogs -Written by Helen Bradley for PC World: If you own a version of Microsoft Office that includes Access (Office Professional 2010/2016/2017 is the most current version), but you’ve never used it, you’re overlooking…