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Microsoft releases July 2017 Non-Security Office updates

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Microsoft has just released non-security updates for Microsoft Office 2013 and 2016; a day later than anticipated because of 4th of July in the US. Only non-security Office updates get released by Microsoft on t…

Profit and loss data modeling and analysis with Microsoft Excel

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Accounting and Finance Professionals have a new learning resource. The Profit and Loss Data Modeling and Analysis with Microsoft PowerPivot in Excel article, Excel workbook samples, and sample Access database pr…

Microsoft releases Office 2016

www.office.com/setup Blogs: REDMOND, Wash. — Sept. 22, 2015 — On Tuesday, Microsoft Corp. began the worldwide release of Office 2016. The apps are the latest addition to Office 365, Microsoft’s cloud-based subscription service that helps p…

What are the differences between office 2010 and 2016?

www.office.com/setup Blogs: The best comparison I’ve seen if by an Internet Hosting and infrastructure provider called Sherweb that provides a side-by-side review of updates: Office 2010, 2013 & 2016 at → Office 2016 vs. 2013: What's new a…

Microsoft Teams: 7 things you need to know

www.office.com/setup Blogs: The new Office 365 component for collaborative communication is Microsoft's long-promised answer to Slack. Microsoft unveiled its long-rumored collaboration tool Wednesday at an event in New York. Dubbed Microso…

“They Said What!?!”: Handling Inappropriate Comments on Yammer

www.office.com/setup Blogs: As a Customer Success Manager, I am often asked, “How do we regulate or prevent offensive posts?” or “What do I do if someone makes a very inappropriate comment?” Fortunately, the very openness that sparks these…

Introducing a new user experience feature in Access web apps: Cascading Controls

www.office.com/setup Blogs: You asked, we listened! It’s just the nature of shipping software in a “services world” with Office 365: When we hear your feedback, we can respond with new features that fill your needs. In the case of Access 2…

Store, sync and share with SharePoint

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Vivek Narasimhan is a product manager for SharePoint. Whether you are an individual working on a document by yourself, or a team that needs to collaborate on a project, SharePoint has many capabilities that help…

Catapult Systems: Choosing Office 365 is a slam dunk!

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Today’s guest bloggers are Sean McNeill, Cloud Services Specialist, and John Santiago, General Manager, at Catapult Systems, a national Microsoft-focused IT consulting company that provides application developme…

Try the Onetastic add-in to bring tons of new features to OneNote

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Omer Atay is a developer on the OneNote team, and he created Onetastic in his free time. Here’s a look at Onetastic, an add-in to enhance OneNote functionality with a set of built-in features and an extensible m…

Office 365 customers can more easily switch plans

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Paul Andrew is a technical product manager on the Office 365 team working on identity and commerce. We’ve been listening to your feedback and today we are announcing the ability for customers to more easily swit…

Webinar: Managing a family calendar with Outlook

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Life can be hectic at this time of year: school activities, sports, music lessons, vacations… Let’s get organized! In this webinar, we’ll show you how to create an Outlook calendar that shows a different event c…

True Life: Social Onboarding

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Working at Yammer, I’m constantly amazed at its many uses in the workplace. I’m using Notes to take and maintain minutes from meetings with clients as we map out how to roll out training to them. I’m sharing Fil…

Introducing the Yammer Browser Extension

www.office.com/setup Blogs: We’re always excited to see the way you use Yammer, so when we noticed how many customers are sharing external links we decided to build a new feature to support this activity. Users frequently start discussions…

Video: Tips and tricks for the OneNote Windows Store app

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Ashwini Purohit is a Program Manager on the OneNote team. We recently published a blog post on tips and tricks for the OneNote Windows store app. In it, we showed you how to: Use the radial menu to format your t…

Password hash sync simplifies user management for Office 365

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Paul Andrew is a Technical Product Manager on the Office 365 team working on identity and commerce. Office 365 uses Windows Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) for managing user login and storing user profiles. Th…

Creating cool animated visualizations with Excel and Power BI

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Our friends over in the Power BI Blog posted an in-depth walkthrough of the new features available as part of Power Query and Power View. In particular, how to create a cool time series scatter plot/bubble visua…

Office 365 news round-up

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Henry Ford once said that “if everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” Indeed, the past two weeks have been about moving forward. And they’ve also been about success. Some of the …

Webinar: Working with the Office Online

www.office.com/setup Blogs: In this week’s webinar, you’ll learn how to use the free, browser-based versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, plus get the scoop on the latest updated features. NOTE: This webinar from August is still…

Manage your spreadsheets with Data Validation in the Excel Web App (aka an awesome tool to prevent your friends from messing up your data)

www.office.com/setup Blogs: This post is brought to you by Cathy Harley, a Program Manager in the Excel Team. I moved out to the West (best) Coast about a year ago to join the Excel team, and I’ve absolutely fallen in love with Seattle. I’…

Creating the most beautiful and powerful way to view, share, and search your photos with HTML5

www.office.com/setup Blogs: With SkyDrive, we aim to create the best experience for people who use Windows – just last week we shared details about “placeholder files” in Windows 8.1. But we also know a lot of people like to get to their S…

The Garage Series: Office 365 versus the wild – enabling collaboration across the stack

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Episode 5 out of a 6 part special filmed in New Orleans, host Jeremy Chapman is joined by collaboration expert Mark Kashman as they take a look at the expansion of collaboration scenarios with the new Office fro…

One year since the preview of Outlook.com – thank you for helping us build the world’s fastest growing email

www.office.com/setup Blogs: A year ago today, we introduced the preview of Outlook.com. It was the first step in our mission to reimagine personal email, from the datacenter all the way to the customer experience. As we said then, the laun…

Excel Table Talk - Episode 1

www.office.com/setup Blogs: This month I will talk about Excel with our guest Johnnie Thomas about what is new in Excel and feedback from the community.

Create a Map Chart

www.office.com/setup Blogs: You can use a Map Chart to compare values and show categories across geographical regions. Use it when you have geographical regions in your data, like countries/regions, states, counties or postal codes. Watch …

Collaborate on Word documents with real-time co-authoring

www.office.com/setup Blogs: When you and your colleagues want to collaborate on a document, use real-time co-authoring to see everyone’s changes as they happen. First you save the document to OneDrive or SharePoint Online, so others can wo…

4 hacks for Word 2016 to save you time authoring documents

www.office.com/setup Blogs: If there’s one thing we Microsoft engineers have learned in our dialogue with teachers, it’s that each and every one cares deeply about the success and well-being of their students. Helping give educators back a…

Microsoft Planner help

www.office.com/setup Blogs: With Microsoft Planner, you can create a plan, build a team, assign tasks, and update status—all in a few easy steps. Step 1: Sign in and create a plan Step 2: Add tasks and give them dates Step 3: Sort tasks in…

Set up your computer to sync your OneDrive for Business files in Office 365

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Use OneDrive for Business to sync your school or work files to your computer. After that, you can work with files directly in your file system and access them even when you’re offline. Whenever you’re online, an…

What is SharePoint?

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Organizations use SharePoint to create websites. You can use it as a secure place to store, organize, share, and access information from any device. All you need is a web browser, such as Microsoft Edge, Interne…