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Best Microsoft Outlook Add-ins for IT Pros

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Microsoft Outlook has been one of the leading professional email communication and calendar schedulers chosen by IT pros for years. Two big reasons why are that the platform is very user-friendly and it works se…

Microsoft launches StaffHub, a new Office 365 app aimed at shift workers

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Microsoft today unveiled the newest addition to its Office 365 suite with the debut of an application for shift workers and management, called StaffHub. The program is aimed at those who don’t tend to work from …

Microsoft’s killer feature for its Chromebook competitor is Office

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Microsoft just unveiled a new operating system at a press event this morning. Windows 10 Sis a streamlined and more secure version of Windows 10. But it still looks and feels like a normal PC. And it runs essent…

Top 5 Things You Can Do to Make Your Network a Success

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Working out loud and using social collaboration tools as part of your daily workflow can take some getting used to. It’s also not always easy to persuade people to adopt new methods for working or to even try ne…

Getting started with app development

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Eli Sheldon is a Program Manager on the Microsoft Project team. With the new Project, our extensibility story entered two new exciting realms–Apps for Office and Apps for SharePoint. Bookmark this page for all t…

Cloud services you can trust: Office 365 availability

www.office.com/setup Blogs: “Your complete office in the cloud” is how we think of Microsoft Office 365. While it gives us enormous pride that one billion people use Office, we deeply appreciate the responsibility we have to meet and excee…

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…

Office Mobile for Android phones

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Guy Gilbert is a senior product manager focused on Office apps across Windows Phone, iPhone, and Android phones. We are thrilled that Office Mobile for Android phones is available in the U.S. today. Office 365 s…

Office 365 subscribers get Office Mobile for Android phones

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Last November, we delivered a brand new version of Office Mobile, preinstalled on all Windows Phone 8 devices. In June, we released Office Mobile for iPhone as a unique benefit for Office 365 subscribers. Today,…

“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…

Stay informed with the new Message Center

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Over the past two years since the release of Office 365 we have been working diligently to improve our communications with customers on changes that impact the Office 365 environment. By providing more targeted …

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…

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’…

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…