New PCs have pre-installed often a free version of Office: Office-starter. These free versions of Word 2010 and Excel 2010 will give you many features and, hopefully, your appetite for more. Let me you Office-Starter:
Read more about Office starter at Office.com.
--Doug Thomas
We are almost there: on track for release in all language versions, Service Pack 1 for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 is end of June. Here are some of the features and improvements, the SP1 install Office 2010, according to today's announcement:
Integrated community content in the Web part Gallery access application. The Word Web app enhanced printing support "Edit mode". Internet Explorer 9 "native" support for the Office Web Apps and SharePoint.Office Web apps Support for Chrome.Inserting charts in Excel workbooks by Excel Web Access,Outlook Web Access attachment preview (with Exchange online only).When the time comes, we give the release and control to TechNet and help the Sustained Engineering Team Blog for the downloads and information.
-Holly Thomas
Today's power tip is provided by Juan Soto.
I love of form variables. It my code faster and easier to read, and they also offer a great way to remote control another form without is in this form or have it focus. Another advantage is that reading data record values from a form faster than using a Recordset much use a table from the hard disk. If you know that the data you are looking for is already loaded on a form, the read you a form variable can speed up your application.
For example, suppose I am coding in a form with the name of FrmOrders and I need called to controls on an open form (you can only a form variable to an open form map) FrmCustomers read. I would use the following code to my variable instantiate:
Dim frm as Form_frmCustomers
Dim LngCustomerID as long
If CurrentProject.AllForms("frmCustomers").IsLoaded, then
Set frm = forms! FrmCustomers
' Use the frm variable fields from the form read
LngCustomerID = Frm.CustomerID
Else
"To a different technique to CustomerID find using"
End if
The frm as Form_frmCustomers instead of the generic type form declare one of the advantages, that IntelliSense is opens so that you refer to controls on the form. You can do this with any shape, which is already loaded. So make sure that you followed by the name of the form "Form_" at the declare variable of this type use.
Subforms will lose as part of the main form and their own identity, as soon as they are loaded. A subform to reference, you must use the form property to associate the form variable contains the subform. We take on FrmOrders is the parent form and the name of the subform in FrmOrdersis FrmOrderItems_sub . If you need to reference the subform, this could do in the following thing:
Dim frm as Form_frmOrderItems_sub
Set frm = forms! frmCustomers. frmOrderItems_sub.Form
See the note on the .Form property at the end of the second statement, which is required to the variable frmsubform map.
Note 1: You can use only form variables in forms that have modules; Otherwise, the compiler will error out.
Note 2: Make sure that you reference the correct name of the subform to the main form or the code will not work. For example, if the subform control has a SourceObject is set to a form named "FrmOrderItems_sub", but a control name of "Order items" on the main form has code should look then like this:
Dim frm as Form_frmOrderItems_sub
Set frm = forms! frmCustomers.OrderItems.Form
I encourage you start in your code using form variables, if you need to reference a form from one other. It is another great tool in access, which facilitates sharing information about your application and may even accelerate it.
Juan Soto is senior Access developers at AccessExperts.net. His blog is at AccessExperts.net/blog. You can subscribe to it here. Juan is a frequent speaker at access and SQL Server user groups nationwide and is a contribution to the access blog.
Send your power tips to accpower@microsoft.com!
--Chris downs
If you're a small business owner, you're probably always on the lookout for resources to help you run your business more easily. Whether you're a Windows fan or a Mac lover, the following 10 tips and tricks from the Office team will help you get more done whether you're in the office or on the go.
1. Make your blog pop. Embed a PowerPoint slide show or an Excel calendar into a blog post with just a few easy steps. Share your wares, whether they're delicate earrings or custom bikes, via an embedded PowerPoint slide show in your blog. 
2. Manage multiple email accounts from Outlook. In a recent survey by MarketTools*, 67% of those polled said they are afraid of overlooking messages as they manage several inboxes. Microsoft Outlook lets you use multiple email accounts and address books and easily manage all your different folders from a single, centralized view.
3. Stay on top of your Inbox with Outlook 2010. Save time by using features like Conversation View, Clean-Up Conversation, and Ignore in Outlook 2010. You'll spend less time combing through email and more time doing the things that matter.
4. Bring the power of social media to your Inbox with the Outlook Social Connector. The Outlook Social Connector allows you to view your contacts' Facebook and LinkedIn feeds without ever leaving Outlook. This is a great way to know the latest from your customers and colleagues right from your Inbox. 
5. Broadcast your presentation to remote participants with PowerPoint 2010. With the Broadcast Slide Show feature in PowerPoint 2010, you can quickly share your presentation with anyone, anywhere, all directly from PowerPoint 2010. You can just send a link, and in one click everyone you invite will be watching a synchronized view of your slide show in their browser. They don't need to have Office to tune in.
6. Leverage multimedia with just a few clicks. Make quick edits to photos in Word, PowerPoint and Excel in Office. Also edit audio and trim videos from within PowerPoint.
7. Use OneNote 2010 to capture and organize all your ideas in one place. With Microsoft OneNote 2010, you can take notes, insert audio clips, videos, screen clippings, conversations and emails into your own digital notebook. You can also share your notebook with others, and you can view your notes on your desktop, on the web or from your phone.
8. Save time by making Office.com templates and Publisher your BFF. Balancing your business (and your family, and volunteering and chores, and...) can be exhausting. Don't want to create that budget from scratch, or that presentation with a blank slate? Need professional-looking business cards? The Office templates for small businesses have you covered. Consider Publisher for creating your own marketing materials and newsletters as well.
9. Become a budget maven in less than five minutes with Excel templates. There are some great Excel templates and videos available to show you how to turn your monthly budget spreadsheet into a work of art, all in under five minutes! When you're on the go, try Excel Mobile 2010 on your Windows Phone 7. 
10. Keep your documents at your fingertips with Office Web Apps. We know that your "office" can be a coffee shop or the bench at your kid's soccer practice. The free Office Web Apps give you the ability to access, edit and share Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote documents with colleagues and business partners from almost anywhere via a web browser.
Read about using Office Web Apps and much more with Microsoft Office 365 here: Why Small Businesses Will Love Office 365.
Hope you find these tips useful and happy National Small Business Week!
-- Celeste Murillo, Senior Product Manager, Microsoft Office
Read more about how two small businesses are putting these tips and tricks to use: aNb Media case study and Basic Black case study. Also, please note that features like Ignore and Clean Up in Outlook, the Outlook Social Connector and OneNote are available only in Office 2010.*MarketTools, Inc. study commissioned by Microsoft Office, May 2011; online survey of 1,268 professionals and students ages 18 and older.
If the work in the perfect e-Mail message to write that, it's nice to know that someone has you all, receive and read it. Outlook has a feature that, that can help, but it is not a one-way street: the receiver must be prepared, cross it with you.
I like it this way to think about: If you order a meal in a restaurant, you know that the Chief has received your "message", because your food arrives a short time later (provided you the chef by annoyed too many proposals not yet). When it comes to e-Mail, but not things so black and white. How can you be sure that someone has received and actually read your message? To put it bluntly, you can know just for them, so that you... but you can do it. Can know you it is for the recipient to inventory if they have read (or even receive) your note, but it really decide to them is whether or not know.
Oh, people play games...
First let's find out how to set up message tracking. Because if you do not first, you can use it.
You have sent a very important message to people. They may be a teacher who wants to know that your pupils and students their homework got you by to them e-Mail. Or perhaps you take a survey in your company and want to make sure that everyone received and read ask the e-Mail to respond to the survey. In Outlook, you can set up a message so that each recipient has the option, you informed that they have: (1) the message received and read (2) the message.
You can be notified on a particular message, or you can it set up so that you be notified of all messages. Find out more in a minute.
You have now done all that you can do. But just because you have taken these steps does not mean that there is a 100% is sure thing, you know, if your recipient read your message. And why is that? I'll say it again: because it up to the recipient to let you know... is or not. See, while you have read about setting up message tracking, to change automatic response to read receiptsread. Your recipients have the option to send a read receipt whenever this is required, to never send, or, on a case by case basis, decide whether a send.
I therefore recommend news important to tracking only single. If people get a number of tracked messages, they are more likely to get irritated and just say the hell with it and never send a receipt.
Now that you know how to set up a read receipt, there are a few other things you can do to try to, keep track of things:
Now, for what I mean about read receipts? Can the component you are set up so that the recipient knows it request one, but it is up to you to decide whether she want to know, that she know, that you want to know whether you got your message.
And perhaps want to know it not. Perhaps you two have on some mind game sick little to go. I have no idea; still I care. My only part in this is learn about your options and then set you free, and are the most professional e-Mail senders can, that you be.
Crabby Office Lady of searches of the week: students: buy a PC and get a free XBox
Must not to help you find out the different channels you have tried? Answers Microsoft , the answers to your nagging problem can have.
Office partner
Sometimes I wonder how it is to work in marketing. I know other times, what is it...
Today's Office comic was inspired by a previous comic I have cloud terminology.
Random tip: the thesaurus in Word rocks. Instead of drop a hat, try the thesaurus.
David Salaguinto
Today's post was written by Angela Chu-Hatoun, senior programmer author on our large Office team, much more technical than I am that, frankly, and to explore the deep down side of programming, how it works and how can you even do it well.
This can post 13, on the MSDN Office client developer content-blog originally appeared last Friday, (display name: dev docs) and I had to Angela simply questions whether I was able to publish it here. I figure that there is a good tandem piece on my post September 2010 what is a macro and why you should use it.
Developers and power users still no programming using the Excel object model take note: there is a new series of videos that show how to create, edit and run macros in Excel 2010: Save time by creating and running macros in Excel 2010.
This set of four videos ranges in length from three to five minutes. To learn an object model for our purposes, I would like to call the first two videos in the set:
The first video in the series shows how to record a macro that fills a number of cells in a workbook. The second video shows how to view and edit the Code Visual Basic for applications (VBA) for the recorded macro in the Visual Basic Editor (a MIcrosoft programming language tool).In General, is the application object model for Office client applications that support macro recording, use the Visual Basic Editor the code which is a convenient way to learn a recorded macro (Excel, Visio, Word) and write the code for a task, the set of actions in the application's user interface associated with. You can use the code as the basis for the recorded macro and extend the functionality by more code to achieve your purpose. Recently, I have to a similar approach to how to use the Word object model, learn to look for a string in an e-Mail message. I tried recording a Word macros in the search for a string in a Word document. Then, I have adapted the code and wrote the macro for the blog post look like to a string in an Outlook e-Mail message and automate a response that contains the string.
(Already lost a bit?) What read an string is in computer science. (This is all easier than you might think.)
If you are new to programming with the Excel object model or even Visio, or Word, watch the training videos and consider approaching the object models by recorded macros!
(Thanks Angela;) I guess really let you steal me this amazing information. People do like you is one and expand you: go to the Office Dev Docs Blog and learn some new tricks. (Well, I go this programming to explore me... abdomen)
Office partner
In this excerpt from a previous Office casual, I show you how the thesaurus available in Office programs such as Word. It is only a part of the research tool. You can view the video to create first-class ideas, the Office casual way in its entirety on the Office blog.
Read on Office.com of adding and changing of resources in the research tool, or jump in a full course of training through research in the Office programs. Learn also the Thesaurus for Office 2003, Office 2007and Office 2010 on Office.com.
--Doug Thomas
About am asked where on the Microsoft Publisher Facebook pagethey readers to comment on Publisher template which is best. I urge you to go and comment on your favorite Publisher templates, why you use them as they, and how, than maybe what templates you want that you can not find.
Or you could of course, sign up and let these comments here; That would work to.
--Bob deLaubenfels
How do you make the call through investment in new technology versus maintaining the status quo?
Every year in January IT analyst firms deliver output in predictions for the year. While the last few years were a little dark, looking up with technology is planned expenditure this year to grow between 5% - 7% according to Forrester and Gartner.
It is clear that a priority technology investment will again also for customers who want to restore from the hard lost only a few years into the recession ground - at the same time it can an internal minefield for leaders succeed. Executives regularly ask expenditure below stall and make with what they already have. This means that some companies use technologies that several generations are old.
Hit the auto industry blues
During the recession one was on the automotive industry and its suppliers and partners of sectors on the strongest hit all over the world. In 2009, a major customer in automatic production by massive changes wanted as companies navigate the bankruptcy proceedings, led in the formation of a new society with new owners. The company delayed a desktop update how many customers had during this time, to stay on Windows XP and to avoid, the costs and the interruption update select.
In the summer of 2010, most of the staff of the company were still use Office 2003. While it would be a time of corporate restructuring to suppress deployments, but the contrary chose the executives of the company do a typical action. Many want to transition from the Lotus Notes and cloud based technologies, move in the direction of an aggressive has completed enterprise-wide adoption of Exchange 2010 and Outlook 2010. The company almost 30,000 capacity deployed in just two months! A bold move for a company is in his position, some might say.
Why did they do it? The execs told us that they believed that by update, it would achieve higher productivity gains as your stay on older technology. A to study economic impact of Microsoft Office 2010, conducted by Forrester, agrees. The study found a payback period of five months and a net productivity of $1,483 per information worker over three years. That's millions of dollars savings for medium-sized to large enterprises.
The company also knew that his workers require a modern software experience were. Workers demand was an important driver for its rapid deployment. When people are able to work faster, collaborate more easily and produce better documents with technology, who want to actually use them, is a company more likely to achieve bottom line benefits from your investment.
Designing the most innovative technology strategy for your organization against budget constraints and objectives is no light Unterfangen-- and I do not pretend to be on the answers. But I will be the case for keeping your employees on current technologies, when possible make.
A 2011 Forrester Consulting study of 240 it leaders in Europe and North America found that this company the latest productivity software, say that they are even more effective in integration in team collaboration, document management, business intelligence and other applications. Participants reported, the cost of software implementation, integration with applications, remote access and security to manage new software makes it easy.
Lately despite these advantages have I some CIOs tell me that their entry-level and mid-level employees need not the latest tools. This observation always leaves me my head scratching. These information workers are finally, produce most of the documents which seep to the Summit of the Organization for decision making. Should they not the right tools to help, they work with maximum efficiency and effectiveness?
Whether you Microsoft technology or not, check which current technology can do for your human - and the potential impact of maintaining older systems. The answer may not be as cut and dried as it seems. Perhaps you can not afford not to improve.
-Takeshi Numoto, Vice President of corporate office
If you know me, you know that OneNote, mean by far favorite Office program. It's not that I don't love (and probably more use) the omnipresent Outlook, but it is OneNote, which is so versatile, flexible. and frankly, lots of fun. So, if the project "Around the world in 40 days" started, I immediately was beaten.
In short, this is what the project: 40 bloggers write about traveling to a city in the world within the framework of a OneNote "Tripbook." Then you can the city (or cities) of your choice and when you open the notebook in OneNote 2010 or 2007 get sections and pages to stay, where food, places to play, and much more. And these sections are really just suggestions; It is you that notebook on your dream journey makes alive.
One of the reasons why I write, that this post is, that to the TripBooks, which are to download, is for Hanoi, Viet Nam. As many of you know (if you have more than a few years after I was), I have a daughter, I adopted from Viet Nam in 2002. Today, it is almost 9 years old. We plan a trip back to Viet Nam for quite some time, and it was a little overwhelming. Where to start? How to work around the country? Where to go? Where can you stay? What to do? Of course, I had some ideas about it all because the two trips that I took it in 2002, but I was in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) and not really to this city (what with child) left who still technically not was "mine". So, now we are both terribly excited and enthusiastic to go. And started the research.
Our plan is the length of the entire Dragon shaped country train, bicycle, of hoofing it go, and even by hitch-hiking. The people in Viet Nam are incredibly friendly and gracious, and my daughter, I would like to know the people, who you of comes. My Viet Nam was TripBook by the blogger Amanda Doan (self Sagacity.com) written and facts (and reviews) of the city itself, links to your stay in the swanky Sofitel legend offered their TripBook metropolis hotel, and ideas, what you eat and what to do in book. It is also with pictures of Amanda and her fiancé within the city, surrounded by the what, where you about writes, filled.
I decided what began Amanda that trip (my budget is not likely within the five-star Sofitel) add some more pages Hanoi, and create new sections for other regions and cities such as hue on the Central KüsteDalat in the Central Highlands and Vung Tau and Ho Chi Minh City in the South. And of course a few days in the Mekong Delta (also known as the "rice basket" Viet Nam) are a must.
What you want and however it means travel, I recommend this OneNote TripBooks the with one. They are organized in a simple way, they are free, and they and leave plenty of room for your own comments and ideas. And remember: If you do not it lug to around your laptop, it is always your SkyDrive, where are your laptops always at hand, whether on your phone, or perhaps from one of the many Internet cafés, which has Viet Nam.
Bon voyage!
Office partner
Most of us are better than to remember words images and diagrams. I will not bore you with the research references, but the numbers are pretty easy to. Not only we remember better, but if words with pictures bear, we better understand the content.
Visuals alone, can be interpreted as they are so powerful, in many ways. Therefore the combination of words for precision and visuals for guarantee and you can create the most effective documents understanding.
For example, images increase emotional attachment, such as SmartArt diagrams help show you relationships and you can visually compare charts and data.
Another advantage is enhanced visual appeal, of course. People attribute higher credibility, and in general how longer the content, which they read in beautifully designed documents.
Word 2010 has the right tools for you your documents more Visual, and therefore more memorable, likeable and understandable to make. The key is to know some visual best practices. To this end have we put together for you several sample documents, supported best practices in them, templates, to build on the examples of pointers to the visual and were friendly, which explain, why and how they create Visual objects can both use Word.
We begin with a film festival program, represented agendas and plans in General. Check to see you back in this month a few more samples. We are some of the these visual here highlight recommendations in the blog.
So, if not a joke to make a picture, chart, and meet a chart in a document, they are much more effective - it!
If formal training materials are not your thing, put your notes for a moment and check out Ribbon Hero 2, the sequel to our popular training game for Microsoft Office 2010.
Ribbon Hero 2 can the Office Web apps learning fun. It is also the first version includes OneNote, so even if you play before played with some of the other apps, have make sure that you are giving content to the new OneNote a whirl!
While playing Ribbon Hero 2, move the to see the mouse pointer across the screen what challenges await
and score to see how many points will upon successful completion of available tasks.
Need help with the search for a specific command on the Ribbon? Remember the steps for a particular process can't? Test what you think, that you want to know about OneNote? Ribbon Hero 2 can with all that help. Plus, you can travel through time, to measure points, and your success on the way. You will also meet with an old friend named Clippy, you surely remember that in previous versions of Office (although he was never part of OneNote).
Test your knowledge or fighting against employees and friends fun Download Ribbon heroand then check out our quick start guide to learn how to play.
RIBBON 2 is fun, it's free and it help you learn more about OneNote 2010 as may otherwise mastering.
--Michael C. Oldenburg
If the icon view full-size workbook in the Microsoft Excel Web app black bar (above), then, the workbook in a new browser window (or tab) appears, and you will see a button Excel Download above the worksheet grid.
If you Excel on your computer (Excel 2007 or later) installed, download the workbook on your computer and then open it in Excel. In the workbook, you will see, the rules for the conditional formatting to each of the data regions such as the following: 1. Select the range, click the Start on conditional formatting tab, and then click manage rules. 2. Select to check the following ranges of cells in that, their rules to the conditional formatting: for the city temperatures, you select annual total. choose Notendurchschnitte B7, for the students: B20.You choose for the East Regiion Actuual cost B24: E24.Select region B26 actual costs for the North: E26.Select region B28 actual costs for the South: E28.Select region B30 actual costs for the West: E30. 3. Conditional formatting rules Manager dialog box, which appears, click Edit Rule.Learn more about formatting with these articles Conditonal and videos on Office.com: and be sure to see that some great Excel blog posts product team looking after the keyword "conditional".--Gary Willoughby
In a previous post I asked you, as you wanted to help workflow delivered. Wanted a story? A roadmap of links to step by step instructions? A video of the process? A training? Thirty-six people responded and 42% said that video was their preferred method.
Today I received your input on which help you like videos.
Remember if you want to add something please logon and enter your comments in the... well, the comments.
Thank you very much.
--Bob deLaubenfels
This is the eighth in a series of quick video tips for business managers by PowerPoint from guest blogger Bruce Gabrielle, author of PowerPoint talk.
Sometimes you want to look the sweeping, dramatic and sexy curved lines in your PowerPoint slides. But how? Here is an easy way to edit points and grid lines.
--Bruce Gabrielle
Theresa Estrada, program manager in the word team, writes today about the basics of working with graphic objects-forms, text boxes, pictures, and more. This is the first in a series of posts about graphics objects.
Numbers, also known as widgets, a ton of pizazz to a document can add, but it not always behavior the way as you would expect maybe that can be incredibly frustrating. With a little behind the scenes information can you your numbers in their place.
What I mean when I say "Figure"? A character is any type of graphic object, you can insert in a document, with the exception of tables. These include shapes, text boxes, images, clip art, charts, SmartArt and WordArt.
With regard to the numbers in your document behavior are there two basic types:
A figure behavior, you can use the menu wrap text the section order on the format tab that displays when you select the figure:
Numbers, the the square, tight, through, up and down, behind textor before text use wrapping style are all as floating. As know which option you use?
The default behavior for images, clip art, charts and SmartArt is in line with text or inline. If a figure is inline, it is treated just like any other character in the document. For example, if you insert a picture as the dog pretty down, has it actually are in a row. The line height increases to take the picture, and the image moves with the text surrounding it. The figure is not formatting it is applied to the paragraph in that respect as such as alignment of the paragraph in the middle of the page.
Inline behavior familiar figures and is predictable, but the downside is that they are bound to the lines of text. This means that you can this position without resorting to fancy layout tricks in many places on the page. These figures look not usually associated with the document, integrated, because wraps the text around them not. Finally, there is no way to force an inline figure in a particular place to stay.
Enter the floating figure, which is the default behavior for shapes and text boxes. The big difference between inline figures and floating numbers is that floating numbers on a separate level drawing will be inserted. Nothing in the drawing layer "floats" regardless of text, which means, that you can position a floating figure almost everywhere. These figures can text wrapping around them or be positioned before or behind text. Text wrapping can integrate a figure with the rest of your content as you can see from the dog picture in this example:
Floating numbers are incredibly flexible in how they can be positioned, and they solve most problems associated with line numbers. However, sometimes, this flexibility can lead to surprising results.
I will be the next couple of blog posts demystifying the options for the floating figures, including spend:
How to flow around your numbers in various way text. Why your numbers sometimes jump to new locations (and how to avoid!). Fast ways to get numbers with each other (and stay) align.--Theresa Estrada is in the word team spends most her days (and some nights) studying how users with numbers in their document work program manager.
Do, to do more with the video in your PowerPoint 2010 presentations?
Should rich, media presentations that can be accessed and displayed in a Web browser from virtually anywhere?
Would you capture and synchronize audio, video, PowerPoint slides and images, and then in the Preview view and publish your presentations?
If you have answered any of these questions with Yes, you are in luck. Use Microsoft Producer, and take your video to the next level.
It is true that PowerPoint 2010 includes the possibility to make your presentations in videos. But if one more editing control, producer is an excellent tool to synchronize audio, video, slides and create images, committed and effective rich-media presentations.
And producer offers a variety of content creation changes, no matter whether you have a content and media professional or started just using PowerPoint.
The Crown, is it even for free.
Producer works with PowerPoint 2010 (32-bit), PowerPoint 2007, PowerPoint 2003 and PowerPoint 2002, and it is compatible with Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP and Windows 2000 Service Pack 3.
Two quick things to note:
See more about video in PowerPoint Bill shade incredibly popular post of the last month- ready, to test your Hollywood skills? Create impressive video presentations in PowerPoint.
And a quick note that the new PowerPoint homepage is up on Office.com.
-Joy Miller, for the PowerPoint blog team
Back to the need-to-know info to Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Word Office users to keep?
Since George of Romero's 1968 movie Night of the Living Dead, zombies have kept in popular culture, as well, as zombies appear. They appear when and where they are least expected fun for some, creating chaos and fear for others.
But what is with zombie blog posts-old posts that reasonably expect, now pixel dust have decay? Used are not blog posts such as Krapfen--best on the day that they are?
Think you, the readers of blogs Office, apparently not so. I recently combed through our blog stats and discovered a milling mass of zombie post-at the age of 6 months to 5 years old-, which are still many, many visits get.
"No surprise" category for Excel
Excel Help authors Gary Willoughby and Frederique Klitgaard have their fingers on the pulses of Excel users, and to raise no eyebrow on my list. "they are quite frequently asked questions and popular features," said Gary. For example, "were chart fill pattern a problem in Excel 2007. nobody find surprise for you," said Frederique.
This Excel classic among the 25 most visited posts in the last few weeks:
Outlook perennial favorites
Word's most popular posts
PowerPoint greatest hits
Access oldie but goodie
Last thought: Zombies have long enough already, they need their own support group. Support for your Office application you must, go on Office.com.
-Ramona Gault is a technical editor, which supports the Office blog team.
In today's post offers Excel MVP Ron de Bruin a solution to a common problem that occurs if you use RibbonX and VBA, customize Ribbon. For more tips and links to Excel add-in the Ron's Web site: http://www.rondebruin.nl/.
It is a common problem when you work with the Ribbon using RibbonX and VBA. Ribbon object (that is initialized when Excel loads the file) can lose the reference to the Ribbon, which is that your code can no longer say mean Excel to update your Ribbon customizations.
There is simply no simple, restore integrated fashion that handle for the Ribbon, if it problems in or with your code. The only way to fix it is close and not very user friendly reopen your workbook.
But MVP Rory Archibald came with a great idea in a post in the Forum MrExcel. In the example in the workbook that you can download on this page (see below) is based on Rory's idea and works in 32-bit Excel 2007 and Excel 2010 32-bit - and 64-bit.
You store the pointer to the IRibbonUI in a cell (or the name or where ever) and it use CopyMemory then get back, if the State is lost.
You can test this sample workbook this method, the Ribbon handle restored if it is lost.
Download: Loss of the Ribbon state.zip.
Note: decided I me not the workbook code RibbonX to this page add, because, if you work the code in the workbook can see, it is much clearer. If all this is new to you, I suggest that you click on the link below, with my Ribbon page start then.
For more information about customizing the Ribbon, see to change the Ribbon in Excel 2007 or Excel 2010.
--Ron de Bruin
If you had per the challenge, try that if you are traveling, you will appreciate how Office 365 and Office Web you be productive at any time from anywhere can be apps to business documents. All you need is a connection to the Internet, where you log in to your Office-365 team site.Did you know that may is teacher appreciation month? Now, is not the month over yet. So this consider to be a gentle reminder, with the teachers you have inspired over the years. Let them know how much you appreciate what they do for you.
Everyone has a story about "the one" teachers, opened the doors of knowledge and their lives forever changed. Who was your inspiration? Share your teacher appreciation message on the Microsoft partners in learning Facebook page or on Twitter with # ThanksTeach. Their teachers appreciate it!
Here at Microsoft we took a moment to say, thank you. Our stories are as follows:
And if you out there reading this... Thank you, Professor Chilson. Her passion for writing led to me the way of technical writing and editing. I will forever forget the two most important lessons you taught me:
Knowledge, what you speak, or to whom that talk with you, will not listen. Make time for what you inspired. (Even if this means wake up at 4 am, squeeze in a few hours before the start your day job to write.)Thank you, teach!
--Jennifer Bost
Can we talk? We all know that in the past, Office for Mac be sure, has played that well with Office for PC. On this episode of The Office Showwe show you how, all with Office for Mac 2011 is changed.
You can not believe, but here in the vicinity we view not "Mac" be a dirty word. We like Macs. We like to use people, the Macs. We want to have too much experience with Office. But let's face, it was a rough road. Especially when the Mac people spend much time on their docs work and then send you them the PC people, and it at the end look at how well.... Set your own metaphor.
In this Office map shows Dr. Office also known as Doug "Office Casual" Thomas, such as Office for Mac 2011 compatibility is so much better. Made on Macs see docs great on PCs. And vice versa. Not that we really conflict thing want to wade in the entire operation system as personal identification, but we think that makes the argument much more difficult. Plus, Mac for Office professionals that Stephanie Brown and Kurt Schmucker show you some other cool features like background remove, you can drag & drop page layout in Wordand Re-layout in PowerPoint, open the levels in a presentation "like a sliced salami."
More resources:
Rearrange overlapping objects in PowerPoint
In PowerPoint *easily manage objects and layers
Use full screen view in Word
A newsletter in publishing layout layout view in Word
To check a document for the compatibility
Display data visually with conditional formatting in Excel *.
Spot trends with Sparklines in Excel *.
1 happy MOM: as Office for Mac saved the day
Release files for Office for Mac and Office
Microsoft Word and PowerPoint for Mac 2011 tips
--Doug Kim
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I think Word as only for text with which you can for each project you because of some of their new-ish and awesome design skills told here, no longer as I should try to write. But I have not in the position, what is it, would I tell you, just spit out; in fact, I have further and go further, knowing full well that I will lose my audience, before I even get to my point. Finally, after taking a break, I realized, that Valley, one of the word blogger, wrote on this subject called quite good and short and sweet in his post, a picture, a map and a map of meet and all I really wanted to do was you tell, which probably is in my top 5 favorite features in Word 2010: the Image tools. (Phew.) (There are it.)
I love it when I insert a photo or other picture in Word, that this contextual tab named Image tools on the Ribbon is displayed. The use of these tools is the most fun I had buffet sitting upright in my chair staring at a flickering monitor have. I must admit (because someone here needs), that Word is not always known for his image features. Formerly a little bit difficult to implement an image where you want text wrap-around it, to just it there way, that you imagined retrieve. Things have changed, and is even though I despise rather, if a Word as "robust" used to describe software, these tools are! You are robust! And here's what I love with all this Robusticity available:
Insert a photo (this is my dog, bamboo), crop it, background remove, so I have the focus, I want it, a medium-sized reflection or perhaps a shadow add an effect to, give him a funky border, adjust the brightness and contrast, recolor and make it look as I painted it or... with my Lite-Britecreated it:
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So yes, not Word only for words. And as Valley said, "not only we remember better, but if words with pictures bear, we better understand the content." And let me add that our readers say, if we can play with our documents, we have more fun, and if we have more fun, have more fun, and if our readers more fun much and learn more, which is the world a more beautiful, knowledgeable local. Now let's all hands and sing Kum BA ya to join...
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Jennifer Bost 17 May 2011 1:43 PM Comments 0 In this video, I’ll show you how to drag a PowerPoint presentation into OneNote and take notes next to the slides.
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You are creating a simulation-based course and you need to demonstrate a couple of related workflows which include just about six to eight steps each. You are not convinced to create separate screens for such small demonstrations. So, what should you do?
Looks like you need a screen where you can include all these simulations which play on-demand, one at a time. Let’s learn how to create such a screen.
Here’s an example for you… There is one common animation area and five different buttons that trigger the animation. Notice that the animation plays from the starting frame every time you click the related button.
And here’s how you can create such a screen:
Let me know if you found this post useful or have any questions by leaving a comment on this post.
Happy Captivating! 
