Why you should try the Preview of SkyDrive for Windows or Mac

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It's so simple that explaining it is more complicated than doing it. And once you start using it, you'll wonder how you worked in Office without it. 

When you install SkyDrive for Windows, it creates a folder named SkyDrive on your computer which is just like any other folder with one big difference-any file you put into it is automatically added to your SkyDrive in the cloud. And any changes you make to a file--whether on SkyDrive or your computer--gets made to that file in both places. 

 

Say you're working on a Word doc and you save it to the SkyDrive folder on your computer. When you go home and work on another computer, you can open the doc on SkyDrive in the cloud, make changes and save it.  

 

The next day when you turn on your work computer, the new version is in your computer's SkyDrive folder.  (Goodbye thumb drive.) That's great but maybe you already haul your laptop home so what's the big deal? 

There is also a SkyDrive app for Mac OS X Lion, which gives you access to documents - online or offline - right from Finder.  You can also get SkyDrive for iPad, iPhone or Windows Phone to view or share docs from anywhere. And thanks to the Office Hub on Windows Phone, you can view, edit, and share documents on SkyDrive when you're anywhere that your laptop isn't.

How many people do you think reviewed this blog post?  Probably not as many as you think. But there were several people, and they work in lots of different buildings and places.  So instead of sending it in email and having to compare their suggestions in multiple versions, I saved it to my SkyDrive folder and visited SkyDrive.com where I could send a link to everyone's inbox.

All they had to do was click the link to open the doc in Word on their desktop or on a Windows phone, or in a web browser. Then they could make changes and save it back to SkyDrive.

If some people don't have Office, you can still collaborate with them. When they click the link, the doc automatically opens in a web browser (it does that for everyone else, too) and gives them the option of editing it right there.  They can make changes to it just as if it was a Word on a computer. Once they're done, they too, save it to SkyDrive. 

When you're working with each other on SkyDrive, you can add or change formatting by using all the formatting tools you're used to in Microsoft Office.  The changes come along with the doc when you share it or save it.

The same thing can't be said if you're collaborating in Google Docs.  In Google Docs you have to leave behind your impressive Excel pie chart unless, that is, you convert your Google Doc into an Office doc after you're done collaborating. What a hassle. 

If you install the SkyDrive app on several different computers, you can actually connect to any of them to find files you need-even if those files aren't yet in SkyDrive. For example, if at home you need a file that you left on your work computer, you can connect to that computer, look for the files in its folders, then add those files to the SkyDrive folder on that computer.  

Since those files are automatically synced with your SkyDrive, and since your home computer is connected to that SkyDrive account, you can now access them on your home computer.

Because you don't want just anyone nosing around in your computer, SkyDrive requires a couple extra steps to get inside another computer.

The SkyDrive app puts two security hurdles in place when you want to fetch files. First you have to log in to the same SkyDrive account on each computer.  After you do that, you'll see a list of computers in your SkyDrive account in the cloud. If you click on the computer's name, SkyDrive asks if you want to send a verification code to your mobile phone or alternate email address. After you type in that code, you can start browsing and adding files to that computer's SkyDrive folder. After you've done that, they'll be automatically added to your SkyDrive account in the cloud.

Wow.  Being able to fetch files from computers kind of makes your computers part of the cloud.

(One thing about fetch--you can use a Mac to fetch files on a Windows computer, but you can't use Windows to fetch files on a Mac.)

How can you not want to install the SkyDrive app? It lets you:

Work seamlessly in Office on your computer and the cloud Access and work on Office files from any computer and lots of devices Collaborate with others using all the Office features you know without worrying about losing your formatting

In short, the SkyDrive app combines the benefits of cloud computing and Office to bring you a new and improved work life.

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Setting One Dimension in the Crop Tool in Photoshop CS6

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Touch-friendly viewing of Office documents in smartphone browsers

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Last month we introduced new touch editing experiences for Windows 8 and iOS tablets. You can read more on that here.

With this release, we'll continue to offer a view-only experience on most smartphones, but we are also making document viewing more touch-friendly in browsers on many popular smartphones. We prioritized such touch-enabled viewing so you can easily access and read Office documents on SkyDrive or Office 365 whether you're using a desktop, tablet, or smartphone browser.

In designing Office Web Apps for mobile browsers, we set out to achieve the following goals:

Touch enabled experience on all major smartphone platforms (Windows Phone 7.5 and up, iOS 5.0 and up, and Android 4.0 and up) Make good use of the limited screen real estate

Make it simple for people to read and navigate document content

Here are the basic gestures we support: 

Flick vertically to navigate through a Word documentFlick horizontally to navigate through a PowerPoint slide deckPan in any direction to navigate Excel spreadsheetsTo open the toolbar, tap the screen, then tap the toolbar indicator, and you'll see the toolbar on the side of the screen.

 

Now let's take a look at how you can interact with files from your mobile device:

 Word Viewing

To optimize reading Word docs on your mobile browser, we designed documents to reflow to achieve the best readability. Most of the document's text formatting and content types (images, SmartArt, shapes, text boxes, etc.) are preserved. 

If you need to adjust the text size further to read more easily, you can open the Font-size tab on the toolbar.

A common user scenario for working with large documents is the need to navigate to a specific page. With touch-friendly Office, users don't have to swipe repeatedly to move down page after page. Instead, users can drag the page slider on the right side to go to a specific page quickly. 

 If you see a table that flows over the edge of the screen, you can drag the table horizontally to view all of it. We take advantage of the touch capability to keep the format as close as possible to the actual table, so as not to sacrifice a good user experience. 

  

You can tap on a thumbnail image to enlarge it. 

 Excel Viewing

Excel Mobile Viewer provides high fidelity viewing of your Excel files.

 

 When a chart extends beyond the screen, users can use the Zoom function to choose a designated view for the chart, which lets you zoom in and zoom out on it.

  

 Often, there is more than one spreadsheet in a workbook. You see a list of spreadsheets on the toolbar and then tap on the one you'd like to open.

 

 You can tap on the Sort button to sort an Excel table in ascending or descending order-if the table you access already had sorting enabled.

 You can tap on "+" or "-" symbol in a Pivot table, or the Group Data view, to expand or collapse data.

 PowerPoint Viewing

We designed PowerPoint presentations to display so that they best utilize the mobile landscape. For instance, when you hold your phone vertically, the view is divided in half (we call this "split view") so that the top half displays the slide, and the lower half displays the text on the slide, including the notes. This is quite useful when you are on-the-go and want to quickly go through the content of the slide without having to pan around the slide area. 

 

If you wish to view only the slide, you can hold your phone horizontally so that only the slide image is shown.

  

To zoom, you can simply pinch on the slide no matter which view you are in.   

  

Last but not least, you can join a presentation online in your mobile browser.  Imagine that you are stuck in traffic while an important presentation at work is taking place using the latest Office Presentation Service. You can join the presentation by tapping on the link sent to your inbox. 

 Summary:

We encourage you to try out the new Office Web Apps Preview on skydrive.com or on Office 365  and preview on your mobile phone (if you are using: Windows Phone 7.5 and up/iOS 5.0 and up/Android 4.0 and up)

 We want to hear from you, please share your experience. From the toolbar, click "Give Feedback."

 We are constantly refining and improving the experience, and are actively listening to what you like and don't like.

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Office Reaches RTM!

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Today we reached an important milestone in the development of the new Office. 

Moments ago, the Office engineering team signed off on the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) build. This milestone means the coding and testing phase of the project is complete and we are now focused on releasing the new Office via multiple distribution channels to our consumer and business customers.

This is the most ambitious release of Office we've ever done. It spans the full family of Office applications, servers and cloud services. The new Office has a fresh, touch friendly design that works beautifully on Windows 8 and unlocks modern scenarios in social, reading, note-taking, meetings and communications. We are proud to achieve this milestone and are eager to deliver this exciting release to our customers.

General availability is planned for the first quarter of 2013. Starting October 19, customers purchasing Office 2010 from local retailers or resellers will receive the new Office for free upon availability. Customers will also see a preview version of the new Office on Windows RT devices, beginning with the Windows 8 launch on October 26. 

Additionally, we have a number of programs that provide business customers with early access so they can begin testing, piloting and adopting Office within their organizations:

We will begin rolling out new capabilities to Office 365 Enterprise customers in our next service update, starting in November through general availability. Volume Licensing customers with Software Assurance will be able to download the Office 2013 applications as well as other Office products including SharePoint 2013, Lync 2013 and Exchange 2013 through the Volume Licensing Service Center by mid-November. These products will be available on the Volume Licensing price list on December 1. IT professionals and developers will be able to download the final version via their TechNet or MSDN subscriptions by mid-November.

Please stay tuned for more specifics on general availability dates and other Office launch news. In the meantime, if you'd like to give the pre-release version a try, you can visit office.com/preview.

Thank you to the millions of people who have been testing early releases of the new Office. We are grateful for your support. Your invaluable feedback has helped us make the new Office the best Office ever.

Kirk Koenigsbauer
Corporate Vice President
Microsoft Office Division

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Close teamwork: OneNote on SharePoint

A developer next door has a sofa in her Office for short NAP, and two doors down, a tester has a pyramid of Red Bull cans made. We are overtime to get the next version of our most popular video game, crusty crows out of the door. In any case, we need a break. It is up to me and morality come up with my colleagues in the Committee a funny trip to reduce stress. Work and no play...

My people tagged to collect me and to share. Since I am a self-confessed Office geek, I know that OneNote on SharePoint will make a great collaboration tool. Every time one of us adds or modifies the content in a OneNote notebook, OneNote automatically save and synchronize the notebook on SharePoint. And we can set up SharePoint to alert us when changes occur.

Create a OneNote notebook and publish it in our team of the site is about as easy as throwing a stone in one of these intolerable crows.

 Note: This article assumes that the owner of the site us the correct permissions of the SharePoint design has .

1. To create a notebook, I OneNote open and click the tab file , select new, and choose the option network , so that I can save it SharePoint.

2. I add name and give a network location.In this scenario, there is a URL on the default library for shared documents on our site (such as http://Team_Site_Name/Shared documents), and then click create .

3. After I have created my notebook, I see on a dialog box in which I E-Mail a link can select to the notebook. I click to open an email and give a hint to my colleagues, let them know that our notebook is booked, so that they can start ideas.

4. The e-Mail links I mean open colleagues the notebook in OneNote desktop version or the Web browser (Web app) version. With the desktop version of OneNote, you can record audio, video and images as part of their ideas. The Web browser version does not allow that they add as rich a set of content and offers fewer editing tools.

My moral posse has been talking with other people on the team to their two cents on best stress relief activity-volleyball, kayaking, mocks the crows illuminated. Whenever a member of the Committee deals, another idea, everyone else in the Committee finds, because I SharePoint up to e-Mail they set up have done when making changes to the notebook.

1. I with my team SharePoint site browse and choose the standard library shared documents where I saved our notebook.

2. In the notebook I click on the arrow in the upper right corner of the drop-down menu to open, and then click notify.

(3) On the new warning dialog box I choose the option best for my team. I would like to disturb my colleagues members of the Ethics Committee not to much, so I choose to daily alerts sending.

What is the consensus for the Ethics Committee? After a day of kayaking on the Puget Sound and glass-blowing with Dale Chihuly is everyone forget their frayed nerves and back to work under tension, to finish our project.

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Impress your teacher: Use conditional formatting to highlight data (video)

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He's no slouch!  Melvin Corpuscle shows his accounting teacher a thing or two by walking him through how he used conditional formatting to make low and high sales numbers stand out.

 Learn more about conditional formatting:

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Adobe Presenter Appiness… Again with another example!

August 28, 2012

After the two wonderful posts by Pooja and Allen, I thought of creating one more eLearning module explaining the new features of Adobe Captivate 6. The question was, how do I make it interesting? My job became easier with enhanced Adobe Presenter 8. So I’ve used the features of Microsoft PowerPoint and Adobe Presenter to create this course… go ahead and view it on your iPad! Want to know how I achieved this? Read through the post… step-by-step…

Experience the course here: http://my.adobeconnect.com/cp6new2/

Step 1: Modify the Master Slides – An important part of this course is the consistent look and feel for the course screens. So, I created a background image using Adobe Photoshop and imported the JPEG into the Master Slide. This allowed me to have the same background image for all the screens. Next, I modified the text placeholders for fill/stroke and font settings.

Step 2: Create the Slides – If you observe the course, there is a slide listing the key new features (Menu), there are slides explaining each feature and then there are question slides. For the Menu slide, I created thumbnails of the features and used the Text Box to add the headers. For the content slides, I created the images using Adobe Photoshop, and used the ‘Character’ feature of Adobe Presenter 8 to give the human touch to the slide, and added the feature description. By the way, if you have not used the built-in characters yet, please do try them… they are an amazing set of human and animated characters! For the questions slides, I used Multiple-choice and True/False question types. As of now, only these two types of questions are supported in Adobe Presenter Mobile App.

Step 3: Add Audio and Animate – For the Menu Slide, I first added the animations from PowerPoint, and later recorded the audio. The enhanced UI for recording the audio makes it so easy to record and sync animations… Try it out! Same steps were applied for content slides as well. Did you know that we can view the slide notes during recording? So I don’t have to worry on missing out on those technical jargons

Step 4: Enable reporting and Publish – Now that the course is ready, I need to enable the reporting right? Did that through Manage Quiz > Reporting. In this case the distribution channel I’m using is Adobe Connect so enabled the reporting for Adobe Connect. Then, published it to Adobe Connect to view it on my iPad.

Hope you liked this course, please let me know your thoughts through the comments!

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Meet the Team: Chintan Intwala – Computer Scientist

As a Photoshop engineer and an avid user of the creative software, I constantly tried to find ways to make something that would not only add new functionality to Photoshop but also make it simple and fun to use. However at the heart of these efforts were simple ideas, ideas that were fueled by my intuition and for that time being, had taken over my life. Blur Gallery is an example of this mental exercise.

As far back as I can remember, cars and all automotive inventions have been an object of my fancy, a fascination that has turned me into an amateur race driver and a religious follower of automotive news. Looking back, I suspect that beautiful car posters that covered the wall space of my adolescent room had a lot to do with it. There is something evocative about a photograph of a Lamborghini—sweeping through a scenic European landscape with a distant glow of the city lights in the background—that has always grabbed me. I would spend time analyzing what would make this beautiful photograph so appealing. In my opinion, the answer lies in tasteful editing, but of equivalent importance is the presence of naturally occurring blurs and bokeh shapes introduced by the camera. While the effect achieved from a real photograph taken via a camera rig will be more complex, I challenged myself to achieve the same effect in Photoshop using pictures from a quick photo-shoot of my car and bike. What I discovered propelled me to do Blur Gallery.

After spending many hours of painful masking, blurring and compositing, I couldn’t accomplish anything that looked impressive or believable. While I’m no professional, this is also because of the shortcomings of current workflows in Photoshop around blurring. First, existing capabilities don’t support spatially-varying blurs in a way that can be easily manipulated. Second, it’s not at all easy to combine different blurs with precise local control. Third and the most painful piece is that there is no live preview to make predictable progress. I figured, if I am having trouble with this, I’m sure many people are having the same issues. I thought to myself, “Wait a minute… if there is any software that should do this awesomely, its Photoshop!!”

Blur Gallery was accomplished after an extensive collaboration with our internal research as well as technology teams. Key contributors include Gregg Wilensky (ATL), Matthew Bice (UXD), Baljit Vijan (AIF), Mausoom Sarkar (ETG) and our QE, Michael and Meredith. In all the considerations related to workflows, we made sure we valued simplicity, approachability and ease of experimentation the highest. Consequently, Blur Gallery is the first of its kind task-based workspace that brings all the new tools in an appetizing screen-full bite. This new space makes it very easy to combine and manipulate effects directly on the screen. The ability to do on-canvas editing not only makes the workflow feel modern, but also more tactile and playful. However, the prerequisite for playfulness is interactivity and we achieved it by investing in OpenCL acceleration. Underneath all the innovative experience design, we also have a powerful technology: parametric masks to control the spatially varying blur patterns and physically based bokeh effects with creative controls that are not otherwise possible in camera.

With Blur Gallery, a first version of a new paradigm, we experimented with blurs related to camera-lens. Adobe is currently working on various motion-related blurs that are present in automobile photography and I’m super excited for when it will release. These new blurs will add even more realism and beauty to your photos while keeping the entire user experience playful, productive and creative. Adobe is also eager to gather feedback on Blur Gallery to make it even better.

Editor’s Note: After completing his work on Photoshop CS6, Chintan Intwala began pursuing an MBA at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. We thank him for his hard work on the Photoshop team and wish him the best at b-school

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Join us Tuesday for an Office 15-Minute Webinar on Office 365

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In this week’s webinar, you’ll learn about Office 365. For small and big businesses, it gives secure, anywhere access to email and calendars, and lets you collaborate with others using Office Web Apps, instant messaging, conferencing, and file sharing. We start at 9:15 am Pacific Time with a Q&A to follow. Click the link below or go to http://aka.ms/offweb for more information on how to join the series.

Join online meeting

https://join.microsoft.com/meet/dougt/F274WBQZ

There are two ways you can join: Use the free Lync Attendee download to get full video and sound, or use your web browser, and call in to get audio: 888.320.3585, Conference ID: 84172528.

A video of the webinar will be posted soon at it's over.

What you will learn at Tuesday's webinar:

Overview and pricingGet ahold of people Storage in the cloud Your two websites

References for this webinar:

--Doug Thomas

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Top timeline tips in Visio

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With the new Visio you can quickly create clean, organized timelines that make it easy to order events and share information. Improvements we made across the product allow the new timelines to take on a variety of different looks to create beautiful, professional diagrams. Specifically, we made it easier to:

Apply themesCustomize dates and elementsReposition shapesSwitch between timeline styles

This blog post will walk through making a timeline so you can learn about the new features and some tips and tricks along the way.

Suppose you want to create a timeline to illustrate key milestones and map out events in your project. To begin, navigate to the Start Experience, and then find the Schedule category.

 

Select the timeline template.

 

In Visio, each template includes shapes and tools that are specific to a type of diagram. The timeline template includes features that let you align milestones and intervals to timeline shapes based on dates. The Timeline tab is a useful place to adjust settings for the entire diagram.

From the Shapes Pane, chose one of three timeline shapes. Don't worry - you can switch between types at any time through the right-click menu. We simplified the set of shapes, giving you the option to choose a block, line or cylindrical one. After you choose a shape, you can also choose from a greater combination of styles. You can create a ruler or divided timeline, as you did in previous versions of Visio. All you need to do is change the interim marker position through the right-click menu. You can apply these combination of styles at any time!

Tip: To make formatting milestones and intervals quicker, set the timeline defaults when you start. To do this, go to the Timeline tab, and open the "Date/Time format" dialog. Now make all your milestones and intervals have the desired date format on drop, by entering them in the diaglog box.

 

You can now populate the timeline with your milestones and intervals. To distinguish different categories of events or highlight significant deadlines, set the milestone type by using the right-click menu.

Next, position your milestones so all the text is readable. To help you do this, we improved how you position milestone and intervals. When you drop a milestone, it now sits on the top of the timeline by default. (You can get the old position back through the right-click menu.) We made the leader line (the line that connects the milestone to the text) easier to position with one click.  Additionally, when you drag the leader line below the timeline, Visio automatically updates the position of milestones.

 

Tip: For timelines with several milestones, we added a text-positioning feature to help with spacing. You can set how the text aligns to the leader line by using the paragraph alignment properties available in the floatie or the Home tab.

Milestones and intervals have smart behavior to adjust their geometry based on the timeline type. For example, when you drop an interval on a cylindrical timeline, the interval adjusts to fit the curved shape. This makes it even easier for you to switch between timeline styles!

You can change the interval type through the right-click menu. For example, a block interval can have text inside or outside the timeline, and can easily switch to a bracket or curly bracket interval. The bracket interval has been updated so that brackets can be extended as a whole or switched to a leader line to conserve space.

When a timeline has a lot of details, you can add an expanded timeline. The expanded timeline lets you create a copy of a segment from the original timeline and resize it or add events independently of the timeline so you can drill down into further detail. This is particularly useful for a specific event such as a conference or trip. Drag an expanded timeline shape from the Shapes pane and drop the expanded timeline on top of the desired timeline. Select the date range for the expanded timeline to create a separate segment.

An additional customization can be used to show or hide elements of the intervals or milestones. Select a milestone or interval shape, then use the right-click menu to position the date above or below the description. You can also hide the date or description for any event.

Tip: Using guides is a great way to align milestones evenly. Once guides and rulers are turned on in the View tab, drag a guide from the top ruler onto the page. Attach the control handles of the leader line for each milestone or interval to the guide. For more information about guides, see this help article: Snap to guides to lay out a drawing.

Tip: An entire row of milestones can be adjusted by simply moving the guide up or down.

You can easily use themes to adjust the style of your diagram. Apply Quick Styles to milestones and intervals to visually differentiate between categories of events.

To create even more looks, try using different embellishment levels. The new timelines automatically adjust with the embellishment level of themes. For example, if you chose a high embellishment level theme, the block timeline gets wider and the text switches to all caps for emphasis. See the Theme blog post for more information about themes and embellishment levels.

 

 Our timeline is complete and we can print it or share on the web with Visio Services!

Through our review of how to create a timeline in the new Visio, we hope you see how easy we’ve made it to create great looking ones. Updated positioning behavior makes it quick to align events and unclutter busy regions. New geometry allows timelines to take on any theme, and new options in the right-click menu gives you the power to customize timelines the way you want.

Have a favorite timeline tip of your own you'd like to share? Let us know in the comments below!

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Webinar: Office Web apps use

Here is the recording of this week free Office 15-minute Webinar about how to use Office Web apps. You can join our Webinars live at 9: 15 am PDT. Click http://aka.ms/offweb for complete information.

What you learn Webinar on Tuesday:

What are the Office Web apps and SkyDrive? Open, save, and share DocumentsWhy are better cool thing you can do online documents: Embedding presentations, mash-ups and Office 365

References for this Webinar:

(1) Getting started

(2) Hit your stride

(3) What's next?

Learn more about Office 15 minutes Webinar series at http://aka.ms/offweb.

--Doug Thomas

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Quick Trick: Resizing column widths in pivot tables

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(Who could be better than a Business Intelligence analyst at teaching us a thing or two about Excel? We asked our own number-crunching wizard Stacey Armstrong to share some Excel tricks she's learned along the way..)

I often work with pivot tables that have URLs as rows of data, and the URLs can be quite long. In the past, whenever I changed the data and refreshed the pivot table, Excel would automatically resize the column width, making the column as wide as the longest URL. This pushed all my other data to the right and out of view. To see it, I had to scroll--an extra eye-wearying, time-consuming step. 

Right-click in the pivot table 

Select Pivot Table OptionsIn the Pivot Table Options dialogue box, click the Layout and Format tab, and then uncheck the box Autofit column widths on update.

Now the column width doesn't change each time the pivot is refreshed, but now you need to define how wide the column with the URLs should be.

Go back to your pivot and select the column with the long URLs. Right-click, and enter a value for the column width. 

Now when you refresh the pivot table, the column doesn't resize. Instead its width corresonds to the value you entered.

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On-demand: Kanen Flowers’ Audition seminar

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Entwerfen für Tabletten & kleine Bildschirme

We have with the upcoming launch of Windows 8 Outlook, much on the new generation of touch devices in the next working years has become mainstream is being developed. Outlook-2013 fits based on the device you use and still the prospects you know. When you start Outlook on a Tablet PC, you will notice that the layout changes to provide a great experience touch! Also, when you start Outlook on a device with a small screen, you'll see, that Outlook of the screen real estate and puts your content in the.

On Windows 8 tablets are the navigation area and reduced the Ribbon to give you maximum properties for the actual content. This also means that your thumb reach easy to scroll the message list. Outlook switches to Touch mode by default for tablets. This trigger across certain optimizations that use Outlook Help instead of touch devices.

Is one of the most notable improvements the touch mode and one of our favorite features of the touch action bar. It is conveniently, at the right of the screen, so that you can use your thumb to common actions such as reply, Delete unread quickly perform flag and mark.

In touch mode, the mail, calendar, people and task icons are larger, so that you can easily tap to change modules. Folder name, Ribbon buttons, and the quick action toolbar (QAT) buttons are staggered to touch it more easily.

The calendar does not forget, when we design started for touch devices! Try claws to switch between day/week to switch between different views views and pinching. It is fast, fun and of course.

On a convertible device such as a touch screen laptop Outlook can not you in touch optimized settings by default. But still you can not be afraid, all the goodness of touch mode! Click the drop down in the QAT and select Touch mode;The following icon is displayed. Click here, manually switch goodness to all the "touchy".

In addition to the improvements that we for tablets, we also realized that an ever greater number of Outlook users decide for compact devices with smaller screens. In Outlook 2013, we have many optimizations to ensure that user the most out of Outlook ever made.

Outlook detects that a compact device, and the navigation pane and the Ribbon by default to reduce, as well as for tablets. Headers of the Outlook social connector use smaller pictures and shrink in size.

The good news is that you get your hands on all of this today! Go ahead and use the Windows 8 Preview and Outlook 2013 Customer Preview for your kompakt-and tablet devices and you check it out!

You can also read more about improvements in Office to touch on the next Office blog.

--Teresa Thomas, Outlook program manager
--Kirk Fernandes, Outlook program manager

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