Get organized quickly: saved by project Pro for Office 365

Suppose it is 14:00 on Friday afternoon to a planning meeting for big spring marketing blitz left on which your company, Coho Winery, its hopes on international expansion rests. Just a moment before, the team was scrolling my fist on the table haphazardly by a long task list table when your boss suggested and explained that a first class project management solution would have until Monday morning.

Yikes! This is a large task.

Since this project is so important, it is important that the solution sturdy and safe, at the same time gain as much efficiency as possible, so that the team can more work done and you get not buried the pursuit of everything. But at the same time, a huge budget for this is cost and time is critical.

With Microsoft Project Pro for Office 365 , choose communication combined with SharePoint online and Lync Onlinesubscription, so that teams can easily in real time of the Coho and cooperation to joint team sites. With subscriptions, pay as you never go, worried about the establishment of IT systems and can stream to make the rich project desktop client to your work quickly and easily.

A quick visit to the project site confirms your intuition that per project for Office 365 for Coho is the right solution. Click the link to login and a few moments later the account is set and ready to go.

You breathe out "Wow", "That was easy!"

Soon you will find out, that the rest of the process for project management the Coho are up and running is as easy as it was to subscribe to the service. There to configure easy steps of your organization.

Import options for users with a mass spreadsheet upload, it really starts to look like you could get out of the Office before 17:00.

A convenient table template shows you where you fill in the blanks for your team.

... ...und download they have in SharePoint created accounts automatically.

A quick check confirmed that each team member have imported correctly.

Breeze through the next steps in about two minutes, simply noting the passwords for each account generated and selection of the appropriate licenses and permissions for each person. Now it's time to painstakingly put together, hammered the project plan in the meeting that only a half-hour before left.

As a rock star project manager, you know that the first step is to stream an installation of the project desktop client. This is easy with Pro project for Office 365-just click on the Download link from your Office-365-admin page and fly these bits to see!

Seconds after you click on the Internet Explorer download prompt run, is the project desktop client on your PC streaming and already can you really earn your salary. But wait! You're pleasantly surprised to see that... integrates great templates directly on the home screen, and there is even one for a marketing plan campaign!

You start the template, some of the tasks of the team adapt agreed project plan and fill in resource allocations.

It takes half an hour or so from your tradecraft apply, until a good on the v1 project plan feeling and decide, it is synchronized with the SharePoint team Web site. This is as simple as pressing the button Save and paste in the Web address in your browser.

The project integration with Office 365 account service keeps safe from any unauthorized release on your site - your website and protects against accidentally synchronizing with the wrong site!

You hit update on the Coho Winery SharePoint team site to see your work on the life in the cloud, and can't help but smile, as the page loaded is a robust cloud-based project plan ready for wide cooperation, work Division and access from virtually anywhere. Nice.

The clock is ticking on your Office wall, 17:00, as a triumphant send met on an email that your boss kümmern-not insured - you have everything under control.

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"Camping with K" go: how we quickly organized a 20-people travel in the SkyDrive Web Excel,

This week we continue to new features that we have available published recently in Excel Web for all users on SkyDrive. This post is brought to you by Lee Bizek, Program Manager on the Excel team.

My wife and I go Korrin tents each year with our closest friends. Since she is not a fan of camping without running water or electricity, we provide all amenities of the normal life the hike over at a friend's chalet, where we have the term "Camping with a K."

This variety of camping requires a bit more orchestration, so every year we must organize, who will do it, when people come and go, those who cook the meal is and what "camping necessities" are bringing people to the hut. Not everyone has an Outlook Live or Hotmail e-Mail account so have we had to file, e-Mail information collect, update our master copy and then send a final version before the weekend of camping.

With the announcement of easier collaboration on SkyDrivehave things a WHOLE LOT easier! Now we can link with all our friends, which share a file and you can edit the workbook, even simultaneously log on without using a Microsoft account!

Here is how we'll do it.

We must first upload or create the file on SkyDrive. If the file exists, we can we can access SkyDrive, Web-Excel or even desktop Excel, the sharing dialog box, if you edit the file, of SkyDrive.

By SkyDrive:

Locate the Datei.Aktivieren check box in the upper right corner of the tile file. in the top menu, select sharing.

Note: Herefor more information about the release in SkyDrive.

From the Web-Excel:

There are two ways to get the dialog box 'share'. Here is one way:

Click the tab Start on the share - button. Select share with people.

Here is the second option:

The backstage access from the file menu.Select stock.People, click share with .

In desktop Excel follow these steps:

The backstage access from the file menu.Select stock.

There are a number of options that we can use, share the workbook.

E-Mail: Can send an email directly from the dialog box. To do this, follow these steps:

In the to box , type the e-Mail addresses. Include an optional message. check the recipient can edit.Disable need everyone who report it accesses.

Post on Facebook or other social network: we do not use this option in our example do we link on certain people to send, because this option posts, so that the workbook anonymously edited all of your Facebook friends can be a link to the file on Facebook. Other social networks, like Twitter, are available via the drop down options for theServices Add.

Get a link / display and edit:Can you create a view and edit, which you can copy and paste in any form of communication, such as email, instant messaging or Word document.

By using the option send e-Mail , the e-Mail message is to look our friends:

Anonymous edit links take you to view mode by default. To edit the document, click Edit IN BROWSER.

 

Note: The user who has clicked on the link not logged in and will work as a guest.

We are really looking forward to our camping trip this year especially now that it is easier to organize our trip!

If you, our file to be used as template for planning your own trip would with friends we have added it post this for you to download.

Learn more about the sharing, of SkyDrive here.

Happy to share!

--Lee Bizek, Excel program manager

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"Camping with K" go: how we quickly organized a 20-people travel in the SkyDrive Web Excel,

This week we continue to new features that we have available published recently in Excel Web for all users on SkyDrive. This post is brought to you by Lee Bizek, Program Manager on the Excel team.

My wife and I go Korrin tents each year with our closest friends. Since she is not a fan of camping without running water or electricity, we provide all amenities of the normal life the hike over at a friend's chalet, where we have the term "Camping with a K."

This variety of camping requires a bit more orchestration, so every year we must organize, who will do it, when people come and go, those who cook the meal is and what "camping necessities" are bringing people to the hut. Not everyone has an Outlook Live or Hotmail e-Mail account so have we had to file, e-Mail information collect, update our master copy and then send a final version before the weekend of camping.

With the announcement of easier collaboration on SkyDrivehave things a WHOLE LOT easier! Now we can link with all our friends, which share a file and you can edit the workbook, even simultaneously log on without using a Microsoft account!

Here is how we'll do it.

We must first upload or create the file on SkyDrive. If the file exists, we can we can access SkyDrive, Web-Excel or even desktop Excel, the sharing dialog box, if you edit the file, of SkyDrive.

By SkyDrive:

Locate the Datei.Aktivieren check box in the upper right corner of the tile file. in the top menu, select sharing.

Note: Herefor more information about the release in SkyDrive.

From the Web-Excel:

There are two ways to get the dialog box 'share'. Here is one way:

Click the tab Start on the share - button. Select share with people.

Here is the second option:

The backstage access from the file menu.Select stock.People, click share with .

In desktop Excel follow these steps:

The backstage access from the file menu.Select stock.

There are a number of options that we can use, share the workbook.

E-Mail: Can send an email directly from the dialog box. To do this, follow these steps:

In the to box , type the e-Mail addresses. Include an optional message. check the recipient can edit.Disable need everyone who report it accesses.

Post on Facebook or other social network: we do not use this option in our example do we link on certain people to send, because this option posts, so that the workbook anonymously edited all of your Facebook friends can be a link to the file on Facebook. Other social networks, like Twitter, are available via the drop down options for theServices Add.

Get a link / display and edit:Can you create a view and edit, which you can copy and paste in any form of communication, such as email, instant messaging or Word document.

By using the option send e-Mail , the e-Mail message is to look our friends:

Anonymous edit links take you to view mode by default. To start editing the document, click Edit WORKBOOK and the Edit in Excel Web app.

Note: The user who has clicked on the link not logged in and will work as a guest.

We are really looking forward to our camping trip this year especially now that it is easier to organize our trip!

If you, our file to be used as template for planning your own trip would with friends we have added it post this for you to download.

Learn more about the sharing, of SkyDrive here.

Happy to share!

--Lee Bizek, Excel program manager

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MommaSaid Office can keep you organized

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(Guest blogger Jen Singer is the creator of MommaSaid.net, a Forbes Best of the Web community for moms, and ParentingWithCancer.com. She's the mother of two middle-school boys and author of several parenting books. Jen's work has appeared in American Baby, Family Circle, Newsweek, The New York Times, Parenting, Parents, Woman's Day and more.

Anderson Cooper has a pile of stuff on his desk that he probably should have taken care of months ago. He told me so, on the set of his daytime show "Anderson," where I appeared today, thanks to my partnership with the Microsoft Office team, in a segment about moms who are entrepreneurs.

 My job was to help Rebecca McCamy, the owner of the Florida-based classic candy store Sassafras Sweet Shoppe, ditch her Post-it Note and plastic bag organizational system, and find a better way to keep her work and home in order.

 I suggested that they both use the three-basket system, placing the pile from their desks into baskets entitled: "Throw Out," (which could include Recycle), "File Pile" and "Do Yesterday," the latter for those things that make you gasp because you forgot about the bill/birthday card/bag of chips.

I also shared some ways I keep my MommaSaid.net empire running from home (and my car, and soccer practice) with the help of Microsoft Office. Here's what I couldn't fit into my three-minute TV appearance with the lovely Rebecca and the wonderful Anderson:

Outlook: I'm never completely at home or completely at work, so I rely on Outlook to keep track of my (often conflicting) calendar events. As a result, Outlook calendar alerts tell me that one of my sons has soccer practice while the other has a piano lesson while I have a magazine interview.  And it reminds me when I have to dash out to pick up a kid (or four).I also use Outlook's Signature feature to highlight media appearances, clips and new projects.

OneNote: I just started playing with OneNote, and I think I might have a little crush on it. It's like the super cool binder with the Velcro close you got at the beginning of a school year:  You just know it's going to get you organized. I've been using it to compile my to-do list with links to research for articles I'm writing and notes from e-mails and more.

SkyDrive: I am often working on a book manuscript or a magazine article while waiting to pick up a child from band practice or track. With SkyDrive, I can pull down documents and photos and work on them on my laptop, and then save them back in SkyDrive to access from my home office computer later. This means I can work from anywhere.

Word: I've written five books in Word. I love it because it works as fast as I write, which given my busy schedule, is quickly and in bits and pieces. My kids use Word for their homework and aren't (too) afraid to have Mom edit their essays! Word also helps me proof and track changes to show my editor what's been edited since she last read it. I can add boxes with comments to explain or ask questions.

PowerPoint: My kids and I both use PowerPoint for presentations. I use it for new business, to sell MommaSaid and my services to clients. My kids use it for history and English presentations.If you’d like to watch the Anderson segment for more tips, click here: http://bit.ly/Jih75m. (I kept the fake eyelashes on until I got home.)

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