More free templates to handle bullying, other social situations faced by children with autism

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In collaboration with Autism Speaks and the University of Washington Autism Center, Microsoft has published a series of PowerPoint templates covering bullying and other social situations faced by the families of the more than one million children with autism in the United States.

Families and therapists supporting children with autism can download these templates for free from the Autism Speaks article on Office.com or by searching for "autism" from the File > New search box in PowerPoint.  After downloading these templates, families and therapists are encouraged to customize the content in these templates to best meet the needs of the individual child.

"We hope that families will find these templates useful for helping their children understand and prepare for some of the everyday activities they may experience as challenging," said Dr. Wendy Stone, PhD, Director of the UW Research in Early Autism Detection and Intervention (READI) Lab.

"Issues such as bullying, toilet training and taking turns are sometimes difficult for individuals with autism to comprehend through traditional teaching methods," said Lisa Goring, Vice President of Family Services at Autism Speaks. "These new templates are a great way to help children on the spectrum learn about more complex topics in a visual and easy to understand format."

Templates recently published include social situations such as bullying, potty training, talking with others, taking turns, going to the store, and play dates. These and PowerPoint templates covering other social situations can be found on the Autism Speaks article on Office.com.

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Free 2013 calendar templates

Happy new year! Our free calendar templates are now available. Whether you are planning your day happy, keep track of special events, or a year's worth of holidays at a glance see (spoiler: July 4th is a Saturday), we have prepared.

Customize home calendar by replacing in your favorite photos, or choose a business calendar for the Office. We also enjoyed the academic year include creating calendars for students and teachers and parents , looking forward to their maturity. Excel wizards built even a school calendar 'Semester at a glance' with tools to support college students their courses organize and track when tasks are due.

Entry with links to popular templates below. In the comments, let us know how you want to use this calendar, or if there are others you want in the template libraryyou will find under.

Brighten your days by adding photos
Photo calendars , you can add one or more photos to the calendar. A beautiful photo calendar must be a tremendous weekend project with our templates. See how one of our colleagues has a fantastic photo calendars for their rowing club in just a few hours.

Keep your Office in order with business calendar
Business calendar formats are specially designed for the Office. You can customize these calendars by clicking the add your own company logo and Web address and choose templates with which to track progress daily.

Make the grade with school calendar
School calendars are with students and educators in mind has designed.

Calendar: These 12 months, student-oriented template has separate tabs for each month with space on each tab tracking per house homework books and timetables. Academic calendar: This 2012-2013 of academic calendar has a cute illustration of an old-fashioned schoolhouse. Use online or print the template you it for display.

Use a familiar Office application
Would you like a template specifically designed for your favorite Office application? Templates are available in several formats to the download.

Now, restart, allow time for the new year's resolutions!

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Juiced. Pickled. Canned. Use Word templates to label your holiday goodies

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(Guest blogger Emily Warn is co-owner of Two Pens, which teaches people to write social media content from both sides of the brain.)

My handwriting is as legible as a doctor's.  Not a problem in the computer age - even at holiday time when I pass out my hand-labeled jars of plum butter. But this year is different. 

My Italian plum trees pumped out fruit like a post-recession factory, producing enough for three different kinds of chutney, and yes, Slivovitz (plum brandy). I didn't want someone slathering garlic-ginger chutney on their English muffin so I decided to create READABLE holiday labels with the help of Word templates.

There are loads of free templates for jam jar labels, and I recommend starting with them. You'll find a list of places to get them at the end of the post, including those on office.com  Later on, if you want to learn how to create your own from scratch in Word, read this tutorial on the Local Kitchen blog.  

(Looking for holiday card templates, there are a lot on office.com.)

For my plum-erific project I chose to use Avery labels by heading to Avery Design Print Online where you can get free templates (of course you have to buy the labels!).

Almost all free template sites ask for your email address, but usually not any additional personal info. After you do that on Avery Design Print Online, you'll need to either enter a product number or choose a type of template, say a mailing label or jar label, and you'll see templates to choose from:

I wanted text to replace my scrawl so I chose the label that had a Mistletoe with a place to add the name of my chutneys. But when I entered the text, it didn't look right-my words kissed (!) the mistletoe.

I clicked Next to get to the editing tools, which made it easy for me to move the text down and change its color.

 

Satisfied my fiddling had created labels that my friends and family wouldn't have to squint to read, I clicked Save in order to download it to my computer. I now had a Word document  of 18 identical labels, which are sized and spaced to match a particular sheet of labels from Avery-which of course I already had. I stacked a bunch of label sheets in my printer, and clicked Print in Word.   

Now the fun part-a jam-jar labeling party listening to holiday music and sipping Slivovitz.

If you're looking for holiday card templates, check out these on office.com.

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Webinar: Templates for the holidays

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Office.com can help with those pesky, last-minute details around the holidays. See how to download and personalize our free templates for calendars, menus, and address labels. Plus, we'll have a few stocking stuffers for the geeks, er, friends on your shopping list.

Can't see this video? It's also viewable at Microsoft Showcase. There is also a 30-second trailer.

What you will learn at Tuesday's webinar:

Templates for the holidays Personalizing a template Mice, keyboards, and software gift suggestions

References for this webinar:

Word templates

Template lists

More on templates

Gift ideas

Join us for a webinar live including a Q&A session: http://aka.ms/offweb

--Doug Thomas

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New Office.com templates for families of children with autism

Less than five years ago, one was diagnosed of 150 children with some form of autism. Now the number has risen one in 88. April of this year, will take part a series of corporate and philanthropic partners Microsoft, where it to light blue campaign, which in a month-long effort to raise awareness for Autism is accession.

The families help, Microsoft released the more than one million children and young people with autism in the United States a series of free Microsoft Office templates based Autism Speaks 100 day Kit for families facing a new diagnosis on the autism.  These templates, see the partner page Autism Speaks on Office.com. Templates include a contact form, request for information on special education letter, phone logs, and several other forms.

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Templates for OneNote. Wait for templates? (Video)

In the past couple of weeks we introduces professional some templates for OneNote have made:

Some of you may questions how (and why) you use templates in OneNote. Just like for PowerPoint and Word, there are built-in templates for OneNote, including several for meetings, lecture notes, and stationery.

Two videos here: the first from the top templates series show from the templates that come with OneNote installed:

The second video is one of our coverage of the MOM 2.0 Summit , and OneNote templates for the occasion:

Use templates in OneNote? Which one?

--Doug Thomas

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