Their top 10 favorite Office posts of the year 2012

The Office blogs is really 14 blogs to a rolled up. The posts on this list were the most popular in all of them. Find out what most people aroused curiosity about the new Office and the like - to which they found the most useful.

If the new Office haven't tried you, the Customer Preview site.

Office next - Office and the cloud
Is multiplied by the number of devices you use every day. Their content and applications wherever you are and on what device you use in a manner that is consistent and familiar to you should be for you. Learn how we have connected Office to the cloud from your favorite devices to this productivity make possible.
 Insert Outlook-blog - email in your Outbox? Try this.
Ever thought that your message is already long not only to discover, is it still in your Outbox? Check out this post for some reasons and solutions.

Blog - with multiple criteria in Excel lookup formulas in Excel
The performance of VLOOKUP! Written by JP Pinto, the great white shark-Award for the best article written in VLOOKUP week, this post answers some frequently asked questions to the use multiple criteria to return a value.

Use the new Office with touch Office next-
Learn more about the new Office-touch experience for Windows 8 developed.

Excel blog - score! Merging data from multiple worksheets
How you merge into a main worksheet data from many worksheets? Now, use a feature called consolidate-- is an intuitive name(!).

Office News - Office 365-University for students of higher education institutions
Office 365 is an attractive option for families, people with multiple devices, and small businesses. The announcement of the Office 365 University expands our subscriptions offer the University and students.

Word tip: blog - how to cut and paste without formatting mess
Find out why the Paste Options button is your friend. It simplifies the common task, cut and paste by you sure your formatting is exactly as you want it.

Outlook blog - 5 tips to use Bcc in Outlook email
Some of the email recipients must keep secret? This article shows how and why use Bcc, required to ensure that the right people receive the message.

Office blogs - Webinar: preview of the new Office
First of all the deals Office with the new Office, as well as information about Customer Previewversions and Office subscriptions.

Transform PowerPoint-blog tips for your Excel data into PowerPoint diagrams
You will find recommendations for the use of data in a presentation and a step-by-step guide to convert data from Excel into PowerPoint diagrams PowerPoint MVP Ellen Finkelstein.

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Act on your mail faster with Outlook 2013

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In my last post, I talked about the visual changes we made to the message list in Outlook 2013. Today I want to follow up with a discussion of the changes we made that make it faster than ever to act on your mail in Outlook.

I mentioned in my previous post that while designing the new message list, we focused on the way most people read their email. Reading is only half the story – acting on messages you receive is equally important. We analyzed data to learn as much as we could about what people do after reading emails in their message list.

Delete is far and away the most common action people take on their mail. In fact, it’s so common it accounts for around three quarters of all actions! The most common way to delete has been with a keyboard, but mouse users head straight for the ribbon. In the new Outlook, we’ve put a delete button right on your message list. As you hover over each message, a single click is all it takes to delete, and you don’t even need to select the message first.

For as long as anyone can remember, the Outlook message list has been graced by flag and categorize buttons. While flagging is still a very mainstream scenario, we found that categories were simply adding clutter for most users. Only a tiny fraction ever clicked the button to categorize their mail. Instead of wasting this space, we removed the categorize quick click button, although you can still categorize mail using the ribbon, right click menu, or using a Quick Step. And don’t worry, categories you apply will still appear in the list.

I touched on the importance of unread status in our visual update post. User feedback has told us that many people rely on the unread status of their mails to make sure they don’t miss important information or action items. By making it a single click to mark mails read or unread, you can ensure that the right things remain highlighted in your inbox. Try it out, and you might just find this has been the one thing your mail has been missing!

You may notice that on a touchscreen device, like those being launched with Windows 8, you won’t see the delete, flag, or unread buttons on the message list. There are major differences in the way people interact with a mouse versus their fingers, and we quickly learned that what works for one doesn’t necessarily work for the other. Check out our previous post for some of the optimizations for Outlook on touch devices.

I also wanted to mention that we focused on the multi-line view for this message list redesign, as that’s what the majority of our users see. If you work with the reading pane off or on the bottom, you might have a somewhat different message list than what I’ve discussed here. We’ve made some improvements there as well, but you might notice some differences from what’s described above.

--Josh Meisels, Outlook Program Manager

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Xbox Music: Free streaming music on Windows 8 and Windows RT PCs and tablets

i was hoping to see a device like this with windows 8 on

www.theverge.com/.../google-new-samsung-chromebook-249-monday

and the spec directx 11

www.theverge.com/.../samsung-exynos-5-dual-specs

the price 249 dollars

why do you not prduce a device like this ,, microsoft

and here the same spec as your surface tablet ,, just to a price at 229 dollars

www.theverge.com/.../acer-iconia-tab-a110-price-date-official

so all your new windows 8 systems are over price ,,

i do not understand you i have work and sell your server solusions for over 10 yaers now

and after bill gates left or rater step into the dark , it is goon down the hill for you , first the phone in 2010

and now the next version of windows and phone

what is wrong,,,, microsoft stop the gread and give people a cheap device ,, put a device in every people hands

only 900 million people has a computer or some form of a internet device

why not incerase this by a factor 3,

it can be done ,, i can see it on android,, they are putting cool hardware spec and nice design looking device at cheap price onto the market

Michael Hansen

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Interacting with Your Website’s Data Using Web Excel Mashups

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AppId is over the quota

This post is brought to you by Harrison Gordon, a Program Manager on the Excel Services team.

What exactly is an Excel Mashup? With Web Excel, you can embed workbooks into your website or blog. This alone is really powerful and lets you show a workbook directly in your website (it also lets you easily sort, filter, and interact with the workbook as if you were in Web Excel). For more info on embedding a workbook, check out our previous blog post here. If you embed the workbook as a mashup, you can add JavaScript to your website to set or grab data and “mash” it up with other services or functionality. There are a ton of things you can do, but here are a few to give you just a taste of what’s possible:

Grab data from Facebook, Twitter, or any other source and add it to a table in an Excel workbook for easy sorting, filtering, and pivoting.Take data from an Excel workbook and visualize it in ways you can’t in Excel.

Use the Excel Button to quickly add sorting, filtering, and charts to HTML table data in your website or blog.

ExcelMashup.com has all of the resources you need to get coding with Web Excel right away. Want to add the Excel Button? Try it out and then create the Excel Button code using our Excel Button generator. Want to see what’s possible with our JavaScript API? Walk through examples, tutorials, and use the JavaScript code explorer to get started writing code.

To show the power of Excel Mashups and how quickly you can build one, here’s a Magic 8 Ball example (let’s call it the “Excel 8 Ball”). I created a workbook in Excel that randomly chooses between the original 8 Ball’s 20 iconic responses:

I could just embed this workbook onto my webpage, but then how would my visitors be able to “shake” the 8 ball? It’s no fun until you get the answer you want, after all.

This is where the magic of Excel Mashups come in – I can add a button to my website called “Shake!” and use that to tell my workbook to recalc – that will change the value on my Excel 8 ball.

Upload the workbook to SkyDrive – you can download this workbook here.

Open the workbook in the Excel Web App. In the Home ribbon, press “Share” -> “Embed”. Your configurator should look like this (note that “Ball” is selected and the Embed code is “JavaScript”):

Copy the Embed Code on the bottom.

This is the tricky part, so I’ll walk you through some tips to make this easier. Let’s take a look at the copied code and break it down:

This is the DIV that we will place the workbook in – you should copy/paste it into the appropriate spot in your website.

This is the JavaScript that is necessary to load the workbook – you should place this after your BODY tag (this way, the rest of your page will load before the workbook does, it will keep your page running quickly).

I created a JavaScript file that makes working with the JavaScript API a bit easier. Add these Script tags between the two Excel script tags. It should look like this: