Webinar: A beginner's Guide to SharePoint online

Lets use it, small and large businesses to improve performance of SharePoint online Office 365 for enterprises. In this week webinar you will learn some of the basics, and we answer your questions.

The video will be available here in a few days.

What do you learn in Tuesday's webinar

Registration for the first time what is it? A look around where can I grab my stuff? Web sites: For your business and your customers

References for this webinar

Go to http://aka.ms/offweb for more information, how to join the series.

--Doug Thomas

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Zoom, to edit, to move: the Office 2013 touch guide shows how you be productive on a touch device

Do you have a tablet or touch screen with Windows 8? Search for postal code on the screen, using your favorite Office application, how to do in advertising? If so, check out the new animated Office 2013 Touch Guide and learn how easy it is to be productive on a touch device.

The grade guide begins with the illustrate understanding of editing as zooming, scrolling, keyboard show, then covers how shapes, objects, and text.

The guide is animated (moving the hand in the picture), so that it is easy to imitate the gesture.

Next for Excel and PowerPoint fans the instructions tips to cover specific applications.

Spend a few minutes with the Manual for the Office-touch , and be well on your way to the use of Office products on your touch device.

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Office Preview – Getting Started Guide

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Editor’s note: Last week was quite busy. We had great feedback from the preview announcement. If you weren’t among those who took the earliest opportunity to get the software, or even if you did and just wanted to learn more about the preview program, we’ve invited Beth Petry, Senior Program Manager for Office Customer Programs to explain the various opportunities for participation. The preview release covers a lot of ground.  Large enterprises, small or mid-size business and people at home have experiences offered for their specific needs. This post is less about the products, and more about the roadmap for participating.

I’m Beth Petry, I lead Customer Programs for the Office division. Throughout the cycle I’ve had the chance to work with many people evaluating Office. It is an exciting time for us to share it with the world. We’re very excited to have your feedback. Office Preview is off and running!

Many thanks to those of you who have downloaded the preview release. We’re getting a lot of great feedback. Please keep it coming! If you haven’t had a chance to get it yet, you can find the preview release of Office on http://office.com/preview.

When you reach the site you are presented with many choices. How do you know what is right for you? We’ve pulled together this quick start guide to help you understand the navigation of the site and the opportunities and choices available to you.

First things first, you’ll need a LiveID to sign in. If you don’t have a LiveID, you can get one here.  Once you have your LiveID you are ready to begin.

If you go to the site and click the green button, you’ll be directed to the Office 365 Home Premium Preview. This is what we recommend for general use, student or basic home use. Clicking the “Sign Up” button will take you where you need to go to begin.

Office Home Premium Preview allows you up to 5 PCs or tablets in your household, access to all your documents on Internet connected PCs and the applications you are familiar with. You’ll log onto the service with your LiveID and save your files to SkyDrive.

Below the home user preview pane, you may have noticed the “Services for Business” area. In this section you are presented with three choices; Office 365 ProPlus, Office 365 Small Business Premium, and Office 365 Enterprise. Let’s take a closer look at each one.

Office 365 ProPlus Preview is an Office client suite that provides you with Office as well as Lync. For enterprises seeking to evaluate the new version of ProPlus, we have made testing a bit easier. For the first time ever, when installing our Click 2 Run offerings, we’ll support side by side installation of Office Preview with prior Office versions. Click 2 Run also offers improved updating efficiency, and as we have covered on the blog before, connects naturally to the Office 365 environment. Office 365 ProPlus Preview lets you create up to 25 user accounts, with 5 installations of Office 365 ProPlus per user. It includes Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, OneNote, Access, Publisher, InfoPath, and Lync. Learn more about Office 365 ProPlus. 

You can visit this page to learn more about the Office 365 ProPlus Preview

Office 365 Small Business Premium Preview is the next generation of Office 365. This service will transform the way manage your business, professionally while gaining efficiency – without the need for technical expertise. Office 365 Small Business Premium Preview is ideal for businesses with up to 10 employees. Each user can install Office, getting the same applications that are included in Office 365 ProPlus, on up to 5 PCs, and enjoy professional email, shared documents, and HD video conferencing in an easy-to-manage solution that is hosted by Microsoft. Learn more about Office 365 Small Business Premium.

Office 365 Enterprise Preview offers you efficiency and control. Create professional content, connect with customers and partners in a secure manner, powerful tools for more effective management, control and compliance with enterprise-grade security, data loss prevention, and rights management. Office 365 Enterprise Preview gives you the benefits of Office 365 ProPlus combined with Exchange Online, including archiving and legal hold to fully manage your company’s email in the cloud. It also includes SharePoint Online to manage and share documents, and Lync Online to allow you to conduct meetings and collaborate across remote teams and team members. Learn more about Office 365 Enterprise.

In addition to the Office Home Premium Preview, Office 365 ProPlus Preview, the Office 365 and Enterprise Small Business Preview, previews of individual products are available as well.

SharePoint – The newest SharePoint is designed to help everyone in your organization share content and ideas, organize teams and projects, and discover connections to get work done. Learn more. For IT Pros, try the SharePoint Server 2013 Preview

Exchange – The newest Exchange enables you to increase user productivity and keep your organization safe, while maintaining the control you need. Learn more. For IT Pros, try Exchange Server 2013 Preview

Lync – The newest Lync is an enterprise-ready, unified communications platform that connects people everywhere on Windows 8 and other devices. Learn more. For IT Pros, try the Lync Server 2013 Preview

Office Web Apps Server – With Office Web Apps Server, your users get browser-based productivity from nearly any device on your terms and within your own private network. For It Pros, try the Web Apps Server Preview

Project – The new Project offers flexible service or on-premises solutions for project portfolio management (PPM) and everyday work. Try it in these three versions: Project Online Preview, Project Server 2013 Preview, Project Professional 2013 Preview. Learn more. For IT Pros, try Project Server 2013 Preview, Try the Project Professional 2013 Preview

Visio – The new Visio lets you easily create professional, versatile diagrams that help you organize and make sense of complex information. Learn more. Try the Visio Professional 2013 Preview. Try the Visio Pro for Office 365 Preview

Office Professional Plus 2013 – For IT pros, you can also try the Office Professional Plus 2013 MSI-based installation, which includes Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, OneNote, Access, Publisher, and Lync. Note that this is not the Click-to-Run installation used by Office 365 ProPlus and does not support fast streaming installation or side-by-side operation with older versions of Office. In addition, you must uninstall the existing version of Office on your PC to try Office Professional Plus 2013. For IT pros, try the MSI-based Office Professional Plus

By now you are probably saying what about Developers? What If I’m an IT Pro? Where can we go? The starting point for IT Pro and Developer is located at the bottom of the preview page.

Resources for developers will take you to MSDN. Access to code samples, the new cloud app model and much more will get you up and creating your own apps in no time.

Resources for IT pros will take you to TechNet also known as the TechCenter. The information you need to deploy the on-premises versions, learn about Office 365 cloud service and Office hosted services is available here in an easy to understand structure.

If you have questions or need to reach out to a community of experts, we have that available too. These forums are active and filled with Microsoft employees, MVP’s and knowledgeable users.

Office 365 has its own set of forums: http://community.office365.com/en-us/forums/default.aspx
Microsoft Answers Forums (for IWs): http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us

MSDN:

· Apps Category: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/category/apps
· Developing Apps for Office forum: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/appsforoffice
· Developing Apps for SharePoint forum: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/appsforsharepoint
· Office Dev Category: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/category/officedev
· Office 2013 Preview for Developers forum: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/officedevpreview
· Developing Apps for Office forum: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/appsforoffice
· SharePoint Category: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/category/sharepoint
· SharePoint 2013 Preview for Developers forum: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/sharepointdevpreview
· Developing Apps for SharePoint forum: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/appsforsharepoint

TechNet:

· Office IT Pro Category: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/category/officeitpro
· Office 2013 and Office 365 ProPlus Preview forum: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/officeitpropreview
· SharePoint Category: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/category/sharepoint
· SharePoint 2013 Preview for IT Professionals forum: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/sharepointitpropreview
· Exchange Category: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/exchangeserver
· Exchange Server 2013 Preview forum: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchangeserverpreview
· Project Category as it appears on TechNet: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/category/project
· Project Online forum as it appears on TechNet: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/projectonline

Beth Petry,
Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Office

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OneNote on SharePoint: a guide for site administrators

Hosting your company OneNote notebooks in a SharePoint document library offers the advantages of arranging them in one place, and the flexibility to decide who can access them, by setting permissions.

The task to create a library and usually falls on the shoulders of the SharePoint Site administratorconfiguring permissions. We run you through the steps required to perform the following tasks:

Create a new OneNote document LibraryManage permissions LibraryManage permissions for individual notebooks in the library

Your organization has many OneNote notebooks on many different topics: budget, inventory, product planning. They are scattered around the company and people have a hard time tracking them. You need to store a central place and to decide a OneNote document library to do the trick.

1. On your site click on Site Actions drop - down-list, and select the new document library .

Type a name and description for the document library in the dialog create . In the templatedrop-down list, selectMicrosoft OneNote 2010, and then click create .

After SharePoint creates library, it opens automatically so that you can then set permissions.

Some information in your notebooks is sensitive, so that not every access should have. You can restrict the access to people who give different permission levels; For example, you type select few the ability to update it.

Note:Learn more about the SharePoint permission levels here.

1. Select the library tab under Library Tools, and then click the button library permissions .

2. Click the button stop inheriting permissions . This ensures that permissions for the entire site are not applied on the library.

3. A dialog box lets you know that to create permissions to the library . Then click OK to accept.

4. To access to specific people in your organization grant, click grant permissions .

(5) In the dialog box, type grant permissions on the names of the people want to grant access. In this case, you give them design permissions that they update and new notebooks create, can but does not grant permissions to others.

These people can create new OneNote notebooks in SharePoint or publish notebooks in the library.

You can make changes to existing notebooks in the library of select either Edit in the browser or Edit in Microsoft OneNote.

Note: To create a new notebook in SharePoint, users need the OneNote desktop application installed on their computer.

Perhaps even further limit permissions to limit the number of people that can change a specific notebook. Permissions on a single notebook you can much the same way manage like you for the entire document library.

1 The drop-down list next to the notebook point to access on the notebook, want to restrict, and then click Manage permissions.

2. Follow the same steps to setting permissions for library, i.e. stop inheritance of permissions and grant permissions to specific individuals.

More info

Close teamwork: OneNote on SharePoint
SharePoint permission levels

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Guy Kawasaki's guide to creating a financial forecast in Excel

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You've finished your business plan and polished the pitch for investors. As an entrepreneur you know what comes next:  number-crunching. To clinch funding, you need a financial projection that shows investors the path to profitability.The Office Web Apps team worked with @Guy Kawasaki to provide a no-nonsense guide to presenting the kind of financial forecasts and plans in Excel that impress any VC or investor. Read it on Guy's blog or get it direct from his SkyDrive for free. (Already an Excel geek? You'll want to download it and take a look at what's under the hood.)

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Guy Kawasaki's Guide to Writing a Business Plan

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Just at the beginning of starting a business?  Or mulling over an idea for one? Knowing how to structure and write a business plan is essential to stable your tantalizing idea against the marketplace.  Author, influencer, and venture capitalist, @ Guy Kawasaki, partnered with Office Web apps team to show you how to write effective one in Microsoft Word: get tips straight from an expert, and download his free guide from SkyDrive. And, one other thing: using the Word Web app makes it easy to share and collaborate on with your colleagues.

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Basic Guide to learning Photoshop tutorials

So you now have Photoshop, but you have never taken any lessons or instructions to, how you use it.

Don't worry, there are plenty of online help. Read the Photoshop tutorials on the Internet for a fee, you can the demo version of paid tutorials free of charge (generally the first chapters), you can buy the CD for just $100 or can a PDF Photoshop tutorials.

Let's take a look the first and the most basic of Photoshop tutorials.

The first of this package of Photoshop tutorial CDs, the interface is called. Here you can get on a very basic introduction to Adobe Photoshop and online help for the use of access.

Found learning the first basic steps for using the interface and the various options on the file menu. You will learn, such as the range in the Photoshop file browser use, and how you use the best image window and the zoom and hand tools.

Palette shortcuts and the range Navigator are lessons in the Photoshop tutorials, as well as a proof of the use of presets and include recipes.

The next part of this beginner Photoshop tutorials teaches the application tools. This is where you learn the tool palette, Lasso and selection tools, and the magnetic Lasso.

The tutorial will teach you the use of the magic wand tool, and the harvest and type tools, as well as the based vector shapes. The Photoshop airbrush paint and tools fro gradient and penciling are also taught all in this CD.

Also an eraser, a Magic Eraser, a brush with which you paint like the Impressionist artist, and a clone tool has Photoshop. You will learn the techniques for the use of the individual. You will also be taught how to sharpen, sponge, smearing and blue, and how to Dodge and burn.

Basic tutorials would not be complete without lessons on image management in which the artist learns the image and the canvas, size Photoshop such as turning and to work with the different modes of the image and change it.

Contrast and brightness are learned as the use of fill flash and backlighting. You are also variations and color replace in this CD master.

Next is on the Photoshop tutorials layers - the basic and the operations on the layer, the concepts and techniques of the central locking, slides, the creation of layers and the selection of the films. You learn you more about clipping groups, about the different styles of levels and transformations for bounding boxes.

Blending modes, will be taught and the in and outs of filling and adjustment layers and the techniques of the downturn, merge, and rename the Photoshop layers.

Other basic Photoshop tutorial techniques you will learn include filter applications such as browser and blue, mask and Liquify Filter. Learn selecting Photomerge, image selection tools, options on the menu, the feature automate, save files, and for the Web and Web animation.

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