The Office Blog

So what is Office 365 and how can it help your small business? This Office Show answers those questions with a special two-part episode, wherein our heroines Laura and Tina start a business from scratch with Office 365. Like many of you, they're strapped for resources and face some nasty…

There are more than a dozen ways to follow Twitter, but TwInbox (formally known as OutTwit in its beta stages) places some powerful Outlook capabilities in the hands of us Twitters as explained but Office Casuals very own Doug Thomas. 

Backstage at CES 2011 I bumped into some friends from The Office Blog.  Jessica Reading gives us some insight into what we have to look forward to in 2011 and we meet a One Note wiz.  Please excuse my audio on this one.  I had a lav microphone clipped to my shirt and for some reason…

On the road at CES and the buzz on Office 2010 is remarkable for PowerPoint 2010, especially the new video and image tools. You can find all of the Office Casual videos under the Office Casual tag on C9 and also at the Office Casual series blog at http://bit.ly/office_casual

Is your PowerPoint looking a bit ho-hum, boring, or just plain dead-on-arrival? Jazz your slides up --and deliver your information better--with SmartArt. Doug Thomas of Office Casual shows you how-to preview and create better slides in seconds with PowerPoint 2007.

Doug Kim from The Office Blog comes to the Channel 9 studio to explain what Office 365 is and how to join the beta program.  He also shows us a quick demo of Office 365. 

Now you can learn about using Word, Excel, and PowerPoint in a friendly and fun way: Ribbon Hero. Doug Thomas shows you how to play this game--from the folks at Office Labs--that teaches while  you score points and humble your opponents. Here is a link to the Project Page to download…

You know how in Outlook when you get an attachment and you'd like to see it but to see it you'd have to open it so you don't open it? Problem solved with the preview function in Outlook 2010. You can find all of the Office Casual videos under the Office Casual tag on C9 and also at the Office…

In Part 1 of this Office Show, Tina and Laura used Office 365 to get their dog grooming business up and running with email, calendars and shared documents. In Part 2, they step up their game and create their own website, edit a Word doc simultaneously and set up a customer database in Access. Cool…

Ribbon Hero 2 is a new game from the office team.  It's played inside the office applications.  It's a way for the office team to get users to explore the office applications in an entertaining way.  Ribbon Hero 2 has a narrative with Clippy, yes he is back and if you played…