Microsoft Office

Ribbon Hero, the Office add-in that makes learning to use Microsoft Office software a game complete with points, achievements and even Facebook integration, is now supporting OneNote. Users of either OneNote 2007 or OneNote 2010 can play Ribbon Hero to learn how to use OneNote by competing in the…

There’s a new Microsoft Office add-in that lets you search for and download online images into Microsoft Word and Microsoft PowerPoint (either 2007 or 2010 versions). The images come from Veer, a site that offers an online collection of professional photography and illustrations for purchase. The…

Have you ever wanted to do more with what you already have? Want to take advantage of and extend the possibilities of what you already own? Join us as we talk with John Durant, Senior Product Manager, to explore how the release of Microsoft Office 2010 makes it simpler and faster to take…

At Facebook’s f8 developer conference, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced a new partnership between Microsoft and Facebook. Together, the two companies are launching www.docs.com, a site for sharing Microsoft Office files (Word, PowerPoint and Excel) directly with other Facebook users. …

Ribbon Hero, the Office add-in that makes learning to use Microsoft Office software a game, has just been updated to a new version. In the latest build, you have the opportunity to score more Quick Points by using the features found in Word, Excel and PowerPoint. You can also score points by…

The Microsoft Office Labs team has just launched a new experimental tool that brings Twitter-like microblogging to the workplace. Called OfficeTalk, this concept test application lets employees post their thoughts, activities and other info which is shared with anyone and everyone in their company.…

The Seattle Opera needs organizational help and our Office Intervention Team is there to help with SharePoint in hand. This is Part One which helps set up the story and talks about the issues the Seattle Opera experiences and Part Two will tackle the problem. What's great about the Office…

There’s a new tool called Workshare Compare for PowerPoint, which will appeal to power users of PowerPoint who create large, complex, and complicated presentations using the Microsoft Office slideshow software. The purpose of the software is to track and manage edits made in slides from…

The unfortunately side effect of knowing what you're doing in Office is that you probably have a lot of people ask you how to do things themselves. It doesn't scale to show mom how to so something only to have to turn around and show a co-worker the same thing. Office Labs has created a little app…

A new post on the Office Web Apps blog discusses some of the major tenets that have been driving the design and engineering of this new service launching alongside the upcoming Office 2010 software. The post describes how the team focused on trustworthiness, the familiar Office user experience, and…