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Migration Guides

How is it that I have not come across these before? Apparently, around the time of the release of Microsoft Office 2010, a few of Microsoft's bloggers created migration guides for Access, Excel, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint and Word. For some reason, I'm just now finding these fantastic guides. So, here are the Microsoft Office 2010 Migration Guides. ENJOY!

Office for Mac 2011 at CES 2011

I've begun to play around with the new Office for Mac 2011 and written in the past that it's much closer to the PC version. But here is a great video that will help you get to know the new UI (user interface).

Microsoft Office: Open documents that Office wants to block

Old stuff ain’t safe. At least according to Microsoft. Therefore, when you try to open files in the 97-2003 file format (or earlier), Office 2010 will block editing (and macros) of these files until you decide they are safe. The problem arises when you upgrade, all your files are in the previous format and blocked from editing. You can easily click the Enable Editing button that appears in the yellow bar under the ribbon, but if you want to be proactive, you can change this setting.

In Word or Excel, go to the File tab, click Options, click Trust Center on the left, and then click the Trust Center Settings.. button. On the left, select File Block Settings, and remove the checkmarks from the older Office files that you want Office 2010 to open. There are additional settings for how to open at the bottom of the dialog box.

Microsoft Office mac2011

Finally here! And finally closer related to the Windows version. I can now offer training on either or without much of a fuss. Still not as seamless between the platforms as the Adobe products, but this new version is a huge step in the right direction.

If you're wondering, UNL's Microsoft license allows for UNL office to upgrade the Mac as well as the Windows versions for free. If your department is still using Mac Office 2008, it is worth your time to upgrade.

Microsoft Office: Mac 2011 RTM's

Microsoft's Mac Business Unit has released to manufacturing the new Mac Office 2011 suite of applications. If you want a sneak peek, check out this video.



If you just want a good laugh at what could have been, watch this one.

FREE TRAINING!!!

Are you taking advantage of all the free training provided by Microsoft.com? The best lesson I ever learned was to look for the answer myself before asking for help. Seems that the answer is usually already there. According the the Crabby Office Lady, it's a lesson others need to learn, too. Read about Crabby's underused feature of the week: Office Training.

Office 2010

Want to know more? Read the story online from PC Mag.

Office 2010 reaches RTM

Last week, Microsoft reached the release-to-manufacturing (RTM) milestone for Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Visio 2010 and Project 2010. What does that mean?

• April 27th—Volume License customers with active Software Assurance (SA) will be able to download the products via the Volume Licensing Service Center. 
• May 1st—Customers without SA will be able to purchase the new products through Volume Licensing from Microsoft partners.
• May 12th—Microsoft will officially launch Office 2010 to business customers with Stephen Elop, President of Microsoft’s Business Division, delivering a keynote as part of a virtual launch at http://www.the2010event.com.
• June—Office 2010 will become available in U.S. retail stores, but you can pre-order retail versions of Office 2010 at http://store.microsoft.com/OfficePreorder.

History of Microsoft Office

How did it all begin?

Introduction and History of Microsoft Office

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Got a question? Microsoft has an answer.

Microsoft Answers is a community-based support site where you can ask and answer questions, or just browse other's answers.

Still have questions?

• If you belong to LinkedIn, there are a number of groups related to Microsoft Office products you can join. Create a new discussion to ask a question and you'll have multiple people respond with the answer.
• If you are on Facebook, become a fan of their pages. Do a search for Microsoft and you'll get several page listings for Office, Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word and more. They provide great tips that feed directly into your news feed.

FREE WEBINAR: Introducing Microsoft Office 2010 for Students and Educators

Sign up at http://educationwebcasts.com/Webcast.aspx?i=5041

Live Nov 24 11:30AM-12:30PM Central Time

Microsoft® Office 2010 will deliver innovative learning experiences by providing rich and powerful new ways to express and share ideas. Join this webcast to discover how Office 2010 will enable students and educators to bring ideas to life with advanced video and picture editing, broadcast capability in Microsoft PowerPoint 2010, easy document preparation through the new Microsoft Office Backstage view, and visualize data in new ways with Microsoft Excel 2010. They can collaborate better and take shared notes with co-authoring in Microsoft Word 2010, Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 and Microsoft OneNote 2010. Work from anywhere with Office Web applications, lightweight browser based companions to Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote that provide access to documents from virtually anywhere and preserve the look and feel of a document regardless of device.

Speakers:

• David Norris—Education Solutions Specialist

Office 2010 Betas available!

Worried about what the next upgrade might bring? Check out it out for yourself with a trial download of the Office 2010 betas. Go ahead and try it. It's not as bad as you might think.

Backstage with Office 2010

Terry Crowley, Technical Fellow in Office, describes some of the thoughts and principles that went into the development of the Office Web Applications.

Office2010 Technical Preview

It's been fun so far and very easy to adjust to MS Office 2010. The ribbons and tools are the same as 2007, but the Office Button has undergone a major make over. At first I wasn't too sure I liked it, but it is very intuitive and I haven't needed to go to help to find anything yet. If you are still on Office 2003, you really should make the move to 2007 first to easy your way into 2010. You'll be much happier you did.

Tips for everyone!

I love shortcuts. I love tips that make my life easier. I love to share. Here are some great tips from Microsoft's Crabby Office Lady. She share her favorites in all Microsoft applications.

R.I.P. Office 2000

Support for Microsoft Office 2000 finally ended yesterday. For many, this doesn't mean much because most people have upgraded to Office 2003 or 2007.

If you haven't yet made the jump to 2007 and you're waiting for the new Office 2010, you can get a peek of what to expect with the launch of the Microsoft Office 2010 Technical Preview. You'll find tons of video of your favorite application.

My suggestion is you don't jump straight from Office 2003 to 2010 as you'll find the learning curve much greater than if you move to Office 2007 first. Office 2010 has a lot of familiar features of 2007, but enhanced. I'm personally impressed with the new slide transitions in PowerPoint as well as the photo and video editing inside the program. If you are currently using Office 2007, you'll find the transition to Office 2010 much easier.

I could go into detail about some of the exciting things coming, but you really should just watch the videos for yourself. You just have to see it to get the full effect.

More info about Office 2010

You can begin to view the new information about Office 2010 at this web site. http://www.microsoft.com/office/2010. Here's a brief introduction....


See What's New in Microsoft Office 2010

For a quick run-down of some of the changes to come, check out The Complete Guide To Microsoft’s Office 2010 by TechCrunch.

Another Trailer from Office 2010 The Movie

Yeah, I'm getting stoked about it!

Office 2007: Minimize the Ribbon

The Ribbon helps you access more of the commands you need, when you need them. But if you want to see the Ribbon only when you need it, you can minimize it so that only the tab names appear all the time. To minimize the Ribbon in any Microsoft Office program, double-click any tab name, or press CTRL+F1. You can also right-click any tab name for the option to minimize the Ribbon.