Entries from 2017-01-01 to 1 year

PowerPoint 2016: Using Find & Replace

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Introduction www.office.com/setup Blogs: When you're working with longer presentations, it can be difficult and time consuming to locate a specific word or phrase. PowerPoint can automatically search your presen…

PowerPoint 2016: Managing Slides

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Introduction www.office.com/setup Blogs: As you add more slides to a presentation, it can be difficult to keep everything organized. Fortunately, PowerPoint offers tools to help you organize and prepare your sli…

PowerPoint 2016: Slide Basics

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Introduction www.office.com/setup Blogs: Every PowerPoint presentation is composed of a series of slides. To begin creating a slide show, you'll need to know the basics of working with slides. You'll need to fee…

PowerPoint 2016: Text Basics

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Introduction www.office.com/setup Blogs: If you're new to PowerPoint, you'll need to learn the basics of working with text. In this lesson, you'll learn how to cut, copy, paste, and format text. Optional: Downlo…

PowerPoint 2016: Applying Themes

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Introduction www.office.com/setup Blogs: A theme is a predefined combination of colors, fonts, and effects. Different themes also use different slide layouts. You've already been using a theme, even if you didn'…

Outlook 2016 for Mac adds Touch Bar support and now comes with your favorite apps

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Last week, Outlook for Mac released two highly requested features designed to help you get more done, quickly. First, we added support for the Touch Bar for MacBook Pro users. Through the Touch Bar, we intellige…

New reasons to make Microsoft Bookings the go-to scheduling software for your business

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Last year, we released Microsoft Bookings to customers in the U.S. and Canada, introducing an easy way for small businesses to schedule and manage appointments with their customers. Today, we are pleased to anno…

20 time-saving tips for Office 2016 for Mac

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Productivity? Sweet www.office.com/setup Blogs: Office 2016 for Mac was a long time coming, but it brings plenty of new features and better feature parity with the Windows version than ever. Microsoft has done …

Our Most Popular Office 365 Tips & Tricks from 2016

www.office.com/setup Blogs: From using OneNote for project management to discovering hidden features in Word, there are tons of ways you can get more out of Office 365. Here’s a look back at this year’s most popular tips. @Mentions in Outl…

PowerPoint Tips: Simple Rules for Better PowerPoint Presentations

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Simple rules for better PowerPoint presentations www.office.com/setup Blogs: Have you ever given a PowerPoint presentation and noticed that something about it just seemed a little … off? If you’re unfamiliar wit…

Excel 2016: Creating and Opening Workbooks

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Introduction www.office.com/setup Blogs: Excel files are called workbooks. Whenever you start a new project in Excel, you'll need to create a new workbook. There are several ways to start working with a workbook…

Excel 2016: Getting Started with Excel

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Introduction www.office.com/setup Blogs: Excel is a spreadsheet program that allows you to store, organize, and analyzeinformation. While you may believe Excel is only used by certain people to process complicat…

Access 2016: Introduction to Objects

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Introduction www.office.com/setup Blogs: Databases in Access are composed of four objects: tables, queries, forms, and reports. Together, these objects allow you to enter, store, analyze, and compile data howeve…

Access 2016: Introduction to Databases

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Introduction www.office.com/setup Blogs: Microsoft Access is a database creation and management program. To understand Access, you must first understand databases. In this lesson, you will learn about databases …

PowerPoint 2016: Creating and Opening Presentations

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Introduction www.office.com/setup Blogs: PowerPoint files are called presentations. Whenever you start a new project in PowerPoint, you'll need to create a new presentation, which can either be blank or from a t…

PowerPoint 2016: Saving Presentations

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Introduction www.office.com/setup Blogs: Whenever you create a new presentation in PowerPoint, you'll need to know how to save in order to access and edit it later. As with previous versions of PowerPoint, you c…

7 things Microsoft OneNote does that Evernote can't

www.office.com/setup Blogs: We're moving deeper into the modern "walled garden" of digital life. Generally speaking, you choose the garden you like best — be it Apple, Google or Microsoft — and the more time and money you invest, the more …

Note-Taking Showdown: Evernote vs. OneNote (2016 Edition)

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Evernote and OneNote are two of our favorite tools, but both have changed substantially since we last compared these two apps—in some ways, not for the best. Here’s where these two stand today. Lifehacker Faceof…

The Best Tool for Office 2016 Password Recovery

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Forgetting a password to your office folder can be annoying. Halting the work because of the password loss may cause immediate monetary loss. Then how to control over your own documents even if there are protect…

Office 2016’s Smart Lookup is the next-best thing to a personal research assistant

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Use this helpful feature to quickly verify facts and find additional information as you work. www.office.com/setup Blogs: Among all of Office 2016's useful new features, there’s one in particular you’ll definite…

Fix Microsoft Office Something Went Wrong Errors in Windows 10

www.office.com/setup Blogs: MS Office 2013 was the Microsoft Office version released in 2012 and was more popular than the Office 2010 version. Later Microsoft released Office 365 and the latest Microsoft Office 2016 for the Windows users.…

Microsoft Office 2016 review: It's all about collaboration

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Go team! That's what Office 2016 is built to encourage, with new collaborative tools and other ways to tie workers and content together. www.office.com/setup Blogs: Office 2016 is a major upgrade, but not in the…

Learn how to Fix Office 2016 error 1706 : Microsoft Office Suite

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Operating Systems: www.office.com/setup Blogs: This error can occur with the following versions of Microsoft Windows Operating System: Windows 8/8.1 Windows 7 Windows 10 Windows Vista Windows Server Edition (200…

SharePoint welcomes PowerApps and Microsoft Flow

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Today marks general availability of Microsoft Flow and PowerApps, which enable people to automate workflows and quickly build custom apps that suit their specific needs. Earlier this year, we announced integrati…

October Office 365 security and compliance update

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Over the last month, the Office 365 team has continued to introduce new security features and capabilities. Here is a roundup of some key security and compliance news from the last month: Applying intelligence t…

How to edit Microsoft Office documents stored on Google Drive

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Andy Wolber shows you how to edit Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents stored on Google Drive from your desktop or mobile device. Many organizations that rely on Google Apps also use Microsoft Office applicatio…

How to Work with Microsoft Office Files in Google Drive

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Microsoft Office files are still very common, but if you’re more of a Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides user, you can still edit Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files in Google Drive–if you know how. On the desktop, y…

Patch Installation - "Office Update Error"

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Problem www.office.com/setup Blogs: You are trying to install MS Office patches but you get an error message - "Office Update Error". Cause When the office compatibility pack version is incompatible. Due to erro…

Introducing the Google Drive plug-in for Microsoft Office

www.office.com/setup Blogs: With Google Drive, you can keep all your important files in one place, then open them with your choice of apps and devices. Building on this open approach, we recently made it possible to launch your favorite de…

Microsoft Office: which version should I buy?

www.office.com/setup Blogs: ML Gomes is getting a new PC running Windows 8, and wants to know which version of Microsoft Office is best for her needs Which version of Microsoft Office is best with Windows 8? Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Get…