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PowerPoint 2016: Action Buttons

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Introduction www.office.com/setup Blogs: Another tool you can use to connect to a webpage, file, email address, or slide is called an action button. Action buttons are built-in shapes you can add to a presentati…

How to Use Microsoft Forms in Office 365 Education

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Have you seen the new Microsoft Forms? One of the most popular articles on my blog in the last 12 months was related to its predecessor – Excel Surveys. Not only did that post get a lot of views, but it also got…

Microsoft Forms—a new formative assessment and survey tool in Office 365 Education

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Today, we are pleased to announce the availability of Microsoft Forms for our Office 365 Education customers. Forms is the result of direct feedback from educators that they want to have a quizzing function with…

Office 2016 for Windows Review

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Today marks the general availability of Office 2016 for Windows, a suite of desktop applications that together with new mobile and web apps pushes Microsoft’s new vision for PC-based productivity. Office 2016 is…

Microsoft Sway allows anyone to tell stories beautifully

www.office.com/setup Blogs: POWERPOINT might be included in Office 2016, but everyone knows it’s so passé. www.office.com/setup Blogs: These days it’s all about Sway — the first of many native apps to be rolled out to Microsoft Office 365 …

Office 2016 First Impressions: The Good, Bad and Ugly

www.office.com/setup Blogs: While we are lucky enough to work with extremely innovative clients that are eager to embrace the latest technology, we always advise them not to adopt the latest version of software until after the kinks are wo…

3 things you need to know about Microsoft Office 2016

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Microsoft Office www.office.com/setup Blogs: Windows 10 has grabbed the attention of social media and customers alike more so because it is a crucial operating system for Microsoft after the debacle of Windows 8…

Office 365 vs Office 2016: which should you buy?

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Which version of Microsoft Office is best for me? www.office.com/setup Blogs: Office 365 and Office 2016 share a lot of similarities, yet deciding between the two involves a lot of factors. Office 365 is a subsc…

Power BI Custom Visuals - Calendar Visualization

www.office.com/setup Blogs: www.office.com/setup Blogs: In this module, you will learn how to use the Calendar Visualization Power BI Custom Visual. The Calendar Visualization is a very unique visual that allows you to show the distributio…

Excel 2016: Formatting Cells

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Introduction www.office.com/setup Blogs: All cell content uses the same formatting by default, which can make it difficult to read a workbook with a lot of information. Basic formatting can customize the look an…

Excel 2016: Modifying Columns, Rows, and Cells

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Introduction www.office.com/setup Blogs: By default, every row and column of a new workbook is set to the same height and width. Excel allows you to modify column width and row height in different ways, includin…

Excel 2016: Cell Basics

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Introduction www.office.com/setup Blogs: Whenever you work with Excel, you'll enter information—or content—into cells. Cells are the basic building blocks of a worksheet. You'll need to learn the basics of cells…

Access 2016: Working with Forms

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Introduction www.office.com/setup Blogs: While you can always enter data directly into database tables, you might find it easier to use forms. Forms ensure you're entering the right data in the right location an…

Access 2016: Working with Tables

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Introduction www.office.com/setup Blogs: While there are four types of database objects in Access, tables are arguably the most important. Even when you're using forms, queries, and reports, you're still working…

PowerPoint 2016: Presenting Your Slide Show

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Introduction www.office.com/setup Blogs: Once your slide show is complete, you'll need to learn how to present it to an audience. PowerPoint offers several tools and features to help make your presentation smoot…

PowerPoint 2016: Printing

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Introduction www.office.com/setup Blogs: Even though PowerPoint presentations are designed to be viewed on a computer, there may be times when you want to print them. You can even print custom versions of a pres…

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: 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…