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Beth Melton, Microsoft Office MVP and co-author of Microsoft Office Word 2007 Inside Out has just started a new blog, focused on Microsoft Office tips and Q&A. On her blog, Beth will be addressing common (and some not-so-common) problems that Microsoft Office users face. The blog also includes additional...

Microsoft Press author, and Microsoft Office MVP, Stephanie Krieger , has a series of live webcasts – the first started this week. The training is free and self-paced, offered by Microsoft Office Online. Here are the links to the Open XML series: Open XML I: Exploring the Open XML File Formats Open XML...

A reviewer recently pointed to an update to a post from last week: Getting a Quick Start with Windows Live Calendar (post from Thursday, July 30). Simply replace these steps below in Six simple ways to get the most out of Windows Live Calendar. 2. GROUP CALENDARS When you create a Group on Windows Live...

Windows Live Calendar can be a great place to start organizing your home life. If you haven’t checked out the Windows Live Calendar, is worth taking a closer look. The following is an excerpt from 2007 Microsoft Office System and Your Windows-Based PC: A Real-Life Guide to Getting More Done . Live Calendar...

Many people find themselves having to present data – whether via presentation or a report, visually. This means tables and often charts. Reinhold Scheck’s book, Create Dynamic Charts in Microsoft Office Excel 2007 and Beyond , focuses specifically on working with data and charts in Microsoft...

Yesterday we presented Office 2010, the Technical Preview version, at the Worldwide Partner Conference. You will likely have seen or heard bits and pieces on that by now. I just spent an hour reading up on Office 2010 and watched some videos. Exciting stuff, it is going to be so easy to create documents...

This colorful, magazine-sized guide will help you explore the practical, fun, and creative things you can do right now with Microsoft Office with expert guidance from the team at Windows Vista: The Official Magazine. This guide comes packed with smart-and-simple tips and vibrantly illustrated how-to’s...

In a previous post ( http://blogs.msdn.com/microsoft_press/archive/2009/04/01/advanced-2007-office-system-user-a-contest-for-you.aspx ), I mentioned a series of articles available for Advanced Office System Users. Author of Advanced Microsoft Office Documents 2007 Edition Inside Out , and Microsoft Office...

America s Adopt a Soldier is giving laptop computers to 22 soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. The laptops are pre-loaded with Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007. These soldiers have used computers before to some extent, but have limited experience with the current versions of software...

We’re happy to announce that 2007 Microsoft Office System and Your Windows-Based PC: A Real-Life Guide to Getting More Done by Future Publishing, shipped to the printer today. Written by the editors and product testers at Windows Vista: The Official Magazine , this 8x10 book is a great visual guide to...

We’ve got a great series of titles specifically focused on using Microsoft Office Project. One of the newest titles to the list is In the Trenches with Microsoft Office Project 2007 , by Elaine J. Marmel . This book is for everyone who has been in the trenches and needed to make tradeoffs and decisions...

Whether you need to organize your photos, summarize your data or create exciting presentations, Microsoft Press offers tools to help you succeed at work and at home. This free offer will deliver some of the best tips and tricks for Office and Windows directly to your inbox. Sign up today to receive free...

Cliff Atkinson , author of the Beyond Bullet Points: Using Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 to Create Presentations That Inform, Motivate, and Inspire , is holding a series of weekly e-lessons to help you polish up your presentation skills. Beyond Bullet Points (BBP) is a research-based method of communicating...

If you’re an advanced user of Office 2007, or maybe you want to test your Office 2007 skills, don’t forget about the upcoming contest starting April 20. As mentioned here http://blogs.msdn.com/microsoft_press/archive/2009/04/01/advanced-2007-office-system-user-a-contest-for-you.aspx The contest features...

Microsoft is reaching out to advanced users of 2007 Office System to bring awareness and highlight some of the advanced options and extensibility. Here’s part of the announcement. Microsoft is launching an outreach effort to the Advanced Business User of its 2007 Office System. Running from April to...

Microsoft Press recently released a book on Mac Office 2008. The book is Microsoft® Office 2008 for Mac Step by Step . Part of the popular Step by Step series and based on the Home and Student Edition, this book covers Microsoft Word 2008 for Mac Microsoft Excel 2008 for Mac Microsoft PowerPoint 2008...

I’m nuts about Excel and not ashamed to admit it. Some days I have to make myself stop analyzing sales data and actually produce marketing materials. My skills in Excel have grown over the years—I’m comfortable with pivot tables—but my skills in charts and graphs leave much to be desired. I have seen...

If you ve used one of our tutorial Step by Step books for information workers in the past year, we have a few questions for you. Email me at rcaper@microsoft.com and let me know if you would like to participate. This is a quick set of questions to help us in planning the features for the next set of...

Visit a Barnes & Noble store or shop online by February 27, 2009, to save 40 percent off selected titles from Microsoft Press, i ncluding these: Microsoft Office Access 2007 Inside Out , by John Viescas , Jeff Conrad , Jeff Conrad Microsoft Office Excel 2007 Inside Out , by Mark Dodge , Craig Stinson...

Juliana Aldous, another product planner for Microsoft Press titles, recently posted on her own blog ( The Jaldous Journal ) asking for feedback: If you ve used one of our tutorial Step by Step books in the past year, we have a few questions for you. Email me at juliana.aldous@microsoft.com and let me...