Microsoft Office 2010 - Links to General Info
Below are links to general information about Microsoft Office 2010. The list will be added to as new and informative pages are found.
For links about 2007 Microsoft Office, see this page.
For detailed information about each of Office's main applications, click any of the following to take you to a separate list of links for how-to's, news, tips, tricks and tutorials:
- Microsoft Office Access (database)
- Microsoft Office Clip Art and Templates (most of which are free)
- Microsoft Office Excel (spreadsheet)
- Microsoft Office OneNote (Microsoft's innovative application for note-taking, researching, and a multitude of other uses)
- Microsoft Office Outlook (email, calendar, appointments, to-do lists, document journaling)
- Microsoft Office PowerPoint (presentation software)
- Microsoft Office Publisher (desktop publishing)
- Microsoft Office Web Apps (World, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote online)
- Microsoft Office Word (word-processor)
Links to Microsoft Office general news & info in July 2011
- Office 2010 “Getting Started” Screensaver — a new way to get tips from Office.com: blogs.office.com/b/office_blog/
- Office in the Cloud - What's in it for you?: blogs.office.com/b/office-exec/
- Working with pictures in Office: office2010.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint-help/
Links to Microsoft Office general news & info in June 2011
- Communicator + LiveMeeting = Lync: blogs.office.com/b/crabby_office_lady/
- Five Reasons Microsoft Office 365 Should Be Taken Seriously: www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/
- For your next idea, steal like an artist: blogs.office.com/b/office_casual/
- How to steal like an artist (and 9 other things nobody told me): www.austinkleon.com
- Microsoft Launches Office 365 Globally: www.microsoft.com/Presspass/
- Microsoft launches Office 365 - Here's what you need to know: www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/
- Microsoft to launch Office 365 on June 28: www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/
- 10 New SmartArt graphics available for Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word: blogs.office.com/b/office_blog/
- Office ribbon Portal Page - *GET* it: blogs.office.com/b/crabby_office_lady/
- Transition to the Office ribbon: office.microsoft.com/en-us/support/
Links to Microsoft Office general news & info in May 2011
- 5 Office features you need to know about: blogs.office.com/b/crabby_office_lady/
- 5 More (more!) Office features you need to know about: blogs.office.com/b/crabby_office_lady/
- 20 How-to Office posts that just won't die: blogs.office.com/b/office_blog/
- Announcing Service Pack 1 for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010, release in June: bink.nu/news/
- Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint File Formats: www.microsoft.com/downloads/
- Now hear this - 1,500 more free sounds and music files at Office.com: blogs.office.com/b/office_casual/
- Office and SharePoint 2010 SP1 coming end of June: blogs.office.com/b/office_blog/
- Ribbon Hero 2 - How to play the game: blogs.office.com/b/office_casual/
Links to Microsoft Office general news & info in April 2011
- Demystifying a few computer terms: blogs.office.com/b/crabby_office_lady/
- First Look - Microsoft's Office 365 Will Shake up IT: www.crn.com/news/
- Hotmail and Office 365 - Microsoft services working together for you and your business: windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/windowslive/
- Microsoft Office Images Library: office.microsoft.com/en-au/images/
- Microsoft Office Templates Library: office.microsoft.com/en-au/templates/
- Microsoft Office Training: office.microsoft.com/en-au/support/
- Office 365 Hits Public Beta, Small Businesses Get the Next Generation Cloud Productivity Service: www.microsoft.com/Presspass/
- Office 365 - The cloud, your way: blogs.office.com/b/office-exec/
- Ribbon Hero 2 for Office: www.ribbonhero.com
Links to Microsoft Office general news & info in March 2011
- Cloud is Secure Enough for the Pentagon. Why Not You?: blogs.forbes.com/microsoft/
- Exchange Online v. Exchange Server 2010: community.office365.com/enus/office365/b/microsoft_office_365_blog/
- Microsoft's Office 365 - A guide to the coming plans and prices: www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/
- Office 365 for small businesses: office365.microsoft.com/en-US/small-business.aspx
- Microsoft Office 365 - Is there a plan and pricepoint that's right for you?: www.zdnet.com/photos/
- Microsoft Office Help Desk: www.facebook.com/Office
- New add-ins boost accessibility for Office 2010 - Stamp and Daisy: blogs.office.com/b/office_blog/
- Office Help goes social on Facebook: blogs.office.com/b/office_blog/
- Password roundup - Protecting what's yours: blogs.office.com/b/office_blog/
- Roundup - Print with Office: blogs.office.com/b/office_blog/
- ScreenTips, document tooltips, & other things readers have taught us: blogs.office.com/b/crabby_office_lady/
Links to Microsoft Office general news & info in February 2011
- Office Videos: office.microsoft.com
Links in December 2010
- Exploring the new OpenType features in Office 2010: blogs.office.com/b/office_blog/
- Go get your ribbon roadmap: blogs.office.com/b/crabby_office_lady/
- Mail merge for the holidays: blogs.technet.com/b/hub/
- Office team's New Year resolutions: docs.com/9TWZ
- Remembering those good old Office tips: blogs.office.com/b/crabby_office_lady/
- What You Need to Know About Windows 8, IE 9 Anti-Tracking, Small Business Server, and Microsoft Office Security: www.windowsitpro.com
Links for November 2010
- First look at Office 365: www.liveside.net
- Hands-On with Office 365: www.winsupersite.com/office/365.asp
- Make Organisation Great - Office templates: www.realsimple.com/work-life/technology/microsoft-office/
- Make your own holiday cards: blogs.office.com/b/office_blog/
- Microsoft Office 365 Blog: community.office365.com/enus/office365/b/microsoft_office_365_blog/
- Top 10 Holiday tips & tricks with Office 2010: blogs.office.com/b/office_blog/
Links for October 2010
- Consolidated List of Office 2010 Product Guides - now available: blogs.technet.com/b/keithcombs/
- Create incredible documents more easily using Office 2010: www.microsoft.com/atwork/skills/
- Get the practice files for your Office 2010 (or Office 2007) Step by Step book: blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_press/
- Office Live Small Business, Live@edu are now Office 365: www.liveside.net
Links for September 2010
- Brush up your Office skills: www.microsoft.com/atwork/skills/
- Crabby's Monday tip - Rejuvenate your recent file list: blogs.office.com/b/crabby_office_lady/
- Download free Office 2010 migration guides: blogs.office.com/b/office_blog/
- Office 2010 + Windows 7 - better together: windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/
- Office for Mac 2011 hits RTM: blog.officeformac.com
Links for August 2010
- 2011 calendars are here for Microsoft Office: blogs.office.com/b/templates_and_images/
- Free Microsoft Office Add-ins for Educators: blogs.msdn.com/b/alfredth/
Links for July 2010
- Help us help you with mail merge: blogs.office.com/b/office_blog/
- Microsoft answers you — come visit the forums with Crabby: blogs.office.com/b/crabby_office_lady/
- Microsoft Office 2010 Deployment Tools Availability: blogs.office.com/b/office_blog/
- Microsoft Office 2010 – Innovation is alive and well (a must-read article): blogs.msdn.com/b/brunoterkaly/
- Office 2010 documentation mother lode – now available for download: blogs.technet.com/b/keithcombs/
- Office for Mac 2011 Features: www.microsoft.com/mac/office2011features/
- There's a Monster in the Office: blogs.office.com/b/crabby_office_lady/
Microsoft Office 2010 - Links for June 2010
- Computers and your brain: blogs.office.com/b/office_blog/
- Hotmail and SkyDrive help make Office 2010 great: windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/windowslive/
- Office-411 - Plan, Deploy and Learn Microsoft Office: office-411.com
- Office Web Apps - Extend your Office experience to the Web: office.microsoft.com/en-us/web-apps/
- Planning migration to Office 2010: blogs.msdn.com/b/ukschools/
- Professor’s Laser Focus Gets Mathematics into Office 2010: www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/
- Retail customers - Do your Office Starter 2010 homework: www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/
- With Office 1 billion strong, a quick visit to memory lane: blogs.office.com/b/office_blog/
- You can use Office for that? — Managing your work/life balance: blogs.office.com/b/crabby_office_lady/
Microsoft Office 2010 - Links for May 2010
- Free Office Mobile 2010 for Windows Phones (May 12 2010): windowsteamblog.com/windows_phone/b/windowsphone/
- Google Docs does not make Office better: blogs.technet.com/whymicrosoft/
- How Office 2010, Windows Live, and Office Mobile 2010 let you work from anywhere: blogs.office.com/b/office_blog/
- How the New Photo Tools Work in Office 2010: blogs.office.com/b/office_casual/
- It's RTBU Day! Office 2010 now available to businesses: blogs.office.com/b/office_blog/
- Microsoft's two-pronged strategy for Office 2010: news.bbc.co.uk
- Office 2010 - a deeper dive (Ed Bott): www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/
- Simplified box art for Office 2010 standalone apps: www.istartedsomething.com
Microsoft Office 2010
- Cloud creates new opportunities for Office - thoughts on Docs for Facebook: blogs.office.com/b/office_blog/
- Did you know? Office 2010 facts: mssp2010.r2ismash.com
- Doing it your way with the Quick Access Toolbar: blogs.office.com/b/crabby_office_lady/
- Hear In Your Language in Office 2010: blogs.technet.com/office2010/
- Help and Training for Office 2010 and Office 2007: blogs.technet.com/office2010/
- Learn where menu and toolbar commands are in Office 2010: office2010.microsoft.com/en-us/publisher-help/
- Microsoft Office 2010 Homepage: office2010.microsoft.com
- Office 2010, our approach to delivering the best productivity experience across PCs, phones and browsers: blogs.office.com/b/office_blog/
- Office 2010 Live Preview Paste - Get the Results You Want Quickly: blogs.technet.com/office2010/
- Office 2010 Reaches RTM (Release to Manufacturing): blogs.technet.com/office2010/
- Office 2010 Ribbon roadmap - your first step to freedom: blogs.office.com/b/crabby_office_lady/
- Office and email on Windows Phone 7: blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/
- Updated Windows Phone 7 videos show Office doing awesome things: www.engadget.com
Microsoft Office Web Apps
Links specifically to news and info about Office Web Apps (Applications) 2010 which will be a free service for Windows Live subscribers:
- Office 2010 tech preview - Office Web Applications available through Windows Live at no cost: www.liveside.net
- Office Web Apps Love Your Browser: blogs.msdn.com/officewebapps/
- Office Web Apps - Office Goes to the Web: www.microsoft.com/presspass/
- Office Web Apps Overview: www.microsoft.com/office/2010/en/office-web-apps/
- Office Web Apps - Store, edit, and share documents online: www.microsoft.com/office/2010/en/office-web-apps/
- What's New in Microsoft Web Applications 2010: www.microsoft.com/video/
Those with a Windows Live ID should refer to the Windows Live page here for information on using the Office Web Apps in Hotmail and available from Live Skydrive.
Here are links to some recent articles
- 10 ways to get Office help and support: blogs.msdn.com/crabbyofficelady/
- 1 + 2 = 1? - Office Interoperability: blogs.msdn.com/dmahugh/
- 2007 Microsoft Office Suite Service Pack 2 available: blogs.msdn.com/inside_office_online/
- 2007 Office System Service Pack 2 coming to WSUS in April: blogs.technet.com/wsus/
- 2009 Calendars for Microsoft Office: office.microsoft.com
- 2010 Office Image Gallery: www.microsoft.com/presspass/
- Best SmartArt Feature Ever: blogs.msdn.com/coolbeans/
- Can you MakeOfficeBetter.com?: blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/
- Coming this year, next wave of Office will redefine how we work: blogs.msdn.com/inside_office_online/
- Cool Trick in Outlook - Calendar Printing: blogs.msdn.com/outlook/
- Crabby finds answers to some of her own Office problems: blogs.msdn.com/inside_office_online/
- Crabby Office Lady’s telecommuting tips, redux (working from home): blogs.msdn.com/crabbyofficelady/
- Crabby’s favorite tips for most Office programs: blogs.msdn.com/inside_office_online/
- Crabby's guide to Office downloads: blogs.msdn.com/inside_office_online/
- Create a family tree with SmartArt graphics: blogs.msdn.com/inside_office_online/
- Download the Microsoft Translator installer for Microsoft Office: blogs.msdn.com/translation/
- Extreme (ingenious) examples of Office in the Wild: blogs.msdn.com/inside_office_online/
- Help with the Office 2007 ribbon: blogs.msdn.com/inside_office_online/
- Holiday Party Template Collections: office.microsoft.com
- Office Casual - How to move your office with Visio: blogs.msdn.com/inside_office_online/
- Office Community on Facebook: www.facebook.com/Office
- Importing a Table from WordprocessingML to SpreadsheetML: blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/
- Importing Charts from Spreadsheets to Wordprocessing Documents: blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/
- Importing SmartArt from PowerPoint to Word: blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/
- Learning and Using the Office 2007 Ribbon and Toolbar: office.microsoft.com
- Microsoft Office 2010 Technical Preview: www.office2010themovie.com
- Microsoft Office Timeline 1983 - 2010: www.microsoft.com/presspass/
- New Zip Tips to save time in Office: blogs.msdn.com/inside_office_online/
- OfficePalooza - Featured Product of the Day Archive: blogs.msdn.com/officepalooza/
- Office Back to Basics – How to use the Office ribbon: blogs.msdn.com/inside_office_online/
- Office Web Apps - The Three Tenets: blogs.msdn.com/officewebapps/
- Office Zip Tips - Take 15 seconds, save yourself hours: blogs.msdn.com/inside_office_online/
- Organizing 101 - A OneNote demo for students and the rest of us: blogs.msdn.com/inside_office_online/
- OpenXML Document Viewer v1 released: viewing .DOCX files as HTML: blogs.msdn.com/interoperability/
- Parent's Playground - Ideas and Tools for Office: aww.ninemsn.com.au/parentsplayground
- Party invitations for Microsoft Office: office.microsoft.com
- Protecting Documents with Word 2007: blogs.technet.com/john_westworth/
- Quick Reference Guides for Microsoft Office and Windows (Free): bhandler.spaces.live.com
- Service Pack 2 for 2007 Microsoft Office System due April 28th: blogs.technet.com/mu/
- SmartArt Theme Page: office.microsoft.com
- Testing Office’s ODF Implementation: blogs.msdn.com/dmahugh/
- That bandied buzzword - Efficiency: blogs.msdn.com/inside_office_online/
- Tracked Changes in ODF 1.1: blogs.msdn.com/dmahugh/
- Why doesn't Office just fix all of the bugs before they ship it: blogs.technet.com/office_sustained_engineering/
- Word - Taking Control of Your Table of Contents: blogs.msdn.com/microsoft_office_word/
Microsoft Office Labs
- Community Clips - Tips for Using Office: blogs.msdn.com/the_hardman/
- Community Clips recorder updated: www.officelabs.com
- Microsoft Office Labs: www.officelabs.com
- Microsoft Office Labs Community Clips: www.officelabs.com/projects/communityclips/
- Microsoft Office Labs Community Clips Recorder Download: communityclips.officelabs.com
- Microsoft Office Labs Search Commands: www.officelabs.com/projects/searchcommands/
- StickySorter - A Tool for Organizing Information: www.officelabs.com
- StickySorter Project Download: www.officelabs.com/projects/
- Tips and Tricks on Making Good Videos for Community Clips: www.officelabs.com
- Welcome to Community Clips: www.officelabs.com
- Why Search Commands?: www.officelabs.com