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TWC9: WP7 RTMs, Future of Silverlight, Excel Importer, Robot Gun Turrets

September 4, 10 //
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This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the week’s top developer news, including:

Picks of the week!

The Office Show: Microsoft Word

August 19, 10 //
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Do you often work with really long Word documents? Do you sometimes collaborate with others on the creation of these really long documents? Check out the latest episode of the Office Show for a quick tour of some of the new features in Microsoft Word 2010 that could make your life just a little bit easier.

We’ll show you the new Navigation Pane in Word. It makes it easy to find your way around long, complicated documents.

If you’re upgrading from Word 2003, the new fluent user interface will be new to you. Menus and toolbars have been replaced by the ribbon. The ribbon was introduced with Word 2007, and it’s made doing things like applying styles really easy.

You are using styles in Word aren’t you? No? Well, we’ll not only show you how to apply styles, we’ll show you how to create your own custom styles.

Collaborating on documents in Word has been made easy with the new coauthoring feature. We’ll show you how you can work with others in the same document without the worry of multiple versions sprouting up in email.

Yes, all this and a gratuitous reference to pirates and parrots!

For more action packed tips, techniques, and ideas for making life a little better using Word 2010, click on the links below for great content from Office.com and Channel 9. 

If you have ideas and tips you want to share about how Word works in your world, write a comment and let everyone know. And we’d love to hear what you think of the show. The team at Office.com created this video in partnership with our friends at Microsoft’s Channel 9, where you can find more videos about Office.

– Ron O.

Booking your travel in Outlook with the new Bing add-in

August 3, 10 //
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Doug Thomas from Office Casual is back with another tip.  You book travel, buy your tickets, pack your bags, go to the airport, and then panic begins: did I set my out-of-office reminders? With a new add-in, you can set your reminders when you buy the tickets. Watch to see how it works.

Hanselminutes on 9 – ASP.NET MVC 3 and NEW ASP.NET Futures with Phil Haack and Morgan the Intern

July 27, 10 //
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Scott sneaks into the office of Phil Haack and Morgan the Canadian Intern to talk about the release of ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 and some of the cool “futures” stuff that Morgan (and our fleet of interns) is working on.

The Office Show: Microsoft Publisher

July 22, 10 //
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Need a flyer or a newsletter? We’ll show you how Microsoft Publisher 2010 makes creating publications easier with the new building blocks feature, plus we’ll show you how to import inventory data from Excel and generate a product catalog in seconds. And for the explosive finale, we’ve got footage of how one Publisher fan has used it –  literally — for rocket science.

Get some of Gary McKay’s Rebel Origami templates to try for yourself. 

Learn more about building blocks.

Learn more about generating catalogs.

 
If you have ideas and tips you want to share about how to make great publications, write a comment and let everyone know. We’d love to hear from you, and we’d love to hear more about what you think of the show. The folks at Channel 9 created this in partnership with our friends at Office.com, where you can find even more videos about Office.

Outlook Social Connector, Now with Facebook

July 13, 10 //
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Today we announced the availability of the Facebook and Windows Live Messenger plug-ins for the Outlook Social Connector in Microsoft Office. Outlook users can now connect their Facebook accounts and their Windows Live Messenger accounts to their inboxes, making it possible for people to add Facebook and Windows Live Messenger friends from within Outlook, and view status updates and photos right next to an email.

The Outlook Social Connector is one of the new features standard in Office 2010, and new with this release is support for Office 2003 and Office 2007.

Everything in this Video was made with Power Point

July 13, 10 //
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Doug Thomas and Eric Schmidt created this video which showcases some of the new templates available for PowerPoint. These 165 free slides are from PowerPoint MVP Julie Terberg. This is a sequel of sorts; The Office Team created PPT157 on the first set of Terberg’s templates and, well, you don’t mess with success. These templates are for PowerPoint 2010 (you can download a free 60-day trial) but they also work with PowerPoint 2007. (The PPT157 templates are for PowerPoint 2007)

Keep the master page at Office.com bookmarked. The Office Team has added 59 of the 165 slides so far and plan to roll out the complete set by the end of the year. You can also read the reference article explaining the template features, and view two in-depth demos on how you can create your own slides like Julie’s: picture with cutout artistic effects and picture with background removed. Never used a downloaded template? Watch an introductory video.

Everything in this Video was made with Power Point

July 12, 10 //
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Doug Thomas and Eric Schmidt created this video which showcases some of the new templates available for PowerPoint. These 165 free slides are from PowerPoint MVP Julie Terberg. This is a sequel of sorts; The Office Team created PPT157 on the first set of Terberg’s templates and, well, you don’t mess with success. These templates are for PowerPoint 2010 (you can download a free 60-day trial) but they also work with PowerPoint 2007. (The PPT157 templates are for PowerPoint 2007)

Keep the master page at Office.com bookmarked. The Office Team has added 59 of the 165 slides so far and plan to roll out the complete set by the end of the year. You can also read the reference article explaining the template features, and view two in-depth demos on how you can create your own slides like Julie’s: picture with cutout artistic effects and picture with background removed. Never used a downloaded template? Watch an introductory video.

The Navigation Pane in Word 2010 in 60 seconds

June 8, 10 //
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Find out how easy it is to get where you need to go in your documents with the new Navigation Pane in Word 2010. This demo shows you how to quickly change views, move content, and do an advanced search for words, pictures, and tables. For more Office 2010 content, check out The Office Blog on Channel 9 and Office.com. 

The Making of Office 2010: Antoine Leblond – SVP Office Productivity Apps

May 25, 10 //
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The Making of Office 2010 is a series of videos that takes you behind the scenes with those who are responsible for creating Microsoft Office 2010.  This is Antoine Leblond.  He is responsible for the Engineering Team that designs and develops The Microsoft Office applications.  He talks about the man hours and passion that went behind building the Office Applications.  And he also just wants to say “thanks”.

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