Upgrade from Gmail to Outlook.com in 5 easy steps
Just last week we introduced a new personal email service called Outlook.com. In a previous post, we described how to upgrade from Hotmail to Outlook.com. Today, Dick Craddock, who runs the Program Management Team for Outlook.com, shows you how to upgrade from Gmail to Outlook.Unlock PDFs with Word 2013
We’ve all received PDF files with content that we wanted to reuse. This means that most of us have been disappointed by the difficulty of getting good content out of a PDF.Upgrade from Hotmail to Outlook.com
Since we launched the Outlook.com preview a few days ago, we’ve been humbled and amazed by the reception and by the number of people who have upgraded. In fact, in just the first few days alone, we’ve seen several million people upgrade to Outlook.com.Introducing Word 2013
Last Monday, we announced the Office Customer Preview – now that the Preview is publically available, Tristan Davis, Senior Lead Program Manager, kicks off a series of Word 2013-focused posts, giving you an introduction to the new release, as well as the underlying philosophy that drove the investments the team made.Introducing Excel 2013
This blog post is brought to you by Jane Liles Group Program Manager for the Excel team. With this post she kicks off a brand new blog series introducing all the features we have added across Excel for the release of Office 2013.The good kind of circular reference
There have been ample articles about troubleshooting unintentional circular references in Excel workbooks. This post focuses on the opposite: choosing to deliberately work with circular references. Circular references aren’t a bad thing in itself: you can use them to achieve complex calculations that are otherwise impossible to do, but first you must set them up properly.5 tips to make your Access database super-fast
You fire up Access and load your favorite app only to see its performance drag like molasses in winter. Access MVP Juan Soto and founder of IT Impact, Inc. shares five performance tips that will tune up your database.Want a way to send email to a group?
It’s your turn to organize a BBQ or highway litter patrol (or whatever) with your group of friends and you don’t want to type each individual name (or email address) on the To: line. There’s an easy way to avoid that mind-numbing task–create a Contact Group.Three ways to make your picture fit your slide
Today’s post about fitting pictures into PowerPoint slides is by author Bruce Gabrielle. Ever have this problem? You have a great picture for your PowerPoint slide, but it fits awkwardly on the page, leaving a big gap of white space. This looks really amateurish. What do you do? Keep reading….Quick Trick: Resizing column widths in pivot tables
Who could be better than a Business Intelligence analyst at teaching us a thing or two about Excel? We asked our own number-crunching wizard Stacey Armstrong to share some Excel tricks she’s learned along the way.