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Excel time-saver keyboard shortcuts

Here are a few time saving keyboard shortcuts to
get your week off to a productive start.

I’ve also included the equivalents in Excel for
Windows in case you have to jump back and
forth between platforms like I do.


- All Excel for Mac 2011 keyboard shortcuts
- Common Office for Mac 2011 keyboard shortcuts
- Create or delete a keyboard shortcut
- Excel for Windows 2010 keyboard shortcuts

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Office collaboration, powered by SkyDrive

If 25 GB of free online storage wasn’t enough, here’s another great reason to try SkyDrive – it works with Office. Whether you use the free Office Web Apps, Office for Mac 2011, or Office for Windows 2010, you can save, download, and collaborate in real-time on all of your online documents. The latest Windows [...]

January 17th, 2012
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Template talk with Stephanie Krieger

I recently had an opportunity to speak with Stephanie Krieger. Stephanie is a Microsoft Office MVP and professional document consultant who built many of the templates for Office for Mac 2011. How did you come to build the templates for Office for Mac 2011? My expertise is in creating great documents and templates for the [...]

January 6th, 2012
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When it comes to editing pictures for your documents, don’t overlook all of the options built right into Word. When you click a picture in a document, the Format Picture tab appears on the ribbon. From here, you can quickly apply the styles and formatting you want. For example, I used the Format Picture options [...]

December 29th, 2011
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Ho-ho-holiday templates and images

If you’re like me and waited until the last minute to wrap up all of your holiday stuff, you might want to check out Office.com. There are thousands of free images and templates, that you can download — everything from gift tags to thank you cards. Here are a few links to some seasonal templates [...]

December 22nd, 2011
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Toast the season with OneNote

Fall is my favorite season. When the leaves begin to turn, I can’t wait to light a fire and start planning for the holidays. To celebrate the season, I like to host dinner parties. I provide the main course, and my friends and neighbors bring salads, desserts, and everything else. For a while, we were [...]

December 13th, 2011
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OneNote and Lync updates

A couple of exciting updates for OneNote and Lync are making their way to the App Store. For all of the details, check out this post on the Office.com blog from Pat Fox, our senior director of marketing.

December 12th, 2011
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Jazz up your presentation with music

Remember that special song from your first romance? Or your first solo drive? Music can make any moment more memorable, even a presentation. So what better way to add a little pep to your Office for Mac 2011 presentation than with music? Need the music to play for the whole presentation? You can set an [...]

December 9th, 2011
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Who ya gonna call?

When you have problems or questions about Office for Mac, who do you turn to? I can tell you who my dad does, which is why I created this “cheat sheet” to help divert some of his weekend distractions. I thought I would share it here. Hopefully you’ll find it useful as well. ——————————– Questions [...]

November 30th, 2011
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Our favorite Outlook 2011 keyboard shortcuts

I don’t know about you, but the first time I looked at a Mac keyboard, I felt like I needed a hieroglyphics interpreter. I ended up having to make a cheat sheet for myself. One that I sometimes still have to refer to. Fifteen years later, despite the sometimes finger-bending COMMAND + SHIFT + OPTION [...]

November 17th, 2011
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