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2012 14

  1. Set Your Text Free by Linking Text Boxes in Publisher
  2. Get the Latest Scoop in SharePoint
  3. Microsoft Publisher—Using the Right Software for the Job
  4. The Best of Both Worlds—Sync IE and Outlook RSS Feeds
  5. Have a Blissful Day—RSS Feeds in Outlook
  6. No More “Who’s Doing What?” with Assigned Tasks
  7. Tagging in OneNote
  8. Keeping in Control: Document Set Versioning in SharePoint
  9. Keeping it Together: Documents in SharePoint
  10. Cut Down on Meetings - Well, at Least Meeting Invites
  11. Learning to Share in SharePoint
  12. Perfectionist? The Alignment Tool is for You
  13. Viewing a SharePoint calendar in Outlook
  14. Oops! I Forgot to Save It!

2011 122

  1. Download new SmartArt for Office 2010
  2. Crowd control for your desktop: Managing multiple windows in Windows 7
  3. Create a pull quote in Word
  4. Embed Office 2010 documents on the Web
  5. Give yourself more room to work in Outlook
  6. Save time with Excel shortcuts
  7. No rabbits needed: Pull these IE9 tricks out of your hat
  8. Formula Watch - Working with DOLLARs
  9. Add popular commands to your Office 2010 ribbons
  10. Let Office read documents to you
  11. Styles at your fingertips in Word
  12. How Internet Explorer 9 helps you browse worry-free
  13. Use object anchors to help place images in Word
  14. Save time with OneNote 2010 linked notes
  15. Modify clip art for your presentations
  16. Restrict data entry in Excel with lists
  17. The Windows 7 Desktop Gadget Staff Meeting
  18. Save time with Outlook shortcuts
  19. Using Actions in Office 2010
  20. Casual Friday: Use OneNote TripBooks to help plan your vacation
  21. Adding (and removing) fancy dividers in Word
  22. How Windows 7 prevents bad things from happening to good PCs
  23. Compare and merge slides in PowerPoint 2010
  24. Automatically close mails when responding in Outlook
  25. Manage templates in OneNote 2010
  26. With Internet Explorer 9, sites take center stage
  27. Restrict data input in Excel
  28. Automatically download images from trusted senders in Outlook 2010
  29. Change the default width of your Excel cells
  30. Restrict style changes in Word
  31. A candid conversation with the Windows Action Center
  32. Set your own default reminder alert time in Outlook
  33. Get the new Outlook Hotmail Connector
  34. Customize the Word grammar checker to match your style
  35. Office for Mac 2011 Service Pack 1 now available
  36. Speed and performance: How Internet Explorer 9 makes for better browsing
  37. Formula Watch: Create custom placeholders with REPT
  38. Check the readability of your Word documents and Outlook mails
  39. Combat procrastination with Office
  40. Close Office application misfires while they load
  41. Is your PC giving you the silent treatment? Fix it
  42. Spell out page numbers in Word
  43. Create a Calendar Group in Outlook 2010
  44. Ribbon Hero 2 makes learning about Office features even more fun
  45. Customize your work week in Outlook
  46. Five ways Windows 7 frees up your time
  47. Formula Watch: Lock Excel formulas so they don't change when you paste
  48. Save time when reviewing tracked changes in Word
  49. Speed up your PowerPoint presentation with keyboard shortcuts
  50. Make vertical selections in Word
  51. Top-secret Windows 7 keyboard shortcuts unmasked
  52. Office 365 public beta is now available
  53. Correct mistakes using Print Preview Edit Mode in Word 2010
  54. Casual Friday: Make your own postcards in Word
  55. Add impact to your Outlook emails with shapes and clip art
  56. Internet Explorer 9: Wow, the Web is New Again
  57. Formula Watch: Quickly CONVERT measurements in Excel
  58. Force recipients to Reply All in Outlook
  59. Quickly copy a design theme from one PowerPoint presentation to another
  60. Create wiki links in OneNote
  61. Personalizing your Windows 7 PC, flying monkeys optional
  62. How to select more highlight colors in Word
  63. Make eye-catching tables quickly in Excel
  64. Create fancier signatures in Outlook
  65. Remove skipped lines from your Word documents
  66. An Interview with the Windows 7 Start Menu
  67. Formula Watch: Convert to and from ASCII codes in Excel
  68. Create a PST file in Outlook 2010
  69. Toggle PowerPoint animations on and off
  70. Save all open Word documents at once
  71. Internet Explorer 8 Toolbars: It's wise to customize
  72. Quickly add a cover page in Word
  73. Print an entire workbook quickly and efficiently in Excel 2010
  74. Reserve travel time in Outlook
  75. Adding times together in Excel
  76. Fast forward to a happy ending with Windows 7 Search
  77. Formula Watch: COUNT your cells the easy way
  78. Add word counts to OneNote 2010
  79. Find that mail with Outlook advanced search options
  80. Adjust the background on your PowerPoint presentation
  81. Get there faster with Internet Explorer shortcuts
  82. Quickly clear formatting in Word
  83. Optimize performance in Excel 2010
  84. Hide highlighter marks in Word
  85. Add a background color to your Outlook mails
  86. Windows 7 Taskbar: All news, all the time, and constantly underfoot
  87. Formula Watch - Convert numbers to and from Roman numerals
  88. Review changes by author in OneNote 2010
  89. Control the date format in your Outlook calendar
  90. Copy all highlighted text in your Word document
  91. Get organized with Windows 7 libraries
  92. Filter or remove duplicates from your Excel data
  93. Create a custom view of your data in Access on SharePoint
  94. Casual Friday: Using PowerPoint as a picture library
  95. Make your Excel rows and columns consistent
  96. Keep your Windows 7 machine in the fast lane
  97. Turn Formula AutoComplete on and off in Excel
  98. Print just one page in Outlook 2010
  99. Improve the quality of your emails
  100. Link your PowerPoint presentations to improve flow
  101. Six handy keyboard shortcuts for Windows 7
  102. Formula Watch: TRIM and CLEAN your Excel data
  103. Create Search Folders in Outlook 2010
  104. Save time with overtype mode in Office
  105. Sleep and Hibernate in Windows 7: The Great Debate
  106. Move rows around quickly in Excel
  107. Send OneNote pages to email, blogs, even mobile phones
  108. Mastering tabs in Excel
  109. Participate in 'Clean Out Your Inbox Week'
  110. Speed up common browsing tasks with Accelerators
  111. Formula Watch: Turn off rounding with TRUNC
  112. Present to a remote audience over the Internet with PowerPoint 2010
  113. Add impact to your Word documents with Text Effects
  114. Dress up your Excel documents with headings
  115. Whom do you trust? Internet Explorer can help you decide
  116. Make universal changes quickly in PowerPoint
  117. Formula Watch: Hide customer data with CONCATENATE
  118. Use Clean Up to zap unnecessary mails in Outlook 2010
  119. Casual Friday: Making eye-catching signs in Word
  120. Link related sections in OneNote
  121. Hey! How come this won’t print???
  122. New Year's resolutions you can resolve with Office and Windows

2010 218

  1. Outlook Rules That Rule: Get important mails forwarded while on vacation
  2. Words to the Wise from Internet Explorer SmartScreen Filter
  3. Mark finished documents as final in Office 2010
  4. Writing a good Out of Office message (and how to set it)
  5. Browser tabs: A faster, easier way to plan the office picnic
  6. Using the typesetting features of Word 2010
  7. Casual Friday: Download next year's calendar today
  8. Inserting dates in Word
  9. How to help your PC help you
  10. Move paragraphs up and down quickly in Word
  11. Working with styles in OneNote 2010
  12. Sorting paragraphs in Word
  13. Quickly combine notes and other elements in OneNote
  14. A decidedly easy way to speed up your PC
  15. Formula Watch: Keep an eye on large and small values with MIN and MAX
  16. Enhance your images with Artistic Effects
  17. Casual Friday: Mail merge for the holidays
  18. Using AutoCorrect with your own custom codes
  19. Windows Explorer shares travel tips
  20. Convert text slides into engaging SmartArt in PowerPoint
  21. Recover and compare autosaves in Office 2010
  22. Keeping Internet Explorer at the top of its game
  23. Formula Watch: Using NOW to timestamp your Excel documents - plus shortcuts
  24. View and edit styles quickly in Word 2010
  25. Casual Friday: Make your own holiday cards
  26. Remove formatting, hyperlinks, and comments in Excel
  27. Four ways to sweep away desktop clutter in Windows 7
  28. Use Outlook OFT files to prepare mails for others to send
  29. Save time saving Office 2010 documents to SharePoint
  30. Dress up your Word documents with Drop Cap
  31. Get reminded if you forget an attachment before you send
  32. Print Excel table headers on every page
  33. Formula Watch: Control rounding with CEILING and FLOOR
  34. Publish your Access database to SharePoint
  35. Casual Friday: Use Excel to track party prep tasks
  36. Adjusting your default paste options in Office
  37. Windows 7 Replay: Counting sheep with Sleep and Hibernate
  38. Add a watermark to your Word documents
  39. Introducing Office for Mac 2011
  40. Embed the file path in your Word documents
  41. Make room for wide objects in Word
  42. Create an organizational chart
  43. Formula Watch - Autonumber your rows and then convert them to values
  44. Get started with Quick Steps in Outlook 2010
  45. Casual Friday: Transform your Excel comment boxes into fun shapes
  46. Quickly spell check all worksheets in Excel
  47. Windows 7 Replay: Ultimate power over your laptop, the Windows 7 Mobility Center
  48. Quickly remove all headers and footers in Word
  49. Insert new pages right where you want them in OneNote 2010
  50. Keep your Outlook meeting requests in your Inbox
  51. Work with metric units, picas, or points in Word
  52. Display word counts in your Word documents
  53. Formula Watch: Picking random numbers in Excel
  54. Accessing and pinning recent documents in Office 2010
  55. Casual Friday: Make PowerPoint the life of the party
  56. Hide formatting and other tracked changes selectively in Word
  57. Windows 7 Replay: Big screens and presentations—no sweaty palms required
  58. Quickly create tables in Word and Outlook using text
  59. Add screenshots to your Office 2010 documents
  60. Insert multiple rows and columns quickly in Excel
  61. Quickly create image thumbnails in Word
  62. Create 'sticky' notes in Outlook
  63. Formula Watch: Working with week numbers
  64. Using the Office 2010 Accessibility Checker
  65. Casual Friday - Make wallpaper and Twitter backgrounds using PowerPoint
  66. Sort cells by color in Excel
  67. Windows 7 Replay: Keeping desktop clutter at bay with Windows 7
  68. Quickly clear Excel spreadsheet values but keep your text and formulas
  69. Make large slide decks more manageable in PowerPoint 2010
  70. Save a group of Outlook messages as text
  71. New Productivity Hub 2010 covers Office 2010, Windows 7 and more
  72. Block Reply All, Forwards, and more in Outlook
  73. Formula Watch: Calculating elapsed time in Excel
  74. Make Excel rows and columns visible, even if you scroll
  75. Use OneNote to collaborate on PowerPoint presentations
  76. Windows 7 Replay: What’s new in Windows 7
  77. Casual Friday - Using OneNote for flash cards
  78. Add your contacts to autocomplete in Outlook
  79. Converting OneNote 2010 notebooks for use in OneNote 2007
  80. Formula Watch: Use the Cell function to check column width, column number, and more
  81. Upgrading and getting started with Office 2010
  82. Use OneNote to take and crop screenshots
  83. Format your cells for Zip codes, phone numbers and SSNs
  84. How Windows 7 can make Office users even more efficient
  85. Display calendar, tasks or whatever you want when launching Outlook
  86. Add more social network connections to Outlook 2010
  87. Casual Friday: Create an allowance chart in Excel
  88. Quickly make the Quick Access Toolbar your own
  89. Formula Watch - Automatically translate dates to days of the week in Excel
  90. Prepare to upgrade with Office Migration Planning Manager 2010
  91. Word to the wise: Punch up your documents with clip art
  92. Customize and backup your Office 2010 ribbons
  93. Managing devices with Windows 7
  94. Minimize the Outlook Ribbon
  95. Oops – pressed send too soon, again.
  96. Casual Friday: Tracking Little League Stats
  97. Word to the wise: Using the Insert Comment feature in Word
  98. Solving a problem faster by recording it in Windows 7
  99. Set custom reminders in Outlook
  100. Using Format Painter in Word 2010
  101. Quickly clear formatting in Outlook messages
  102. Maintain order and balance in the Windows 7 notifications area
  103. Save Web articles in OneNote
  104. Add a YouTube video in PowerPoint 2010
  105. Presentations with pizzazz: Packaging your PowerPoint presentation
  106. Earn an advanced degree in Folderology on Windows 7
  107. Harness the power of Excel, right inside of Word
  108. Moving to OneNote 2010
  109. Productivity Hub content package now available
  110. Bluetooth, your laptop, and you
  111. Ribbon Hero update adds OneNote
  112. Using the Social Connector in Outlook 2010
  113. Word to the wise: Change documents (and chronic mistakes!) with Track Changes
  114. Prepare draft messages for someone else to send
  115. Using the Language toolbar in Windows 7
  116. Add a picture to your mails in Outlook 2010
  117. Mark your comments when replying to Outlook messages
  118. Force reviewers to track changes in Word
  119. Find stuff more easily by customizing the Start Menu in Windows 7
  120. Find your place in Word
  121. Getting started with conversations in Outlook 2010
  122. Clear the e-mail clutter with Ignore and Move in Outlook 2010
  123. Saving Word documents in portable formats
  124. Translate text in Word
  125. Action Center: Keeping Windows 7 smooth and secure
  126. Save time typing with AutoText in Microsoft Word
  127. Track your time with the Outlook Journal
  128. Use Outlook Reading Pane without marking messages as read
  129. Insert a screenshot in Word 2010
  130. Let your devices take center stage with Windows 7
  131. Control where attachments go in Outlook 2007
  132. What's new in Office 2010 for productivity fans
  133. Presentations with pizzazz: Recording narration in PowerPoint 2007
  134. Excelling in Excel: How to flip a column of data
  135. Achieving Ultimate Clarity - textwise, that is - with ClearType
  136. Excelling at Excel - Turning your data into a meaningful PivotChart
  137. Excelling at Excel - Getting started with PivotTables: fields and areas
  138. Excelling at Excel - Getting started with PivotTables: Prep your data
  139. Make your unread messages really stand out
  140. Wear your heart on your screen: the desktop slideshow
  141. Quickly delete attachments and other mailbox fillers
  142. Turn off Reading View for e-mail attachments
  143. Presentations with pizzazz: Quickly create a photo slide show in PowerPoint
  144. Change where Office saves your documents
  145. Make your own custom spell-check dictionary
  146. Two great time-saving Outlook shortcuts
  147. Replace errors in Excel
  148. Outlook Gadget shows your day at glance
  149. Find what you need faster in Windows 7
  150. 5 PowerPoint 'do's' and 'don'ts'
  151. Make your documents easier to spot with thumbnails
  152. Clear outdated Outlook AutoComplete name suggestions
  153. Keeping your Windows 7 favorites within reach: jumping and pinning
  154. Get notified when people read your e-mails
  155. Color your Outlook mails with categories
  156. Print long documents faster
  157. Quickly add placeholder text to a document
  158. Turn off AutoFormat As You Type features
  159. Lock down your Office documents
  160. Presentations with pizzazz: Using Themes in PowerPoint
  161. Presentations with pizzazz: Applying your corporate colors to PowerPoint
  162. The Productivity Hub is on Facebook
  163. Preparing OneNote documents for distribution with power toy
  164. Excelling at Excel - Use Filters to home in on the data you need
  165. The new Windows 7 taskbar: a (deliberately) quiet revolution
  166. Excelling at Excel - Keep an eye on your data
  167. Sharing a OneNote reference document
  168. Using the Twitter 'back channel' to attend virtual events
  169. Windows 7: Recovering items lost in the shadows
  170. Doing the splits with Word
  171. Boost your Office skills with Ribbon Hero
  172. Word to the wise: The fast and fabulous Format Painter
  173. Twitter 101: Getting comfortable with tweeting
  174. Productivity Hub v2 and new content packs
  175. Staying organized with Windows 7 Libraries
  176. The Productivity Hub is on Twitter
  177. Tracking mileage in Excel
  178. Create an Outlook distribution list
  179. Forget a keyboard shortcut? Just tap Alt
  180. Counting sheep with Windows 7: Sleep and Hibernate
  181. Save time on font and paragraph formatting
  182. Use OneNote to create a mini notepad
  183. Word to the wise: Inserting symbols
  184. Embedding documents in OneNote
  185. Ultimate power over your laptop: The Windows 7 Mobility Center
  186. Find search terms more easily with Reading Highlight
  187. Find, finding, found in Word
  188. Make a professional-looking e-mail signature in Outlook
  189. Share your Outlook calendar with an e-mail snapshot
  190. Big screens and presentations—no sweaty palms required
  191. Set a picture as a background in OneNote
  192. Changing case in Word
  193. Presentations with pizzazz: Inserting a chart in PowerPoint
  194. Use strikethrough to mark tasks done in Excel
  195. Keeping desktop clutter at bay with Windows 7
  196. Software Assurance Benefit #2: Get online training
  197. Software Assurance Benefit #1: Get a copy of Office to use at home
  198. Bookmark large documents
  199. Help Search find your documents when you need them
  200. What’s New in Windows 7— Wait, What?
  201. Excelling at Excel - How to quickly flip a chart
  202. Deleting a phantom image in Microsoft Word
  203. Presentations with pizzazz: Using movie clips in PowerPoint
  204. Ensuring the right data goes into Access
  205. Setting up your Access database for success
  206. Create PowerPoint handouts in Word
  207. Boost your PowerPoint undos
  208. Quickly access hidden PowerPoint slide show options
  209. Outlook Rules That Rule - Forward mails based on keywords
  210. Where should I put my data, Excel or Access?
  211. Excelling at Excel - Exposing hidden chart ranges
  212. Excelling at Excel - Hidden cells and subtotals
  213. Excelling at Excel - Save time with the multi-functional status bar
  214. Excelling at Excel: Save chart designs for easy re-use
  215. Project Management with Excel: Your first Gantt chart
  216. Project Management with Excel - Building a schedule
  217. Working with images in OneNote
  218. Resolve to clean up your Outlook for the New Year

2009 65

  1. Preparing and optimizing screenshots and photos for Office and the Web
  2. Prepare Office documents for download with the Document Inspector
  3. Excelling at Excel - Importing from Word documents
  4. Use custom styles to make formatting changes swiftly
  5. Fix up a Word document quickly
  6. Reveal what's really going on in Word
  7. Macros Made Easy - Removing hyperlinks in Excel
  8. Macros Made Easy - Assigning shortcuts after the fact
  9. Excelling at Excel - Importing Web pages into spreadsheets
  10. Excelling at Excel - Storing numbers that are longer than Excel allows
  11. Excelling at Excel - Pulling apart long lists quickly using text functions
  12. Macros Made Easy - Your first macro
  13. Technical presentations from A to Zzz
  14. Making effective PowerPoint slides
  15. Favorite OneNote tips
  16. Track changes in Word without the mess
  17. Use OneNote as a calculator
  18. Browsing through OneNote
  19. Using OneNote during meetings
  20. Sharing notebooks with colleagues
  21. Productivity Hub Content Ready!
  22. Use OneNote when mobile
  23. What is OneNote and why should I use it?
  24. Excelling at Excel: Using data bars to illustrate number ranges
  25. Excelling at Excel: An introduction to conditional formatting
  26. Excelling at Excel: Working with the same data in multiple views
  27. Outlook Rules: Custom actions - what they are and how to use them
  28. Read your Hotmail in Outlook
  29. Outlook Rules: Forward mails to a mobile device or alternative e-mail address
  30. Outlook Rules That Rule: Autoreplies done two ways
  31. Outlook Rules That Rule: Automatically flag messages for follow-up
  32. Access your Hotmail in Outlook
  33. Favorite Outlook Time Savers
  34. Email: Writing good subject lines
  35. Box placement made easy in PowerPoint
  36. Send and receive Twitter updates via Outlook
  37. Illustrate your Office documents with screen captures
  38. Create Outlook templates for standardized e-mails
  39. Meetings 101: Live Meeting Recording
  40. Windows 7 Content Available!
  41. Clear your personal details from Office documents
  42. Help get rid of spam with Outlook rules
  43. Meetings 101: Live Meeting Tips
  44. Meetings 101: Agendas and Meeting Workspaces
  45. Meetings 101: Prepare
  46. Meetings 101
  47. Collaborate with difficult people the Crabby way
  48. Excel - Fill in cells faster with the double-click trick
  49. Inbox Boot camp Day 5: Reuse text in Outlook messages and documents
  50. Inbox bootcamp Day 4: Pulling teeth and emails
  51. Inbox Boot camp Day 3: Turn critical mails into actions
  52. Inbox Boot camp Day 2: Advanced rules
  53. Inbox Bootcamp Day 1: Rules
  54. Use Smart Tags to collaborate with colleagues - right from your documents
  55. A different view of your inbox
  56. Getting Line Spacing Under Control
  57. Delay that mail!
  58. Transpose your columns and rows in Excel
  59. E-mail on Your Schedule
  60. Change your tabs in Word
  61. Outlook Shortcut
  62. Change the default font in Word
  63. New Hub content ready!
  64. Quickly Clean Out Your Inbox
  65. No more folder obsession

2008 3

  1. Find your document quickly
  2. I agreed to do what?
  3. Productivity defined