A Lesson by The Professor Using the New Mini Translator in Office 2010 Hello, Allow me to introduce myself. I have traveled far and taught at many universities. I have seen how people everywhere around the world use computers to reach their full...

Tips and Tricks by The Wizard Translate a Full Document using Office 2010 and Microsoft Translator Hello, I wish to introduce myself – I am The Wizard. I have much knowledge that I have accumulated through the years. I’ve heard tales of...

Q&A What are Proofing Tools? The question that we shall share with you today has to do with Office 2010 Proofing Tools. -- Before The Professor publishes his series called " My Language Preferences "…-- -...

Dear Scenari, How to: Type in my language using Office 2010 Hello Dears, I am Scenari - the advice columnist for the Office Global Experience team and I have been using computers for a very long time. (Now don’t even think of asking me...

Tips and Tricks by The Wizard Global features in Windows SharePoint Foundation 2010 Hello My Apprentice, I am very pleased to see you back here for MORE tips and tricks of the Office global features. This time I shall share the magic of the Windows...

Tips and Tricks by the Wizard Bidirectional Features in Microsoft Word Hello, The tips and tricks that I shall share with you today have to do with bidirectional (Bidi) features in Microsoft Word. Microsoft Word was designed to work with multilingual...

Hello, my name is Kate Kelly, and I am a Program Manager on the GXP team. My previous blog articles include How to: Find my Language Preferences? and How do I check spelling and grammar in a different language in Office 2007? . With the help from my teammates...

Tips and Tricks by The Wizard Useful tricks and shortcuts for users around the world Hi, Many users prefer to use keyboard shortcuts instead of using the mouse for convenience and to save time. Let me share with you 5 shortcuts and tricks...

A Lesson by The Professor Using the Speak Feature in Office 2010 Hello Students, Our lesson today is about using an exciting new feature in Office 2010 called Speak! In a previous lesson we discussed Using the New Mini Translator in Office...

Hello, my name is Jimmy Fang, and I am a Software Design Engineer in Test on the GXP team. This article continues the Language Preferences series of our blog. Previous articles of this series include How to: Find my Language Preferences? and My Language...

Hello, this is Gwyneth Marshall again. Today we will continue from the East Asian Page Layout Features in Office 2010 article to describe another East Asian feature in Office 2010 called Phonetic Guides. The terms Phonetic Guide, Yomi, Furigana, or "Ruby...

Dear Scenari, How can I turn on/off Auto Keyboard switching? Dear Scenari, I am a bilingual student who uses Word and PowerPoint a lot for my project. My documents and presentations always contain text for both English and another language...

A Lesson by The Professor Project Web Access Language and Regional Settings Hello students! In Microsoft Office Project 2007, you could install language packs (LPKs) but could not view the list of languages installed. In addition, the language...

Q & A How to turn on/off Mini Translator in Office 2010 -- Ok Miss Smarty Bulb, I answered your question last time; I bet you can’t answer this question:-- Question : How do I turn on / off the Mini Translator feature...

Hello, my name is Grace Sturman, and I am a Lead Software Development Engineer in Test on the GXP team. Theme Fonts were introduced in Office 2007, as part of the document theme concept: Theme Colors, Theme Effects and Theme Fonts. The Theme features...

Hello, my name is Gwyneth Marshall, and I am a Program Manager on the GXP team. As we learned in My Language Preferences: Office Editing Languages , your Office configuration can affect your Office experience. These settings change such things as your...

Thank you for your interest in the Global Experience Platform (GXP)’s team blog! This blog entry marks our first post and introduces new Microsoft® Office 2010 multilingual features. The GXP team has focused this release on optimizing some situations...

Tips and Tricks by The Wizard 5 Access Settings for the Right-to-Left Languages Hello My Apprentice, Welcome back! As you might know already, Access is a popular database software application. It has rich support for international features such...

Hi there! I'm Sandy Rivas and I am a Software Development Engineer in Test in the Global Experience Platform group. For Office 2010, I worked on the Translation features that are available in Word, OneNote, PowerPoint and Outlook. You can see more articles...

A Lesson by The Professor Um-al-Qura Calendar Support in Office 2010 Welcome back to class! My fellow students, our lesson today is about the support of Um-al-Qura calendar in Office 2010. The Um-al-Qura calendar is a variation of the Hijri...

Tips and Tricks by The Wizard 5 Useful Outlook Global Features Hello, I’m glad you’ve returned and I look forward to sharing with you 5 useful features in Outlook that may be of particular interest to global customers. And if you live on this...

Hello, this is Vyom Munshi again. This blog is the third part of the series of articles on Find and Replace feature. As you work with Office files, you may want to use the "Find and Replace" feature. There are some advanced settings that can help you...

Hello there, this is Peter Liang and I am a Software Design Engineer in Test in the GXP team. Today, we'll explore the Measurement Converter feature that can recognize commonly used measurement units in Word and PowerPoint. It also helps user to convert...

Hello, Gwyneth Marshall here again. Continuing from the East Asian Text Formatting Features in Office 2010 article, we will explore page layout features specific to Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, collectively referred to as "East Asian languages". These...

A Lesson by The Professor Changing the Translation Service / Adding a New Service Hello Students, Our lesson today is about using the translation services available in Office. I actually have TWO lessons for you today, as you will learn how to...