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What is Office 365 ProPlus Preview?

Posted 10 months ago

by DHB_
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Hopefully by now, you have heard that the new Office Preview is available to download and try out. One of the areas of focus in this new version of Office is Office 365. If you aren’t familiar with Office 365, Office 365 is a cloud-based service...
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System requirements for Office 2013 Preview

Posted 10 months ago

by LeAnn A
- 1 Comments
You are itching to give the new Office a spin and we don’t blame you! It’s everything you’ve grown fond of plus many cool new features all rolled up in a beautiful package of apps that play so well together. Before you jump in, take...
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Resources for the new Office release

Posted 10 months ago

by Catherine Watson
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Yes we’ve been busy! With the release of the new Office, we have lots of new resources for you to look at. To get started, have a look at our new Tech Centers: Office for IT pros New Office for IT pros Office 365 for IT pros And...
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TechEd North America 2012: Office client deployment and Office 365 sessions

Posted over 1 year ago

by PattyN_
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The TechEd North America 2012 conference , held June 11 - June 14 in Orlando, Florida, included several presentations on Office deployment and Office 365 that may be of interest to IT Pros. Learn about office deployment tools and methods, compatibility...
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April 2012 Cumulative Update for Office is now available

Posted over 1 year ago

by DarrylMo
- 3 Comments
You can now get the April 2012 Cumulative Updates (CUs) packages for Office 2010 and the 2007 Office system . The CUs also include Office servers and SharePoint products. In these overall knowledge base articles, you’ll find links for the individual update...
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February 2012 Cumulative Update for Office is now available

Posted over 1 year ago

by DarrylMo
- 1 Comments
You can now get the February 2012 Cumulative Updates (CUs) packages for Office 2010 and the 2007 Office system . The CUs also include Office servers and SharePoint products. In these overall knowledge base articles, you’ll find links for the individual...
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Using OMPM Part 3 – Are there other uses for OMPM?

Posted over 1 year ago

by Jill_M [MSFT]
- 5 Comments
Brought to you by our compatibility guru Curtis Sawin. Still using OMPM? Give Office Telemetry Dashboard a try! Overview The primary use for OMPM is to provide details about document conversion issues, and it helps answer the question, “What’s...
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Using OMPM Part 2 – Performing Bulk Conversion

Posted over 1 year ago

by Jill_M [MSFT]
- 2 Comments
Brought to you by our compatibility guru Curtis Sawin. Still using OMPM? Give Office Telemetry Dashboard a try! Overview In Part 1 of this series, we discussed how to use OMPM to identify “conversion candidates,” which are documents...
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Using OMPM Part 1 - Identifying Document Conversion Candidates and Estimating Storage Savings

Posted over 1 year ago

by Jill_M [MSFT]
- 4 Comments
Brought to you by our compatibility guru Curtis Sawin. Still using OMPM? Give Office Telemetry Dashboard a try! Overview Using Office Migration Planning Manager (OMPM) to identify “high-risk” binary format documents—that is...
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Deploying a custom dictionary

Posted over 2 years ago

by PattyN_
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We've had some questions about how to deploy a custom dictionary in an organization. To deploy a custom dictionary, administrators can use the following approach: Create a Visual Basic script to copy the custom dictionary file to the local computer...
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The updates list for Office 2007 Service Pack 3 is now available

Posted over 2 years ago

by DarrylMo
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The Office Sustained Engineering team has released the list of updates that are included in Office 2007 Service Pack 3 (SP3). Office 2007 SP3, which was released in October 2011, includes a roll-up of all Public Update (PU) and Cumulative Update (CU)...
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Video: Solving Office Compatibility to Accelerate Office Deployments

Posted over 2 years ago

by Jill_M [MSFT]
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Our compatibility guru Curtis Sawin shared his expertise on Office compatibility planning at the recent SharePoint Conference in Anaheim, CA. Here's his introduction to the video, along with the link. Office file and solution compatibility causes concern...
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Working exclusively with Office Web Apps - one small business customer's experiment

Posted over 2 years ago

by Jill_M [MSFT]
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One of our colleagues on the Get to the Point SharePoint blog recently wrote about working with a small business customer who, in the process of migrating to Office 365, experimented with using Office exclusively in the cloud (using OWA and Web Apps)...
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Service Pack 3 for Office 2007 and SharePoint 2007 is now available

Posted over 2 years ago

by DarrylMo
- 2 Comments
The Office Sustained Engineering team has released Service Pack 3 (SP3) for Office 2007 and SharePoint 2007. For complete details, including a list of all download and description links to the SP3 packages, see Office 2007 and SharePoint 2007 Service...
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Windows, iPad and Android - Managing and Using Your Office Assets in a Tablet World (Part 6) – Building Solutions for Remote Access to Windows Environments

Posted over 2 years ago

by Garage Series for IT Pros
- 3 Comments
Welcome to the sixth and final part in the series about managing your Office assets in a world of tablet computing. In part one I mainly introduced the primary ways to consume Office with rich clients, remote rich clients, Office for Mac, Web Apps and...