If you're a Mac user, it's fair to assume that you may be a little skeptical when it comes to Microsoft products. Microsoft knows this, of course. Which is why the company has decided to offer Mac users a free, one-month trial of the latest version of their popular Office prod ...more
Need some help figuring out how to use the Scrapbook in Office for Mac 2011? This video will show you how it's done. Whether you're new to Microsoft's popular word processing application, new to MS Word 2011 or even an expert merely looking to brush up on the fundamentals, you ...more
If you've ever attended school or held a job, you're probably well familiar with Microsoft Office, whether you used it or not. It's the most popular office suite available, and has been for some time. Apple does have its own suite of productivity apps (iWork), but Microsoft Of ...more
Need some help making sense of the Office 2011 Ribbon UI? This video will show you how it's done. Whether you're new to Microsoft's popular word processing application, new to MS Word 2011 or even an expert merely looking to brush up on the fundamentals, you're sure to be well ...more
Clip Art from Microsoft Office allows you to insert stock photos into you PowerPoint, Word, Excel and Entourage documents easily. You can gain access to the Office Clip Art site easily in any of the mentioned applications. The Microsoft Office for Mac team shows you just how t ...more
If you use Office 2008 for Mac and all its applications (Word, PowerPoint, Entourage, Excel), than you need to know about the predefined workflows available using the Script menu that uses Automator to help perform mind-numbing tasks. The Microsoft Office for Mac team shows yo ...more
The Toolbox in Office 2008 for Mac is more than just a simple formatting palette. There's so much you can do, so much you accomplish, but you need to know how to take advantage of everything offered in the Office Toolbox, whether in PowerPoint, Entourage, Word, or Excel. The M ...more
If you've ever had to work with documents written in other languages, you know how painstakingly difficult it can be if you're not a fluent speaker of the language. But now, with the help of Office 2008 for Mac, translating those documents is easy. You can know easily translat ...more
How many times, when running Mac OS X, have you had a lengthy Word Document or Excel spreadsheet that you needed to zoom in and out of quickly and efficiently? In this video tutorial, you'll learn a handy shortcut doing just that in Microsoft Office. For more, watch this video ...more
Microsoft finally unveiled dedicated iPad apps for their Office suite earlier this year, but it seems that that was just a preview of things to come. Once a must-have for students and businesses alike, Office has lost a good bit of its dominance to Google and its Docs apps. I ...more
What's the easiest way to keep track of your website passwords? Maybe in a password-protected document on your computer? Makes sense. But surprisingly, this is no easy task in Mac OS X. Snow Leopard does not have an easy one-click option for password protecting files and fold ...more
Add pictures always seems to mess up your document— but not anymore. In Word 2008 for Mac, adding photos doesn't have to be stressful. Words and pictures can coexist beautifully now. The Microsoft Office for Mac team shows you just how to make text wrap around pictures in this ...more
Data can be troubling, especially if there's a ton of it plaguing your Excel worksheet. But Excel 2008 for Mac makes life a little easier and less confusing thanks to a few worksheet tips and features you can utilize to work with your data in worksheet cells. The Microsoft Off ...more
Creating tables inside Microsoft Word has always been a chore— but not anymore! With Word 2008 for Mac, you can easily create tables of all your information. And if you're not sure of the best way to select, resize, and move those tables, you'll know soon enough. The Microsoft ...more
Not every client or coworker likes to mine through a spreadsheet to find all the important data. So, with Excel 2008 for Mac, you can easily share that data without sending the entire Excel spreadsheet. To do this, all you need to do is to use the "copy as picture" option. The ...more
Oh, no! Visual Basic macros are no longer supported in Excel 2008 for Mac, which might make things a little difficult for you if you're used them a lot in the past, or if somebody else gives you spreadsheets using them. The Microsoft Office for Mac team shows you just how to d ...more
Did you know that headers and footers are a great way to make your documents easier to read? Not to mention more professional— and if you have Word 2008 for Mac, creating those headers and footers is a cinch. The Microsoft Office for Mac team shows you just how to create heade ...more
You could be a PowerPoint power user or you could be a PowerPoint newbie— you've never created a slideshow in your life! Either way, this will show all of you brand new to PowerPoint 2008 for Mac (and all of your slideshow gurus) the basics of PowerPoint. The Microsoft Office ...more
Great news! — Excel isn't just for Windows anymore. Okay, so it's been available on the Mac for awhile now, but if you haven't used it yet, why not start now? Getting started with Excel 2008 for Mac is easy, and this video overview will show beginners or even the most seasoned ...more
Managing your busy schedule just got easier in Entourage 2008 for Mac. Using the powerful Entourage Calendar feature lets you organize your time wisely. The Microsoft Office for Mac team shows you just how to organize your schedule with the calendar in this how-to video. The ...more
Are you a vigorous notetaker? But are your notes disorganized and cluttered? Drop the paper and pen and pick up Word 2008 for Mac. Word contains a new feature that allows you to take notes, not to mention add audio notes and video notes. The Microsoft Office for Mac team shows ...more
Sure, not everyone will want to create brochures, but for some of us, it's the best way to get around paying a design firm— making them yourself in Word 2008 for Mac. The tools and templates inside Word 2008 make it easy to create visually stunning brochures for any occasion. ...more
Have you always thought of Excel's grid system as kind of limited? Too small for what you need? Well, now in Excel 2008 for Mac, its grid might be too big for its own good! It's huge with plenty of room for all your data. The Microsoft Office for Mac team shows you just how to ...more
Dull and drab bulleted lists are no longer necessary with the help of PowerPoint 2008 for Mac. When you make a bullet list in PowerPoint, you can now transform those boring text charts with actual visual charts and graphs and more. The Microsoft Office for Mac team shows you j ...more
Whether you've used Word before, on Windows or a Mac, the Word 2008 for Mac program has tons of new and yet undiscovered features (undiscovered by you!) that you still need to learn. So, if you're a beginner Word user or a seasoned pro, you still could learn a thing or two wit ...more
Need to make a homemade business card for you new company. Maybe you're about to take freelancing to the next level, a more professional level. Well, Word 2008 for Mac allows you to make your very own, personal business cards, and they give you tons of pre-formatted templates ...more
There's a lot you can do in Word 2008 for Mac, and with all of the possibilities, it can be hard to figure out what you can and can't do. Well, you can add cover pages. You can add headers. And you can add bibliographies easy. The Microsoft Office for Mac team shows you just h ...more
Excel is great, and if you're a Mac user, Excel 2008 for Mac has a lot of new and useful great features you can use to maximize efficiency in your spreadsheets. Excel doesn't have to be the boss anymore, you can! The Microsoft Office for Mac team shows you all the great featur ...more
Excel 2008 for Mac makes it easy to create formulas for cells. You could always do it before, but now with the new Formula Builder feature, building formulas just got one step closer to simple. The Microsoft Office for Mac team shows you just how to build formulas by using the ...more
PowerPoint 2008 for Mac can help you turn boring old bulleted lists into something nobody would forget. With SmartArt graphics in PowerPoint you can now make your bullet lists pop using pre-formatted charts, graphs, and more. The Microsoft Office for Mac team shows you just ho ...more
One of the best ways to get your point across during a PowerPoint presentation is to use video. This way, you can not only tell your classmates, students or coworkers about your subject with words and images, but you can actually show them with real footage. If you are thinkin ...more
Interested to learn how to adjust page border settings in Word for Mac 2011? This video will show you how it's done. Whether you're new to Microsoft's popular word processing application, new to MS Word 2011 or even an expert merely looking to brush up on the fundamentals, you ...more
Want to know how to style tables in Microsoft Word for Mac 2011? It's easy and this video will show you how it's done. Whether you're new to Microsoft's popular word processing application, new to MS Word 2011 or even an expert merely looking to brush up on the fundamentals, y ...more
With Quick Style Sets, it's easy to quickly reformat a Word 2011 document. This video will show you how it's done. Whether you're new to Microsoft's popular word processing application, new to MS Word 2011 or even an expert merely looking to brush up on the fundamentals, you'r ...more
Word 2008 for Mac is jam-packed with tons of cool and useful features and tools that you can use to make a great looking document. Starting with the pre-made templates is the best way to go, and from there, customize it the best you can, anyway you can. The Microsoft Office fo ...more
Not everybody in this digital age has PowerPoint, whether on Windows or a Mac. But at least Mac users can find other ways to share their PowerPoint presentations with other Mac users via iPhoto. PowerPoint 2008 for Mac makes it easy to share your slideshows. The Microsoft Offi ...more
Don't want to shell out the big bucks for some fancy, expensive budgeting software? Well, if you have Excel 2008 for Mac installed, you can manage your budget right there. Personal financing doesn't get easier than this— even business finances are easy to keep track of. The Mi ...more
Sure, you can make boring tables inside PowerPoint 2008 for Mac, but who wants to add that dull element to their slideshow presentations? Nobody! Tables can be more than just numbers, they can be eye-catching and visually striking. The Microsoft Office for Mac team shows you j ...more
If you've used PowerPoint in the past, you're probably used to version available on Windows, but you can do even more in PowerPoint 2008 for Mac. There are tons of new features that slideshow builders will love, but sometimes you can never know about them unless someone tells ...more
There's a lot of great features in Entourage 2008 for Mac, and one of the new features in "My Day". It's a small integrated app that helps you stay organized and helps you manage all of your upcoming events and tasks. The Microsoft Office for Mac team shows you just how to man ...more
While you may not have loads of secret files hiding on your computer, there might be one or two items that need a little extra security, like a file of website logins or a folder of risqué photos. Mac OS X does have FileVault as a good security option, which uses XTS-AES 128- ...more
Last weekend, some unlucky Gmail users inadvertently had their email accounts wiped out. Actually, it was 0.02 percent of all Gmail users—or roughly 40,000 of the 200 million who use the email service, due to an "unexpected bug" which affected copies of the data. Gmail does ma ...more
A few days ago, CloudOn released their free mobile app that brought Microsoft Office directly to your Apple iPad. The cloud-based service effectively runs Office on their end, allowing you to use apps like Word and PowerPoint to edit your documents, which you would house in Dr ...more
Microsoft Office files can be password-protected in order to prevent tampering and ensure data integrity. But password-protected documents from earlier versions of Office are susceptible to having their hashes extracted with a simple program called office2john. Those extracted ...more
There's a whole lot of brouhaha going on right now about the hidden plug-ins being installed unknowingly in the Mozilla Firefox web browser, with companies like Apple, Microsoft and even Google being named top offenders. Mozilla's own Asa Dotzler (pictured right) is fed up wi ...more
When you're a Windows OS user it's very easy to send out attachments on emails as .doc documents, made in Microsoft Office or Excel. But just because you're a Windows user doesn't mean your friend or coworker is. Or say that you're a MAC user and your friend keeps loading you ...more
While there exist many makeup tutorials out on the web, you'll seldom find one that applies to all skin tones. Darker skin tones in particular require a different outlook in terms of color intensity and application. In this makeup video, you'll learn how to use neutral tones ...more
Oh how we love open source software. If it wasn't for Open Office, we never would have been able to write that seven-page English paper while on our friend's Microsoft Office-lacking laptop during an impromptu road trip to Mexico. And Ubuntu, an open source secure operating sy ...more
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