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Microsoft Excel World Champion Is A 15-Year-Old English Girl

2:00AM August 5, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

Honestly, I don’t know what’s more surprising about this story: that a 15-year-old girl beat out 228,000 other Excel fans, or that Microsoft holds an Excel World Championship at all. More »


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Use Facebook At Work Without Anyone Knowing

12:00AM June 21, 2011 | Adrian Covert

It’s Monday, and you probably got a lot of photos from the weekend to catch up with on Facebook. I’m sure your supreme overlords are mean about time theft too. Give Excellbook a try, which effectively turns Facebook into a spreadsheet. [Be Stupid At Work via TheNextWeb]


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Google Docs Levels Up: Unlocks Pivot Table Powers

8:05AM May 18, 2011 | Andrew Tarantola

Google Docs went Ding! today and gained some additional functionality, rolling out natively supported pivot tables. The pivot table, as any A/R Coordinator worth his salt can tell you, allows data from one workbook to be summarized in another, saving huge amounts of time and brainpower. This function been available on Excel since 1997 but has been only available to Docs users to this point through the Panorama add-on. [Google Docs Blog via Business Insider]


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Cheat Sheet: 12 Tips And Tricks For Microsoft Excel

12:40AM February 11, 2011 | Seamus Bellamy Paul Lily and David Murphy - MaximumPC

Excel isn’t the sexiest application in the world – it has an unfortunate association with the type of Milton-esque office drones we all wish we weren’t. All the same, you’re going to have to use at some point in their life, and it’s got a lot of arcane secrets. So here are 10 quick tips and tricks that will let you navigate Excel in no time flat. More »


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Office For Mac 2011 Makes Video Teaser Appearance

7:00PM July 29, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

Some of those Office for Mac 2011 features first shown off in February have appeared in a teaser video on YouTube. Word, PowerPoint, Excel and even Outlook (yes! Real Outlook!) all make appearances, as does the redesigned MSN Messenger. More »


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Microsoft Office 2011 For Mac Gets Undressed

6:19AM March 30, 2010 | Boy Genius Report

We’ve just scored some of the first shots of Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac, and while they are said to be very early, you can clearly see the progress that has been made in the transition to native Cocoa applications. More »


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Microsoft Office 2010 Beta Is Now Available

2:00AM November 19, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

The next version of the best-selling software of all time, Microsoft Office 2010, is finally available in beta today. Get used to the new Office: We’re all going to use this stuff at some point. More »


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At Last, Microsoft Word Editing In The IPhone

3:00AM June 16, 2009 | Jesus Diaz

Rejoice, Microsoft Office and iPhone users, because now you can edit, create, and view Microsoft Word documents. Dataviz Documents To Go doesn’t bring Excel editing, but at least is now here for $US5. And there’s more. More »


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How to Tweet At Work Without Getting Caught

6:40AM April 22, 2009 | Jason Chen

Chances are you’re reading us (and goofing off) at work while trying to pretend you’re not slacking. Spreadtweet’s an easy way to check twitter while making it seem like you’re a not a lousy employee.

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Quickoffice Word and Excel Office Suite For The iPhone Now Available in App Store

3:40AM April 21, 2009 | Sean Fallon

If you are interested in an app for the iPhone/Touch that can edit both Microsoft Word and Excel documents along with file sharing and content management capabilities, Quickoffice is now available via the App Store for $US20. [iTunes]

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