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Get more out of Office
Visit Tips & Tricks to see a host of webcasts, downloads, and essential links that will help you and your team increase productivity and save time. Register now to view any on-demand webcast and you could win a free copy of Office 2003.

How-to articles, tips, and more
This 50 minute course will show you the best way to add graphics to your Word documents and keep them where you want them.
In just a few easy steps you can add personality and flair to your Outlook e-mail messages when you add clip art animations.
Try creating and customizing your own calendar for the new year in Word 2003.
If you don't have the time to create your own calendar, try downloading a calendar template from Office Online.

Downloads
Microsoft downloads
Open, view, and print Excel workbooks, even if you don't have Microsoft Excel installed.
Insert international characters from 26 languages into Office 2003 programs with a single click of your mouse.
Synchronize your business contacts and a subset of your communication history to your Microsoft Windows Mobile Pocket PC device.
Third-party downloads
This conversion tool allows you to select graphics and text from PDF files and instantly convert them into editable Word documents.
Impress audiences by using popular plug-ins and add-ins that will enhance your PowerPoint presentations.
Give your FrontPage Web site a fun and professional look with these themed templates.

Security
Windows Live Safety Center from Microsoft provides a free security scan available on the Internet to help you protect your computer, tune up your computer, and clean out the junk.
Office 2003 offers built-in security features to help protect your information. Learn how you can start using these features today to improve your defenses against unwanted visitors.

Office System news
Easily access and manage your e-mail, contacts, calendars, and tasks from multiple e-mail accounts in Outlook.
Learning Essentials is a desktop application that runs on top of Microsoft Office to give students and teachers a custom Office environment. It includes curriculum-based templates for Word, a graphics program for PowerPoint, and spreadsheet software for Excel.
Microsoft Office Live brings together everything you need to help establish and run your small business online.

For IT pros and developers
IT pros
Read about new functionality, such as support for IP-bound virtual servers, support for crawling and searching Lotus Notes R6, and support for Kerberos security protocol, that was added in SP2.
You can now read the Administrators Guide, Application Configuration Guide, and more online.
Get this Outlook 2002 and Office Outlook 2003 add-in that allows users to access Domino mail servers.
Developers
Get fully functional database samples and table designs for four of the most common Access database types-and then use them as templates to create your own Access solutions.
Erika Ehrli and Saul Candib show how to create an Active Directory user diagram in this new Office Talk column.
Learn how to use objects provided by Word 2003 to create managed code solutions with Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office.

Training and events
Microsoft Learning has created a unique series of courses that combine business and software skills training to help you do your job faster, smarter, and more efficiently. Based on real-world scenarios, these courses teach you how to improve your business skills using Microsoft Office applications.
Connect with experts, resources, and information that can help you stay competitive and maximize your technology at a free half-day Microsoft Connections Event. Register now!

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JANUARY 2006

Table of contents:
How-to articles, tips, and more
Downloads
Security
Office System news
For IT pros and developers
Training and events
CLIP ART AND MEDIA
Browse more than 140,000 images and media clips that you can download and add to Office documents.
Birthdays
Business metaphors
Technology photos
TEMPLATES
This Sudoku solver template will help you harness your powers of logic and reasoning to solve Sudoku puzzles.
Sudoku template
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