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Quiz: Keep your Office documents secure
You use Microsoft Office 2003 programs every day, but do you really know how to use their security features to your best advantage? Take this quiz and see if you know how to let Office 2003 work best for you.

How-to articles, tips, and more
How much will you need each month for your mortgage or car payment? Learn to use Excel formulas to calculate all kinds of payments and savings.
Based on the bestselling book Beyond Bullet Points (Microsoft Press, 2005), author Cliff Atkinson will show you how you can use PowerPoint to align your words and pictures with the way the human mind works. Presented by the Leadership Forum via Microsoft Office Live Meeting.
See how to create a slide show of your digital photos and share it with friends and family.
Learn what makes Office Online tick and see hints at our future. Visit the Inside Office blog and get involved now.

Downloads
Microsoft downloads
Use a Web camera to easily send a video e-mail to your friends and family.
View presentations, even if you don't have Microsoft PowerPoint installed.
This download includes 20 sample Visio 2003 diagrams related to support and sales demos.
Third-party downloads
Thinking about your finances during tax season? Stay on track all year long with a monthly budget tracker that's easy to use.
See the moon phase and eclipse schedules right in your Outlook calendar. This add-in gives you exact dates and times.
Use video backgrounds, 3D transitions, and flash movies to give your presentations a memorable impact.

Security
Learn how to enhance the security of your computer with online tools geared to your specific operating system. Get help with firewalls, antivirus and anti-spyware software, and automatic security updates from Microsoft.
Learn ways to help control the amount of personal information you give to the world while still enjoying what the Internet has to offer.

Office System news
Connect with experts, resources, and much more at a free half-day Microsoft Connections Event. Register now!
Microsoft Dynamics Snap-ins is a collection of software programs that snap in to Microsoft Office. See how you can use business processes and data in Microsoft Dynamics business management solutions back-end applications with familiar Microsoft Office programs.

For IT pros and developers
IT pros
Use SharePoint Products and Technologies to connect your company's offices or traveling workers. This paper offers three solutions enabling you to share information with coworkers around the world.
Read about the performance impact when using SQL Server 2000 versus SQL Server 2005 as the data store for SharePoint Portal Server 2003 with SP2.
The Office Update Inventory Tool version 2.2 allows administrators to check one or more computers in their organization for the status of Office 2000, Office XP, and Office 2003 updates.
Developers
Author Bill English describes and shows how to use SharePoint Portal Server Web services such as AreaService, UserProfileService, and search Web services.
Learn how easy it is to use Microsoft Analysis Services with Excel 2003 to build business intelligence solutions.
Say goodbye to badly formed and invalid dates with this control for Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 that lets you pick a date and time value in a format you choose.

Training and events
Want to tame your Inbox once and for all? Need tips and tricks to become a Microsoft Office Excel 2003 expert, or a master of Microsoft Office Word 2003? We've got an on-demand webcast you can view, right now, that will help you save time and get more done.
Managing people who don't normally work together just got easier. Register for this Microsoft Work Essentials webcast with small business expert Lonnie Pacelli, president of Leading on the Edge International, and hear about five techniques for ensuring team success. It's free. It's interactive. And it's at 9 A.M. Pacific Time, Wednesday, March 22.

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MARCH 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.
Sports photos
People at work
Technology
TEMPLATES
Track your favorite college basketball teams with our 2006 NCAA tournament bracket templates.
Let the madness begin
Crabby's Corner
This month Crabby shares her tax tips and shows how Office can help.
Take shelter in Office with Crabby's tax time tips
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