Illustration: Keith Negley Everyone is still reeling from the recession, and cash is tight–not, perhaps, the best time for Microsoft to launch a new version of its ubiquitous Office productivity suite ...

To make a graph using Microsoft Word 2010, use a shortcut that takes you right to Excel's chart design functionality. Through a simple pop-up window in Word, you never have to stray from your document ...

Microsoft announced today that it will abandon its decades-old Works entry-level suite, and will instead offer a stripped-down, advertising-supported version of Office 2010 on new PCs next year.

Word and Excel are both part of the larger Microsoft package, so it's no surprise they play well together. Exce*l* is a great tool for gathering information in a database format, such as names, ...

Microsoft Word has a date field, but it’s not easy to use in an expression. If you need to update dates in a document, use Excel to calculate the dates and then run a mail merge. If you need to insert ...