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“Office Professional Academic 2010″ Is Now “Office University 2010″

admin — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:30:13 +0000

Microsoft Office team has recently made some deterring changes to its policy of selling hugely discounted Office version for academic fraternity.

Microsoft Office Professional Academic 2010, which is a discounted version of Office Professional 2010 and specifically meant for academic students has just been transformed into a new version.

And not only the new name, the identity verification process involved has also been reworked.

The new version, rebranded as Office University 2010, is packaged with the same contents as follows:

Word
Excel
PowerPoint
OneNote
Outlook
Publisher
Access

Even the cost is the same, which is $99. The only difference, which also reflects with a new name is the narrower eligibility criteria. Office University 2010, as the name suggests, is exclusively available for University students and faculty. K12 students are not eligible for Office University 2010.

With narrower eligibility, Microsoft is aiming to curb another critical thing: Misuse. Office Academic 2010 is equivalent to a full version Office Professional 2010 and therefore, any interested person in full Office version would love to buy Office Academic 2010, as it comes way too cheaper.

The only requirement for buying a hugely discounted Office Academic 2010 was owning a .edu email address. Now, even if you’re not a student, it isn’t a big deal for temporarily managing an .edu account for buying an online product.

That “misuse” of the affordable accessibility of high-end office suite was pissing off Microsoft for a long time and as a result, the product has been rebranded as ‘Office University 2010′, restricted to only Higher education students and faculty members and on top of it all, the identity verification process has been beefed up for lesser chances of any further abuse of the offer.

With new verification rules in place, the Office University 2010 will not be sold with a product key but only a PIN. That PIN will then be used along with couple of other things for Identity verification such as School email ID or International School Identity card.

You can claim your activation key for genuinely bought copy of Office University 2010 through this link.

Office 2010: All What You Need Is Here!

admin — Wed, 25 May 2011 20:58:00 +0000

Microsoft Office 2010 is a proven & incredible piece of software for daily productivity & computing requirements. More than 95% of productivity work across the globe is done through Office products.

With the introduction of Office Web Apps for individuals and Office 365 for enterprise users, Microsoft has brought data sharing, collaboration and tons of other productivity solutions along with Office 2010.

If you’re still confused whether you should upgrade to Office 2010 or not, here’s a quick round-up of Office 2010 features, that more than justifies the worth of Office 2010.

You can further look at head-to-head feature comparison of Office 2010 vs 2007 for more clarity on what you will get out of Office 2010.

If you’ve bought a new PC and got a pre-installed Office version called Office Starter 2010, you’re currently using a limited functionality version of Office productivity suite, containing limited versions of Word 2010 and Excel 2010 only. Other productivity Office applications such as PowerPoint 2010 and Outlook 2010 are not provided in Office Starter 2010. However, Office Starter 2010 can be easily upgraded to full version of Office 2010 by explicitly buying Microsoft Office 2010 Product key card which contains a unique activation key for activating full product.

Else, you’re probably an existing Office user and want to upgrade yourself to Office 2010. For that, we first recommend you to get a preview of new set of features which you will get in Office 2010.

Office 2010 Applications

Before you grab your copy of Office 2010, here’s a must-have list of all Office applications with full feature description and detailing of applications.

Another critical productivity application by Microsoft, SharePoint 2010 has been upgraded, which makes everyday business collaboration tasks possible without a glitch.

Get Office 2010

You may now download office 2010 and start enjoying great productivity with Office 2010. We recommend you to get basic Office 2010 training by going through all the feature descriptions of various Office applications.

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Microsoft Project 2010: What’s Exclusive!

admin — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:06:25 +0000

Microsoft Project 2010 is an standalone Office application that’s primarily used by business professionals, enterprises and management guys and it solves not one but several purposes for its high-end users and businesses.

Below are the features and capabilities of Microsoft Project 2010 and gives you enough reasons on why compromise on efficiency and productivity in business throughput if you’re still not making use of Microsoft Project 2010.

Simplified Project Initiation and Business Case Development procedures: To cut out on time consumption and enhance efficiency, Project 2010 has introduced simpler business case development procedures, making project initiation go faster.
Unified Project & Portfolio Management: With Project 2010, you’re less likely to switch from one section to another as your portfolio and projects are well integrated in MS Project 2010.
Microsoft Office Fluent User Interface: For faster access to the tools managers usually need for planning and managing their projects, Office has now integrated Ribbon UI in Project 2010 as well. As frequently used commands are right on top in Ribbon based UI, anyone new to Project 2010 will find it much easier to adapt to the simplified UI of Project 2010.
Simplified Scheduling: Project scheduling is a critical aspect in Project planning and something that has to be estimated to most accurate level by the manager(s). Project 2010 puts the managers in control as more simplified scheduling options have been introduced in Project 2010. User-controlled scheduling brings together the flexibility and ease of use of a tool like Microsoft Excel 2010.
Timeline View: Here’s an easy and effective way to communicate the schedule of the project among other team members. By using the very intuitive Timeline view. You can quickly publish key tasks and milestones in a concise Timeline view, and further, you can quickly copy-paste the timeline into other Office applications such as PowerPoint and Outlook 2010.
Visual Team Planner: Resource allocation and management is a challenging task to execute for any manager and Project Professional 2010 includes an amazing module that helps managers handle this challenge effortlessly. Visual Team Planner helps managers effectively visualize and manage resources. Using a resource-centric view, you can move assignments by dragging, quickly identifying and resolve over allocations, and view task status information.
Sync with SharePoint: To enhance collaboration among the work groups, now, users can publish Project Professional 2010 schedules to Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 task lists. Appropriate synchronization will help all the team members in keeping a regular update to the project schedule.
Built on SharePoint Server 2010: Microsoft Project Server 2010 is built on Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, so it combines powerful business collaboration platform services with structured PPM capabilities to provide flexible work management solutions for teams of all sizes.
Time Reporting Enhancements: Save your time and bring together task status updates using newly added mode called Single Entry Mode.
Extravagant Work Management Platform: Microsoft Project 2010 connects seamlessly with familiar Microsoft technologies like Office 2010, Exchange Server, and SharePoint Products, thereby providing powerful work management capabilities delivered using familiar tools.
Enterprise Scalability and Performance: Microsoft Project 2010 offers 64-bit compatibility to ensure that the solution continues to meet and exceed enterprise performance requirements.
An Extensible and Programmable Solution: Improvements to the Project API, PSI, and integration with SharePoint Server 2010 and Visual Studio 2010 are sure to give developers a robust development platform for fast deployment of custom solutions that integrate with line-of-business systems and processes.
New capacity planning module in Project Server 2010: This addition will help analysts effectively manage resources by proactively identifying surpluses and deficits and rescheduling proposed projects to maximize available resources.

Download Microsoft Project 2010

There are two different Project 2010 versions available:

Microsoft Project 2010 (Standard version)
Microsoft Project Professional 2010 (Professional version)

Microsoft Publisher 2010: What’s Exclusive!

admin — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 12:32:56 +0000

Microsoft Publisher is another critical Office application that’s widely used by web developers and designers for creating websites and web templates through a quick and intuitive User Interface. And now with the arrival of Office 2010, Microsoft has added flurry of features to the existing capabilities of Publisher and packaged it well in Microsoft Publisher 2010.
Here’s everything new that has been added in Microsoft Publisher 2010. Take a look !

Ribbon UI

The ribbon, part of the Microsoft Office Fluent user interface (UI) has now been integrated in Publisher 2010 as well. With Ribbon interface, the accessibility to mostly used features will become far easier, saving time for the developers. This would provide quicker access to all the commands and enables users to do their own customizations. For instance, you can create your self-defined tabs to contain frequently used commands according to your preference.

Backstage view

Just like Ribbon UI, Office Backstage is also now an integral part of the Fluent UI throughout the Office application suite. The main function of Backstage view remains somewhat similar to Ribbon UI, that is, providing direct access to frequently used features from the File tab itself and helping users manage their Publisher 2010 files more effectively.

Clutter-free Workspace

In the Publisher 2010′s workspace, users will only see object boundaries when they would require them and would see alignment guides when they would need them (for instance, when a user tries to drag an object). Publisher users can also move swiftly from one page to another by using the new page navigation pane, which displays single-page or double-page thumbnails.

Integrated print and preview experience

In Publisher 2010, Print and Print Preview are integrated into single display, making it far easier for viewing the preview of any page and giving the Print command there and then. Earlier, one had to see Preview first and if everything looked fine then give a separate command for printing the page but with Publisher 2010, both the features are integrated as a single operation.

Saving file as .pdf or .xps

This feature has been introduced in Access 2010 as well. Users can now save files in the .pdf or .xps file format and can easily distribute their files through web or other mediums.Also .pdf files can be password-protected for providing limited access to the documents.

64-bit edition of Publisher 2010

Publisher 2010 64-bit edition is also available for Office users. It is backward-compatible with other versions of Publisher but can only be installed on Windows 64-bit operating systems.

This certainly includes the ability to make print adjustments as required while at the same time, viewing the effect of the changes in a larger preview of their publication. Users can view multiple pages at the same time, view page boundaries, page numbers, and sheet rulers while in print preview.

Get Microsoft Publisher 2010

Now, there are two ways by which you can get latest version of Microsoft Publisher:

1. Buy Microsoft Office Professional 2010. Only Professional version of Office 2010 includes Microsoft Publisher 2010.

2. Buy Microsoft Publisher 2010 separately.

Microsoft Access 2010: What’s Exclusive!

admin — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:38:01 +0000

Microsoft Access 2010 is one of the most extensively used office applications, primarily by IT professionals and enterprises. Microsoft Access is an RDBMS from Microsoft that basically provides a combined pool of Database management, software development tools, presented in a user-friendly GUI so that any programmer, developer or IT administrator can create, manage databases and build software applications by making use of the databases.

Now, with the latest release of Access 2010, Microsoft has made some critical additions to the feature set and capabilities of Access 2007, making it more productive for IT professionals and business users.

New features in Microsoft Access 2010

1. Ability to create Web databases: With the use of MS Access within Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, one can create a Web database using Access 2010. Front end users can use the database through a browser window. The design changes can be done by the Database administrator through MS Access 2010.

One must note that all of the features of desktop version of Microsoft Access 2010 are not replicated in the web version as well. Alternatively, the left out features can still be utilized in the web version by making use of other newly added features, namely calculated fields, data macros and similar others.

2. Export data to PDF and XPS format: This feature was a much requested feature and has finally been added in the latest version, that is, within Microsoft Access 2010. You can now export your data from Access 2010 application into .xps file format (XML Paper Specification) or .pdf file format (Portable Document Format) for easier distribution of your data via email or other sharing methods.

3. Ability to connect to a particular Web service as an “External data source”: With Microsoft Access 2010, you can now connect with a web service as an external data source. This could prove very useful for web developers and programmers who wanted to use their Access databases to be effectively used for their web services.

4. Backstage view: Backstage view and Ribbon UI have both been provided to all the office applications and therefore provided in Access 2010 as well. The Backstage view is accessible from the File tab and it contains immediate access to commands which user applies to an entire database, such as ‘compact and repair’.

5. Enhanced security features and strong integration with Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010: These additions would help users manage data more effectively and allow making information tracking applications more secure than before.

Get Microsoft Access 2010

Now, there are two ways by which you can get latest version of Microsoft Access:

1. Buy Microsoft Office Professional 2010. Only Professional version of Office 2010 includes Microsoft Access 2010.

2. Buy Microsoft Access 2010 separately.

Microsoft Office 2010 Product Key Card

admin — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 08:32:09 +0000

Although Microsoft released Office 2010 last week for purchase through Online stores as well as retails outlets, another alternative way by which Microsoft has been providing trial version of Office 2010 to end consumers is by pre-installing Office 2010 on new computing devices(laptops, netbooks) sold by leading device manufacturers such as Dell, HP, Lenovo etc.

The motive behind providing pre-installed Office 2010 trial version is to let people explore the latest features of Office 2010 and unlock the full features and capabilities by upgrading their Office suite with a Product Key Card.

Upgrading Office 2010 through a Product key card is something new for the ‘Office’ users as this method has been introduced for the first time by Microsoft so here’s everything you need to know about Product key card, how to use it, where to find it and method to upgrade your Office 2010 trial version.

Office 2010 Product Key Card

Product Key Card is a simple way to upgrade your pre-loaded trial version of Office 2010 on a new PC to full version of Office 2010. It must be noted that Product Key Card is particularly meant for “new PCs with pre-loaded Office 2010 trial version”. Existing PCs with beta version of Office 2010 or older version of Office cannot upgrade through Product Key Card.

More details about Product Key Card:

It includes a 25-character Product Key. You do not get any disc with it.
Every Product Key Card is licensed for one installation on one PC only
License cannot be transferred to another PC
Backup disc available

Advantages of buying Product Key Card

If you’ve bought a new PC (desktop, laptop, netbook), you can get Office 2010 at a discounted price with Product key Card
It offers great value for single license users
It’s quick to install. Just like unlocking any software application to unleash full features and capabilities

Steps to install and activate Office 2010 using Product Key Card

Confirm your PC meets the .
Locate your Product Key in your Office 2010 Product Key Card.
Check to see if your PC is preloaded with Office 2010. To do so, click the Windows Start menu, and then click All Programs. If you see “Office 2010,” Office is preloaded.
If your machine is preloaded with a trial version of Office 2010 then click the Windows Start Menu, and then click Office 2010.
On the startup screen, look for “Right tick mark” symbol, and simply click Activate to start activation.
When prompted to enter your 25-character Product Key, just enter your product key.
Your trial version of Office 2010 is upgraded to full version now.

Where to buy Office 2010 Product Key Card

You can buy Office 2010 Product Key Card through any Retail outlet or websites of hardware manufacturers
Alternately, you can buy a Product key card through Amazon.com

10 videos that Narrate Everything about “Office 2010″

admin — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:17:05 +0000

With close to 10 million beta testers of Office 2010, the latest productivity suite from Microsoft became a rage, much before becoming available for public release recently. Since Office beta got released, millions of people have got their hands on the latest features of Office 2010 and have been using Office 2010 during last 8 months or so.

It wasn’t surprising though that many beta testers found it a little tough to getting used to Office 2010 immediately. Also, people wanted to learn more about the features of office 2010, which they had never seen before. To address these concerns and create more excitement among the public for Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft came up with some awesome introductory videos and training tutorials of Office 2010 applications.

Hundreds of beta testers did their bit as well by uploading Office 2010 training videos on Youtube, helping other users understand and utilize the full capabilities of Office 2010.

We went through all those videos out there and picked the best 10 “Must-Watch” videos about Office 2010 applications, which are enough to explain everything about Office 2010 features and capabilities.

So, if you’re geared up to dig more into Office 2010 applications and use your applications more efficiently, don’t miss the videos featured below….

Don’t tell us you haven’t yet downloaded your copy of Office 2010. It’s a Must-have. Don’t you dare miss it !

#1 : Office 2010: The Movie video

Brief-up: This movie isn’t actually meant to educate you but rather turn you excited about the all new Office 2010.

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#2: Microsoft Office 2010 Introduction video

Brief-up: This introduces Office 2010 with all its feature brief-up and giving a overview of the capabilities of the suite.

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#3: Microsoft Word 2010 video

Brief-up: This video takes you through Word 2010, the most popular office application and latest added features.

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#4 Microsoft Excel 2010 video

Brief-up: Catch how you can work on heavy datasheets with ease using Office 2010.

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#5: Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 video

Brief-up: This video shows a hands-on review of PowerPoint 2010 and what’s new in it.

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#6: Microsoft Outlook 2010 video

Brief-up: This video shows off the features and capabilities of Outlook 2010.

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#7: Microsoft Office 2010 Mobile video

Brief-up: This video explain about Microsoft Office 2010 Mobile, the mobile version of Office 2010.

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#8: Microsoft OneNote 2010 video

Brief-up: Catch the video tutorial of OneNote 2010, its features and newly introduced capabilities.

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#9: Microsoft Office 2010 Web Apps video

Brief-up: This video brings Office web apps into action. Check out the video, it’s worth a complete watch!

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#10: Office 2010 Professional: Technical Preview video

Brief-up: This video is all about the professional version of Office 2010. Take a look !

Top 10 reasons Why ‘Office 2010′ is a ‘Must Have’ Productivity suite

admin — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 13:24:31 +0000

As Office 2010 has finally been made available to the users worldwide, everyone is asking just one question….

Is Office 2010 worth a buy ?

As we’ve been busy covering every bit of information, news and updates surrounding Office 2010 since it got announced back in 2009, we’ve certainly got the answer to the question quoted above.

Without much ado, let’s get down to real stuff…

Below are the Top 10 reasons why Office 2010 is a ‘Must-have’ productivity suite and why you shouldn’t give it a miss !

Here we go !

1. Take ‘Office’ virtually anywhere, any device. Work from PC, browser and mobile, wherever you want to.

The most emphasized statement you would hear from any Microsoft official about Office 2010 is being able to work on ‘Office’ from PC, browser and mobile. And yes, it is indeed the case with this installment of Office productivity suite.

With Microsoft introducing Office Web Apps, online team collaboration tools, offline-online dual support, high document fidelity, data sync ability, mobile support among countless other features in Office 2010, Office users will certainly get the ability to be productive, no matter which device they are onto.

2. Enhance productivity and time-efficiency (specially for enterprise users) using simplified online collaboration tools

One of the most sought-after features in Office 2010 is the ability for people to collaborate, real time on Office documents. This would enable teams to work together on Word, Excel and Powerpoint presentations in real-time. No matter, whether the people are located in different countries or elsewhere, Real-time collaboration will drastically reduce the latency in teamwork and help the teams work more efficiently.

Any changes made to any particular document will be seen LIVE by all other team members collaborating on the same document through internet. Such an ability would greatly enhance the throughout and help getting work done faster than ever.

3. Stay organized with enhanced Outlook 2010

Latest edition of Outlook 2010 brings conversation management tools, calendar preview, mail tips and several other utility features on the board. Here is an in-depth explanation of all the latest features in Outlook 2010. Outlook 2010 has also been given a UI facelift as Ribbon interface has finally been introduced in Outlook 2010 as well. Ribbon UI got introduced in Word, Excel and PowerPoint when 2007 version came out and now, the same UI has been introduced in Outlook for better User experience.

4. Enhanced data visualization with Excel 2010

MS Excel application is already one of the most extensively used productivity tools ever created and with Excel 2010, business users will get to have Sparklines, a new feature addition that will provide enhanced data visualizations, showing data trends with ease.

Online collaboration on Excel datasheets will be a huge advantage, especially for accounting professionals who have to get their data collection always up to date. Here is an in-depth explanation on all the features of Excel 2010.

5. Utilize cutting-edge audio/video & animation enhancements with PowerPoint 2010

Capabilities of PowerPoint have been greatly enhanced in PowerPoint 2010 with features such as Photo editing, video editing, advanced transition effects etc. Office 2010 users can now feel assured that they won’t have to open Photoshop for all those small photo editing needs. Web based collaboration on presentations is an excellent asset too. Here’s more on PowerPoint 2010 features.

6. Office Web Apps, the biggest leap towards the future of computing.

Newly introduced Office Web Apps adds a whole new dimension to Office 2010 productivity suite, taking Office suite from desktop to cloud. With Office Web Apps, users are able to work on their documents online, with or without any native Office suite support. Office 2010 users are able to work on Word, Excel, PowerPoint documents online through their web browsers and the fidelity of Office 2010 documents is near 100%. Here’s more detailed explanation about Office web apps.

7. Feature add-ins in MS Word 2010

Office 2010 comes with a flurry of new features such as Image background removal, Instant screenshots, collaborative document editing, Art effects in Word Art, Artistic Effects among several other features. Here’s a detailed explanation of all the Word 2010 features.

8. Protection from malicious emails with capability of ‘Protected Viewing’ of documents

No matter how good your email service is, there will always remain a possibility that the document you just downloaded from your email might be carrying a malicious script. To avoid any damage to your computer and precious documents/data, Office 2010 comes with a ‘Protected Viewing’ option. This option opens the suspected document in a sandbox mode where the malicious script, if it is, isn’t allowed to execute at all.

9. Tight integration with other Microsoft services such as SkyDrive, Hotmail, giving a comprehensive productivity

With recent integration of Office Web Apps and Skydrive(Cloud storage service), you can forget to keep an eye over the data storage limits on your cloud based skydrive account. And very soon, Office web apps will get tightly integrated with Hotmail as well. Hence, with Office 2010 and Office web apps, you are sure to have an integrated solution to all your needs, whether on desktop or on cloud.

10. Productivity, Productivity, Productivity !!

A majority of Office users are quite happy with previous versions of Office suite, mainly Office 2003. Even Office 2007 has not been adopted to the deepest. And the reason that users of older Office versions quote while denying an Office version upgrade is…

“When we can still get our work done with older Office suite, why “upgrade” ?”

The answer is : Productivity, Productivity, Productivity !!

The whole difference lies in productivity. A particular task that could surely be done with Office 2003 applications can be done far more efficiently with Office 2010, saving precious time & efforts, which eventually makes the “version upgrade” worth it !

There are more reasons than the above 10 cited reasons which makes, Office 2010 upgrade, a must-do but the top 10 have been explained here. If you haven’t secured your copy of Office 2010 till now, go buy it right now !!

Microsoft Office Home and Business 2010 in Details

admin — Fri, 14 May 2010 13:01:13 +0000

From now on, every business, from small scale firms to large enterprises, can get the latest version of Office productivity suite, i.e., Office 2010 and start utilizing the advantages of the latest Office 2010 suite of products.

While giving a keynote presentation to media at New York, Stephen Elop, president, Microsoft Business Division said…

“Office 2010 defines the future of productivity. With the 2010 set of products, organizations will save, innovate and grow as their people benefit from working across the PC, phone and browser.”

With Microsoft Office 2010, businesses will not only increase their productivity but also take advantage of the newly introduced Office Web Apps, which will truly enable the users in collaborating online and working anywhere.

As we have already described what Office Home and Student 2010 has to offer, let us now discuss one of the most preferred and recommended office suites, especially for enterprises and working professionals : Office Home and Business 2010.

Office Home and Business 2010 in Details

Office Home and Business 2010 differs from Home and Student 2010 in a manner that it does not include the professional applications that Office Home and Student does not.

Following are the list of applications that are covered under Office Home and Business 2010.

Word 2010
Excel 2010
PowerPoint 2010
Outlook 2010
OneNote 2010

While Word, Excel and PowerPoint applications are included in the most basic version of Office 2010, Outlook 2010 and OneNote 2010 are exclusive to higher versions of Office 2010 such as Office Home and Business and Office Professional 2010.

So, if you’re a working professional and want a good productivity software for your daily needs, which also includes checking emails and frequent note-making then Office Home & Business 2010 offers a balanced solution at an affordable price.

Microsoft Word 2010 without XML

admin — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:40:44 +0000

A successful lawsuit on Microsoft by i4i inc. regarding patent infringement of custom XML usage had eventually forced the Tech Pioneer to abide with the court’s decision and avert the conflicting XML usages from existing and future Microsoft Word application by Jan 11, 2010.

On Jan 11, there were a number of office versions, which went unavailable for buying, which clearly depicted that Microsoft didn’t meet the deadline on time. A couple of media sources noted it right on Jan 11 itself.

Now it seems that Microsoft is done with the exclusion of questionable custom XML usage in Word application as various Office application suites, which mainly covers the Office 2007 offerings as yet, have started selling on the official Microsoft Office site again.