New accessibility enhancements for Office Online

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ When we first built Office Online, we worked hard to make the suite accessible to blind and low vision users by using a new web accessibility standard called WAI-ARIA. While this web standard has allowed Office Online to be usable with a screen reader, we’ve made some further improvements over the past year to provide an even better experience. We are excited to talk about these improvements and…

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Now access your password protected sections in the OneNote for Windows Store app

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ OneNote for Windows already offers the ability to add passwords to individual sections of your notebooks for increased security—but what if you want to access those sections using OneNote’s Windows Store app on your favorite device? Today, we’re excited to announce that the OneNote for Windows Store app now includes the ability to unlock your existing password protected sections! Using this feature is easy. First, make sure you’re…

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Excel for iPad helps students stay on top of their GPA

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ How often have you found yourself trying to calculate your GPA? Or let’s be honest…how many times have you tried to figure out the minimum grade you need to get in a course to maintain your GPA? If this sounds familiar, here is Excel for iPad to the rescue with some great features to help you make your own GPA calculator—so that you don’t struggle anymore trying to…

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​The Office Blog shared a lot of exciting news in 2014

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​The Office Blog shared a lot of exciting news in 2014. Here are the top five most popular posts of the year: 1. Announcing the Office you love, now on the iPad (1.3k shares) http://bit.ly/1DcvqFR 2. Students and teachers: You may be eligible to get Office for free! (955 shares) http://bit.ly/1yh3MIL 3. Office 365 offers greater privacy, security and regulatory compliance (595 shares) http://bit.ly/1AkcIv3 4. Introducing Skype for Business…

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Sharing the world’s wishes through OneNote

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Every year children from the age of two to ninety-two put pen, pencil or crayon to paper and write their holiday wish list. Earlier this month, we let you in on a little secret—that our nation’s letters to Santa go to a small post office in the tiny town of Santa Claus, Indiana. More than 13,000 of these wish lists find their way to Santa Claus (the town)…

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Power View interactive visualizations and PivotTables can now be embedded in blogs and websites

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Embedding Excel spreadsheet tables and charts in a webpage or blog is a popular and well-known feature, which has allowed companies and individuals to share data and visualizations to public audiences in effective ways. But telling a story with data has become so much more than basic tables and charts. Some of you have been using Power View to create dynamic and interactive visualizations or shared PivotTable analysis…

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Office Lens gets you networking—scan business cards to OneNote, contacts to Outlook

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Did you know that in the U.S. alone, over 10 billion business cards are printed each year and 88 percent of business cards exchanged are thrown out within a week? Here on the OneNote team, we’re always looking for ways to help you be more efficient, and today we’re launching a new feature to help you digitize all those business cards. Scan business cards with Office Lens You’ve…

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Organize your holiday with OneNote

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​Holiday shopping can be hectic. There’s so much to do in a narrow window of time that sometimes we can lose sight of the cheer in it all. Let OneNote help you keep everything in its place—so you can stress a little less and enjoy each moment a little more. Holiday gift lists Keep track of everyone you’re buying for with organized wish lists in OneNote. (Even convert handwriting…

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