What is an Office Update Focus?

Each month Office Update will bring you a series of articles designed to help you accomplish your everyday tasks more efficiently using Office products. You will also find tips and tricks that help you to discover all the Office features and use them more effectively, as well as useful downloads and related links that take you to more information.

What Focuses are Currently Available?

Look here to find the current Office Update Focus as well as a list of focuses that are already posted. And even though a focus has been posted, we will continue to update it with new information or downloads, so be sure to check back often.

Time-Saving Tips for Office 2000

This month's focus introduces the new Office Update Tips and Tricks Center and provides additional resources for working quickly and efficiently in Office.

Building Your Business with Office 2000

In this month's focus you'll find information about using Microsoft Small Business Tools. You'll also find pointers to important small business Web sites and information about add-ins available on Office Update to help you build your business.

Choosing the Best Office 2000 Program for Your Task

This month's focus aims to help you decide which Office 2000 product to use for a variety of common tasks by comparing the features available in many of the products.

Working on the Web with Office 2000

Learn about the many tools Office 2000 has to help you publish documents to the Web, edit and update them, and share Web-based information with customers and co-workers.

Customizing Office 2000

The focus this month, Customize Office 2000, offers tips to help you increase your efficiency by setting up the Office products to match your working style and preferences. Change default settings, customize menus, toolbars and templates, and more.

Exploring Office 2000

Office 2000 has the tools that can help you work more efficiently and creatively. The articles brought together this month introduce you to many of the new features in Office 2000 - features that make Office easier to use and manage. With Office 2000, users can improve information sharing and collaboration with co-workers, and can benefit from support for multilingual users and rich data analysis tools. Be sure to visit the Office Update Focus Center often. We plan a series of focuses on specific areas of Office 2000 with articles as well as tips and tricks for using Office 2000 effectively.

Finding Help for Office 97

Get your work done quickly with the built-in assistance in Office 97 and other easy-to-access Microsoft resources. This month's focus provides you with a look at the many ways to get Help, whether you are a new user or a corporate IT professional.

Security and Microsoft Office

Office 2000 introduces new security features that protect your documents. In response to recent virus problems, Microsoft has prepared the Outlook 97 Email Attachment Security Update , Outlook 98 Email Attachment Security Update , and the Outlook 2000 Email Attachment Security Update to help prevent releasing viruses hidden in attached executable files. The Microsoft Office 2000 Macro Security White Paper discusses how you can prevent the introduction of macro viruses into your computer using Office 2000.

Preparing for the Year 2000

As we near the end of the century, it is important to understand how the changeover to the year 2000 will affect your computer. Do you work with two-digit years? Do you know how your computer or software will convert two-digit years or handle leap-year calculations? Office Update focuses this month on providing you with ways to tackle the year 2000 issue head-on.

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