Microsoft 365 Blog

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New agent capabilities in Microsoft Copilot unlock business value

Microsoft Copilot is already helping individual employees boost productivity, creativity and time savings. With the announcements at Microsoft Build 2024, we’re delivering an entirely new set of capabilities that unlock Copilot’s ability to drive bottom-line business results for every organization.

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Microsoft and LinkedIn release the 2024 Work Trend Index on the state of AI at work

For our fourth annual Work Trend Index, out today, we partnered with LinkedIn for the first time on a joint report so we could provide a comprehensive view of how AI is not only reshaping work, but the labor market more broadly.

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Bringing Copilot to more customers worldwide—across life and work

Continuing our vision for Microsoft Copilot to bring the power of generative AI to everyone across work and life, we’re expanding availability and purchase options for individuals and organizations and bringing new value to Copilot Pro subscribers.

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Introducing Microsoft Copilot for Finance: Transform finance with next-generation AI in Microsoft 365

We’re announcing the public preview of Microsoft Copilot for Finance, a game-changer for finance professionals and the newest role-based extension of Microsoft Copilot. Microsoft Copilot for Finance is a momentous leap forward, specifically crafted to revolutionize the daily grind of well-known financial processes.

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Expanding Copilot for Microsoft 365 to businesses of all sizes

We are updating our Microsoft Copilot product line-up with a new Copilot Pro subscription for individuals; expanding Copilot for Microsoft 365 availability to small and medium-sized businesses; and announcing no seat minimum for commercial plans.

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The right way to AI: what we’re learning from customers

We want to help everyone navigate this new world of work. At Microsoft, we’re taking a learn-it-all approach with Copilot, working alongside our customers and employees to understand what the organizations getting the most value out of Copilot are doing right.

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Microsoft Copilot for Sales and Copilot for Service are now generally available

Microsoft is dedicated to helping organizations transform the way people work using secure, enterprise-grade AI capabilities, no matter which business applications teams depend on. Starting today, you can seamlessly integrate role-specific Copilot capabilities into Microsoft 365 applications and popular customer relationship management (CRM) and contact center systems for sales and customer service professionals.

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Introducing Microsoft Copilot Studio and new features in Copilot for Microsoft 365 

At Microsoft Ignite 2023, we are announcing new innovations across Microsoft Copilot—one copilot experience that runs across all our surfaces, understanding your context on the web, on your PC, and at work to bring the right skills to you when you need them across work and life.

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Announcing Microsoft Copilot Studio: Customize Copilot for Microsoft 365 and build your own standalone copilots

At Microsoft Ignite 2023, we’re excited to announce Microsoft Copilot Studio, a low-code tool to customize Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 and build standalone copilots.

Recent articles

Published June 10, 2010

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5 things you wanted to know about OneNote 2010

<p>You've read so much about OneNote 2010 getting the Office ribbon interface, but you can't find (or control) it. What's up? There seems to be no way to browse, apply, or download OneNote templates now, even though you could before. How come? You're not sure if your old notebooks need to be converted to a different file format before you can use them in OneNote 2010. Do they? What's happening with your favorite OneNote powertoys? Will they work in OneNote 2010? And what's a good way to get started with the new version? Now that the OneNote Web App has been released (the #1 thing everyone had been asking about), I've compiled a list of answers to the top 5 other questions you've been asking about OneNote 2010. Read on...</p>

Published June 8, 2010

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Employment application for Word: Template du jour

<p>Today’s template is an Employment application for Word 2007 or later. You can download this template now, or get more free templates or free clip art & photos from Office.com. Have you designed a useful template? Share your own templates here. You never know when we might feature yours!</p>

Published June 7, 2010

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Running a SQL Stored Procedure from Excel (No VBA)

In some organizations, the IT department wants all interaction with the server to be done through Stored Procedure. This adds a level of risk management and makes the DBAs feel better.

Published May 10, 2010

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Download Access 2010 Runtime, Database Engine Redistributable and Source Code Control

Download Access 2010 Runtime, Access Database Engine Redistributable (office connectivity components) 2010 and Source Code Control Add-in for Access 2010 today! Access Runtime 2010 Available in both 32-bit and 64-bit, you can download the Runtime here. It is currently offered in 13 languages and more languages will be offered at a later time. Access Database

Published May 4, 2010

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New Outlook Hotmail Connector released today

After several months of beta testing, Microsoft Outlook Hotmail Connector 14.0 has officially been released as a replacement for Outlook Connector 12. Outlook Hotmail Connector 14.0 is compatible with Outlook 2003, 2007, and 2010. Why use the Outlook Hotmail Connector? If you have been using Outlook Connector 12.1, you already know that it enables you

Published April 2, 2010

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Power Tip: Create an AutoNumber field that starts with a number greater than 1

Today’s guest blogger is Luke Chung, President and Founder of FMS, Inc. Luke has written and presented a wide range of topics related to Access over the years. In addition to their many Access related products, FMS offers a wealth of great Access papers, tips, and video on their site. In Microsoft Access tables, the

Published March 8, 2010

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How to create, view, and share Word 2007 templates

Many of you ask how to create templates, plus how to apply them to another document or share them with other people, so here are the instructions you need to get started! For guidelines on how to create templates that are easy to use or that will print correctly, and for tips on using some

Published February 24, 2010

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Scatter charts with PowerPivot

Rob over at http://powerpivotpro.com has a interesting post on scatter charts and PowerPivot: At right is a list of all chart types in Excel. But not all of them are supported as PivotCharts. Try to use XY (Scatter), Bubble, or Stock as a PivotChart, and you’ll get an alert saying you cannot create it with

Published January 13, 2010

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Build your own board game, create playing cards

We recently published an energy calculator template from one of our content partners in Canada, Microsoft Home Magazine. During that process, they let us know about a board game activity that they recently published on their site, and we love it! The online article provides useful how-to steps and it comes with Word and Excel

Published January 13, 2010

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Cross version compatibility between Access 2010 and Access 2007

Today’s guest writer is Lois Wang—PM for reports and version-to-version compatibility. I saw a question on the Access TechNet Forum the other day that I’d like to share with the community: “I can’t open accdb files in Access 2007 after they’ve been opened in 2010.” Access 2010 brings you many new features (Data Macros, Calculated

Published September 23, 2009

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Adding Every Other Cell in a Column

Today’s author is Bill Jelen, author of 24 books on Microsoft Office Excel. He is a regular guest on TechTV with Leo Laporte and the host of MrExcel.com, which includes more than 300,000 questions and answers about Excel. Jenny asks “Is there a quick way of adding every other cell ?, I have a column

Published September 21, 2009

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New and Improved Solver

Thanks to Eric Patterson for putting together this post. In Excel 2010, we have made a number of improvements to Solver that make it easy for beginners to get started and more advanced ones to find solutions to all types of problems. The purpose of this post is to review the improvements to Solver, and