FAQs: Migrating Live@edu domains from Hotmail to Outlook Live

This document provides answers to frequently asked questions about migrating Live@edu domains from Hotmail to Outlook Live and its benefits.

The contents are -

• Benefits of migrating a Live@edu domain from Hotmail to Outlook Live
• What’s migrated from Hotmail to Outlook Live
• IT administrator experience
• Student experience
• Ensuring a successful migration
• Additional resources and support
• Walkthrough of the Hotmail to Outlook Live migration process

 

You can download the document from here .  (.docx format ,size:1.2MB)

You can find more info on Live@edu at  http://www.microsoft.com/liveatedu/free-email-accounts.aspx

Make better PowerPoint presentations

Here’s another video from the Office Casual series- Make better PowerPoint presentations -

Doug Thomas shows you how to give great presentations with some expert advice from Seth Godin, Guy Kawasaki, and Garr Reynolds, along with a tour of PowerPoint's underutilized Presenter's View feature in this video.

A Few Perspectives on OpenOffice.org

Several customers share their experiences with OpenOffice.org and why they came back to Microsoft Office -

 

Microsoft Mathematics Add-In for Word and OneNote

With the Microsoft Mathematics Add-in for Word and OneNote, you can perform mathematical calculations and plot graphs in your Word documents and OneNote notebooks.  It makes it easy to plot graphs in 2D and 3D, calculate numerical results, solve equations or inequalities, and simplify algebraic expressions. The add-in also provides an extensive collection of mathematical symbols and structures to display clearly formatted mathematical expressions. You can also quickly insert commonly used expressions and math structures by using the Equation gallery.

 

 

The Microsoft Mathematics Add-in can help you with the following tasks:

 

• Compute standard mathematical functions, such as roots and logarithms

• Compute trigonometric functions, such as sine and cosine

• Find derivatives and integrals, limits, and sums and products of series

• Perform matrix operations, such as inverses, addition, and multiplication

• Perform operations on complex numbers

• Plot 2-D graphs in Cartesian and polar coordinates

• Plot 3-D graphs in Cartesian, cylindrical, and spherical coordinates

• Solve equations and inequalities

• Calculate statistical functions, such as mode and variance, on lists of numbers

• Factor polynomials or integers

• Simplify or expand algebraic expressions

 

 

This add-in works with Microsoft Word 2010, Microsoft OneNote 2010 and Microsoft Office Word 2007.

EDIT: Added this video. (04Oct10)  With the free Microsoft Mathematics Add-In for Word and OneNote, you can calculate any mathematical expression or equation and then plot a graph. In this short video, Jennifer Bost shows you how using Microsoft Word 2010.

For more details check the download link. You can download the add-in from here .

Contest- Win a License of Microsoft Office 2010 Home and Student Edition

Its my pleasure to announce that Microsoft India is providing to us a Copy of Microsoft Office 2007 Home and Student Edition as a Contest Giveaway prize and this will be upgraded to Microsoft Office 2010 for FREE when it gets released in June commercially. So all my blog readers, get ready for the contest.

 

CONTEST -

To Win the Office 2010 license, you need to follow these simple steps :

1. Subscribe to meraTechPort Newsletter by entering your mailID and click on ‘Subscribe’ button in the ‘Subscribe’ section of the Sidebar . A verification mail will be delivered to your Inbox, follow the mail to verify the subscription to complete the request.

2. You can also follow me on twitter to RT about this Contest.

3. And share your thoughts in couple of lines on one of your favorite features in Microsoft Office 2010  and reason. Also if you want any new feature to be added, please tell us in short. You can send this by clicking on ‘Contact Me’ in the sidebar of my blog. (Please use the same mailID, which you had used to Subscribe)

A random lucky winner will be chosen and the prize will be sent to him.Please Note –

• The prize can only be shipped within India. 
• The winners will be sent emails and they will redeem their awards via microsoftstore.co.in

If you haven’t been using office 2010 or its beta ver, you can download the beta ver from here.

(Thanks to Microsoft India for the Microsoft Office License )

 

 

DEEP DIVE INTO OFFICE 2010 -

So that was about the contest,but that’s not all, You are Invited for a Deep Dive into the new Microsoft Office 2010 -

The Office community is hosting a Virtual Launch Event for Office 2010 on May 25 and 26th.This event is FREE to attend. You can choose to come to the training centre closest to you or experience it virtually from your PC using Live Meeting. It’s a training workshop featuring demos and interactions with MVPs – over 2 days. Come discover what you can create with the familiar building blocks of the new Office.

For agenda and to register please visit: http://www.meraoffice.com 

Don’t miss this golden opportunity to learn about the new office 2010 and also win some goodies.

In June, limited cities will be hosting Community Launch Events for Office 2010. At the launch events, attendees will get to see Office 2010 in action and learn how to do their work better with Office 2010. The details are available on http://office.merawindows.com

 

UPDATE  16/06/10

****CONTEST IS CLOSED NOW, WINNER TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON****

 

UPDATE 17/06/10

Winner Announced -

The wait is over and the winner of Microsoft Office 2007 Home and Student Edition is Shaan ul Majid.

Congrats to Shaan !! Thanks to all the participants , Keep checking for more of such Contests, giveaways in the future.

 

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I’ll be updating the Post with the Blog Reader’s Comments as and when received -

• Sender Name: Shaan ul Majid
  Sender Email Address: Removed for privacy

My favorite feature is the screen capture tool. It does not allow me to use any other tool to capture the screenshot or to press PrtSc and edit it using MSPaint.
I love it

 

• Sender Name: Sujay
  Sender Email Address: Removed for privacy

Thanks for this giveaway. I am using the beta version of MS Office for long. I like a number of features mainly paste preview, Backstage view, new image editor and ribbon interface.

 

• Sender Name: princeaniket
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i want to add 1 addition tool as " add or merge " two ppt's or word documents together..

 

• Sender Name: srikapardhi
  Sender Email Address: Removed for privacy

My most favorite feature in office 2010 is its appearance only and its UI.
it is designed with beautiful colours and also the powerpoint is having lot more features than the ppt 2007.
i love office 2010.

 

• Sender Name: Sairam Dinakar inguva
  Sender Email Address: Removed for privacy

Thanks for this giveaway. I am using the beta version of MS Office for long. I like a number of features mainly paste preview, Backstage view, new image editor and ribbon interface.

 

• Sender Name: chelluchanakyaraja
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I've been using Office 2010 Beta for a couple of months and haven't found any problems. The programs launch really fast - the biggest improvement I've seen over 2007 or any previous version. I feel like I save lots of time when Word docs open fast and save fast...not sure if it adds up to much time but it is a noticeable difference!
All the best for ur launch....

 

• Sender Name: pranay nigotiya
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hello
i love Ms office because it helps me 100% in my business and personal usage right from word, excel, to ppt , outlook, etc.. its a complete package and nothing can better than this.. cheers..

 

• Sender Name: Dhiraj Sinha
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Hi there,
The feature that impresses me most is that one can now seamlessly collaborate on a project with one's coworkers using webapps over SkyDrive or Facebook.Besides,the "paste preview tool",which lets one assess how a copied content would look like while keeping the source formatting intact or stripped or merged without actually pasting it!!,is also very enticing.The more widespread usage of the ribbon interface now across all components of the office is also a welcome move.So keeping in mind the things I have said above,do count me in the giveaway please.Thanking You... Dhiraj
P.S I have subscribed to the email feeds and following you on twitter.My twitter handle is d4dhiraj.Additionally I have tweeted this post at: http://twitter.com/d4dhiraj/status/14745349934

 

• Sender Name: vipul
  Sender Email Address: Removed for privacy 

Hi!
A unique feature of its type should be added to MS-Word.
That is an image editor should be added to word so that any one could make image more pleasant in his document.
Thanks for the promo!

 

• Sender Name: Shaan ul Majid
  Sender Email Address: Removed for privacy 

Hi,
Let me take the liberty to thank you for selecting me as a winner for MS Office 2007 Home Student Edition.
I would like to know how it is going to be shipped to me as I have not received any confirmation related to it.

Office Mobile 2010 PowerPoint Streaming on Windows Phone 7

A new video of  Microsoft's Chris Capossela demoing the streaming capabilities of Office Mobile 2010 PowerPoint on Windows Phone 7.

Microsoft Office 2010 is now on MSDN, TechNet

The wait is over… Office 2010 RTM can now be downloaded from MSDN, TechNet . I’m just starting to download them soon…

Visio 2010 and Project 2010 are also on MSDN now.

 

Here are the other availability dates-

Dates	Availability
22nd April	Office 2010 will be made available via MSDN download
27th April	Office 2010 will be made available to all Volume Licensed Customers who have Software Assurance
1st May	This is when all volume license customers who don’t have software assurance can buy Office 2010
June 2010	General availability, this is when Office 2010 will be available to purchase from retail stores like Harvey Norman etc…

Office 2010 RTM availability dates

It was announced over the weekend that Office 2010 had reached a key milestone of RTM. And everyone was eager about its availability dates. Here it is :

 

Dates	Availability
22nd April	Office 2010 will be made available via MSDN download
27th April	Office 2010 will be made available to all Volume Licensed Customers who have Software Assurance
1st May	This is when all volume license customers who don’t have software assurance can buy Office 2010
June 2010	General availability, this is when Office 2010 will be available to purchase from retail stores like Harvey Norman etc…

 

Source: Office Backstage Blog

Buy Office 2007 today and get Office 2010 FREE

 

Check out this offer at Microsoft India store where you buy Office 2007 now, and you’ll get Office 2010 FREE* when released.

* This offer is valid till 30th Sept 2010, Terms and conditions apply .

*Office 2010 downloads will be accessible at general availability. Discs can be ordered for a fee. Eligible Office 2007 software must be purchased from Microsoft or an authorized reseller and activated between March 5, 2010 and September 30, 2010. Request your Office 2010 product by October 31, 2010 using your activated Office 2007 Product Key and dated sales receipt. You will receive an e-mail message from us letting you know when your Office 2010 product is available. One Office 2010 product per qualifying Office 2007 suite or stand-alone product purchase, limit 25 per person. See www.office.com/techg for complete details.

Check http://www.microsoftstore.co.in/

Check for availability of this offer in your country too.

Why there is no Office 13 ?

Microsoft is full of oddities and little known answers to mysterious questions. Office 2007 was the 12 the version, that is office 12 and the next is Office 2010, its version is Office 14. There’s no office 13 , But Why ? Find out the answer in this ‘But Why’ video -

 

 

Channel 9 - There is no Office 13 - But Why?

Free E-book: Installing and Configuring SharePoint 2010

This free E-book is a step by step guide showing how to install SharePoint 2010 on a virtual machine. Each step is accompanied with screenshot that will help users to better understand.

The guide lists hardware and software requirements. It has up-to-date links to download pre-requisite software. Pre-requisite software has to be installed in a particular order. Guide gives you tips on what to avoid during the installation. This is the most comprehensive compilation of SharePoint 2010 installation steps.

This is the link

http://sharepoint2007tips.com/sharepoint2010book.aspx  from where you have to fill a short form providing your E-mail to which the download link will be sent.

This 125 pages book is in pdf format , size 3.58MB .

The Author of this guide SAIFULLAH SHAFIQ is a SharePoint consultant and a SharePoint MVP.

(Source: All about SharePoint- VSPug )

First Look: Microsoft Office 2010 – Free e-book

For a limited period Microsoft is offering this Free e-book - First Look: Microsoft Office 2010, by Katherine Murray. As you know Office 2010 is in beta at present, the book offers offers 14 chapters of early content.

Part I, “Envision the Possibilities,” introduces you to the changes in Office 2010 and shows you how you can make the most of the new features to fit the way you work today. Chapter 1, “Welcome to Office 2010,” gives you a play-by-play introduction to new features; Chapter 2, “Express Yourself Effectively and Efficiently,” details the great feature enhancements and visual effects throughout the applications; and Chapter 3, “Work Anywhere with Office 2010,” explores the flexibility factor by presenting a set of scenarios that enable users to complete their work no matter where their path takes them.

Part II, “Hit the Ground Running,” focuses on each of the Office 2010 applications in turn, spotlighting the key new features and showing how they relate to the whole. These chapters provide a how-to guide for many of the top features you’re likely to use right off the bat, and they offer inspiring ideas on how to get the most from your favorite applications.

Part III, “Next Steps with Office 2010,” zooms up to the big picture and provides examples to help you think through interoperability. How often do you use the various Office applications together? Customer research shows that people often don’t realize how well the applications work together as a complete system—which means they might be laboring over items they could easily incorporate from somewhere else. This part of the book provides examples for integrating the applications and explores Office 2010 security and training opportunities, as well.

You can download the e-book here (its in pdf format , size: ~10.5 MB)

Click on the above download link to open the SkyDrive page , from there click on ‘Download’.

Since this download is offered for limited period without registration, so hurry up before the offer gets over.

Source: Microsoft Press Blog.

How to access Office Web Apps ?

Office Web Apps makes it so easy to create, edit and share your documents online and many of you must have already tried earlier. But there were many who didn’t had access and couldn’t try it. Now everyone can access Office Web Apps. As MS Office 2010 beta is publically  available , anyone can try office Web apps as well.

For this first download and install MS Office 2010 beta . If you haven’t tried this you should, to see various improvements to MS Office with lots of new features.

Now create a Word, Excel or PowerPoint document and save it to SkyDrive from File > Share > Save to SkyDrive, a Free 25GB  storage service on Windows Live to store your docs.

It will ask you to sign-in with your Windows Live ID

So select a folder in SkyDrive, click on ‘Save As’ type a name of your doc and save. Now your doc is save in SkyDrive.

Now Click File > close.

Now from your IE browser goto http://skydrive.live.com and sign-in with your Windows Live ID. Select the folder where you had saved your doc. Click on the filename and select View.

So when you click on View, you will be prompted to read and accept the terms of use to Join the preview program of Microsoft Office Web Apps Technical Preview /Beta. Click on Accept.

Now you can access Office Web Apps and can create, share, edit  your docs online though in limited way as its still in beta.

 

(Click on Images to enlarge)

So try it out now, Office Web Apps has made so easy to create your Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote Online.

Microsoft Office 2010 TP Activation Confusion

There have been some confusion regarding Activation of Office 2010 Technical Preview (TP), as it has been discussed in forums and Newsgroups. Here’s the clarification which should clear this doubt.

I hope you all got Invites for Microsoft Office 2010 from Microsoft Connect to be among the first people in the world to experience  Office 2010, and have already obtained the Key and installed it. Let us start right from the installation. When you start the installation, it will ask for the Product Key.

After you enter the Key obtained from Connect, it will verify and if its correct, it will accept it and put a Green Tick mark. Also there’s a checked check box which says “Attempt to activate my product using the internet” . So if its checked it will Automatically activate the product if you are connected to internet.

As you continue with install, if you are doing a clean install that is if you don’t have any earlier ver. of Microsoft Office installed, you will get ‘Install Now’ button while if you are having earlier ver. you can Upgrade with the ‘Upgrade’ button.

So once installation is successful let us focus on Activation part, where the confusion is. If the checked box shown in above picture is checked and you are connected to  net, the product will be activated automatically. To check this, Open Word or any other Office Product, Click on Office button on top left and click on ‘Word’ , don’t click on ‘options’ just below it.

                 

You will get either -

1. This screen -

Actually it shows 2 messages  (I have shown in 2 different colored outlines ) , One with Red Outline says ‘You have a license for this product’ ,This is for Microsoft Office Professional 2010, So your product is already activated. And below it there’s another (shown in blue outline) which says ‘You are running a trial version of’ with a button ‘Licensing Operations’. DON’T CLICK ON IT TO ACTIVATE. It also shows ‘This product will become unlicensed in …. days’ . Don’t confuse with this, this is for other product which is not related to ours. Our product is Microsoft Office Professional 2010 (Technical Preview) which is already activated as I said earlier.

If you click on click ‘Licensing Operations’ and attempt to activate the trial it fails and says your product key is invalid. Do not try to activate the trial and don’t click on ‘Licensing Operations’ .

2. Or you will get this screen-

This screen shows Microsoft Office Professional 2010 NOT ACTIVATED. So we have to activate it.

As can be seen in this, here also I have Outlined 2 different products in different colors. One says ‘ You are running a trial version of’ and has ‘Licensing Operations Button.Also shows ‘This product will become unlicensed in …days’. DONT CLICK ON THIS.

We are interested in Professional ver., which says ‘You need to activate this product’ and has a button ‘Activate Product’ , which also shows ‘This product will become unlicensed in …days’ . This is what you want to activate. Click on it to activate. It will activate,make sure you are connected to Net. And the message ‘This product will become unlicensed in …days’ will go. So your Microsoft Office Professional 2010 ver is activated.

I hope this will clear the confusion. All this confusion has been due to the Single Image source of Office Installation for 2 different products - MS Office Professional 2010 as well as MS Office Trial  ver. . We are interested in Professional ver and only this will get activated.

Even after all this , if someone is having difficulty in Activating, please provide feedback at Connect. And DO NOT INSTALL Office 2010 TP from any source other than from Connect. These may contain Malware, infected and you will have problems to Uninstall as complained by those who installed from Un-official sources.

The official ver. of Microsoft Office Professional TP is 14.0.4006.1110

So install it from official sources and discover all the new wonderful features .

EDIT : As I came across this info, I’m adding this now. It will clear the doubt regarding the message shown. Though this is for Trial S/W, ‘This product will become unlicensed in …days’ , and people getting confused for MS Office Professional 2010 TP.

If you click on the ‘View the Microsoft Software Licensing Terms’ from your Office 2010 TP (screenshot shown above), you can clearly see this (highlighted in green) :

It clearly says : 5.TIME SENSITIVE SOFTWARE. The software will stop running on 31/10/2010…………. 

btw just an observation, the date format is not US, so is the S/W developed at Microsoft Indian Center or somewhere Outside US?