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Current Projects:

StickySorter

Want a new, easier way to organize information for brainstorm sessions? StickySorter is a community project that offers new idea generation and organizing tools designed to save you time and improve your results.

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Touchless

Get multi-touch functionality without touching. How? A webcam is used to track color based markers. This is an Office Labs community and open source project.

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An introduction to Touchless and the Touchless Demo

Chart Advisor

Want to create charts quickly in Excel? Let Chart Advisor generate graphs appropriate for your data so that you can pick one you like. It's fun!

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Overview of Chart Advisor -- an Excel 2007 Add-In that generates charts appropriate for your data automatically.

Email Prioritizer

Tired of email overload? Email Prioritizer is designed to help you manage email overload with a "do not disturb" feature and email ranking. Works with Outlook 2007 running on Exchange server.

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Email Prioritizer is a plug-in for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 (running on Exchange Server) that helps you manage email overload. This concept test provides a “do not disturb” button that temporarily pauses new email arrival, and prioritizes email with a 0-3 star rating system. We hope this prototype helps you focus on the emails that are most important to you.

pptPlex

With just a few clicks, transform your PowerPoint presentations into a zoomable canvas. Works with Microsoft PowerPoint 2007.

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Speed Launch

Get quick access to all the documents, files, and websites you use most. Speed Launch is Office Labs’ first community prototype.

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Search Commands

Search for commands in your own words and get the button to do it, instantly. Works with Microsoft Office 2007 - Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

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Community Clips

Find "how-to" videos about Microsoft Office products made by users like yourself. Includes a screen recording application to easily create and share your own videos to help others.

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Other Interesting Projects:

SharePointPedia

A social computing application based on SharePoint where people discover and share useful information about SharePoint.

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InkSeine

Use your Tablet PC with an interface uniquely tailored to pen input. The tool fades into the background so that you can focus on capturing your ideas, sketches, and creative thoughts. Integrates search and inking.

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Task Market

An online marketplace where businesses can connect with and hire skilled freelancers in graphic design, writing and editing, translation, and more.

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In The Spotlight

What would it be like if you could view and interact with content on a wall? Take a step into the future and see the Touchwall in action, another Office Labs vision in the works. More ...

Latest Blog Posts!

Controlling pptPlex using a 3D camera

Ever since I did the Nintendo Wii experiment a while back, I’ve been interested in exploring other new ways speakers can interact with their presentations....