Indeed, you can use Excel to create heat maps for pretty much anything, from displaying your sports team's on-field strengths to showing how climate change is impacting temperatures over time.

It isn't exactly a secret that this has been a huge year for Microsoft product releases. Although I have been working hard to try to keep up with everything coming out of Redmond, I am only one person ...

Microsoft released a variety of update to is Office applications includes Excel maps, PowerPoint QuickStarter and a new intelligent embedding capabilitiy called Tap for Word and Outlook.