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The Internet can be a great source of information — but have you ever tried wading through hundreds of search results, looking for
what you need? You can find more, faster, and save a lot of effort, with a new feature called the Research task pane. You'll find the task pane in several of the Microsoft Office System 2003 programs, including Microsoft Office Excel 2003.
This task pane brings you links to online data services created by Microsoft and by a growing number of partners. With a quick click, you can check reference materials such as the Encarta dictionary. Do you work in other languages? There's an online translation service. When you need up-to-the-minute business data, you can find that in the task pane, too. So quit scrolling through page after page of outdated material from who-knows-where. You'll find what you need right in your Office.
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Excel 2003 opens, showing a worksheet with a column headed Latest Stock Prices and several rows of business data.
The pointer selects an empty cell, and then clicks the Research button. The Research task pane opens.
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The Research task pane, new in Office 2003, makes it easy to find real-time business data and use that data in your Excel worksheets.
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The MSFT stock symbol appears in the task pane's
Search for box. The pointer selects MSN Money Stock Quotes from the list of reference sources, and current stock price information appears.
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Just enter a search item, such as a stock symbol, select the service that has the data you want, and let Excel work for you.
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The pointer then clicks the
Insert Price button.
The stock symbol and the current stock price appear in the selected cell.
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To insert the data, just click. Easy, isn't it?
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The pointer clicks the down arrow next to the Insert Price button, opening a menu of commands including
Check for New Actions.
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What's more, many of the services offer enhancements, such as add-ins or smart tags.
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| The pointer clicks that command. The menu closes. The scene changes to Microsoft Internet Explorer, which displays the download page for an Office 2003 add-in. |
You use the Check for New Actions command to search for them online.
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The pointer scrolls vertically and horizontally to show all of the download page. Under Stock Actions for the Research Task Pane, it points to the Download link, then clicks the link.
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In this case, the MSN Money service is offering an add-in that lets me insert detailed stock information into my worksheet.
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The scene changes back to Excel, looking as it did before. The pointer selects an empty cell, then clicks the down arrow next to Insert Price to open a menu of commands.
The pointer clicks Insert Refreshable Stock Data.
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I've decided to try the add-in, so I'll complete the download for you. I give myself some room for the new information, use the new command that the add-in provides, and you can see that I quickly receive a lot of useful data from MSN Money.
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A large amount of data, titled Stock Quotes Provided by MSN Money, appears in the worksheet. The pointer scrolls through the data. The pointer then moves to the task pane and clicks the Get Services on Office Marketplace link. The scene changes to Internet Explorer, showing an Office Online page titled Available Research Services. The pointer scrolls down the page.
The animated text Experience Your Own Great Moments appears. Under it appears the static text For more information followed by a URL: http://www.microsoft.com/office.
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This is just a brief look at the types of data, not to mention the amount of data, that the Research task pane can provide. And it will only keep growing, because Microsoft and other companies are always creating new research services.
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