Microsoft’s Macintosh Business Unit (MacBU) has announced and opened a new website where Mac users can share MS Office files with others. According to MacBU’s blog,

“Art of Office is a place for people to submit artistic and/or useful content made using Office applications (Word, Excel, or PowerPoint). Whether it’s creating pixel art using Excel (a la our Post-it Notes) developing an animated short story in PowerPoint or artistic pieces in Word, this online community allows you to share, rate, remix and discuss user-submitted content with other Mac Office users around the world.”

Click on the button to go to Art of Office.

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