Microsoft’s “Remove Hidden Data” add-in is currently a mess. I warned ya last week. Microsoft’s “Remove Hidden Data” add-in is a mess. The add-in is supposed to strip all that potentially embarrassing hidden text out of Office files. In fact, it does a pretty good job most of the time, but it’s riddled with errors. […]
The debate is on as to whether or not Microsoft “borrowed” the Word 2003 Reading Layout View from Eric Wilson. You tell me. Take a look at the screen shots and tell me if you think Microsoft, uh, “borrowed” Word 2003’s Reading Layout View from Eric Wilson. I dunno how they get away with it. […]
Another major tech news organization has picked up and flogged another red herring about a hack to Word’s password-protection feature. Another major tech news organization has picked up and flogged another red herring. “A simple hack to Word’s password-protection feature means documents may not be as secure as users believe. No fix is on the […]
PDF isn’t a perfect format. But it beats the living daylights out of the DOC format for any files posted on the Internet. In the course of my DOC File Dumpster Diving (I like the ring of that phrase!), I recommended using PDF for any files posted on the Internet. There have been many hisses […]
Microsoft have rewritten the Excel 2003 memory manager so that it is no longer limited. You can now make serious use of all the RAM on your PC, at least up to a gigabyte. There’s some very good news about Excel 2003, and I didn’t want to let it slip by unnoticed. Office Watch reader CW writes: […]
