A first in-depth look at ribbon ‘hand weaving’ in the next Office. Microsoft’s second attempt at the ribbon interface is coming in Office 2010 and this time we’ll not be stuck with Microsoft’s ribbon – you can weave your own. Office 2007 gave us the ribbon interface but no practical
Microsoft says they are ‘entering’ Technical Preview, two months after it actually happened. You have to hand it to Microsoft, if they can’t announce something new, they announce something old knowing most people won’t realize any different. We were amazed, but not really surprised, to see Microsoft announce that Office
We’ve just heard a talk about ActionBase in Office 2010 and still don’t know what it is. UPDATE: Though it’s not at all clear from the conference video. ActionBase is a non-Microsoft product, not a part of Office 2010 or any upcoming Microsoft product, or indeed the VBA class called
What to do if you’ve lost your Microsoft Office install disks? Let’s say you’ve lost your Microsoft Office installation CD / DVD or even floppy disks from years ago – what can you do? There are two things you need to recover – the installation files and the product key.
Microsoft has been crowing mightily about a problem with Google Apps Sync. Microsoft has been crowing mightily about a problem with Google Apps Sync. Google Apps Sync is a utility to synchronize Outlook email, calendar and contacts with the Google Apps online services. According to Microsoft, when you install Google
Like many things with Outlook, even a simple thing like deletion isn’t simple at all. Microsoft has designed Outlook to give you options to recover items deleted accidently. Australian newspapers are leading with ‘UteGate’ – believe it or not. It started with an email supposedly sent from the Prime Ministers
Dell is now selling Office 2007 as a legal download but is it cheaper? Dell Computers is now selling Microsoft Office as a download – the first company other than Microsoft itself to do that. Until now, Dell has been able to sell MS Office pre-installed on their computers or
A look at the progress of Office 2007 SP2 – bugs fixed or not. It has been over a month since Office 2007 Service Pack 2 was released. Here’s a look Outlook 2007 won’t start We mentioned reports of Outlook 2007 not starting after SP2 was installed. Those initial reports
The SP2 updated help files have finally appeared. When Service Pack 2 was released there were also new help files for all parts of Office 2007 with the notable exception of Outlook 2007. At the time we called the Outlook 2007 help files ‘missing in action‘. In early June the
You can now upload Word and Excel 2007 files to Google’s online editor. Today Google announced that their Google Docs service will support Word 2007 .docx files and Excel 2007 .xlsx files. That saves Office 2007 users from having to ‘Save As’ to another format before uploading to Google Docs.
Leaked documents reveal Office document support in the upcoming Pre. Thanks to Engadget and a leak from Sprint we have confirmed details on the upcoming device and how it will be sold. The launch guide has details of pricing, monthly plans for US customers but, as usual, Office Watch is
Taming notes and scraps of info with OneNote, Word and beyond. Farhad Manjoo in The New York Times has a good summary of the various note-taking programs available. These are programs which help you keep all those scraps of information, links, chunks of text etc that accumulate. There is Microsoft
How to install Office without a CD or DVD drive. “I have a netbook with no optical drive. How can I install Microsoft Office? A friend says I have to either buy Office as a download from Microsoft or get an illegal download – don’t like either of those options.
A look at the ribbons and menus in the next version of PPT. A look at the ribbons and menus in the next version of PPT. We’ve already looked at Word 2010, Excel 2010, OneNote 2010 and Outlook 2010 plus the new look Office button menu. These sneak peeks into
A look at the ribbons and menus in the next version of Excel. A look at the ribbons and menus in the next version of Excel. We’ve already looked at Word 2010, OneNote 2010 and Outlook 2010 plus the new look Office button menu. Click on any image to see
Some useful maps of Europe and some European countries as free PPT slides. Presentation Helper has some useful maps of Europe and some European countries as PowerPoint slides. The free download has: Map of Europe with pins Four example maps showing how to apply pins, lines, outlines and image fills
Tweeting directly from Excel A month ago we wrote about how to import your Twitter feed into Excel and also Twitter searches into Excel. At the time we said “There’s no direct way to send tweets or direct messages – but I suspect it’s only a matter of time before
Why the early Office beta isn’t worth getting. Inevitably, the Office 2010 Technical Preview made it’s way onto the Internet – you can download it from many sites – but why bother? Office Watch tries out early versions of Microsoft Office. We’ve done that for over a decade because it’s our
New names and bundle changes Among all the first looks at Office 2010 programs we’ve been posting at Office-Watch.com there has been some other Office 2010 news. Office loses its Groove (Frankly we’re surprised not to have seen this headline somewhere) Groove in Office 2007 becomes SharePoint Workspace 2010. Microsoft
an Office 2010 feature reveals a possible new Microsoft retail pricing strategy. With Office 2010 you can expect more ‘upselling’ with prompts in Office to buy other parts of the Office line and extras online direct from Microsoft. Check this ‘Step-Up Your Office’ option on Office 2010 menus: As you
Check out the main screens and ribbons in the next OneNote Here’s a first look at the new look OneNote 2010. First a look at the whole screen – click to see a full size image: OneNote get the ribbon interface. Note that the default ribbon view for OneNote 2010
A new way to reduce the size of the 2010 ribbon. Way over on the right side of the Office 2010 ribbons there’s a new button. Click on the up arrow and the ribbon will minimize, leaving only the tabs. This isn’t a new feature, for Office 2007 has smart
The next Office has new ways to link dates, people and documents Under the Office 2010 ‘Office’ menu for Word 2010, Excel 2010 and PowerPoint 2010 are some interesting new features to link or relate the current document. Documents can be related in ways that we’ve not seen before. On
Major menu changes under the trimmed down Office button More sneak peeks into the Office 2010 Technical Preview. Nothing is guaranteed but most, if not all, of these changes will be in the released Office 2010. Click on any image to see a full-size version. The ‘Office’ button in Office 2010
