First look at the web versions of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint Microsoft has released some images of the upcoming browser based versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint. There’s a picture of the edit pane and another of the view/read window for each program. Click on any of these images
An easy way to rotate your display to portrait mode. iRotate is a simple and cross-graphics way to switch display modes. Many LCD monitors have the ability to physically rotate from the standard landscape mode to portrait orientation with the narrow side of the screen at the top. This can
Hints about Microsoft’s sales strategy for 64 bit version of Office 2010. Microsoft has already said that there will be both 32 bit and 64 bit versions of Office 2010. The question remained – how would the 64 bit version be sold or bundled? With Office 2003 there was a little known
A nice little surprise on the Windows 7 start menu. Windows 7 has a nifty feature on the Start Menu – fly-out lists of recently used documents for many programs including, naturally, Microsoft Office. Outlook doesn’t have ‘recently used documents’ so you’d think there’s no place for that feature –
First look at the full set of ribbons in the next MS Office. Here’s a quick look at the Outlook 2010 ribbons. Most of the icons translate to existing Outlook features but there is some new stuff too. Word 2010 has already had a peek at this article: Word 2010 –
In-depth look at new features: navigation pane, text effects, customized ribbon It’s early on a Sunday morning and what should appear in the Office Watch Inbox but some sneak peek looks at Word 2010! Lucky us. Here they are with some very preliminary comments. Please keep in mind that with this and
Which versions of Office are approved on the server OS? As we mentioned last year, Windows Server 2008 can be used as a very stable and fast workstation operating system – it’s certainly more stable than Windows Vista in many situations. In addition, Office can run on Windows Server and
Office 2007 SP2 problems remain unsolved. Here are details of some possible Office 2007 Service Pack 2 problems we’ve been told about. We say possible only because in most cases we’ve been unable to confirm the details ourselves and there’s been no response from Microsoft yet. Still best to wait
All Windows versions get security patches, Mac users have to wait. PowerPoint is the only program needing security patches in May 2009 but only the Windows versions of the presentation software are updated, for Office for Mac users will have to just wait. Here’s a list of the affected programs
When you buy Office 2007, how many computers can you install it on? When you buy Microsoft Office 2007, how many computers can you install the software on? The long and complex license for Office can be confusing and, from the messages we receive, there’s even more confusion now there’s
How to get rid of SP2 if it’s causing a problem. Office 2007 Service Pack 2 is the first Office SP that you can uninstall but it’s not at all easy or obvious. The uninstall tool is a command line tool – you read that right and yes, we are
Act fast to sign up for the Office 2010 preview. Microsoft is asking people to sign up for the Office 2010 Technical Preview when it is extended in July 2009. At present the Technical Preview is limited to attendees to the TechEd 2009 conference that’s just started in Los Angeles.
Office 2010 as a movie is barely a trailer. The marketing juggernaut revs up with Office 2010 – the movie http://www.office2010themovie.com/ They call it a movie but at 33 seconds long it’s barely a trailer. Kubrick’s 2001 it’s not and it doesn’t reveal anything about Office 2010. Also in the
A threat to PPT 2000 thru PPT 2007 will be patched next Tuesday Microsoft has given advance notice of a security patch for many versions of PowerPoint, which will be released on Tuesday 12 May 2009. This may be a fix for the security hole in Powerpoint first mentioned by
20 new bugs in Outlook patched. Even though Office 2007 Service Pack 2 has been out only a short time there is already a patch for Outlook 2007. This ‘hotfix’ is temporary and a ‘ not fully tested’ update. It is dated 30 April 2009 – only a few days
Outlook 2003, CMS and WSS get more hotfixes for ‘new’ bugs. Microsoft has released two more ‘hotfixes’ for Outlook 2003 bugs plus two patches for Content Management Server 2002 and a time zone update for Sharepoint. These patches are in addition to the patches for Office 2003, Excel 2003, PowerPoint
Microsoft sells Office 2007 H & S for $99.99 but get a better deal elsewhere. Microsoft is continuing to sell Office direct from their web site for immediate download and installation – but the catch is still the higher price. Normally Office 2007 Home and Student Edition is sold by
The @ symbol was used back in 1536 – 473 years ago today. The Lede blog for the New York Times notes that today is the 473’d anniversary of the first recorded use of the @ symbol. It’s found in a letter from a Florentine merchant and, from the context,
Even after Service Pack 2, there are more fixes for Office 2007. Service Pack 2 has been out less than a week and already there are more fixes for Office 2007. These ‘hotfixes’ are temporary and ‘ not fully tested’ updates. Most are dated 30 April 2009 – only a
We look at some reports of Office 2007 SP2 bugs. There are some complaints appearing of problems are installing Office 2007 Service Pack 2 – hardly a surprise. It’s always hard to work out whether an Office Service Pack is truly to blame, though the uninstall option for SP2 makes
New anti-spam downloads for MS Outlook Around the same time as Office 2007 Service Pack 2 was released, so were some Outlook spam filter updates. Outlook 2003 and 2007 have an anti-spam filter included. Because spammers are constantly trying new tactics to avoid those filters the Outlook filter needs updating
Six new patches for Office 2003, Word 2003, Excel 2003 and PowerPoint 2003. The update ‘fun’ this week users isn’t limited to Office 2007 – there are also several ‘hotfixes’ for Office 2003. These ‘hotfixes’ are temporary and ‘ not fully tested’ updates. Only install them if you have the
Some highlights and low lights of Service Pack 2. Only 24 hours since Office 2007 Service Pack 2 was released, here are some highlights and lowlights that have caught our eye. Over the coming weeks we’ll look at some features in detail and, hopefully, report as Microsoft discloses more information
Separate downloads of Service Pack 2 updated help files if you know where to look. Nowhere on Microsoft’s Service Pack 2 info pages will you find mention of yet more Office 2007 downloads. At the same time as Service Pack 2 was released are updated Help file downloads as well.
