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
Office 2000, Office XP and Office 2003 users have an Office 2007 related update too. There is an Office 2007 related update for Office 2000, Office XP and Office 2003 users. We strongly suggest installing the’ Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats‘ which let
Microsoft boasts of a 26% faster Outlook 2007 – why a two year wait? We’re promised a faster Outlook 2007 with Service Pack 2, however promises that “Outlook 2007 SP2 is 26 percent faster than its predecessor on a set of common e-mail tasks and is even faster, 35 percent,
Official fix list for PowerPoint 2007 SP2 both the summary and the complete list Here’s the official fix list for PowerPoint 2007 SP2 both the summary and the complete list. We’ve published it here for easy reference instead of hunting around Microsoft’s web site and an Excel worksheet. This list
The official fix list for OneNote 2007 SP2 both the summary and the complete list Here’s the official fix list for OneNote 2007 SP2 both the summary and the complete list. We’ve published it here for easy reference instead of hunting around Microsoft’s web site and an Excel worksheet. This
Improvements summary for the latest update to Office 2007. Office 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) will be available soon (not as we type this but not long now). In the meantime here’s a summary list of what Microsoft considers the major fixes or ‘improvements’ Office Watch will have its own
Official fix list for Excel 2007 SP2 both the summary and the complete list Here’s the official fix list for Excel 2007 SP2 both the summary and the complete list. We’ve published it here for easy reference instead of hunting around Microsoft’s web site and an Excel worksheet. This list
The official fix list for Access 2007 both the summary and the complete list. Here’s the official fix list for Access 2007 both the summary and the complete list. We’ve published it here for easy reference instead of hunting around Microsoft’s web site and an Excel worksheet. This list does
The known problems and major ‘behavior changes’ in SP2. If you look waaaay down Microsoft’s SP2 documentation you’ll find a list of ‘Known Issues and behavior changes’ , or in other words, things that work differently once you install Service Pack 2 or don’t work at all. Why? Microsoft Office
The official fix list for Word 2007 SP2 both the summary and the complete list. Here’s the official fix list for Word 2007 SP2 – both the summary and the complete list. We’ve published it here for easy reference instead of hunting around Microsoft’s web site and an Excel worksheet. The
Details on the many downloads that make up Office 2007 SP2 plus 8 for server software. Details on the many downloads that make up Office 2007 SP2, plus the uninstall tool, and more download options for server software. Our advice is the same this time as for past Office Service Packs.
Official fix list for Outlook 2007 SP2 both the summary and the complete list Here’s the official fix list for Outlook 2007 SP2 both the summary and the complete list. We’ve published it here for easy reference instead of hunting around Microsoft’s web site and an Excel worksheet. This list
You can use Microsoft Excel to read your Tweets, incoming and outgoing. Yesterday we talked about SpreadTweet, a program that looks like Excel but really lets you to read and send tweets without being caught by your boss. Excel itself can be used to read incoming Tweets and your own
How to import any Twitter search into an Excel worksheet and update it automatically In our article Using Excel (the real one) to read Twitter we talked about importing your incoming and sent tweets into an Excel worksheet. You can do this to disguise Twittering from your boss however there
SpreadTweet is a way to view your Twitter account, looking like an Excel worksheet. It seems that not a day or maybe even an hour goes by without some new Twitter program or service is released, but we had to love this one – SpreadTweet. SpreadTweet is a way to
How to tidy up your browser favorites / bookmarks. Over time you can accumulate a lot of bookmarked web sites in your browser. Favorites in Internet Explorer (or bookmarks in Firefox) can get out of date and it’s easy to accidently create duplicate links to the same web site. Phil,
Leaked Office 2010 & Outlook 2010 images hint at what’s in store and it’s not all good news. ZDnet is reporting some screen shots from Office 2010 with a new logo and color scheme. While we wait for test versions of Office 2010 to come out, it’s a passing weekend
Try Office 2008 free for 30 days but watch out for the high price at the end. Mac users can now try Office 2008 free for 30 days. We have some money saving conversion tips that can save you a few hundred dollars. Where to start Microsoft itself hasn’t realized
More details and a cautionary note on the coming Office 2007 update. As Office Watch suggested last week, Office 2007 Service Pack 2 will be released to the public on 28 April – less than two weeks away. The main contents of SP2 has been announced in the past: Integrated
How to make a nice, cheap and discreet cover for your laptop or netbook. An article by Perri Lewis in The Guardian caught our eye – instructions for making your own laptop case. All you need is some felt, webbing and Velcro. The article includes links to a pattern and
Details on Word & Excel updates from Office 2000 onwards plus Office for Mac. The usual security updates for Microsoft products this month include updates for Word and Excel from Office 2000 to Office 2007 plus Office for Mac. Security holes in Word’s text converter and Excel headline this month’s
Office Watch readers have already said they don’t care. Various outlets are hot with the ‘news’ that the next version of Office will be called ‘Office 2010’. Hardly surprising since the upcoming Microsoft Office will be released in 2010. It wasn’t going to be called ‘Office 7’ (to match Windows
One reader uses OpenOffice to bypass ‘features’ in Word 2003 SP3. Julie P writes, “I read the articles on “Problems opening ‘old’ documents” and thought they didn’t pertain to me. The earliest version of Word I had ever used was 6.0, which was supposed to be okay. Today I tried
SP2 is out soon, but don’t rush in. Microsoft has announced that Office 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) will be released later this month, at least to corporate users of Windows Service Update Services (WSUS). UPDATE: it’s now confirmed for 28 April 2009. WSUS is a way for administrators to
