If you’re not allowed to hear Steve Ballmer speak, just stand outside the door. Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s CEO had something to say about the future of Microsoft Office at the ‘Business Intelligence’ conference over the weekend. None of it is a real surprise to anyone who reads Office Watch: Office
An easy reference list of May 2007 security patches To help our readers we’ve grouped the May 2007 security patches according to the software to be patched instead of the problem to be fixed. All you need to do is look up your version of Office or other product from
While security patches come out each month, there’s a backlog of unpatched problems. Microsoft might be more aggressive about security problems but there are still things in the ‘too hard’ basket. The list of ‘Unpatched Microsoft Vulnerabilities’ from the French Security Incident Response Team makes sobering reading. According to that
An add-in lets you relive the Office 2003 experience on Office 2007. It had to happen, someone has filled the gap left by Microsoft. Addintools has produced an additional ribbon for Word 2007, Excel 2007 or Powerpoint 2007 which mimics the Office 2003 menus. The download is under 3MB with
How to get more out of Microsoft Word or Excel by using the free collaboration and portability tools from Google. Living with Google Apps and Microsoft Office Google’s move to an online version of Office continues with the announcement that they have purchased an online presentation system. Later this year
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart has a neat explanation of how to ‘accidently’ delete email in Outlook. For a bit of fun, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart recently explained how you can ‘accidently’ delete emails in Outlook. We’re not getting into the political elements of this — we
A look at Microsoft’s online maps and directions add-in for Outlook 2002, Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007. Microsoft has released an updated mapping add-in for Outlook 2002 (XP), Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007. You may have already seen a pop-up advising the update when you start Outlook. The new download
There’s a video on the MS web site explaining the Office 2007 user interface. The best way to get an understanding of the upcoming Office 2007 user interface is the video that is available on the Microsoft web site The new UI is hard to describe in either words or
We explain what’s really going on with AutoArchive and why you might not want to use it at all. Yesterday, Kara Monroe gave a great summary of Outlook’s AutoArchive feature, which is an automatic way to move older messages and items to a separate Outlook PST file. Now it’s my
The eligibilty requirements on Office 2007 retail boxes are wrong. Microsoft blunders, others suffer The upgrade information on Office 2007 retail boxes is wrong. Before you buy an Office 2007 upgrade, you need to check your upgrade entitlement carefully because the information written on the side of the box is
Despite what you might think and some info from Microsoft, you can install the Office 2007 upgrade without the qualifying program installed on the hard drive. According to the Office 2007 upgrade retail box statement “The enclosed program will search your hard disk to confirm your eligibility for this upgrade”
Time is running out for people to update their computers to handle the daylight savings changes in the US. This coming weekend, daylight savings time starts in much of the US and Canada, instead of early April in the past. As readers of Office Watch have known for many years,
There’s no simple answer to which one is better, Google Apps online or Microsoft Office on your PC. by Peter Deegan, Editor-in-Chief, Office Watch Google Applications has taken another step towards being the equivalent to online version of Microsoft Office, including now adding a paid version aimed at heavy users
Our new ebook is about all the amazing formatting options in Microsoft Word. We’re delighted to tell you about our latest ‘Quickie’ ebook – Formatting Magic with Word. There’s a lot more to Word than just bold, italics, underline and other options that can be squeezed onto the toolbars. Formatting
‘Clever Outlook Contacts’ and ‘Organising Outlook Email’ both updated for Outlook 2007. We’ve updated both of our popular Outlook ebooks to include Outlook 2007. Peter has added an entire new chapter to Clever Outlook Contacts with detail and tips specific to Outlook 2007. There’s now over 20 extra pages of
Is your Outlook 2007 ‘instant’ search working properly? Is your Outlook 2007 ‘instant’ search working properly? We’ve had plenty of trouble finding messages that are clearly stored in Outlook 2007 but won’t show up in any search. We suspect the problem is either related to multiple Outlook profiles or an
The Outlook 2007 reading pane looks the same as the one in previous versions but it’s actually quite different and safer. The Outlook 2007 reading pane looks the same as the one in previous versions but it’s actually quite different and safer. There has always been a concern that a
Many readers have wondered about the effect of the ‘key generators’ that are available on pirate software sites. Some interesting responses to our series “If your product key is stolen” Part 1 and Part 2 . Many wondered about the effect of the ‘key generators’ that are available on pirate software sites.
Updates for the Junk Mail filter for Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007 are now available. Updates for the Junk Mail filter for Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007 are now available: Outlook 2003 update for more details here Outlook 2007 update details should be here but that KB article wasn’t available when we checked
Microsoft Office security patches for February 2007 The usual collection of security patches for February 2007 – two of these concern Office and other is worth mention because it’s almost funny. Excel and Powerpoint vulnerabilities Office 2000 Office XP Office 2003 Excel Viewer 2003 Word Viewer 2003 Office 2004 for
A summary of the options for converting documents between the Office 2007 formats and Office 97-2003 formats. We’re still getting a lot of messages about document compatibility between the new Office 2007 formats (.docx .xlsx etc) and the .doc .xls formats we’re all familiar with. If you have Office 2007
Sending many emails from Office is possible but there are traps. Lee W asks: ” I have a need to send 50,000 emails with an attachment. The email addresses are currently stored in a Microsoft Access database. Does Outlook have any limitations? “ You should not need any special code
What happened to the link to Contacts from Tasks or Appointments that used to be in Outlook? Laurence M writes: I am using Office 2007, and am very frustrated by the removal of the Contacts field. I used it a lot in v2003 in tasks and appointments, but it’s gone
With the full public launch of Windows Vista and Office 2007 happening, now is a good time for a reality check in order to balance the hype that you’ll be hit with. With the full public launch of Windows Vista and Office 2007 happening, now is a good time for
