A special issue of Office Watch about the latest security gap in Microsoft Word. There has been plenty of coverage of the latest ‘zero day’ security breach in Microsoft Word. We’d had many readers ask us for our take and so here’s a special short issue of Office Watch. The
Don’t expect a clear response from Microsoft about anti-piracy measures in Office 2007. We’ve spent a frustrating week getting to the bottom of the rumor that Office 2007 has a ‘kill switch’ – meaning that even after you’ve installed and activated Office 2007, Microsoft could disable it remotely if they
Info and links about the Office 2007 Technology Guarantee offer. The usual Microsoft Technology Guarantee is on offer. If you buy Office 2003 between now and the end of February 2007, you can apply to get an equivalent version of Office 2007. The exact terms depend on the country of
Expression Web, the successor to Microsoft Frontpage is now on sale The replacement for Frontpage in the Microsoft product range has now been released. Microsoft Expression Web is now their ‘standard’ web page design software compared with ‘Sharepoint Designer 2007’ which is intended for re-vamping of Microsoft Sharepoint sites. Expression
Does Office 2007 have a ‘kill switch’ or not? Plenty of alarming headlines about the ‘kill switch’ in Office 2007 based on the idea that Microsoft could partly disable a copy of Office 2007 at any time. As is often the case the headline doesn’t tell the whole story. Office
There’s an offer from Microsoft to give you Office 2007 for free … naturally there’s the fine print …. Microsoft is offering free copies of Windows Vista and Office 2007 to people who watch some promotional videos – cool deal but there are the usual catches. Go over to http://www.powertogether.com/
With the right preparation the Office 2007 compatibility pack works well. Last week we expressed some concerns about the Office 2007 compatibility pack which didn’t appear to work properly for Excel or PowerPoint documents. We’re delighted to say the problems are solved and we’re happy to recommend the pack to
What happens to Frontpage 2003 when you install Office 2007? FrontPage, Microsoft’s web page editor, has been dropped from the Office 2007 lineup. It’s been replaced with two products, one part of Office 2007 and the other still in development. Sharepoint Designer 2007 looks like Frontpage at first glance and
If you know the magic spell the Office 2007 compatibility pack works like a charm. Microsoft promised to provide a free tool to permit earlier versions of Office to read and save the new formats. Now the compatibility pack is available, we originally found that only the Word 2007 format
Office 2007 comes to MSDN subscribers earlier than expected. Office 2007 is now available to MSDN subscribers for download via their web site msdn.microsoft.com – if you can get on. Available are Office 2007 Professional, English, German and Japanese editions plus other incarnations of Office 2007 like Visio, OneNote, InfoPath,
Office 2007 escapes onto pirate sites. Earlier this week copies of Office 2007 with a license key appeared on various Warez and peer-to-peer sharing sites. Surprisingly the license key is accepted and the software is the final version. But you can expect that Microsoft will put that license key on
Will Office Watch readers be switching to Office 2007? Thanks to everyone who took a few moments to answer our Office 2007 survey. In summary, it seems that most Office Watch readers don’t intend to switch to Office 2007 or haven’t been convinced that it’s worth the change. A total
The latest ebook from Office Watch. Our latest ‘Quickie’ ebook will be published in the next few days – it’s a companion to our popular Organizing Outlook Email – this time we’re looking at the Contacts feature in Outlook. http://shop.office-watch.com/coc/ Clever Outlook Contacts goes beyond just entering a few phone
How does Office 2007 pricing in other countries like Australia compare with the charge in the USA? Down in Australia they are screaming about the price of Vista and Office 2007. We’re obliged to David Firth for an analysis of comparable pricing between Vista in the USA and ‘down under’,
Office 2007 has finished development and gone off to manufacturing After the usual long gestation period, Office 2007 has gone ‘gold’ or ‘RTM’, released to manufacturing. That means the developers have finished their work for a while and Office 2007 is off to be made into DVD’s and retail boxes.
Office 2007 retail boxes revealed – complete with ‘dimensional stability’. Microsoft has released images of the retail packaging for Office 2007. Clearly this plastic box is designed to look good and stand out on the retail shelf. click here to see a full size image So far it’s been described
A neat little hack to add the Word 2007 and Excel 2007 icons to Sharepoint 2003. Wictor Wilén has a neat little trick to add the Word 2007 and Excel 2007 icons to Sharepoint 2003 when you upload .docx and .xlsx documents. He provides the two small GIF icons plus
Office 2007 development quick references from three free PDF files. If you’re delving into the Office 2007 programming and development side there’s some free downloads from Microsoft that might help. They are PDF files of the posters you may have seen at conferences. As PDF files they are possibly more
How to get the Office 2007 features to save documents to XPS or Acrobat PDF formats. Harry G writes: “OK – I give up. I’ve got Office 2007 but can’t work out how to save to PDF files or XPS (whatever that is). The link in Word 2007 takes me
A clever little spoof site having a little dig at Microsoft. You may start seeing references to ‘Microsoft Firefox’ with very sincere icons and even box shots. Check it out at http://www.msfirefox.com/ Gotta love the time and effort that goes into spoofs like this with lines like: “delivers a
First Look Office 2007 System – a Microsoft Press book is available for download This book was released by Microsoft back in July 2006 and offers a look at what Office 2007 was expected to be at that time. And being a Microsoft Press publication don’t expect it to be
Working with date values in Excel is not as easy as it sounds. Should you enter dd/mm/yy or mm/dd/yy? Do you enter slashes or dashes or dots? Pop-up Excel Calendar solves all the headaches by adding a pop-up calendar to your Excel Working with date values in Excel is not
Microsoft own site with Office 2007 teaching resources. The 2007 Microsoft Office System – Learning Portal has some interesting free things to try. There’s the PDF version of the ‘First Look’ book, as we noted before in Office Watch. There are also some ‘free for a limited time’ online courses
A new tool for Outlook 2003/2007 users to report new junk email back to Microsoft. This new free tool from Microsoft gives you a quick way to report suspected spam back to Microsoft – from a simple link in either Outlook 2003 or Outlook 2007. It will give Microsoft and
