Phil Young looks at how to print out an address list based on your Contacts in Outlook 2003. PRINTING AN OUTLOOK ADDRESS/PHONE LIST DIRECTORY Here’s a tip from Phil Young, one of the Office Watch team. Phil had to print out an address book only last night, he worked out
A security problem with Internet Explorer that allowed unauthorized access of Office documents and Outlook emails indexed with Google Desktop Search has been fixed. Lots of talk over the last few days about a problem with Internet Explorer that allows access to your Office documents and Outlook emails indexed with
Excel is one of the best tools around for working with numerical data sets, but it is also a valuable tool to utilize when working with sets of textual data. By Kara Monroe Excel is one of the best tools around for working with numerical data sets, but it is
A nastie embedded in a Word document is nothing new but the recent effort called Naiva.A is topical and gives us an opportunity to remind all Office Watch readers. A nastie embedded in a Word document is nothing new but the recent effort called Naiva.A is topical and gives us
There’s more than one way to get your Excel macro to run when there’s an event like changes to your worksheet. You can use a special macro name which tells Excel when to trigger that code. By Office Watch reader, Howard Tanner There’s more than one way to get your
Strip away the hype and “Office Live” means very little in the short term for customers. It’s a catchy title but what does it mean? Strip away the hype and “Office Live” means very little in the short term for customers. The announcement of Windows Live and Office Live were little more
Microsoft Dynamics is a brand name for a series of server programs designed mostly for medium sized businesses that used to be known as Microsoft Business Solutions. Microsoft had some more tangible announcements in their continuing move towards server based features that link firmly into Microsoft Office on the desktop.
CRM v3.0 is about to be released and from what we’ve seen it looks quite good. For some years Microsoft has had a Customer Relationship Management package – CRM but it’s been quite limited. It’s been so limited that we’ve barely considered it worth mentioning here in Office Watch. As
We look at the Outlook 2003 SP2 anti-phishing feature to uncover what’s going on, how the feature works and how effective it is. There’s a lot of talk about Outlook 2003 SP2 and the only new feature in Service Pack 2 – an anti-phishing feature. There’s plenty of talk but
Microsoft Student 2006 is a collection of tools aimed at students – or more likely the parents and grandparents of those students. In this issue we’re going to look at a Microsoft add-in for Office that has been gracing store shelves in recent time. Microsoft Student 2006 is a collection
A recent deal between Google and Sun has some people thinking that a web-based version of an office suite is imminent. Google and Sun must have loved the media coverage last week. As soon as it became known that the two companies would make some announcements the rumor mill went
Microsoft have released the Office 2004 for Mac service pack 2. Over on the precursor for Windows Vista / Longhorn (aka Mac OS X) there is a new update. I expect most people will get this update via the Microsoft update service for Mac but if not you can open
Outlook 2003 with Service Pack 2 installed has a new feature designed to tackle the problem of phishing. Outlook 2003 with Service Pack 2 installed does have one new feature. It’s a small tilt at the problem of ‘phishing’ – faked messages that appear to come from banks or other
We sat down and spent some hours working with the new Office 12 user interface and feel we have a more informed idea of its benefits and pitfalls. There’s been a lot of talk about the announcement of the new look interface designed for Office 12. The coverage has ranged
Much of the talk about the UI (user interface) has been ill-informed and there’s been something of a knee-jerk reaction against the whole idea. We’ve sat down and spent some hours working with the new interface and think we have a pretty good idea of its benefits and pitfalls. There’s
Office Watch reader Jeff Jones shares one of his macros with us to add headers and footers automatically and consistently in Word. See Also Omitting page numbers in Word
After many years, Microsoft has released to the public an update service for all its products, not just Windows. After many years, Microsoft has released to the public an update service for all its products, not just Windows. The new Microsoft Update, which replaces the old Windows Update, has been
A new version of the popular Google Desktop Search tool has arrived. A new version of the popular desktop search tool has arrived. Google Desktop Search 2 is similar to the previous version in the types of documents and files indexed. There are major additions to the search interface. It
We look at Google’s long-awaited instant messaging client “Google Talk”. A big move by Google is its long-awaited instant messaging client – a direct competitor to Yahoo and Microsoft. IM offerings from these two companies and from others don’t interact with each other resulting in a mix of technologies and incompatible
Google has opened up the Gmail doors so anyone with a mobile phone can get an account in the US. See Also Gmail outage – but not for Outlook users Gmail goes offline Using Gmail as your spam filter
We look at the faux printer that comes with Office 2003 plus the Document Imaging Tool that brings the scanning tool (mentioned in part 1) and the imaging writer together into a useful trio. By Helen Bradley and Peter Deegan This is a ‘printer’ that actually saves the document as
From time to time you’ll probably have to clear out the older messages in your Deleted Items and Junk E-Mail folders. However, there are some things you should know. From time to time you’ll probably have to clear out the older messages in your Deleted Items and Junk E-Mail folders.
Helen Bradley looks at Office Document Scanning, which is a small dedicated interface for scanning documents. By Helen Bradley and Peter Deegan If you only ever use the Quick Launch icons to launch Office applications you will be missing out on three handy Office tools: Microsoft Office Document Imaging, Office
A list of all the new file extensions used in Office 2007 Like most people we talk about the ‘.docx’ format as a shorthand way of referring to the new Office 2007 document formats. There are really many new document extensions. An innovation are document extensions that indicate if the
