A small and presumably deliberate leak from Microsoft about ‘Elixir’ is of little interest to Office users at this stage, if only because this ‘Elixir’ is such a vague and ill-defined wizards brew. A small and presumably deliberate leak from Microsoft about ‘Elixir’ is of little interest to Office users
We laughed heartily when we heard about Microsoft allegedly making their Office XML formats open to the public. It sounded ridiculous and sure enough, it was. Here at Office Watch Comedy Central we laughed heartily when we heard about Microsoft allegedly making their Office XML formats open to the public.
Timeslips is a long standing time and billing application that now integrates with Outlook. We noticed Timeslips because it claims to have won a Readers Choice award from Law Office Computing for ten years in a row – not a bad track record. Now the 2005 version has some Outlook
We look at some reader feedback on the Word and Excel document decryption problem for January 2005. Thanks to all the readers who gave us feedback on the Word and Excel document decryption problem mentioned in the last Office Watch article. Readers seem divided into two roughly equal camps –
Well it’s here – Outlook Live, the meeting of Hotmail with Outlook in one marketing bundle. Well it’s here – Outlook Live, the meeting of Hotmail with Outlook in one marketing bundle. We’ve had Hotmail for many years, we’ve had Outlook and more recently we’ve had Outlook with Hotmail support.
There seems to be a fundamental and worrying problem with encrypted documents in Word and Excel – and not just the recent versions. The latest Office news isn’t good news – there seems to be a fundamental and worrying problem with encrypted documents in Word and Excel – and not
Sharepoint and Master Documents are collaboration tools that don’t… well… collaborate. And people at Redmond wonder why customers get frustrated with their products … Sharepoint is a collaboration tool that is getting better. The latest versions don’t have the limitations and narrow view of the first efforts and it is
News has leaked, perhaps deliberately, about a new way to rent Outlook that might be coming in 2005. News has leaked, perhaps deliberately, about a new way to rent Outlook that might be coming in 2005. This time the idea is to rent an Outlook license in conjunction with 2Gb
A recent security fix for Wordpad can have a side-effect for users of the Word for Windows 6.0 converter. A recent security fix for Wordpad can have a side-effect for users of the Word for Windows 6.0 converter. This converter is now turned off by various security measures (including Windows
If you have some down-time in the next few weeks you might want to try the ‘talk of the web’ – Firefox and Thunderbird. If you have some down-time in the next few weeks you might want to try the ‘talk of the web’ – Firefox and Thunderbird. Firefox is
Following the beta release of Google’s Desktop Search, Microsoft has now released its own MSN Toolbar Suite Beta. MSN TOOLBAR SUITE BETA Everyone is jumping forward to get their version of Desktop Search up and running. Following the beta release of Google’s Desktop Search, and Microsoft has now released its
Microsoft has released their latest set of hardware gimmicks for Christmas – fingerprint scanners. Microsoft has released their latest set of hardware gimmicks for Christmas – fingerprint scanners. There’s a keyboard and mouse pack with scanner built-in to the keyboard. Or there’s a stand-alone scanner available. A wireless mouse and
UPDATED See the updated version of this 2004 article, Christmas images and clipart in Microsoft Office and our ebook Christmas Cheer with Microsoft Office ————- Microsoft has some Christmas clipart available on their Office website. Microsoft has some Christmas clipart available on their Office website starting here. Some of the images are a bit
Excel 2003 has a nifty feature that will read a worksheet to you. Speak to me! Oh mighty Office If you’re hung-over after yet another Christmas lunch, you might be looking for a low impact job for the afternoon. Excel 2003 has a nifty feature that will read a worksheet
We look at the most popular of the tools for MS Office users – Google Desktop Search In part one of this special Office Watch series we looked at the possibilities of the new range of desktop searching tools, how the work, what to look for, security implications and pitfalls.
We look at the interface and performance of some of the major desktop search contenders. In part one of this Office Watch series we looked at the possibilities of the new range of desktop searching tools, how the work, what to look for, security implications and pitfalls. This issue will
Even if you only search email or documents once a week, one of these Desktop Search tools will make life a lot easier as they are much faster than anything supplied by Microsoft at present. Everyone’s talking about fast searching of your documents and email these days. What was a
We look at some more interesting Small Business Server 2003 features, web sites and some alternatives to SBS that are out there. Our look at Small Business Server concludes this week with a look at some more interesting features, as well as some useful SBS books and web sites, and some
If you want to seem really wizardly with Word then try turning on the function key display. If you want to seem really wizardly with Word then try turning on the function key display. This is an extra bar at the bottom of the Word window. It shows all the
You might have thought that the once dominant word processor, WordPerfect has long since gone but it’s still out there. You might have thought that the once dominant word processor, WordPerfect has long since gone but it’s still out there. Corel have just released WordPerfect Office 12 Home Edition which
We’ll tell you about some of the features in Small Business Server 2003 that we really like and which, in some cases, don’t get the attention that they deserve. NEAT STUFF TO DO WITH SBS There are plenty of things that you can do with Windows Server 2003 and the
Microsoft’s Small Business Server has been around for many years but we’ve been pleasantly surprised with the Small Business Server 2003 release. SBS ROCKS Microsoft’s Small Business Server (SBS) has been around for many years but we’ve been pleasantly surprised with the Small Business Server 2003 release. We’ve been trying
With more and more people using LCD screens on the desktop and on portable computers there are more people who would benefit from the Windows ClearType Tuner option now rather than when it first came out. With more and more people using LCD screens on the desktop and on portable
Even poor old Microsoft Word can’t miss getting involved in the US election. Even poor old Microsoft Word can’t miss getting involved in the US election. First there was ‘Rathergate’ with documents supposedly from the 70’s being produced on more modern software. We didn’t cover that here in Office Watch