All about Microsoft Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook, Microsoft 365, Office 2021 and earlier versions.
Outlook 2010 complaints – they’re right but too late
Don’t get your hopes up, Office 2010 is a done deal.A few weeks ago a curious campaign started, mostly via Twitter, to ask Microsoft is ‘fix‘ Outlook 2010. The complaint is about the way Outlook creates HTML formatted emails, which is the way most people send emails with ‘full’ formatting like fonts, headings, images etc. […]
Ribbon customization in Office 2010
A first in-depth look at ribbon ‘hand weaving’ in the next Office. Microsoft’s second attempt at the ribbon interface is coming in Office 2010 and this time we’ll not be stuck with Microsoft’s ribbon – you can weave your own. Office 2007 gave us the ribbon interface but no practical way to change it. There […]
What is ActionBase?
We’ve just heard a talk about ActionBase in Office 2010 and still don’t know what it is. UPDATE: Though it’s not at all clear from the conference video. ActionBase is a non-Microsoft product, not a part of Office 2010 or any upcoming Microsoft product, or indeed the VBA class called ActionBase. The ActionBase Class is […]
Access Archon – Working with Word
A new ebook on using Microsoft Access to make great Word documents. Office Watch and Helen Feddema are delighted to announce the publication of a new Office Watch ebook especially for Microsoft Access users. Access Archon – Working with Word by Helen Feddema, editor of Access Watch. Like other Office Watch ebooks – […]
If you’ve lost your Office install disks
What to do if you’ve lost your Microsoft Office install disks? Let’s say you’ve lost your Microsoft Office installation CD / DVD or even floppy disks from years ago – what can you do? There are two things you need to recover – the installation files and the product key. Usually, the two are stored […]
Dell sells MS Office downloads
Dell is now selling Office 2007 as a legal download but is it cheaper? Dell Computers is now selling Microsoft Office as a download – the first company other than Microsoft itself to do that. Until now, Dell has been able to sell MS Office pre-installed on their computers or buying a product key to […]
Office 2007 Service Pack 2 – some time on
A look at the progress of Office 2007 SP2 – bugs fixed or not. It has been over a month since Office 2007 Service Pack 2 was released. Here’s a look Outlook 2007 won’t start We mentioned reports of Outlook 2007 not starting after SP2 was installed. Those initial reports appear to be a problem […]
Palm Pre and Microsoft Office
Leaked documents reveal Office document support in the upcoming Pre. Thanks to Engadget and a leak from Sprint we have confirmed details on the upcoming device and how it will be sold. The launch guide has details of pricing, monthly plans for US customers but, as usual, Office Watch is interested in how the device […]
Installing Office on a netbook
How to install Office without a CD or DVD drive. “I have a netbook with no optical drive. How can I install Microsoft Office? A friend says I have to either buy Office as a download from Microsoft or get an illegal download – don’t like either of those options. ” Charles C from Iowa […]
How to remember your passwords
Three places to save password information in MS Office. Ideally each login to a computer or web site should have its own password but it’s a given that we all use the same passwords too often. Remembering all those passwords is hard enough but you also have to remember the login name; was it your […]
Using Office with Windows Server 2008
Which versions of Office are approved on the server OS? As we mentioned last year, Windows Server 2008 can be used as a very stable and fast workstation operating system – it’s certainly more stable than Windows Vista in many situations. In addition, Office can run on Windows Server and used by many people using […]
More Service Pack 2 problems
Office 2007 SP2 problems remain unsolved. Here are details of some possible Office 2007 Service Pack 2 problems we’ve been told about. We say possible only because in most cases we’ve been unable to confirm the details ourselves and there’s been no response from Microsoft yet. Still best to wait We can only say it […]
How to uninstall Office 2007 Service Pack 2
How to get rid of SP2 if it’s causing a problem. Office 2007 Service Pack 2 is the first Office SP that you can uninstall but it’s not at all easy or obvious. The uninstall tool is a command line tool – you read that right and yes, we are in the 21st Century. The […]
How many copies of Office can you install?
When you buy Office 2007, how many computers can you install it on? When you buy Microsoft Office 2007, how many computers can you install the software on? The long and complex license for Office can be confusing and, from the messages we receive, there’s even more confusion now there’s different rules depending on which […]
21 new typefaces in Windows 7
Windows 7 added 43 fonts to the set supplied by Windows. There will be 21 new typefaces in Windows 7, a total of 43 fonts to the set supplied by Windows. Many of the fonts are for non-English languages like Hindi, Japanese and Arabic. For Latin and similar alphabets, the Windows 7 additions are: Gabriola […]
More Office 2003 patches
Outlook 2003, CMS and WSS get more hotfixes for ‘new’ bugs. Microsoft has released two more ‘hotfixes’ for Outlook 2003 bugs plus two patches for Content Management Server 2002 and a time zone update for Sharepoint. These patches are in addition to the patches for Office 2003, Excel 2003, PowerPoint 2003 and Word 2003 we […]
