All about Microsoft Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook, Microsoft 365, Office 2021 and earlier versions.
MS Office updates for April 2009
Details on Word & Excel updates from Office 2000 onwards plus Office for Mac.The usual security updates for Microsoft products this month include updates for Word and Excel from Office 2000 to Office 2007 plus Office for Mac. Security holes in Word’s text converter and Excel headline this month’s patches plus some for our friends […]
Problems opening ‘old’ documents
Why can’t Office open docs made by Office itself? When Microsoft was trying to gain market share over rivals like WordPerfect, they spent a lot of time and trouble making Office import other document formats easily and correctly. Times have changed, Microsoft Office has the overwhelming share of the office application market so they don’t […]
Everyone is moving to Office 2007 except me!
Much as the Microsoft marketing people would like you to believe that – it’s not true. Much as the Microsoft marketing people would like you to believe that – it’s not true. Plenty of individuals and companies are sticking with earlier versions of Office – Office 2003 or Office XP mostly. That’s either for financial reasons […]
Office 2007 Service Pack coming in April
SP2 is out soon, but don’t rush in. Microsoft has announced that Office 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) will be released later this month, at least to corporate users of Windows Service Update Services (WSUS). UPDATE: it’s now confirmed for 28 April 2009. WSUS is a way for administrators to ‘push out’ patches and service […]
Should you activate Office immediately?
It’s prudent to delay activating MS Office until well after installation. Microsoft’s setup encourages you to activate your copy of Office as soon as you install – however you don’t have to do that and we’d encourage people NOT to. Getting a product activation registers your use of Office on a particular computer – you […]
Multiple versions of Office on one computer
Putting Office variations on the one machine. You can install and run multiple versions of Word, Excel and Powerpoint on the one computer. For example you can have Word 2003 and Word 2007 installed together. Outlook is the exception – only one version of Outlook can exist on a computer at any time. The main […]
Can you only install Office twice?
Is it true that you can only install Office twice before buying another copy? Microsoft’s Product Activation is the source of a lot of questions to Office Watch and clearly it’s not well understood. Microsoft has little interest in making the rules clearer, partly for their security reasons and partly because they know the ‘fear, uncertainty […]
Office 2003 support declining
Office 2003 users have a hard choice now main support for their software is ending. Office 2003 users have a hard choice now main support for their software is ending. Microsoft has quietly announced that the main lines of support and updates for Office 2003 will stop in less than two weeks – on 14 […]
Sharepoint Designer now free!
You can now download Microsoft’s Sharepoint Designer free. Microsoft Office Sharepoint Designer 2010 – one of the successors to Frontpage 2003 for customising Microsoft Sharepoint web sites is now a free download. With registration you can get the 254MB or less download from Microsoft. That might be a little annoying for the companies that have […]
Office Service Pack leaked
The next service pack for Office 2007 has been leaked. The next service pack for Office 2007 has been leaked. On various file sharing / BitTorrent sites you’ll find today an ‘Office 2007 Service Pack 2’ download. It appears to be a late beta or even release candidate before the public release of SP2. We […]
Make money stealing Microsoft Office
Earn money recommending Office 2007 to students. It’s possible to earn money by recommending Office 2007 to students. As part of Microsoft’s effort to push Office 2007 into the hands of students they are now offering an ‘affiliate’ program with their student ‘Ultimate Steal’ offer. Under the affiliate arrangement, approved people and organizations can put […]
Office 2007 for $59.95 … still
You have to hand it to Microsoft marketing – they can ‘announce’ something that’s been in place for years and get a pile of free publicity. Microsoft is heavily promoting a deal they’ve had for a long time. You have to hand it to Microsoft marketing – they can ‘announce’ something that’s been in place […]
Office chatter on Twitter
See what people are saying right now about your favorite Office software. It can be fascinating to see what people say about software as they work – many questions, some answers and plenty of anguish and outright anger. We’ve setup some pages that make it easy to see the very latest Twitter comments about: Word […]
Even cheaper ‘Military’ Office
As if the Military Appreciation Edition wasn’t cheap enough, Microsoft has cut the price yet again. The Office 2007 Military Appreciation Edition (MAE) is down to US$49.99 -from $79.95. That’s a fantastic deal for what is really a three installation licence for Office 2007 Standard (Word 2007, Excel 2007, Powerpoint 2007 and Outlook 2007). Office […]
A free way to give Office 2007 the classic look
There’s a free add-on that returns classic Office 2003 menus and toolbars to Office 2007. UBitMenu is a simple and free way to bring classic Office 2003 menus and toolbars to Office 2007 programs. Under a new ‘Menu’ tab you get all the traditional pull-down menus plus two long rows of toolbar buttons. The toolbars […]
Print a booklet from a Word document – free!
A clever option to print a foldable booklet that won’t cost you anything. One of the eternal requests for Microsoft Office is the ability to make a booklet. That is a set of two pages on one side of paper but double-sided and ordered so you can fold the lot up to make a booklet. […]
