Word case goes against Microsoft
Microsoft loses another round in a Word patent case, an Office update is coming in the new year.A US court judgment seems to have forced Microsoft to release an update to Office 2007 in the new year. The US Federal Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the judgment that Microsoft breached a patent in the […]
Sending a Christmas email
It’s too late for Christmas cards but not too late for a simple Xmas Email. We’re the first to admit that sending a Christmas email isn’t the most traditional method but it can be done with good cheer and grace. Here’s just one example from a friend and some tips from the writer and designer […]
Can Word 2003 macros be copied & pasted into Word 2007?
VBA macros should migrate from Word 2003 to 2007 but don’t bet on it. Yes, VBA macros from Word 2003 should work in Word 2007. We always say ‘should’ because there are inevitably changes in VBA behaviors between versions of Office and “Murphy’s Law” says that one of these ‘minor’ differences will affect you. Any […]
Converting a PDF to Word
How to convert a PDF to a Word document and why it’s so hard. ” One of the things that drives me crazy is that it’s easy to convert documents from Microsoft Word 2007 to PDF (for commercial printing) but very hard to convert PDF back to Word without screwing up all the formatting. Do […]
Cleaning docs without Word
Doc Scrubber lets you remove hidden Word info without Word itself. Some years ago, Microsoft ‘discovered’ the problem of ‘meta-data’, their term for the additional information in a Word document that you might not want to share with others. The most common meta-data problem is revisions – you might not want other people to see […]
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 – […]
Google Docs supports .docx and .xlsx
You can now upload Word and Excel 2007 files to Google’s online editor. Today Google announced that their Google Docs service will support Word 2007 .docx files and Excel 2007 .xlsx files. That saves Office 2007 users from having to ‘Save As’ to another format before uploading to Google Docs. Larger documents Google Docs has […]
OneNote and alternatives
Taming notes and scraps of info with OneNote, Word and beyond. Farhad Manjoo in The New York Times has a good summary of the various note-taking programs available. These are programs which help you keep all those scraps of information, links, chunks of text etc that accumulate. There is Microsoft OneNote, of course. For those […]
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 […]
Simple monitor rotation utility
An easy way to rotate your display to portrait mode. iRotate is a simple and cross-graphics way to switch display modes. Many LCD monitors have the ability to physically rotate from the standard landscape mode to portrait orientation with the narrow side of the screen at the top. This can be a useful way to […]
More Office 2007 patches
Even after Service Pack 2, there are more fixes for Office 2007. Service Pack 2 has been out less than a week and already there are more fixes for Office 2007. These ‘hotfixes’ are temporary and ‘ not fully tested’ updates. Most are dated 30 April 2009 – only a few days after Service Pack […]
Word 2007 Service Pack 2 – the official fix list
The official fix list for Word 2007 SP2 both the summary and the complete list. Here’s the official fix list for Word 2007 SP2 – both the summary and the complete list. We’ve published it here for easy reference instead of hunting around Microsoft’s web site and an Excel worksheet. The main change in Word 2007 […]
Printing a selection in Office
A trick for quickly printing part of a document, worksheet or slides plus when it does NOT work. Sometimes you just want to print part of a document, maybe a few paragraphs or many pages. One option available is to print the current selection. The basics are simple. In Word, select any block of text […]
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 […]
How to open Word 6 and other ‘old’ documents
One reader uses OpenOffice to bypass ‘features’ in Word 2003 SP3. Julie P writes, “I read the articles on “Problems opening ‘old’ documents” and thought they didn’t pertain to me. The earliest version of Word I had ever used was 6.0, which was supposed to be okay. Today I tried opening some files I’d saved […]
Klingon = Clinton
There’s always another joke at the expense of Word’s spell checker. Last year we had the politically charged question of Obama and Osama then later the omission of Michael Palin (or was it Sarah Palin?) from the Word dictionary. We’ve noticed another one that will offend Democrats and Star Trek fans, perhaps in equal measure. […]
