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 a […]
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. […]
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. […]
Start Cross Referencing in Microsoft Word
Cross-referencing is an imposing name for something we’re all familiar with in books, especially reference books. Microsoft Word makes it much easier to do. A cross-reference is simply a mention or link in the text to another part of the same document. In olden days (thirty years ago ) you could put references like these […]
Fitting a Word or Excel doc to your printer
How to print a document when the paper sizes are different. On our new Twitter account we saw this question: “When I send an Excel file to someone, should I have to set it up so they can print? I don’t know the printer/size they use.” Part of that answer is preparing the document but that’s […]
Paper sizes on another computer
How to format a Word or Excel document to print on someone else’s computer. On our new Twitter account we saw this question: ” When I send an Excel file to someone, should I have to set it up so they can print it? I don’t know the printer/size paper they use. “ It should […]
More MRU magic
How to remove single entries from the most recently used list. In Office for Mere Mortals we recently covered the basics of the most recently used (MRU) list in Office. Removing individual entries It is possible to an individual ‘recently used document’ but it’s not obvious and a far cry from a simple right-mouse click […]
Full-Screen editing in Word 2007
There is a full screen editing mode in Word 2007, if you know where to look. We’re obliged to Rob G from Pennsylvania who found the full screen mode in Word 2007. Full screen editing is great on smaller displays like laptops or netbooks as well as anyone who likes to type without the distraction […]
