It promises a raunchy PowerPoint presentation, but gives you a malware Trojan instead. A nasty email is doing the rounds promising a PowerPoint presentation of the Kama Sutra but includes a program to take control of your computer as well. Sophos is reporting that an infected email is about to
Where to get the ‘Canadian Forces’ edition of Office 2010. We’re obliged to the Office-Watch.com readers who wrote about the Office 2010 Canadian Forces edition. It is available for qualifying people from Canex (The Canadian Forces Exchange System). Michael R tells us: “all members of the Canadian Forces can inquire
Free training manuals for Office 2007 and before plus Quick References for Office 2010. Mouse Training in the UK has released their training manuals free for all comers plus some Quick Reference Guides. The Training Manuals are for Office 2007, Office 2003, Office XP (2002) and Office 2000. They cover
And you thought Word 2010 was new? Microsoft has released a cute video on YouTube showing how the US Declaration of Independance was ‘made’ with Word 2010 and collaboration tools. You can slow down or stop the video to show how some Word features are done. The font
OneNote is merely the modern version of a Renaissance concept. The commonplace book isn’t a common thing these days, but it was once, er, common. Programs like OneNote might see a revival of the idea though, perhaps, not the name. A commonplace book was an early form of ‘scrapbook’ where
Word’s spell checker has some peculiar ideas about where an & symbol belongs. Susan S. writes with a question about the Word spell checker. She’s noticed that an ampersand next to a letter doesn’t trigger a spelling error in Word. We tried it out and she’s right: An ampersand next
Why is an obviously incorrect word not picked up by Word’s spell checker? Susan S. complains that her copy of Word has phrases like ‘ Thisis ‘ which aren’t showing up as a spelling error. In other words there is no red squiggly line when there should be. We’ve had
The Home Use Program continues to be ‘stonewalled’ for many eligible staff. People could save hundreds of dollars on Microsoft Office if their employers would let them. The Home Use Program is a great money saving option from Microsoft – it lets staff of organizations get Microsoft Office to use
Yes, you can type a long subject to an email, but it’s not much help to the reader. Recently we’ve received quite a few emails with long subject lines, sometimes only a subject with no message at all! We explain why they are difficult to read in Outlook despite Outlook
TechNet is still a good deal for IT Professionals, but not as good as it once was. Microsoft’s TechNet program has changed with less software available for the same price. Technet is Microsoft’s program for IT Professionals to allow access to a range of software for testing and evaluation purposes.
What’s the difference between the WAH and HUP programs from Microsoft? Microsoft has two different programs to let staff use Office software at home, the Work at Home (WAH) programs and the Home Use Program (HUP). From the program names you might think they are similar but they are not.
Trim down those enormous PPT/PPTX files. While it’s not the problem it was a few years ago, there’s still a need to reduce the file size of a PowerPoint presentation to something more portable for transport or even use on older machines which may have trouble dealing with large file
There are only a few days left before the Technology Guarantee ends On Sunday 31st October 2010 the Office 2010 Technology Guarantee ends. This is the program where recent purchasers of Office 2007 can get a free copy of Office 2010. Qualifying Office 2007 sales finished at the end of
There are several built-in ways to export Access data to Excel. There are several built-in ways to export Access data to Excel. You can use the Excel button on the Ribbon (or toolbar) to export a report (or other object) to Excel, or the TransferSpreadsheet method in code, to transfer
Why does Outlook 2010 make viewing unread messages so hard? The unread message view can be restored to Outlook 2010 fairly easily. In many past versions of Outlook there was a simple list of message views available and one of the choices was ‘Unread Messages’. It’s a popular option because
Another step towards cloud based MS Office with Office 365. Microsoft has announced ‘Office 365’ a further merging of Office software with online services, mostly aimed at small and medium sized businesses. Office365.microsoft.com Office 365 is a marketing bundle of online and, optionally, software licensing that can be paid for
In a few days the Office 2010 beta will stop working, what’s next? On 31 October 2010, anyone using the Office 2010 beta (sorry, Preview) will find it’s turned into a pumpkin. After that date the beta software will revert to ‘read only’ mode where it can open and view
There’s a portable version of Office 2010 you can carry on a USB stick. Many people would like a portable version of Microsoft Office that you can carry on a USB memory drive and run from any computer. It is possible for some people with Office 2010 on a new
How to quickly change to ‘Text Width’ view in Word. A useful view for Word documents is Text Width view but it’s not on the toolbar or ribbon so how can you switch to it quickly? Text Width view is good because it puts text across the available screen width
Can you run Office 2000 on Windows 7? Gene writes asking about running his Office 2000 software on his new computer with Windows 7. Office 2000 is shown as ‘NOT compatible’ on the official Windows 7 software compatibility list. Office XP (2002), Office 2003, Office 2007 and Office 2010 are
The second edition of “Office 2010: the real startup guide” is now available for new and past purchasers. We’re delighted to announce that a second edition of Office 2010: the real startup guide is now available for new and past purchasers. The new edition has over 150 extra pages covering
Macintosh users can get their ‘catch up’ version of Office soon. Office 2011 for Macintosh will be on sale from 26 October 2011. Office 2011 will have some interesting changes like a totally revamped Email and PIM program called ‘Outlook for Mac’ which will be able to integrate with the
A useful little feature in Outlook 2010 has been dropped but not removed from the menus. Outlook 2010 has a handy feature to recover some more space for the message reading pane – what a pity it doesn’t work. Screen space is a scare commodity, especially in Outlook 2010 with
Microsoft drops their own blogging service, what does that mean for its Office integration? Microsoft has announced that they are phasing out their ‘Windows Spaces’ blogging service in favor of WordPress.com Strictly speaking Microsoft hasn’t made that announcement; it was a carefully worded blog post. In the usual ‘PR Speak’
