Microsoft says they are ‘entering’ Technical Preview, two months after it actually happened. You have to hand it to Microsoft, if they can’t announce something new, they announce something old knowing most people won’t realize any different. We were amazed, but not really surprised, to see Microsoft announce that Office
From: Microsoft Microsoft showcases new product capabilities and announces Office Web applications will be available to nearly half a billion people at launch. Today, at its Worldwide Partner Conference 2009, Microsoft Corp. announced that Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, Microsoft Visio 2010 and Microsoft Project 2010 have reached
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
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
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.
Microsoft has been crowing mightily about a problem with Google Apps Sync. Microsoft has been crowing mightily about a problem with Google Apps Sync. Google Apps Sync is a utility to synchronize Outlook email, calendar and contacts with the Google Apps online services. According to Microsoft, when you install Google
Like many things with Outlook, even a simple thing like deletion isn’t simple at all. Microsoft has designed Outlook to give you options to recover items deleted accidently. Australian newspapers are leading with ‘UteGate’ – believe it or not. It started with an email supposedly sent from the Prime Ministers
Excel alternatives to nested IF’s from our readers. After David Goodmanson’s features on IF and nested IF’s we’ve received many messages from readers suggesting another alternative – CHOOSE() and here even more possiblities. Tony D writes: “ Small snippet for your “IF” library next time. I’m sure there will be hundreds
Readers suggest an alternative to nested IF – the Choose() function After David Goodmanson’s features on IF and nested IF’s we’ve received many messages from readers suggesting another alternative – CHOOSE() The Choose function in Excel and VBA lets you choose from a list of options based on an integer
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
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
The SP2 updated help files have finally appeared. When Service Pack 2 was released there were also new help files for all parts of Office 2007 with the notable exception of Outlook 2007. At the time we called the Outlook 2007 help files ‘missing in action‘. In early June the
A look at nested IF statements and alternatives that are easier to make and understand later. by David Goodmanson In my last article I looked at a simple Excel IF statement plus their useful cousins CountIf and SumIF. I also touched on the nested IF statement, where there are many
PPT Handouts are a special rendering of your slides to be printed out for your audience. PowerPoint Handouts are a special rendering of your slides to be printed out for your audience. It’s one of the ‘PowerPoint support materials‘ including Notes. In this article we show how to make and
How to use the Outlook View Control on an Access form When Office 2000 was introduced, and the Outlook View Control first became available, I tried it out, but found it so buggy and difficult to work with that I set it aside as unusable. Recently, I decided to try
More solutions to Access AutoNumber problems. I have received several more solutions to the AutoNumber problem discussed previously with the Access Archon article “Recovering from an AutoNumber Disaster.” With these solutions, and the ones in the last AW, you should be able to find some solution that works for you,
A look at the ribbons and menus in the next version of Access A look at the ribbons and menus in the next version of PPT. We’ve already looked at Word 2010, Excel 2010, OneNote 2010 and Outlook 2010 plus the new look Office button menu. These sneak peeks into the Office
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.
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
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
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.
A look at the ribbons and menus in the next version of PPT. A look at the ribbons and menus in the next version of PPT. We’ve already looked at Word 2010, Excel 2010, OneNote 2010 and Outlook 2010 plus the new look Office button menu. These sneak peeks into
A look at the ribbons and menus in the next version of Excel. A look at the ribbons and menus in the next version of Excel. We’ve already looked at Word 2010, OneNote 2010 and Outlook 2010 plus the new look Office button menu. Click on any image to see
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
