New names and bundle changes Among all the first looks at Office 2010 programs we’ve been posting at Office-Watch.com there has been some other Office 2010 news. Office loses its Groove (Frankly we’re surprised not to have seen this headline somewhere) Groove in Office 2007 becomes SharePoint Workspace 2010. Microsoft
Why the early Office beta isn’t worth getting. Inevitably, the Office 2010 Technical Preview made it’s way onto the Internet – you can download it from many sites – but why bother? Office Watch tries out early versions of Microsoft Office. We’ve done that for over a decade because it’s our
From: ODF Alliance ODF Alliance Finds Substantial Improvements Needed for Real-World Interoperability The OpenDocument Format (ODF) Alliance today cautioned that serious deficiencies in Microsoft’s support for ODF needed to be addressed to ensure greater interoperability with other ODF-supporting software. “Support for ODF represents an important and ongoing test of Microsoft’s
an Office 2010 feature reveals a possible new Microsoft retail pricing strategy. With Office 2010 you can expect more ‘upselling’ with prompts in Office to buy other parts of the Office line and extras online direct from Microsoft. Check this ‘Step-Up Your Office’ option on Office 2010 menus: As you
First look at the web versions of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint Microsoft has released some images of the upcoming browser based versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint. There’s a picture of the edit pane and another of the view/read window for each program. Click on any of these images
The next Office has new ways to link dates, people and documents Under the Office 2010 ‘Office’ menu for Word 2010, Excel 2010 and PowerPoint 2010 are some interesting new features to link or relate the current document. Documents can be related in ways that we’ve not seen before. On
Major menu changes under the trimmed down Office button More sneak peeks into the Office 2010 Technical Preview. Nothing is guaranteed but most, if not all, of these changes will be in the released Office 2010. Click on any image to see a full-size version. The ‘Office’ button in Office 2010
From: Microsoft Fraunhofer FOKUS and industry experts collaborate to help organizations test and verify conformance with standardized document formats; updates to additional translator projects unveiled. The variety of software programs and document formats in the market can make it difficult for organizations to exchange data among disparate systems. For example,
A new way to reduce the size of the 2010 ribbon. Way over on the right side of the Office 2010 ribbons there’s a new button. Click on the up arrow and the ribbon will minimize, leaving only the tabs. This isn’t a new feature, for Office 2007 has smart
Check out the main screens and ribbons in the next OneNote Here’s a first look at the new look OneNote 2010. First a look at the whole screen – click to see a full size image: OneNote get the ribbon interface. Note that the default ribbon view for OneNote 2010
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
Hints about Microsoft’s sales strategy for 64 bit version of Office 2010. Microsoft has already said that there will be both 32 bit and 64 bit versions of Office 2010. The question remained – how would the 64 bit version be sold or bundled? With Office 2003 there was a little known
A nice little surprise on the Windows 7 start menu. Windows 7 has a nifty feature on the Start Menu – fly-out lists of recently used documents for many programs including, naturally, Microsoft Office. Outlook doesn’t have ‘recently used documents’ so you’d think there’s no place for that feature –
First look at the full set of ribbons in the next MS Office. Here’s a quick look at the Outlook 2010 ribbons. Most of the icons translate to existing Outlook features but there is some new stuff too. Word 2010 has already had a peek at this article: Word 2010 –
In-depth look at new features: navigation pane, text effects, customized ribbon It’s early on a Sunday morning and what should appear in the Office Watch Inbox but some sneak peek looks at Word 2010! Lucky us. Here they are with some very preliminary comments. Please keep in mind that with this and
From: Academic Press Completely updated guide for scientists, engineers and students who want to use Microsoft Excel 2007 to its full potential. Electronic spreadsheet analysis has become part of the everyday work of researchers in all areas of engineering and science. Microsoft Excel, as the industry standard spreadsheet, has a
Which versions of Office are approved on the server OS? As we mentioned last year, Windows Server 2008 can be used as a very stable and fast workstation operating system – it’s certainly more stable than Windows Vista in many situations. In addition, Office can run on Windows Server and
Office 2007 SP2 problems remain unsolved. Here are details of some possible Office 2007 Service Pack 2 problems we’ve been told about. We say possible only because in most cases we’ve been unable to confirm the details ourselves and there’s been no response from Microsoft yet. Still best to wait
All Windows versions get security patches, Mac users have to wait. PowerPoint is the only program needing security patches in May 2009 but only the Windows versions of the presentation software are updated, for Office for Mac users will have to just wait. Here’s a list of the affected programs
How to get rid of SP2 if it’s causing a problem. Office 2007 Service Pack 2 is the first Office SP that you can uninstall but it’s not at all easy or obvious. The uninstall tool is a command line tool – you read that right and yes, we are
Office 2010 as a movie is barely a trailer. The marketing juggernaut revs up with Office 2010 – the movie http://www.office2010themovie.com/ They call it a movie but at 33 seconds long it’s barely a trailer. Kubrick’s 2001 it’s not and it doesn’t reveal anything about Office 2010. Also in the
Act fast to sign up for the Office 2010 preview. Microsoft is asking people to sign up for the Office 2010 Technical Preview when it is extended in July 2009. At present the Technical Preview is limited to attendees to the TechEd 2009 conference that’s just started in Los Angeles.
When you buy Office 2007, how many computers can you install it on? When you buy Microsoft Office 2007, how many computers can you install the software on? The long and complex license for Office can be confusing and, from the messages we receive, there’s even more confusion now there’s
Windows 7 added 43 fonts to the set supplied by Windows. There will be 21 new typefaces in Windows 7, a total of 43 fonts to the set supplied by Windows. Many of the fonts are for non-English languages like Hindi, Japanese and Arabic. For Latin and similar alphabets, the
