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
Some useful maps of Europe and some European countries as free PPT slides. Presentation Helper has some useful maps of Europe and some European countries as PowerPoint slides. The free download has: Map of Europe with pins Four example maps showing how to apply pins, lines, outlines and image fills
Tweeting directly from Excel A month ago we wrote about how to import your Twitter feed into Excel and also Twitter searches into Excel. At the time we said “There’s no direct way to send tweets or direct messages – but I suspect it’s only a matter of time before
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 –
