The known problems and major ‘behavior changes’ in SP2. If you look waaaay down Microsoft’s SP2 documentation you’ll find a list of ‘Known Issues and behavior changes’ , or in other words, things that work differently once you install Service Pack 2 or don’t work at all. Why? Microsoft Office
Improvements summary for the latest update to Office 2007. Office 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) will be available soon (not as we type this but not long now). In the meantime here’s a summary list of what Microsoft considers the major fixes or ‘improvements’ Office Watch will have its own
Printed support materials that make your presentations better PowerPoint support materials come to the rescue of both the presenter and the attendees. PowerPoint has greatly advanced from being just a tool to prepare slides and organize it. It has come up with various support materials like handouts, notes which can
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,
How to import any Twitter search into an Excel worksheet and update it automatically In our article Using Excel (the real one) to read Twitter we talked about importing your incoming and sent tweets into an Excel worksheet. You can do this to disguise Twittering from your boss however there
You can use Microsoft Excel to read your Tweets, incoming and outgoing. Yesterday we talked about SpreadTweet, a program that looks like Excel but really lets you to read and send tweets without being caught by your boss. Excel itself can be used to read incoming Tweets and your own
SpreadTweet is a way to view your Twitter account, looking like an Excel worksheet. It seems that not a day or maybe even an hour goes by without some new Twitter program or service is released, but we had to love this one – SpreadTweet. SpreadTweet is a way to
IF statement and some variatons – nested IF, CountIF and SumIF. by David Goodmanson IF a picture paints a thousand words, then how many words have 5 characters or more? The answer? Use the IF function. The IF function is a simple and easy-to-use function that can be widely applied
How to tidy up your browser favorites / bookmarks. Over time you can accumulate a lot of bookmarked web sites in your browser. Favorites in Internet Explorer (or bookmarks in Firefox) can get out of date and it’s easy to accidently create duplicate links to the same web site. Phil,
Leaked Office 2010 & Outlook 2010 images hint at what’s in store and it’s not all good news. ZDnet is reporting some screen shots from Office 2010 with a new logo and color scheme. While we wait for test versions of Office 2010 to come out, it’s a passing weekend
Try Office 2008 free for 30 days but watch out for the high price at the end. Mac users can now try Office 2008 free for 30 days. We have some money saving conversion tips that can save you a few hundred dollars. Where to start Microsoft itself hasn’t realized
From: Microsoft Q&A: Chris Capossela, senior vice president of Microsoft’s Information Worker Product Management Group, discusses what people and businesses can expect from the upcoming release of Microsoft Exchange Server, Office, SharePoint Server, Visio and Project. Microsoft today announced the key capabilities and expected timeline for the next wave of
From: Microsoft Microsoft Corp. today released a public beta of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, part of Microsoft’s unified communications family. Microsoft Corp. today released a public beta of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, part of Microsoft’s unified communications family (http://www.microsoft.com/uc). Exchange 2010 is part of the next wave of Microsoft Office-related
From: Microsoft The Azerbaijan-based representative office Microsoft is planning to follow further policy of integration of Microsoft products into the Azerbaijani market. Baku, Fineko/ The Azerbaijan-based representative office Microsoft is planning to follow further policy of integration of Microsoft products into the Azerbaijani market. Baku Microsoft office’s head Teymur Akhundov
More details and a cautionary note on the coming Office 2007 update. As Office Watch suggested last week, Office 2007 Service Pack 2 will be released to the public on 28 April – less than two weeks away. The main contents of SP2 has been announced in the past: Integrated
How to make a nice, cheap and discreet cover for your laptop or netbook. An article by Perri Lewis in The Guardian caught our eye – instructions for making your own laptop case. All you need is some felt, webbing and Velcro. The article includes links to a pattern and
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
Office Watch readers have already said they don’t care. Various outlets are hot with the ‘news’ that the next version of Office will be called ‘Office 2010’. Hardly surprising since the upcoming Microsoft Office will be released in 2010. It wasn’t going to be called ‘Office 7’ (to match Windows
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
Why can’t Office open docs made by Office itself? When Microsoft was trying to gain market share over rivals like WordPerfect, they spent a lot of time and trouble making Office import other document formats easily and correctly. Times have changed, Microsoft Office has the overwhelming share of the office
Much as the Microsoft marketing people would like you to believe that – it’s not true. Much as the Microsoft marketing people would like you to believe that – it’s not true. Plenty of individuals and companies are sticking with earlier versions of Office – Office 2003 or Office XP
SP2 is out soon, but don’t rush in. Microsoft has announced that Office 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) will be released later this month, at least to corporate users of Windows Service Update Services (WSUS). UPDATE: it’s now confirmed for 28 April 2009. WSUS is a way for administrators to
It’s prudent to delay activating MS Office until well after installation. Microsoft’s setup encourages you to activate your copy of Office as soon as you install – however you don’t have to do that and we’d encourage people NOT to. Getting a product activation registers your use of Office on
From: Bundeskartellamt The Bundeskartellamt has imposed a fine of € 9 million on Microsoft Deutschland GmbH.Microsoft has influenced the resale price of the software package “Office Home & Student 2007” in an anticompetitive manner. The Bundeskartellamt has imposed a fine of € 9 million on Microsoft Deutschland GmbH. Microsoft has
