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
From: DataViz DataViz Brings Over 10 Years of Office Compatibility Experience to Android Market via the Now Available Documents To Go and RoadSync Beta DataViz Brings Over 10 Years of Office Compatibility Experience to Android Market via the Now Available Documents To Go and RoadSync Beta. T-mobile G1 and Vodafone
Putting Office variations on the one machine. You can install and run multiple versions of Word, Excel and Powerpoint on the one computer. For example you can have Word 2003 and Word 2007 installed together. Outlook is the exception – only one version of Outlook can exist on a computer
Is it true that you can only install Office twice before buying another copy? Microsoft’s Product Activation is the source of a lot of questions to Office Watch and clearly it’s not well understood. Microsoft has little interest in making the rules clearer, partly for their security reasons and partly because
Office 2003 users have a hard choice now main support for their software is ending. Office 2003 users have a hard choice now main support for their software is ending. Microsoft has quietly announced that the main lines of support and updates for Office 2003 will stop in less than
New threat for PPT 2003, 2002 and 2000 Microsoft has advised a new security threat involving .PPT .POT and .PPS files. It is possible for one of those file types to be infected with a new virus which takes advantage of an unpatched security hole in PowerPoint. You can get
You can now download Microsoft’s Sharepoint Designer free. Microsoft Office Sharepoint Designer 2010 – one of the successors to Frontpage 2003 for customising Microsoft Sharepoint web sites is now a free download. With registration you can get the 254MB or less download from Microsoft. That might be a little annoying
The next service pack for Office 2007 has been leaked. The next service pack for Office 2007 has been leaked. On various file sharing / BitTorrent sites you’ll find today an ‘Office 2007 Service Pack 2’ download. It appears to be a late beta or even release candidate before the
From: Microsoft Job seekers use Office Online Career Center to build strong résumés with templates from Microsoft Office Online, apply for thousands of jobs through Monster.com, and use Office Live Workspace to meet with résumé consultants to polish résumés. REDMOND, Wash., and MAYNARD, Mass. — March 31, 2009 — Microsoft Office
Earn money recommending Office 2007 to students. It’s possible to earn money by recommending Office 2007 to students. As part of Microsoft’s effort to push Office 2007 into the hands of students they are now offering an ‘affiliate’ program with their student ‘Ultimate Steal’ offer. Under the affiliate arrangement, approved
You have to hand it to Microsoft marketing – they can ‘announce’ something that’s been in place for years and get a pile of free publicity. Microsoft is heavily promoting a deal they’ve had for a long time. You have to hand it to Microsoft marketing – they can ‘announce’
The dribble of news and rumors about the next version of Office continues. The dribble of news and rumors about the next version of Office continues. On the fact side we have the welcome news that Office 14 will come in 32-bit and 64-bit flavors. Since more people have and
How to ensure you have the necessary ‘Conficker’ protection installed on a Windows Vista or XP computer. Chances are good you already have it installed. There has been a lot of talk about the Conficker virus that is due to trigger on 1 April. In our view the hype about
The Feb 09 update for Outlook 2007 disables an add-in that you don’t have. If you install the February 2009 Cumulative Update for Outlook 2007 then dig around the list of add-ins you may see an entry you don’t expect. Go to Tools | Trust Center | Add-ins | Manage
See what people are saying right now about your favorite Office software. It can be fascinating to see what people say about software as they work – many questions, some answers and plenty of anguish and outright anger. We’ve setup some pages that make it easy to see the very
