From: Microsoft The Ultimate Steal Promotion saves students up to 91 percent off the estimated retail price when downloading Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007. The Ultimate Steal Promotion saves students up to 91 percent off the estimated retail price when downloading Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007. REDMOND, Wash., March 25 — Today Microsoft
From: Addintools Technology Ltd Classic Menu for MS Office 2007 v4.01a, a new update for the suite of tools that enables users to introduce the interface of Microsoft Office 2003 into Microsoft Office 2007. Addintools Technology Ltd is delighted to announce the release of Classic Menu for MS Office 2007
Let’s have some INDEX() and MATCH() fun in our Lookup function series. by David Goodmanson On their own, the INDEX() and MATCH() functions are fairly straightforward but when they are combined they create a very powerful Lookup tool. Both functions have 3 parts to their arguments. INDEX(range, row_number, column_number) and
There’s always another joke at the expense of Word’s spell checker. Last year we had the politically charged question of Obama and Osama then later the omission of Michael Palin (or was it Sarah Palin?) from the Word dictionary. We’ve noticed another one that will offend Democrats and Star Trek
As if the Military Appreciation Edition wasn’t cheap enough, Microsoft has cut the price yet again. The Office 2007 Military Appreciation Edition (MAE) is down to US$49.99 -from $79.95. That’s a fantastic deal for what is really a three installation licence for Office 2007 Standard (Word 2007, Excel 2007, Powerpoint
A clever option to print a foldable booklet that won’t cost you anything. One of the eternal requests for Microsoft Office is the ability to make a booklet. That is a set of two pages on one side of paper but double-sided and ordered so you can fold the lot
An Outlook 2007 update can make your startup take over an hour. A Cumulative Update for Outlook 2007 has some unexpected concerns and the usual set of mixed messages from Microsoft. The February 2009 Cumulative Update for Outlook 2007 is a collection of fixes, Microsoft releases these ‘CU’ bundles from
From: Microsoft Microsoft’s list of bugs fixed and improvements in the February 2009 Cumulative Update package. Here’s Microsoft’s list of bugs fixed in the February 2009 Cumulative Update package as at 18 March 2009. It’s worth noting that the vast majority of the now fixed bugs and improvements were NOT
There’s a free add-on that returns classic Office 2003 menus and toolbars to Office 2007. UBitMenu is a simple and free way to bring classic Office 2003 menus and toolbars to Office 2007 programs. Under a new ‘Menu’ tab you get all the traditional pull-down menus plus two long rows
Cross-referencing is an imposing name for something we’re all familiar with in books, especially reference books. Microsoft Word makes it much easier to do. A cross-reference is simply a mention or link in the text to another part of the same document. In olden days (thirty years ago ) you
How to print a document when the paper sizes are different. On our new Twitter account we saw this question: “When I send an Excel file to someone, should I have to set it up so they can print? I don’t know the printer/size they use.” Part of that answer
Pricing hint, versions of Windows, Office on the web and other Office 14 news. From no less a mouth than Steve Ballmer comes word that the next version of Office won’t grace our desktops until 2010. That’s no real surprise, Microsoft seems to be focusing on the next Windows –
Gmail stopped working, but Outlook users didn’t have to worry. Saul Hansell at the New York Times is reporting on an outage on the popular Gmail service. The Gmail breakdown happened at the start of the working day in Europe and lasted until about lunchtime. Early risers in the USA
An UNpatched Excel security flaw is being exploited publicly. According to Symantec, there’s an unfixed Excel security hole which makes vulnerable Excel 2007 (with or without Service Pack 1) and maybe other versions of Excel. The Trojan is a variation on Mdropper which takes advantage of a ‘Remote code Execution’
Using Vlookup in Excel to work out tax, fees or commission from a table by David Goodmanson In part 1 we covered the basics of VLookup, let’s use it to calculate tax for a list of employees and their salaries. We’ve chosen this practical example because it contains a fixed
About 32-bit & 64-bit editions of Microsoft Office in Office 2003, Office 2007 and Office 2010. Gradually, oh so gradually, we’re changing from a world of 32-bit computers to 64 bit computers. What does this mean for Microsoft Office? Microsoft Office and 64-bit Microsoft Office 2007 only has one version
How to format a Word or Excel document to print on someone else’s computer. On our new Twitter account we saw this question: ” When I send an Excel file to someone, should I have to set it up so they can print it? I don’t know the printer/size paper
From: ConverterTechnology OfficeConverter 2007, which eliminates that fear by streamlining migration to Microsoft Office 2007 What is a CIO’s worst nightmare aside from a total IT shutdown? To be the most hated person in the office because a major enterprise application migration did not go well. ConverterTechnology recently unveiled OfficeConverter
More Q & A about the program that gives employees Office for a few bucks. Questions and problems with the Home Use Program continue to reach Office-Watch.com The Home Use Program (HUP) is part of the corporate licensing of Microsoft Office which gives employees a home use copy of Office
A new wave of fake job applications and responses isn’t caught by Outlook. Spammers aren’t completely stupid, they release a new type of infected email that isn’t caught by the Outlook Junk Email filter even when it’s set to ‘High’ ( Actions | Junk E-mail | Junk E-mail Options |
How to remove single entries from the most recently used list. In Office for Mere Mortals we recently covered the basics of the most recently used (MRU) list in Office. Removing individual entries It is possible to an individual ‘recently used document’ but it’s not obvious and a far cry
The jokes about upcoming ‘Microsoft Stores’ especially when compared to the smart and popular Apple Stores. The jokes about upcoming ‘Microsoft Stores’ especially when compared to the smart and popular Apple Stores. Stephen Fry (long time Apple lover) suggests that an MS Store will be hard to find, grey, ugly,
From: Addintools Technology Ltd Addintools Technology Ltd. announced today the launch of Ribbon Customizer. Addintools Technology Ltd. announced today the launch of Ribbon Customizer. It is the first developer to research the Classic Menu, and they have spent almost one year in developing Ribbon Customizer for Office 2007. When working
We clear up some of the misunderstandings about the MS Office Home Use Program, one of the cheapest ways to buy Microsoft Office. In our article Get Office 2007 from your boss for $30 we explained how many companies can let their staff buy Office Professional for much less than
