Excel’s options for shading alternate rows are limited and sometimes ugly. Here’s how to take full control and design the way you like I sometimes wonder whether Microsoft spends so much on its programming budget it has little left over to spend on designers. This thought often crosses my mind
Office 2003 SP3 has a bug in the Documening Imaging program – Microsoft has a fix if you need the hotfix and if you can find a way to ask for it! Microsoft has released a ‘hotfix’ to a repair a bug that arises in Office 2003 Service Pack 3.
Last week, Microsoft announced support for the ODF document format in Microsoft Office. But don’t get too excited about it, it’s a long time coming. Last week, Microsoft announced support for the ODF document format in Microsoft Office. But don’t get too excited about it, for it’ll be long time coming.
From: Caelo Software We are very happy to announce that with new investors and a regrouped development team we worked hard the last several months to prepare the next version of NEO Pro. Release 3.2 has now been launched and is a free upgrade for all licensed NEO Pro 3.x
From: Altova StyleVision Supports Word 2007 / OOXML; Altova Lowers Price. Case Study – MapForce EDI Conversion Optimizes Business Transactions. Tips & Tricks – Content Re-Use in XMLSpy with OOXML & XSLT 1) StyleVision Supports Word 2007 / OOXML; Altova Lowers Price 2) Case Study – MapForce EDI Conversion Optimizes
Microsoft Australia are trying something different to promote Office 2007 – children. Microsoft Australia are trying something different to promote Office 2007 – children. Go to http://www.microsoft.com.au/charity/ to see kids give answers to various questions including what Microsoft is (the kid on top left has a logical yet wrong conclusion).
Microsoft Australia is trying to lure Aussies to buy Office 2007 with petrol. Microsoft Australia is trying to lure Aussies to buy Office 2007 with petrol. Buying Office 2007 (most consumer oriented packs but not volume licenses or pre-installed with a computer ) between 1 May 2008 and 31 July
From: Microsoft Move enhances customer choice and interoperability with Microsoft’s flagship productivity suite. REDMOND, Wash. – May 21, 2008 – Microsoft Corp. is offering customers greater choice and more flexibility among document formats, as well as creating additional opportunities for developer and competitors, by expanding the range of document formats
Excel can’t add up properly – is that an acceptable compromise or something Microsoft should fix? We’ve been covering the Excel addition issues in a series of recent articles starting here. To round out the coverage we’ll now take a look at the arguments pro and con so that Office Watch
Microsoft has a standard response to any maths anomalies in Excel – KB214118 – we have a look at what it says and doesn’t say. Microsoft has a ‘get out of jail free’ card when it comes to floating point / binary math errors in Excel – it’s called Knowledge
Cells in Excel are linked by references – whether they are relative, absolute or mixed – named or unnamed – Rose Vines will explain all. When you refer to a cell in an Excel formula, you can use any of three different types of reference: relative, absolute and mixed. Relative
Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007 have patches to update their spam detection systems. Microsoft has also released spam filter updates for both Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007. These should improve Outlook’s ability to recognize spam messages, in particular the newer variations. Again, Windows Update should handle this update but if
Microsoft’s May 2008 patches include Word, Outlook, Publisher and Access. As usual we look at the patches to help you get all the updates you need. There are four security patches from Microsoft this month – three relate to Microsoft Office and the fourth is worth mentioning because of the
Here’s Microsoft’s response to the anomalies found in Excel’s adding up. We asked Microsoft for a comment on the Excel addition problems that our readers have been discovered. Office Watch pointed out the anomalies in results when the same numbers are added in a different order or grouped differently – something that
Office Watch readers come up with some truly strange arithmetic – Excel style. The conclusion: Excel definitely can’t add up – in fact it would fail an elementary school maths test. Does Excel have an addition bug? You’d think that was a simple question to answer, you just insert the
Here’s our questions to Microsoft about COFEE and the full, unedited, response from Microsoft to those questions. Office Watch likes to present facts not supposition – and in the case of the COFEE tool there’s far too much guesswork going on. That fact and our specific interest in Microsoft Office
Microsoft has a new tool to peek into computers and intended for law enforcement agencies. But what can it do with Microsoft Office documents and data? Microsoft is now talking about COFEE, a tool they have released to some law enforcement agencies to let them take a look at Windows
Excel 2003 has limited undo level, until you use our tip to increase the number of actions than can be reversed. Excel 2007 lets you undo 100 actions; with Excel 2003, the limit is 16 but that’s an arbitrary limit set by Microsoft. If that feels too restrictive, you can
Here’s how you can open separate windows in Outlook and save the positions for later use. Also why you’re not going crazy when it doesn’t work. You’re not limited to a single Outlook window, you can have many views open at the same time. For example, your Inbox, Calendar and
A ‘sweepstakes winner’ email appears to come from Microsoft .. it looks very sincere but it’s a hoax. You may have received a strange message recently that says you’re the winner of a sweepstakes run by Microsoft. The message is headed: Microsoft Office Live Workspace – Prize Winner Notification and
Word has a hidden calculator but Google’s online calculator is much better. If you spend lots of time in Word, you’ll find its calculator extremely useful; it’s much easier to get a result within the program you’re using than by having to load up an external application. However, if your
By default, Outlook displays either your Inbox or the Outlook Today page when you open it. What if you’d like it to display your calendar instead? Or, perhaps you’d find it handy to open two Outlook windows, one showing your Inbox and the other your calendar. By default, Outlook displays
Microsoft is starting a trial scheme of ‘nagging’ Office users who have ‘non genuine’ copies of Office. Microsoft is starting a trial scheme of ‘nagging’ Office users who have ‘non genuine’ copies of Office. At present there are various ‘Genuine Software’ technologies built into Office but there’s little direct notice
From: Microsoft Q&A: Cori Hartje, Worldwide Director, Microsoft Genuine Software Initiative, discusses Microsoft’s continued investments to help customers and partners realize the value of genuine software. REDMOND, Wash., April 8, 2008 — Computer users have had their share of challenges with software piracy. Which is why, over the past two
