Microsoft has released a set of programming tools to let developers work with Office 2007 documents without the Office applications themselves. Microsoft has released a set of programming tools to let developers work with Office 2007 documents without the Office applications themselves. The Open XML SDK v1.0 is available from
Excel 2007 has a bug related to Excel 2003 and WordArt – Microsoft has a fix if you need the hotfix. Microsoft has released a ‘hotfix’ to a repair a bug that arises in Excel 2007. The problem is described thus: ” Consider the following scenario: You create a new
Yes, everyone is talking about the second generation iPhone – the iPhone 3G. Here we’ll focus on the features that relate to Microsoft Office users. Yes, everyone is talking about the second generation iPhone – the iPhone 3G. Here we’ll focus on the features that relate to Microsoft Office users.
A new version of Microsoft’s indexing and search technology is now available. The Windows Search technology is one way to find documents and messages quickly. It’s essential to using the ‘instant’ search features in Outlook 2007 and Onenote 2007. A new version of Microsoft’s indexing and search technology is now
Here’s how to trim down your Outlook storage by removing attachments from messsages, without deleting the message itself. If you’re trying to reduce the size of your Outlook storage file, one option is to remove the attachments from older messages that you’ve sent as well as attachments from messages that
Adobe, makers of the Acrobat / PDF system, have entered the world of online word-processing with their ‘Buzzword’ product available for free from Acrobat.com. Adobe, makers of the Acrobat / PDF system, have entered the world of online word-processing with their ‘Buzzword’ product available for free from Acrobat.com. It’s a
From: Adobe New Online Services Help People Work Together on Documents Anywhere, Anytime SAN JOSE, Calif. — June 2, 2008 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today introduced Acrobat.com , a suite of hosted services available as public beta for free signup, that put communication, productivity, and collaboration tools right within
Now you know NOT to trust the precision of Excel’s results even for simple additions, what can you do about it? As we’ve shown in recent articles (Excel SUM anomaly, More Excel addition strangeness and Excel addition problems – bug or not? among others) , Excel’s arithmetic isn’t as reliable
An update for the iCalendar and IMAP features in Outlook 2007 was released yesterday. If you were listening very carefully yesterday, you may have heard a tiny noise … it was an update for Outlook 2007 sneaking in the back door with barely a word, let alone any announcement or
An explanation of the logic behind alternate shading rows or columns in Excel. If you’re content with this result and don’t need to know the nuts and bolts, class dismissed. If, on the other hand, you’d like to understand how we end up with a checkerboard pattern from this expression,
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
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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
