Office users should not worry about changes to the Office 2007 formats, but developers need to watch out. If you’ve read some comments about the OOXML (aka Office 2007 document formats) then you might be worried about saving files as docx xlsx etc – while the concerns are justified there’s
Helen Feddema of Access Watch fame has released a new version of her famous Time & Expense Billing Application for Office. The Time & Expense Billing application consists of an Outlook custom Journal form and five sets of Office version-specific documents; each set includes a Word setup document, two Word
An annoying bug in Outlook 2007 has been fixed with Service Pack 1 Office 2007 Service Pack one has certainly fixed one problem that’s been bugging our readers for the last year – the proper printing of multi-week events in monthly calendar printouts. In the original Outlook 2007, a multi-week
When things go wrong with Office, do you blame it or Windows? Bill G writes: ” I read an article which quoted a Microsoft executive saying that they didn’t know if problems with Office where the fault of Office or Windows. Are they kidding – if Microsoft doesn’t know where
The first service pack for Office 2007 has been released and, as usual, you’re better off waiting a while. The first service pack for Office 2007 has been released and, as usual, you’re better off waiting a while. The documentation on the changes in Service Pack 1 (SP1) is still
While installing Vista SP1 isn’t always easy, the final result is worth the trouble. In our test Vista SP1 is noticeably more stable than the version previously foisted on the public. Unlike Office 2007 Service Pack 1, the Windows Vista service pack is undergoing much wider testing before public release.
Following the story of the ‘trillion dollar bank letter’ comes the question – how do you avoid making the similar mistakes with Microsoft Word. Following the story of the trillion dollar bank letter comes the question – how do you avoid such mistakes in your own business? However it happens,
Since Vista Service Pack won’t have a ‘kill switch’ what does that mean for Office? Microsoft has announced that Windows Vista Service Pack 1 will not have the despised ‘kill switch’ – the ability for Microsoft to disable Vista remotely if they beleive the software is stolen, even after the activation
Telling someone they owe trillions of dollars is blamed on a word-processor WSB-TV in Atlanta has the story of a bank letter that would worry anyone – it said the customer owed over $211 Trillion US dollars. That’s more than the cost of the Iraq War (in fact 70 times
Microsoft updates their PDA range to support Office 2007 documents – and not before time. At long last, Microsoft has made some of their Windows Mobile (aka Pocket PC) devices compatible with Office 2007 documents (.docx xlsx pptx etc.) – Windows Mobile 6.1 is now available. It’s been a year
Google’s free Gmail service is still forging ahead with improvements to make it a compelling email host – not just for web based email but also for people with almost any email program. It’s a service that is far better than what most ISP’s give you with an Internet connection.
A guy bought a drive from Best Buy in NY – it has tiles instead of 1TB of storage – but no refund or replacement from Best Buy. The Consumerist is reporting the amazing story of Sam – who bought a 1TB hard drive only to find a set of
There’s a big question mark over the third service pack for Office 2003 – should you install it or not? Microsoft has chosen to make that decision a difficult one for all Office 2003 users. There’s a big question mark over the third service pack for Office 2003 – should
Microsoft has released a 37MB ‘hotfix’ for the Excel 2007 calculation bug Excel 2007 calc bug fix Microsoft has released a ‘hotfix’ for the Excel 2007 calculation bug and it’s worth getting despite the large size. The hotfix here . Just install the patch – there is no restart or
A new security threat known as the VML vulnerability has just been patched by Microsoft with a possibility of email messages taking advantage of this security gap in Windows. This is important because there’s a possibility of email messages taking advantage of this security gap in Windows. Just displaying a
Excel 2007 had a serious bug where some numbers display as ” 100,000 ” regardless of the true value around 65,535 and 65,536. Excel 2007 and Excel Services 2007 had a problem with a few numbers it doesn’t like … truly. A few numbers around the 65,535 and the 65,536
In the name of ‘security’ some features of Office 2003 are disabled upon installing Service Pack 3 – a cheap shortcut by Microsoft to save themselves the bother of making a real fix. Some of them might not trouble you but others could be an unexpected ‘surprise’. Microsoft has released
Some new and obviously bogus ‘security bulletins’ arrive via email – but why doesn’t Outlook detect them? There’s another round of bogus Microsoft security bulletins appearing in Inboxes again – these ones are notable only because the Outlook junk email filter and phishing protection do NOT detect them despite some
Google Docs now has Powerpoint like features – or at least the beginnings of it … Earlier this year, Google purchased a small company that developed presentation software – in other words ‘Powerpoint on the Web’ – we’ll now it’s here. Google Docs has been extended from documents and spreadsheets
Microsoft is offering Office 2007 for a ‘steal’ (their word) to college students in various countries. Microsoft is offering Office 2007 Ultimate edition for a fraction of the regular price to college students from now until April 2008. In the US, Office 2007 Ultimate edition is officially $679 but college
The new ‘ribbon’ interface in Office 2007 is officially called the ‘Fluent’ interface and there are some nifty shortcut tricks available. The new ‘ribbon’ interface in Office 2007 is officially called the ‘Fluent’ interface and there are some nifty shortcut tricks available. First off, keep in mind that the ribbon
Do you have trouble with Outlook 2007 and other programs running slowly under Windows Vista? We have some theories about the problem and some possible workarounds that might help you. Do you have trouble with Outlook 2007 and other programs running slowly under Windows Vista? Opening Explorer windows, saving documents
The August 2007 spam update for Outlook doesn’t keep pace with fast moving spammers and phishers. In the August bundle of updates for Windows and Office is an update to the Junk Email Definitions for Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007. This particular update barely keeps up with the latest developments
From: CNN How does your country compare when it comes to paid vacation and public holidays. CNN has a list of countries to compare paid vacation and public holiday laws around the world – the table is here. It’s not mentioned, but clicking on the column headings will re-sort the
