A neat little hack to add the Word 2007 and Excel 2007 icons to Sharepoint 2003. Wictor Wilén has a neat little trick to add the Word 2007 and Excel 2007 icons to Sharepoint 2003 when you upload .docx and .xlsx documents. He provides the two small GIF icons plus
A clever little spoof site having a little dig at Microsoft. You may start seeing references to ‘Microsoft Firefox’ with very sincere icons and even box shots. Check it out at http://www.msfirefox.com/ Gotta love the time and effort that goes into spoofs like this with lines like: “delivers a
How to get the Office 2007 features to save documents to XPS or Acrobat PDF formats. Harry G writes: “OK – I give up. I’ve got Office 2007 but can’t work out how to save to PDF files or XPS (whatever that is). The link in Word 2007 takes me
First Look Office 2007 System – a Microsoft Press book is available for download This book was released by Microsoft back in July 2006 and offers a look at what Office 2007 was expected to be at that time. And being a Microsoft Press publication don’t expect it to be
Working with date values in Excel is not as easy as it sounds. Should you enter dd/mm/yy or mm/dd/yy? Do you enter slashes or dashes or dots? Pop-up Excel Calendar solves all the headaches by adding a pop-up calendar to your Excel Working with date values in Excel is not
A new tool for Outlook 2003/2007 users to report new junk email back to Microsoft. This new free tool from Microsoft gives you a quick way to report suspected spam back to Microsoft – from a simple link in either Outlook 2003 or Outlook 2007. It will give Microsoft and
Microsoft own site with Office 2007 teaching resources. The 2007 Microsoft Office System – Learning Portal has some interesting free things to try. There’s the PDF version of the ‘First Look’ book, as we noted before in Office Watch. There are also some ‘free for a limited time’ online courses
Microsoft Office templates and Office Update will now require your software licence to be confirmed From tomorrow (Friday) Microsoft is making some Office related downloads from their site conditional on confirming you have a valid licence for Office. This is an extension of the Windows Genuine Advantage program where many
From: Digital River / Microsoft Includes upcoming 2007 Microsoft Office system products Digital River, Inc. (NASDAQ:DRIV), a global leader in e-commerce outsourcing, today announced a three-year agreement with Microsoft Corp. to build, host and manage e-commerce stores to support the direct and indirect online sale, marketing and delivery of popular
Microsoft entry in the desktop search arena reached v3 – which is important for anyone using Outlook 2007 Windows Desktop Search v3 is out now and can be downloaded from here. This is Microsoft’s rival to things like Google Desktop Search. WDS v3 is a virtually essential part of Outlook
Step-by-step instructions on forcing plain text display of all emails in Outlook or Outlook Express. It is possible to force all incoming messages to be displayed as plain text in either Outlook or Outlook Express and in this issue we’ll tell you how to do that, in case you prefer
We’ve started a ‘Microsoft Office’ search engine to make it easier to find tips, help and info about Office. Google has launched a new search engine – the ‘Custom Search Engine’ feature where people can create their own specialized Search Engines. We’ve started a ‘Microsoft Office’ search engine to make
The ‘Technology Guarantee’ for Office 2007 and Vista have some traps for the unwary. Microsoft has announced their ‘Technology Guarantee’ program for both Windows Vista and Office 2007. This is the offer to let people who buy software in a certain date range to upgrade to the newly released version
From: Microsoft Knowledge Base A security update for Project 2002 has been released. Security Update for Project 2002 link Knowledge Base 923273 Brief Description A security vulnerability exists in Microsoft Project 2002 that could allow arbitrary code to run when a maliciously modified file is opened. This update resolves that
From: Microsoft Knowledge Base Windows Desktop Search (WDS) 3.0 lets you perform an instant search of your computer. WDS 3.0 helps you find and preview documents, e-mail messages, music files, photos, and other items on the computer. INTRODUCTION Windows Desktop Search (WDS) 3.0 lets you perform an instant search of
From: Epicor Epicor Information Worker Boosts Productivity and Collaboration by Delivering Improved Access to Business Data through the 2007 Microsoft Office System LAS VEGAS and REDMOND, Wash. — October 24, 2006 — Epicor Software Corporation today announced the introduction of Epicor Information Worker (IW), a new desktop productivity solution that
From: Microsoft Microsoft working with PC manufacturers and system builders to provide holiday PC buyers with low-cost upgrades to Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office release. Microsoft, Industry Partners Offer Early Holiday Gifts to PC Buyers Around the World Microsoft working with PC manufacturers and system builders to provide
A quick reader poll – “to Office 2007 or not Office 2007” With Office 2007 about to be released the time has come to decide whether to switch to the new version of Office. Some ‘early adopters’ are probably already using the beta and will switch over as soon as
From: Peter McDonell Some notes about installing and using IE7 from our intrepid embedded reporter – Peter McDonell Having loaded IE7, looked at it, prodded and pushed it around, worked through its menu alternatives, I have now unloaded it. Fortunately, when it loads it puts an entry (Windows Internet Explorer
From: Microsoft Microsoft Office Visio 2007, Every Picture Tells a Richer Story- a Microsoft Q & A Richard Wolf, general manager of the Microsoft Office Graphics Division, highlights new data visualization capabilities in the upcoming release of Microsoft Office Visio that will enable business and IT professionals to more easily
How to make free overseas phone calls from the USA Update: Futurephone’s service is offline at present. It seems other phone companies have blocked access to FuturePhone’s access number. You can check out their web site to see when/if the service resumes. Futurephone has been getting a bit of publicity,
Reference Application Pack of an Office Business Application for Supply Chain Management Sorry about the headline, but we could not resist after wading though the latest promotional release from Microsoft. In translation that means: Reference Application Pack of an Office Business Application for Supply Chain Management Still lost? – we
How to add Quick Launch icons for specific folders in Outlook. Getting quickly to the Outlook folder you want can be a little easier if you use the Windows XP Quick Launch toolbar. Any Outlook folder can be dragged onto the Quick Launch toolbar for fast access. If you don’t
From: http://www.microsoftwisuit.com/ Wisconsin consumers and businesses that bought Microsoft software, or a computer on which it was installed, can claim benefits under a class action settlement with a face value of $223,896,000. A settlement has been reached in class action lawsuits about certain Microsoft software acquired by consumers and businesses
