We’ve added more RSS feeds designed to work with your PDA and the Avantgo service. We’ve created some special RSS feeds to accompany the PDA version of our new web site. See https://office-watch.com/rss-explain4PDA.aspx for the list of the PDA feeds. With the PDA versions of the our feeds you can
A main plank in the Office 2007 system has been released. One of the major parts of the Office 2007 range has ‘gone gold’ with the release of Exchange Server 2007. Microsoft has a page devoted to the advantages of using Outlook 2007 and Exchange Server 2007. An interesting marketing
Microsoft releases a security update before its ready. An update to Microsoft Office for Mac appeared yesterday then disappeared a little later. These security updates are still being tested ‘in-house’ but escaped onto the Microsoft public web site until someone from Microsoft noticed what was on their own web site.
Microsoft has dropped their own automation system from the next Office for Mac. Visual Basic for Applications is the common macro language for Office users, whether they work on Windows or the Mac. It’s a great shame that Microsoft has decided to drop VBA support from the next version of
A web site that will convert your .docx file into fairly raw text. If you get a .docx file and can’t convert it, one free option is http://docx-converter.com/ This site will take a .docx file and return the text with formatting. The features have improved a lot over time –
Microsoft’s own divisions are slow to embrace the Office 2007 / OpenXML document formats. The Office 2007 document formats are out there but if they are to fulfill their potential Microsoft needs to do a lot more work. Even within Microsoft the support for ‘.docx’ and its companion is surprisingly
Surprisingly, you can use Office 2000 to qualify for the cheaper price for Office 2007 You have to watch Microsoft like a hawk, even their ‘firm update policy’ can change when you’re not looking. For the past few versions of Office the upgrade policy has been strict – only owners
The MSDN news feeds commonly seen on Sharepoint sites will end in early February 2007 but there is an alternative The MSDN news headlines are supplied with Sharepoint 2003 and commonly used on Sharepoint home pages. That service ends in February 2007 – from 6 February there will be no
From: Add-in Express Ltd Have BCC/CC copies created automatically. For Outlook 2003, 2002 (XP), 2000 Add-in Express Ltd. announces the release of a new version of Auto BCC / CC, an advanced email add-in for Microsoft Outlook that automatically creates a BCC and/or a CC copy of outgoing e-mail. Supports
What to do about the ‘offers’ for Office 2007 infesting inboxes. Those bottom feeding opportunists known as spammers are at it again. Predictably they are sending out offers to get ‘Office 2007’ now for an absurdly low price. The prices are usually less than US$100 and sometimes are combined with
A special issue of Office Watch about the latest security gap in Microsoft Word. There has been plenty of coverage of the latest ‘zero day’ security breach in Microsoft Word. We’d had many readers ask us for our take and so here’s a special short issue of Office Watch. The
Expression Web, the successor to Microsoft Frontpage is now on sale The replacement for Frontpage in the Microsoft product range has now been released. Microsoft Expression Web is now their ‘standard’ web page design software compared with ‘Sharepoint Designer 2007’ which is intended for re-vamping of Microsoft Sharepoint sites. Expression
Info and links about the Office 2007 Technology Guarantee offer. The usual Microsoft Technology Guarantee is on offer. If you buy Office 2003 between now and the end of February 2007, you can apply to get an equivalent version of Office 2007. The exact terms depend on the country of
Don’t expect a clear response from Microsoft about anti-piracy measures in Office 2007. We’ve spent a frustrating week getting to the bottom of the rumor that Office 2007 has a ‘kill switch’ – meaning that even after you’ve installed and activated Office 2007, Microsoft could disable it remotely if they
From: Microsoft Expression Web shipping, Expression Media announced; latest technology previews deliver product and new platform advancements with first CTP of WPF/E. REDMOND, Wash. — Dec 4, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. today announced significant product line enhancements along with pricing and availability of the Microsoft® Expression® Studio for creative professionals.
Tips on what to do after installing Office 2007. In the last two issues of Office for Mere Mortals we talked about installing Office 2007, firstly what hardware is sufficient to run Office 2007 properly (as opposed to Microsoft’s fanciful ideas) and then the things to do before installation and
All the options for installing Office 2007 including the complete listing of customise options. In the last issue of Office for Mere Mortals we talked about the hardware requirements for Office 2007, comparing Microsoft’s self-serving recommendations with some suggestions of our own for a computer that will not just run
Starting our comprehensive series on installing Office 2007, preparation, options and aftermath. You’ve been hearing about it for some time but Office 2007 is now a reality. It’s available for MSDN subscribers and organizations with volume licenses. Retail boxes will be available in January 2007. You might not get Office
Does Office 2007 have a ‘kill switch’ or not? Plenty of alarming headlines about the ‘kill switch’ in Office 2007 based on the idea that Microsoft could partly disable a copy of Office 2007 at any time. As is often the case the headline doesn’t tell the whole story. Office
There’s an offer from Microsoft to give you Office 2007 for free … naturally there’s the fine print …. Microsoft is offering free copies of Windows Vista and Office 2007 to people who watch some promotional videos – cool deal but there are the usual catches. Go over to http://www.powertogether.com/
What happens to Frontpage 2003 when you install Office 2007? FrontPage, Microsoft’s web page editor, has been dropped from the Office 2007 lineup. It’s been replaced with two products, one part of Office 2007 and the other still in development. Sharepoint Designer 2007 looks like Frontpage at first glance and
With the right preparation the Office 2007 compatibility pack works well. Last week we expressed some concerns about the Office 2007 compatibility pack which didn’t appear to work properly for Excel or PowerPoint documents. We’re delighted to say the problems are solved and we’re happy to recommend the pack to
Office 2007 escapes onto pirate sites. Earlier this week copies of Office 2007 with a license key appeared on various Warez and peer-to-peer sharing sites. Surprisingly the license key is accepted and the software is the final version. But you can expect that Microsoft will put that license key on
Office 2007 comes to MSDN subscribers earlier than expected. Office 2007 is now available to MSDN subscribers for download via their web site msdn.microsoft.com – if you can get on. Available are Office 2007 Professional, English, German and Japanese editions plus other incarnations of Office 2007 like Visio, OneNote, InfoPath,
