If you know the magic spell the Office 2007 compatibility pack works like a charm. Microsoft promised to provide a free tool to permit earlier versions of Office to read and save the new formats. Now the compatibility pack is available, we originally found that only the Word 2007 format
Some suggestions for making your emails more readable. Email messages are different from other written messages. They are not formally structured like a letter or as short as phone texting. In this issue we have some suggestions for making your emails more readable by your correspondents. It’s not a complete
How does Office 2007 pricing in other countries like Australia compare with the charge in the USA? Down in Australia they are screaming about the price of Vista and Office 2007. We’re obliged to David Firth for an analysis of comparable pricing between Vista in the USA and ‘down under’,
The latest ebook from Office Watch. Our latest ‘Quickie’ ebook will be published in the next few days – it’s a companion to our popular Organizing Outlook Email – this time we’re looking at the Contacts feature in Outlook. http://shop.office-watch.com/coc/ Clever Outlook Contacts goes beyond just entering a few phone
Will Office Watch readers be switching to Office 2007? Thanks to everyone who took a few moments to answer our Office 2007 survey. In summary, it seems that most Office Watch readers don’t intend to switch to Office 2007 or haven’t been convinced that it’s worth the change. A total
Office 2007 has finished development and gone off to manufacturing After the usual long gestation period, Office 2007 has gone ‘gold’ or ‘RTM’, released to manufacturing. That means the developers have finished their work for a while and Office 2007 is off to be made into DVD’s and retail boxes.
Office 2007 retail boxes revealed – complete with ‘dimensional stability’. Microsoft has released images of the retail packaging for Office 2007. Clearly this plastic box is designed to look good and stand out on the retail shelf. click here to see a full size image So far it’s been described
Office 2007 development quick references from three free PDF files. If you’re delving into the Office 2007 programming and development side there’s some free downloads from Microsoft that might help. They are PDF files of the posters you may have seen at conferences. As PDF files they are possibly more
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
