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
Office 2007 has many subtle updates in the dictionary. There’s many subtle updates in the dictionary for Office 2007. The team is boasting that they’ve added some 58,000 words to the default dictionary. More names They’ve taken the US census data and added the more popular first names to the
From: SandRibbon SandRibbon is a user interface suite designed to mimic the advanced controls seen in Microsoft Office 2007. SandRibbon is a user interface suite designed to mimic the advanced controls seen in Microsoft Office 2007. Its features revolve around a Ribbon control, which presents a well-organised list of available
From: KeyStone Learning KeyStone Learning Systems, LLC (KeyStone) announced their latest instructor-based video courseware titled “Microsoft Office 2007 Essentials.” Scheduled for public release Q4 2006, this set will assist users in making the transition into the new features and navigation of “Microsoft Office 2007.” Frederick, MD (PRWEB) October 17, 2006
When Outlook says you’ve replied to an email – have you really replied? Ron C from ‘the mother country’ has a good point: If I start to compose a reply in OL2003 and then save it in the drafts folder, Outlook decides that I’ve actually replied and marks the email
Eudora is being dropped by the owners The well known email program, Eudora is being converted into an open source program by the current owners, Qualcomm. The last commercial versions of Eudora (v 7.1 for Windows and v 6.2.4 for Mac) will be on sale at a reduced price until
Spam has several meanings. The producer of the canned pork product Spam has lost a bid to stop companies using the word ‘Spam’ as a nickname for unwanted email. The name ‘Spam’ originally meant ‘Spiced Ham’ back in 1937 when Hormel Foods Corp. started the product. In the 70’s Spam
Survey shows those stock tip emails actually work. One of the more common uses of spam is to promote a particular stock in an effort to boost the price via these false disclosures. This trick was especially popular during the Internet stock boom when people were eager to get in
About those messages from MySpace users. One of the more recent phishing campaigns impersonates the Myspace web site. If you see messages with a subject like: “New message from [name] on MySpace … “ it is trying to trick you into clicking on the link. The messages have nothing to
About those strange codes you get when a message is returned. We’ve all received those email ‘bounce’ messages with curious codes to indicate the problem. Sadly the text of these messages isn’t always very helpful. If you’re lucky there will be some explanatory text but otherwise you need to delve
The second part of our series on the basics of reviewing documents in Word. In a previous issue https://office-watch.com/?12 we gave a simple overview of the reviewing features in Word. When you strip away all the fancy jargon and marketing hype then you are left with a simple way to
The next Office for Mac is due in late 2007. Yes, there will be another version of Office for Mac – not that there was any real doubt about that. It’s currently due later in 2007 and will be called ‘Office 2007 for Macintosh’. The Mac version will have a
Google goes public with an online word-processor and spreadsheet. Google has bundled their acquisition of Writely and their own Google Spreadsheets into a single package known as Google Docs and Spreadsheets. If you were trying out Writely or Google Spreadsheet go to http://docs.google.com/ and you’ll go through a few simple
Cumulative updates of Office for Mac There are also some updates for Office for Mac: Microsoft Office v. X for Mac 10.1.8 Update This 40MB download has new security and stability updates as well as including all past updates. Office 2004 for Mac This 59MB download also has new updates
Here’s a list of the October 2006 security updates for Microsoft Office for Windows. There are five security updates for Microsoft Office this month, all of which are rated ‘Critical’ by Microsoft. Powerpoint for Windows and Mac See https://office-watch.com/kb?924163 PowerPoint 2000, PowerPoint 2002, PowerPoint 2003, Excel 2004 for Mac, Excel
Businesses can try Microsoft Customer Relationship Manager software free for 3 months. Microsoft CRM 3.0 is their back office Customer Relationship Management software. Previous releases were uninspiring but v3.0 is much better. It has a mostly web based interface but links with Outlook and other Office apps nicely. There is
From: Peter McDonell Utilities to save and restore the Windows desktop icon positions. I find I store (temporarily) more and more links on my desktop – my memory jogger. And what a bugger it is if something glitches and the entire desktop full of icons relocates automatically to fill the left
