This week Google got serious about entering the small business space by unveiling a beta version of ‘Google for apps for your domain’ – like other releases it’s a beta trial at the moment. This week Google got serious about entering the small business space by unveiling a beta version
Amazon has published prices and release dates for both Office 2007 and Windows Vista software, revealing those details before Microsoft’s official announcement. Amazon has published prices and release dates for both Office 2007 and Windows Vista software, revealing those details before Microsoft’s official announcement. Whether this was deliberate or accidental
Maybe it’s a leak or maybe it’s a strategy, but Amazon has added Office 2007 products to their web site. In doing that they’ve given a date for the retail release of Office 2007. Maybe it’s a leak or maybe it’s a strategy, but Amazon has added Office 2007 products
An in-depth look at SyncToy including the good features and the curious omissions. By Michael Barden Microsoft has released a major new PowerToy that we think will be of interest to many Microsoft Office users. SyncToy gives you a way to make background copies and backups of files, folders or
In this article, we point out an assortment of simple, yet often “invisible” features in Office. THE INVISIBLE 80% OF OFFICE – PART 1 By Michael Barden According to Microsoft, around 80% of the feature requests they get for Office are already currently within the applications. That’s right – the
Some options when laptops are banned from flights. All the recent airline security restrictions have prompted quite a few messages to Peter asking what they should do with their laptops when they are banned from being taking on flights. As many Office Watch readers know, our Editor in Chief is
Microsoft has ceased development of Virtual PC for Mac, which lets you run a Windows virtual computer on a Mac computer, even using an Apple running with a Power PC chip. Microsoft has ceased development of Virtual PC for Mac, which lets you run a Windows virtual computer on a
Microsoft’s Macintosh division has quietly made some announcements about their product lines. Microsoft’s Macintosh division has quietly made some announcements about their product lines. Office for Mac will continue with the next version supporting the new Office 2007 document formats but dropping Visual Basic scripting. Office for Mac will tie
Google Desktop Search (GDS) now indexes the contents of the upcoming Office 2007 document formats (DOCX, XLSX etc) According to Google’s help files, Google Desktop Search (GDS) will index the contents of the current Microsoft Office documents (DOC, XLS, PPT etc) with no mention of the upcoming Office 2007 document
In this article we discuss the options for pasting text into a Word document. A funny little article appeared in the Salt Lake City Weekly about cheating in student essays, which included this quote: “Learn how to paste unformatted text in Microsoft Word. According to assistant professor Alex Halavais at
Microsoft has a number of free programs that you can use to view (but not change) Microsoft Office documents. USING THE FREE OFFICE VIEWERS Microsoft has a number of free programs that you can use to view (but not change) Microsoft Office documents. In this issue we’ll show you why
One of the many changes in Office 2007 is the ability to change the color scheme of the program separately from the rest of Windows. One of the many changes in Office 2007 is the ability to change the color scheme of the program separately from the rest of Windows.
Skype have released some toolbars that link into both Office and Outlook so that you can make calls directly from those programs. If you make long distance calls and especially overseas calls then it’s worth looking at VOIP (Voice over IP) as a way to save costs. A lot of
It’s that time again sports fans – your monthly load of updates from Microsoft for August 2006. It’s that time again sports fans – your monthly load of updates from Microsoft. Plenty for Windows this month but only two for Office users. There is one for Powerpoint 2000, 2002 (XP)
Add a calendar appointment in Outlook to mark when the warranty on your computer or electrical goods will expire. Jason from sunny San Antonio writes: “Just a note about something I use Outlook for. I add a calendar appointment to mark when the warranty on a computer, electrical goods etc
In this article, we look at section breaks with a particular emphasis on page numbering. SECTION BREAKS AND PAGE NUMBERING By Michael Barden In a recent Office for Mere Mortals newsletter, we covered the basics of creating and manipulating headers and footers in a Word document. Last week we looked
If you want to be at the cutting edge of server matters there’s a new beta version of Exchange Server available. If you want to be at the cutting edge of server matters there’s a new beta version of Exchange Server available. Exchange Server is Microsoft’s mail hosting service that’s
Microsoft Australia has decided to suddenly close down the Australian download access for Office 2007 beta 2. We explain how to bypass this curious decision. That’s right, from 11am Sydney time on Thursday, Microsoft Australia has decided to suddenly close down the Australian download access for Office 2007 beta 2.
From now you have to pay to get the Office 2007 beta. I hope all of you who wanted to get the Office 2007 beta saw our ” Get your Office 2007 beta now” issue last weekend and managed to get it before the charging system has begun. We were
There are many ways to reduce the file size of an image. Many of you will have compression options already installed on your computer as part of Microsoft Outlook or Office. There are many ways to reduce the file size of an image. Many of you will have compression options
In this article we’ll explain what section breaks in Word are, how they work and some nifty purposes that you can put them to. SECTIONS BREAKS IN WORD You may have noticed the Insert | Break option in Microsoft Word and wondered what it was for, or worse, tried to
What would make an effective ODF plug-in for MS Office? In a previous article we talked about Microsoft’s clever move to ‘outsource’ an Open Document Format (ODF) plug-in for Microsoft Office. Rather than do it themselves, it’s going to be done by an group of outside companies and ODF supporters.
The ‘Private Folders’ add-on from Microsoft has recently been removed from their web pages. At Office Watch we take a cautious approach to new products, rather than jumping on the latest big thing we tend to hold back and see what happens. In other words, we let other people be
Microsoft has announced some new bundle options for the sale of Office 2007 (due early next year). Microsoft has announced some new bundle options for the sale of Office 2007 (due early next year). These announcements affect OEM sales of Office, in other words when you buy Office with a