Whilst the next version of Outlook won’t be out until the second half of 2006 – we’re having ‘fun’ trying out the latest version in its beta format. That’s if you include software crashes, lost documents and hunting for features in your definition of ‘fun’. One thing we did like
A minor media flap began last week when someone tried to sell an Excel flaw on eBay. Fortunately the ‘product’ has since been withdrawn. WHAT EXCEL FLAW? A minor media flap began last week when someone tried to sell an Excel flaw on eBay. Fortunately the ‘product’ has since been
The interesting results of our reader survey into which version of Office you’re using at home and work. Thanks to the thousands of Office Watch readers who took a few moments to participate in our survey. The results were not what we expected in some respects. No surprise that Office
A security problem with Internet Explorer that allowed unauthorized access of Office documents and Outlook emails indexed with Google Desktop Search has been fixed. Lots of talk over the last few days about a problem with Internet Explorer that allows access to your Office documents and Outlook emails indexed with
Phil Young looks at how to print out an address list based on your Contacts in Outlook 2003. PRINTING AN OUTLOOK ADDRESS/PHONE LIST DIRECTORY Here’s a tip from Phil Young, one of the Office Watch team. Phil had to print out an address book only last night, he worked out
We continue our look at the “Replace” function in Office by examining more advanced replacing techniques. By Michael Barden In the last issue of Office for Mere Mortals we looked at how to search within a document in the various Office programs. There is a lot of hidden power accompanying the
Excel is one of the best tools around for working with numerical data sets, but it is also a valuable tool to utilize when working with sets of textual data. By Kara Monroe Excel is one of the best tools around for working with numerical data sets, but it is
We look at the basics of replacing text, followed by more specifics such as replacing formatting and special characters such as paragraph marks. By Michael Barden In the last issues of Office for Mere Mortals (part 1 and part 2) we looked at how to search within a document in the
There’s more than one way to get your Excel macro to run when there’s an event like changes to your worksheet. You can use a special macro name which tells Excel when to trigger that code. By Office Watch reader, Howard Tanner There’s more than one way to get your
A nastie embedded in a Word document is nothing new but the recent effort called Naiva.A is topical and gives us an opportunity to remind all Office Watch readers. A nastie embedded in a Word document is nothing new but the recent effort called Naiva.A is topical and gives us
CRM v3.0 is about to be released and from what we’ve seen it looks quite good. For some years Microsoft has had a Customer Relationship Management package – CRM but it’s been quite limited. It’s been so limited that we’ve barely considered it worth mentioning here in Office Watch. As
Microsoft Dynamics is a brand name for a series of server programs designed mostly for medium sized businesses that used to be known as Microsoft Business Solutions. Microsoft had some more tangible announcements in their continuing move towards server based features that link firmly into Microsoft Office on the desktop.
Strip away the hype and “Office Live” means very little in the short term for customers. It’s a catchy title but what does it mean? Strip away the hype and “Office Live” means very little in the short term for customers. The announcement of Windows Live and Office Live were little more
We look at the Outlook 2003 SP2 anti-phishing feature to uncover what’s going on, how the feature works and how effective it is. There’s a lot of talk about Outlook 2003 SP2 and the only new feature in Service Pack 2 – an anti-phishing feature. There’s plenty of talk but
Microsoft Student 2006 is a collection of tools aimed at students – or more likely the parents and grandparents of those students. In this issue we’re going to look at a Microsoft add-in for Office that has been gracing store shelves in recent time. Microsoft Student 2006 is a collection
A recent deal between Google and Sun has some people thinking that a web-based version of an office suite is imminent. Google and Sun must have loved the media coverage last week. As soon as it became known that the two companies would make some announcements the rumor mill went
Microsoft Outlook has provided the capability to work with multiple calendars in a single installation of Outlook since at least Outlook 97. However, in Outlook 2003, new functionality was added that makes this feature far more practical and easy to use. By Kara Monroe Microsoft Outlook has provided the capability
Outlook 2003 with Service Pack 2 installed has a new feature designed to tackle the problem of phishing. Outlook 2003 with Service Pack 2 installed does have one new feature. It’s a small tilt at the problem of ‘phishing’ – faked messages that appear to come from banks or other
Microsoft have released the Office 2004 for Mac service pack 2. Over on the precursor for Windows Vista / Longhorn (aka Mac OS X) there is a new update. I expect most people will get this update via the Microsoft update service for Mac but if not you can open
In the second part of her “Sorting paragraphs using Word” article, Kara Monroe looks at delimiters and sorting options. SORTING PARAGRAPHS AND MORE USING MICROSOFT WORD By Kara Monroe You are probably aware that Microsoft Excel can be used to put all of your data in order, but Microsoft Word
You are probably aware that Microsoft Excel can be used to put all of your data in order, but Microsoft Word has some pretty powerful sorting capabilities of its own, as long as you know how to enter the information into Word in a format that it can understand. SORTING
Much of the talk about the UI (user interface) has been ill-informed and there’s been something of a knee-jerk reaction against the whole idea. We’ve sat down and spent some hours working with the new interface and think we have a pretty good idea of its benefits and pitfalls. There’s
We sat down and spent some hours working with the new Office 12 user interface and feel we have a more informed idea of its benefits and pitfalls. There’s been a lot of talk about the announcement of the new look interface designed for Office 12. The coverage has ranged
Office Watch reader Jeff Jones shares one of his macros with us to add headers and footers automatically and consistently in Word. See Also Omitting page numbers in Word
