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
Ever wondered how web sites put the same headings, sidebars and footer on each web page? For many versions, Frontpage has had a way to do that called ‘Shared Borders’.
Google has opened up the Gmail doors so anyone with a mobile phone can get an account in the US. See Also Gmail outage – but not for Outlook users Gmail goes offline Using Gmail as your spam filter
We look at Google’s long-awaited instant messaging client “Google Talk”. A big move by Google is its long-awaited instant messaging client – a direct competitor to Yahoo and Microsoft. IM offerings from these two companies and from others don’t interact with each other resulting in a mix of technologies and incompatible
A new version of the popular Google Desktop Search tool has arrived. A new version of the popular desktop search tool has arrived. Google Desktop Search 2 is similar to the previous version in the types of documents and files indexed. There are major additions to the search interface. It
After many years, Microsoft has released to the public an update service for all its products, not just Windows. After many years, Microsoft has released to the public an update service for all its products, not just Windows. The new Microsoft Update, which replaces the old Windows Update, has been
We look at the faux printer that comes with Office 2003 plus the Document Imaging Tool that brings the scanning tool (mentioned in part 1) and the imaging writer together into a useful trio. By Helen Bradley and Peter Deegan This is a ‘printer’ that actually saves the document as
From time to time you’ll probably have to clear out the older messages in your Deleted Items and Junk E-Mail folders. However, there are some things you should know. From time to time you’ll probably have to clear out the older messages in your Deleted Items and Junk E-Mail folders.
Helen Bradley looks at Office Document Scanning, which is a small dedicated interface for scanning documents. By Helen Bradley and Peter Deegan If you only ever use the Quick Launch icons to launch Office applications you will be missing out on three handy Office tools: Microsoft Office Document Imaging, Office
A list of all the new file extensions used in Office 2007 Like most people we talk about the ‘.docx’ format as a shorthand way of referring to the new Office 2007 document formats. There are really many new document extensions. An innovation are document extensions that indicate if the
Microsoft has released a redaction tool for Word 2003. The purpose of the tool is to let you convert text into black bars for censorship. Microsoft has released a redaction tool for Word 2003. If you’re wondering what redaction is, see a separate article below. The purpose of the tool
Containing our series on the Office 2007 formats. OFFICE 2007 DOCUMENT FORMAT We continue our series on the Office 2007 document format with a look at how open the new format will really be. Some good news about the password and encryption integrity of the new format plus our opinion
We continue our series on the Office 12 document format with a look at how open the new format will really be. Some good news about the password and encryption integrity of the new format plus our opinion of the whole shebang. We continue our series on the Office 12
More comments by Victor Morgan on embedding fonts into Word documents Victor has some more comments following from last week’s article on embedding fonts into Word documents. If Word opens a document that requires a font not installed on that computer (and not embedded) it will display what it thinks
We look at an interesting bug in both Excel 2002 (XP) and Excel 2003. Thanks to Bruce N for reminding us about an interesting bug in both Excel 2002 (XP) and Excel 2003. As Microsoft puts it: “multilevel subtotals for data in Microsoft Excel 2002 or Microsoft Office Excel 2003,
More on the new document formats in Office 2007 MORE ON THE NEW OFFICE 2007 FORMAT Back in Office Watch 10.18 we talked about the new document format coming in the next version of Office, due sometime in 2006. In this issue we’ll continue with more details and some updates.
We go into more detail about the new document format coming in Office 12. See Also Got Windows 7? You can open / save Office 2007 and ODF documents Programming tools for Office 2007 documents now available Shameless Office for Mac delays again The Office 12 XML document format –
