Is it possible to delete a text box without deleting the text it contains? An interesting question this week Doug J about converting text boxes into ‘ordinary’ text. He asks if it’s possible to delete text boxes without deleting the text. Not as far as we can see. Given the
An in-depth look at the new Office 2007 document formats. THE IMPLICATIONS OF OFFICE XML FORMAT Over in our other newsletter Office for Mere Mortals (our companion newsletter for beginners) last week we talked about the basic difference between Word documents and the XML documents you’ve probably heard about. If
We explain more about Office and XML documents, which exist now for Word 2003 and Excel 2003 but will be improved upon and made the default file format for Office 12. Over in our other newsletter Office for Mere Mortals (our companion newsletter for beginners) last week we talked about
Office 12 will have a new and improved document format – known as OfficeML. All the ’tissues’ have been full of the news that the next Office release (known for the moment as Office 12) will have a new and improved document format – known as OfficeML. What is this
An introduction to XML as a primer for understanding the new Office document formats. THE BIG DEAL ABOUT OFFICEML All the ’tissues’ have been full of the news that the next Office release (known for the moment as Office 12) will have a new and improved document format – known
In Office 12 the new OfficeML default document formats will be revised to include ZIP compression to make the documents smaller. The news about the next version of Office, aka Office 12, continues even though the release is probably a year away. Unlike most of these announcements, this one has
Adding a few pictures or images to your PowerPoint presentation is quite simple. There are many ways to do it, the official way and others. Adding a few pictures or images to your Powerpoint presentation is quite simple. There are many ways to do it, the official way and others.
Ascender now has permission from Microsoft to license their high-quality fonts to developers. We all get the standard Microsoft fonts with Windows and Office with the right to use them in our documents and emails. But developers cannot use the same fonts in their applications without a special licence. Ascender
You get an email with more than one image attachment, but Outlook only lets you open one image at a time. Look no further than “Outlook Picture Viewer” for the solution. Microsoft adds a nuisance to Office and there’s usually someone out there ready to provide a solution … In
Intelore has a series of recovery tools for Word, Excel, Access and Outlook plus Project and Outlook Express. There are plenty of tools out there to unlock a password protected document including the long-time Office Watch supporter lostpassword.com but it’s always nice to see new players in a software market. Intelore has
The Track Changes or Reviewing feature has been in Microsoft Word for many years though it has changed name and undergone many changes and improvements in each version. In a recent article we mentioned a submission to a US Senate committee and the use of the track changes feature in Word.
About the rival document formats coming soon … OPENDOCUMENT VS OFFICE 2007 DOCS While most of the talk has been about the upcoming document format change in Office 2007 there are also a competitive set of Office file formats to consider. The OpenDocument format is internationally recognized standard for Office
All the ‘old’ POT templates from Powerpoint 4 and later are still available in three downloads from Microsoft. I can’t imagine why you’d like your Powerpoint 2003 presentations to look like they were made last century – perhaps there’s some retro fad out there? Anyway, all the ‘old’ POT templates
The latest Junk Mail filter for Outlook 2003 is now out. The latest Junk Mail filter for Outlook 2003 is now out. Details here. The filter is dated 10 May 2005, sadly just before the latest influx of Sober generated messages. Meantime the Exchange Server 2003 spam filter hasn’t been
After all the talk from Microsoft about increased security it’s a shame to see that there are outstanding security flaws from mid-March that have yet to be addressed. After all the talk from Microsoft about increased security it’s a shame to see that there are outstanding security flaws from mid-March
We’re not going to get into US domestic politics but it was amusing to see, yet again, someone caught publicly by the Track Changes feature in Word. This time it was a submission to a US Senate hearing where the Word document showed the wording before and after it had
From: Office watch The latest desktop search tool from Microsoft drops the MSN moniker in part and becomes just Windows Desktop Search. Microsoft has finally realized that there was nothing to be made out of desktop search tools with Google providing a better product for free. So the latest desktop
Google have released an interesting addition to their desktop search line with an Enterprise edition. Google have released an interesting addition to their desktop search line with an Enterprise edition. Like the personal Google Desktop Search (GDS), it is a free download but there’s also a Premium support option available.
We take you through the basic Grammar checking options that work for English and other languages. WHAT ABOUT GRAMMAR? I pity people who have to learn English as a second language – the ‘language of Shakespeare’ is also the language of irregular spellings, strange pronunciations and grammar ‘rules’ that have
In this article we cover some curiously hidden print functions in Office 2003. You would think that printing documents was core function of Microsoft Word and such a function would be openly documented with plenty of options. Well there’s plenty of options but finding them is another matter and therein
We look at some more printing options in Office and beyond. In particular the Print options under the Tools menu. This issue we’ll continue from last time with look at some more printing options in Office and beyond. In particular the Print options under the Tools menu. Most of these
We talk about the Print Dialog options available in most versions of Office and also some printer specific options that you might find. Despite all the options now available for disseminating information, we still rely on ink upon dried wood pulp. Today let’s have a look at the Print dialog
A plea from University of Washington professor, Sandeep Krishnamurthy who says that if “you think grammar check has completely checked your paper, I have news for you — it really hasn’t”. That’s the plea from a University of Washington professor, Sandeep Krishnamurthy who says that if “you think grammar check
Nothing as simple as saving a document – right? Maybe you’ve figured out by now that nothing is simple in Office. SAVING IN OFFICE Nothing as simple as saving a document – right? Maybe you’ve figured out by now that nothing is simple in Office. If you go to Tools