The “Arial Unicode MS” font – which is regarded by many as the ultimate Unicode font, containing virtually every character from every written language – disappeared from the Microsoft website in August 2002. Sometime in mid-August 2002, Microsoft removed a giant reference font from its Web site. The “Arial Unicode
Outlook 2002 doesn’t respect any of Word’s settings – even if you’ve told Word 2002 to remove any personally identifiable information. If you’ve been following along with the privacy revelations in the latest issues of Office Watch, you know that any Office file sent as an attachment to an Outlook
The _AuthorEmailDisplayName field was the undoing of Microsoft’s planted “Mac to PC Convert” lady, Valerie Mallinson. Now we know how it got there. You eagle-eyed Office Watch devotees no doubt recognized one of the File | Properties entries mentioned in the preceding article. _AuthorEmailDisplayName was the undoing of Microsoft’s planted “Mac to
When Word 2002 asks you if you want to merge changes back into the original document, clicking “No, And don’t ask again” won’t help you. It’s like the paper clip all over again! Word MVP Beth Melton has helped me enormously in sifting through the Byzantine details of the 16 October
“Confessions of a Mac to PC Convert” croons the headline on Microsoft’s Web page. Who would have thought it was written by Microsoft PR? “Confessions of a Mac to PC Convert” croons the headline on Microsoft’s Web page. “After eight years as a Macintosh owner, I switched to a PC
We have a look at the File | Properties dialog in detail. No doubt you know that you can open any Office file, click File | Properties, and get at a bunch of worthwhile information about the file – when it was created, who created it, and so on. If
Directly view the travel itineraries created by travel agents or airlines. Almost all the travel bookings you make either directly or via an agent get placed on enormous mainframe computers. In recent years these computers have become available to the public, but travel agents and airline like to keep it
The Office Watch privacy statement – summary and full text. Here’s the fast track summary of our privacy statement:: When subscribing to any of our email newsletters, we only ask for your email address. That information is only used to send you our famous free email newsletters. We don’t rent,
How to programmatically change custom document properties in Word – and and example of why you should not trust Microsoft help files! I have received a number of messages from readers (Word guru George Mair was the first) informing me that I was mistaken in saying the Word custom document properties collection