How to ensure you have the necessary ‘Conficker’ protection installed on a Windows Vista or XP computer. Chances are good you already have it installed. There has been a lot of talk about the Conficker virus that is due to trigger on 1 April. In our view the hype about this worm is somewhat overstated. […]
The Feb 09 update for Outlook 2007 disables an add-in that you don’t have. If you install the February 2009 Cumulative Update for Outlook 2007 then dig around the list of add-ins you may see an entry you don’t expect. Go to Tools | Trust Center | Add-ins | Manage | Disabled Items then click […]
See what people are saying right now about your favorite Office software. It can be fascinating to see what people say about software as they work – many questions, some answers and plenty of anguish and outright anger. We’ve setup some pages that make it easy to see the very latest Twitter comments about: Word […]
Let’s have some INDEX() and MATCH() fun in our Lookup function series. by David Goodmanson On their own, the INDEX() and MATCH() functions are fairly straightforward but when they are combined they create a very powerful Lookup tool. Both functions have 3 parts to their arguments. INDEX(range, row_number, column_number) and MATCH(lookup_value, range, match_type) Let’s use […]
There’s always another joke at the expense of Word’s spell checker. Last year we had the politically charged question of Obama and Osama then later the omission of Michael Palin (or was it Sarah Palin?) from the Word dictionary. We’ve noticed another one that will offend Democrats and Star Trek fans, perhaps in equal measure. […]