Wrapping up our comprehensive look at installing Office 2007. In our pre-Christmas issue of Mere Mortals we’ll continue our series on installing Office 2007, where we go far beyond the simple and simplistic instructions you’ll get from Microsoft. The parts of this series are online at: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 and these online […]
A main plank in the Office 2007 system has been released. One of the major parts of the Office 2007 range has ‘gone gold’ with the release of Exchange Server 2007. Microsoft has a page devoted to the advantages of using Outlook 2007 and Exchange Server 2007. An interesting marketing tool is the VHD program […]
Microsoft’s own divisions are slow to embrace the Office 2007 / OpenXML document formats. The Office 2007 document formats are out there but if they are to fulfill their potential Microsoft needs to do a lot more work. Even within Microsoft the support for ‘.docx’ and its companion is surprisingly lacking. Many companies will […]
A web site that will convert your .docx file into fairly raw text. If you get a .docx file and can’t convert it, one free option is http://docx-converter.com/ This site will take a .docx file and return the text with formatting. The features have improved a lot over time – these days it can handle […]
Microsoft has dropped their own automation system from the next Office for Mac. Visual Basic for Applications is the common macro language for Office users, whether they work on Windows or the Mac. It’s a great shame that Microsoft has decided to drop VBA support from the next version of Office for the Mac. There […]