Microsoft Word documents are notorious for containing private information in file headers which people would sometimes rather not share. The British government of Tony Blair just learned this lesson the hard way. A few weeks ago, Richard Smith – whom many of you will recall as a tireless defender of personal privacy – sent me […]
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 MS” font – which is […]
We continue our look at the bogus “Confessions of a Mac to PC Convert” report. All of you regular Office Watch readers know that Microsoft hired a PR firm to come up with a completely bogus testimonial – “Confessions of a Mac to PC Convert” – which MS posted on its Web site on October […]
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 2002 security patch – you know, […]
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 you’ve ever used File | […]