Can you run Office 2000 on Windows 7? Gene writes asking about running his Office 2000 software on his new computer with Windows 7. Office 2000 is shown as ‘NOT compatible’ on the official Windows 7 software compatibility list. Office XP (2002), Office 2003, Office 2007 and Office 2010 are listed as compatible with Windows 7. […]
How to write an email now and send it later. For many versions of Outlook you’ve been able to write an email now but delay sending it until a later time. Like many things with Outlook, there are several catches to the supposedly simple feature. Why delay sending a message? One example is a birthday […]
Now you have to pay for the ODF converter, what are the alternatives? Oracle, the new owners of Sun, are now charging for the previously free ODF plug-in for Microsoft Office. The plug-in lets MS Office read and write to the ODF file format which is a rival to Microsoft Office 2007/OpenXML document standard. It […]
How to stop typing replacing or overwriting text. Daysha B writes “What I type replaces my existing text. How do I turn this off? Thank you.” As usual with Microsoft Office, nothing is as simple as it first appears. Most people probably know that the immediate answer is ‘Press the Insert key’. Insert (Ins) often […]
Using the Office Envelope Object in Office 2000 – what works and what doesn’t. Some readers have asked whether the Office Envelope Object (featured in Access Archon #122) can be used in Office 2000. Well, sort of. While writing the article, I tested the two procedures in Office 2000 and found that the Word procedure […]