“I’ve seen an offer of Office 2007 for just $1 – would this qualify for a free Office 2010? “ “I’ve seen an offer of Office 2007 for just $1 – would this qualify for a free Office 2010? “ This Office 2007 offer comes from Harvey Norman, a large
There’s a gap between what Microsoft says and their written policy. We’ve had a few messages from readers querying our articles about buying Office 2010 cheaply by buying Office 2007 now and getting the ‘Technology Guarantee’ later. Apparently some retailers and Microsoft staff are saying that Office Watch is wrong
March update to your Outlook junk email filter. Just a reminder that Microsoft now updates the spam filter in Outlook 2007 more often, with the latest released on 9 March 2010. You can download it from Microsoft or it may arrive via Windows/Microsoft Update. The update should help Outlook better
Excel 2007 and 2010 have a quick way to see basic stats on a list of numbers. If you only need some basic details about a list of numbers, there’s no need to use Excel formulas or the Descriptive Statistics feature. In Excel 2003 you can select two or more
March 2010 is the month for many Excel security patches This month Microsoft has released patches for many security breaches in Excel – from Excel 2002 onwards plus Office for Mac. More embarrassing, but probably inevitable, the ‘new’ OpenXML document formats have been breached for the first time. A hacked
Use the Technology Guarantee to buy Office 2010 cheaper than retail. A one-off combination of decisions means there’s an opportunity for saving on buying Office 2010, by buying Office 2007 now. The Office 2010 Technology Guarantee means new purchases of Office 2007 now qualifies you for a free copy of
Google increases the pressure on the Microsoft Office online service. Google has purchased a little online service called DocVerse shooting another ‘shot across the bow’ at Microsoft’s rival online service. Docverse lets you collaborate, editing and viewing documents using Microsoft Office with the Docverse add-in and shared ‘cloud’ storage provided
At last, after various strategic leaks, the Office 2010 Technology Guarantee is fully unveiled. Microsoft has announced the details of the Office 2010 Technology Guarantee after leaking parts of it over the last month or so. The Technology Guarantee has been around for a long time – it means that
Dates confirmed .. more ‘drip feed’ info on buying Office 2007 and getting Office 2010 later. As we suspected, the slow feed of information on the Office 2010 Technology Guarantee continues today with some more official information including the effective dates. If you buy Office 2007 on or after 5
Prepare for buying Office 2007 now and get Office 2010 later. Microsoft has announced their usual Technology Guarantee will apply to Office 2010. You’ll be able to buy Office 2007 sometime soon and get Office 2010 later for a small charge or free. Actually Microsoft has partially announced it –
Our new ebook – Protecting your information from prying eyes, theft and deliberate attack We’re delighted to announce the latest book from Office Watch Privacy and Security in Microsoft Office “Protecting your information from prying eyes, theft and deliberate attack” Privacy & Security in Microsoft Officefocuses on using the security
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
An add-in puts the coming Excel 2010 feature into Excel 2007, 2003 and XP. As we’ve already noted, the Excel 2010 feature Sparklines isn’t a new idea. The idea of small graphs next to the numbers it was originally named by Edward Tufte. If you like the idea of Sparklines
The 11 January 2010 deadline has passed with sales of Office 2007 continuing, only now in the USA the software is sold without the ‘Custom XML’ feature. The 11 January 2010 deadline has passed with sales of Office 2007 continuing, only now in the USA the software is sold without
Should you buy Office 2007 this week instead of waiting? If you’re thinking of buying Office 2007 there’s a case for getting it this week instead of waiting until later in the month. In the USA, the Office 2007 software you get this week may be different to what you
Here’s the known situation regarding an enforced change to Word 2007 and Word 2003. We’ll update this page as hard information becomes available. Microsoft isn’t exactly forthcoming about this problem so there are more questions than we’d like and even less answers. Office Watch asked a series of questions to
Microsoft has released a set of programming tools to let developers work with Office 2007 documents without the Office applications themselves.click here for more …
Microsoft Australia is trying to lure Aussies to buy Office 2007 with petrol. Down in Australia you can buy Office 2007 and get money back for petrol see Office 2007 plus petrol
How to enable Macros in Office 2007. Q: Marge W. writes that a client called her in panic, saying that “nothing works” in the updated database she just delivered. Upon questioning, it turned out that nothing happened when buttons were clicked on the main menu, and that the client had
Microsoft will release a ‘patent patch’ for Word 2003 and Word 2007 – but why bother? Quietly, in last hours of 2009, Microsoft released some details of an ‘end user’ patch to cover the ‘Custom XML’ patent dispute. Looking at KB article 978951 says there will be a link to
About the feature that Microsoft has to remove from Office 2007. Just what is the ‘Custom XML’ feature that Microsoft has to remove from Office 2007? The Office 2007 document formats (docx xlsx pptx etc.) are stored in XML format which looks like the HTML used in web pages. For
Microsoft says it’s been working on the Word 2007 patent patch for months, so why does it look like a rush job? As we’ve previously reported, Microsoft lost another round of the ‘Custom XML’ patent case and must stop selling, in the USA, Office 2007 with the offending code after
Microsoft loses another round in a Word patent case, an Office update is coming in the new year. A US court judgment seems to have forced Microsoft to release an update to Office 2007 in the new year. The US Federal Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the judgment that
How to easily make appointments with other people using Outlook. Outlook has some great features for making appointments and sharing those details with others. The main features can be used by anyone to setup dinner, movies or any personal event. Outlook lets you create an appointment in your calendar then
