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
What to do about the ‘offers’ for Office 2007 infesting inboxes. Those bottom feeding opportunists known as spammers are at it again. Predictably they are sending out offers to get ‘Office 2007’ now for an absurdly low price. The prices are usually less than US$100 and sometimes are combined with
From: Microsoft Expression Web shipping, Expression Media announced; latest technology previews deliver product and new platform advancements with first CTP of WPF/E. REDMOND, Wash. — Dec 4, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. today announced significant product line enhancements along with pricing and availability of the Microsoft® Expression® Studio for creative professionals.
Tips on what to do after installing Office 2007. In the last two issues of Office for Mere Mortals we talked about installing Office 2007, firstly what hardware is sufficient to run Office 2007 properly (as opposed to Microsoft’s fanciful ideas) and then the things to do before installation and
All the options for installing Office 2007 including the complete listing of customise options. In the last issue of Office for Mere Mortals we talked about the hardware requirements for Office 2007, comparing Microsoft’s self-serving recommendations with some suggestions of our own for a computer that will not just run
There’s an offer from Microsoft to give you Office 2007 for free … naturally there’s the fine print …. Microsoft is offering free copies of Windows Vista and Office 2007 to people who watch some promotional videos – cool deal but there are the usual catches. Go over to http://www.powertogether.com/
What happens to Frontpage 2003 when you install Office 2007? FrontPage, Microsoft’s web page editor, has been dropped from the Office 2007 lineup. It’s been replaced with two products, one part of Office 2007 and the other still in development. Sharepoint Designer 2007 looks like Frontpage at first glance and
If you know the magic spell the Office 2007 compatibility pack works like a charm. Microsoft promised to provide a free tool to permit earlier versions of Office to read and save the new formats. Now the compatibility pack is available, we originally found that only the Word 2007 format
Office 2007 comes to MSDN subscribers earlier than expected. Office 2007 is now available to MSDN subscribers for download via their web site msdn.microsoft.com – if you can get on. Available are Office 2007 Professional, English, German and Japanese editions plus other incarnations of Office 2007 like Visio, OneNote, InfoPath,
Office 2007 escapes onto pirate sites. Earlier this week copies of Office 2007 with a license key appeared on various Warez and peer-to-peer sharing sites. Surprisingly the license key is accepted and the software is the final version. But you can expect that Microsoft will put that license key on
Office 2007 has finished development and gone off to manufacturing After the usual long gestation period, Office 2007 has gone ‘gold’ or ‘RTM’, released to manufacturing. That means the developers have finished their work for a while and Office 2007 is off to be made into DVD’s and retail boxes.
Office 2007 retail boxes revealed – complete with ‘dimensional stability’. Microsoft has released images of the retail packaging for Office 2007. Clearly this plastic box is designed to look good and stand out on the retail shelf. click here to see a full size image So far it’s been described
A neat little hack to add the Word 2007 and Excel 2007 icons to Sharepoint 2003. Wictor Wilén has a neat little trick to add the Word 2007 and Excel 2007 icons to Sharepoint 2003 when you upload .docx and .xlsx documents. He provides the two small GIF icons plus
How to get the Office 2007 features to save documents to XPS or Acrobat PDF formats. Harry G writes: “OK – I give up. I’ve got Office 2007 but can’t work out how to save to PDF files or XPS (whatever that is). The link in Word 2007 takes me
Microsoft own site with Office 2007 teaching resources. The 2007 Microsoft Office System – Learning Portal has some interesting free things to try. There’s the PDF version of the ‘First Look’ book, as we noted before in Office Watch. There are also some ‘free for a limited time’ online courses
From: Digital River / Microsoft Includes upcoming 2007 Microsoft Office system products Digital River, Inc. (NASDAQ:DRIV), a global leader in e-commerce outsourcing, today announced a three-year agreement with Microsoft Corp. to build, host and manage e-commerce stores to support the direct and indirect online sale, marketing and delivery of popular
From: Epicor Epicor Information Worker Boosts Productivity and Collaboration by Delivering Improved Access to Business Data through the 2007 Microsoft Office System LAS VEGAS and REDMOND, Wash. — October 24, 2006 — Epicor Software Corporation today announced the introduction of Epicor Information Worker (IW), a new desktop productivity solution that
A quick reader poll – “to Office 2007 or not Office 2007” With Office 2007 about to be released the time has come to decide whether to switch to the new version of Office. Some ‘early adopters’ are probably already using the beta and will switch over as soon as
How to make free overseas phone calls from the USA Update: Futurephone’s service is offline at present. It seems other phone companies have blocked access to FuturePhone’s access number. You can check out their web site to see when/if the service resumes. Futurephone has been getting a bit of publicity,
From: KeyStone Learning KeyStone Learning Systems, LLC (KeyStone) announced their latest instructor-based video courseware titled “Microsoft Office 2007 Essentials.” Scheduled for public release Q4 2006, this set will assist users in making the transition into the new features and navigation of “Microsoft Office 2007.” Frederick, MD (PRWEB) October 17, 2006
From: SandRibbon SandRibbon is a user interface suite designed to mimic the advanced controls seen in Microsoft Office 2007. SandRibbon is a user interface suite designed to mimic the advanced controls seen in Microsoft Office 2007. Its features revolve around a Ribbon control, which presents a well-organised list of available
Microsoft announces end of Office 2007 – ‘RTM’ is nigh. Microsoft has sent an email announcing the end of the Office 2007 beta. That means the ‘Release to Manufacturing’ (RTM) will be in the next few weeks. There won’t be a ‘Release Candidate’ put out for wider testing – the
Office 2003 Student and Teacher edition seems better value than the Office 2007 equivalent. There’s an interesting case for buying the Office 2003 Student and Teacher edition now, instead of waiting for the equivalent version for Office 2007 (due out in retail boxes early 2007). You would think that waiting
Office 2007 hasn’t been released yet but already Microsoft are posting add-ins for it. Office 2007 hasn’t been released yet but already Microsoft are posting add-ins for it. That might seem strange but it makes some sense in the complex world of inter-company rivalry. The current Office 2007 beta release
