From: Microsoft Industry collaboration leads to new interoperability solutions that deliver customer choice by improving how documents work across platforms. Through the Document Interoperability Initiative (DII) global forums, technology leaders have been working together to promote interoperability between different document format implementations to provide greater value and choice to customers,
From: Rose Vines How do you omit the page number on the final page of a Microsoft Word document? How do you omit the page number on the final page of a Word document? I was asked this recently by someone who is using Lulu.com’s self-publishing service. Lulu had asked
It’s a simple question about ordering monthly data in Word – there’s many answers which give a glimpse into what you can do with Office. ” I want to have a monthly log of items, each month separated by a page or section break, but be able to “toggle” the
From: Microsoft Institutions to find cost savings, choice, security in on-premise and cloud computing environments. This week at EDUCAUSE 2008, a premier information technology event in higher education, Microsoft Corp. is showcasing new additions to its software plus services plans for education as part of the company’s effort to support
There are plenty of ways to make an Adobe Acrobat PDF files from Microsoft Office programs. Here’s a quick guide to some of the options including free downloads. There are plenty of ways to make an Adobe Acrobat PDF files from Microsoft Office programs. PDF files retain most of the
How can you toggle between costly color printing and cheaper Black & White or Grayscale quickly without delving into the print properties each time you want to switch? Over at Citibank they are on an economy drive, part of which is cutting back on color printing. That’s no surprise because
A current example of what to watch for and what to do when Outlook doesn’t detect a new type of spam message. In the last day or so we’ve started seeing some obvious spam messages in our Inbox. ‘Obvious’ to us but not to Outlook 2007’s Junk e-mail filter on
The Office 2007 can disappear to make more screen room available for your document – not only that but it does so intelligently. The Office 2007 can disappear to make more screen room available for your document – not only that but it does so intelligently. The ribbon can be
The Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) in Office 2007 programs have their own shortcut keys using the number keys. The Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) in Office 2007 programs have their own shortcut keys using the number keys. Alt + 1 for the first icon on the QAT, Alt + 2 for
Here’s some more tips for using Office 2007 without the mouse. Here’s some more tips for using Office 2007 without the mouse. As we’ve mentioned before, much of the same shortcuts that applied for earlier versions of Office will also apply with Office 2007. Plus there’s new features that make
If you frequently find yourself wanting to edit the same document you were using in your last Word session, you can create a shortcut which does just this. If you frequently find yourself wanting to edit the same document you were using in your last Word session, you can create
Here’s how to delete the Microsoft Word document you’re currently editing. Here’s a rather more complex macro you might find useful. This one lets you delete the document you’re currently editing. Word normally won’t let you do this: you must first close the document, then delete it. That’s a sensible
How to copy revision information from one Word document to another. The Word’s Spike feature will cut and paste revisions in a document plus standard paste will work if you know the trick. We love feedback from readers, especially when it uncovers some peculiarity in Microsoft Office. Anne C. read
Word’s Spike lets you quickly reorganize snippets of text and graphics. You grab the snippets from different locations in your document, place them one by one on the spike, then use the Insert From Spike command to paste them as a block into your document. Microsoft has long produced software
Excel’s options for shading alternate rows are limited and sometimes ugly. Here’s how to take full control and design the way you like I sometimes wonder whether Microsoft spends so much on its programming budget it has little left over to spend on designers. This thought often crosses my mind
An explanation of the logic behind alternate shading rows or columns in Excel. If you’re content with this result and don’t need to know the nuts and bolts, class dismissed. If, on the other hand, you’d like to understand how we end up with a checkerboard pattern from this expression,
Here’s our questions to Microsoft about COFEE and the full, unedited, response from Microsoft to those questions. Office Watch likes to present facts not supposition – and in the case of the COFEE tool there’s far too much guesswork going on. That fact and our specific interest in Microsoft Office
Excel 2003 has limited undo level, until you use our tip to increase the number of actions than can be reversed. Excel 2007 lets you undo 100 actions; with Excel 2003, the limit is 16 but that’s an arbitrary limit set by Microsoft. If that feels too restrictive, you can
By default, Outlook displays either your Inbox or the Outlook Today page when you open it. What if you’d like it to display your calendar instead? Or, perhaps you’d find it handy to open two Outlook windows, one showing your Inbox and the other your calendar. By default, Outlook displays
Word 2007 has changed the Rand() feature and not entirely for the best. One of Word’s quirky, tucked-away features is the rand() function. It lets you quickly insert a block of text in a document. To use the function in pre-2007 versions of Word, at the beginning of a line
Does Excel have a bug that forces an unchanged worksheet to be saved again? Gordon H writes: “Here’s a long standing bug in Excel that Microsoft has never fixed. I open a Word document, look at it then close the document – there’s been no change to the file so
The new ‘ribbon’ interface in Office 2007 is officially called the ‘Fluent’ interface and there are some nifty shortcut tricks available. The new ‘ribbon’ interface in Office 2007 is officially called the ‘Fluent’ interface and there are some nifty shortcut tricks available. First off, keep in mind that the ribbon
Some tips for cutting back on the brochures you lug back from a trade show or conference. Going to a trade show can be interesting and tiring. One strategy for getting though the booths in a reasonable time is to just collect the brochures and keep moving. The problem then
Why the Deleted Items folder is your friend There’s a feeling around for some people that they need to keep their Outlook ‘clean’ or ‘uncluttered’ with messages removed from the Inbox immediately and even the deleted items folder kept empty. While this sounds like a good idea, it’s really not
