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
It’s too late for Christmas cards but not too late for a simple Xmas Email. We’re the first to admit that sending a Christmas email isn’t the most traditional method but it can be done with good cheer and grace. Here’s just one example from a friend and some tips
A new Office 2003 bug that stops you opening documents. There’s a new Office 2003 bug but it doesn’t affect most users and almost certainly not home or small business customers. If you have Microsoft’s Rights Management Service (RMS) in your organization then documents protected with that system might not
Workarounds for a curious omission in Microsoft Word for Mac. Eileen B writes: “I designed an awesome certificate, but the background won’t print. I’m working on a Mac.” Eileen has been using the tips and supplied certificates in our popular ebook “Creative Certificates with Word“. This includes sample certificates like
How to get started with Office Live Workspace – assuming that you want to. Microsoft’s Office Live Workspace (OLW) is a free file sharing and online storage service. In the workspace you can create, save, access, edit and share documents with Microsoft Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, etc. It is
What to watch for when making a place for your documents. Once you’re setup Office Live Workspace you have to create one or more workspaces to put documents in. Before creating a workspace it’s worth keeping in mind a big limitation of Office Live Workspaces – sharing permissions are only
When the Space Shuttle Atlantis orbits Earth, its crew checks email using something you probably have on your own desk right now: Microsoft Outlook. NASA runs a stripped-down version of Outlook 2003 on standard laptops in orbit, powered by Exchange Server, but with a twist that no office on Earth
Our popular Outlook guide is now available for Kindle device and Windows software. We’re delighted to announce the release of our Clever Outlook Contacts book on Amazon for worldwide distribution on your PC or Kindle device. It’s the same ebook as we’ve sold to thousands of people over the years,
Beware, we’ve seen a live OWA demo and it has the usual Microsoft fudging. If the demo of Microsoft Office Web Applications (OWA) that we’ve seen is any guide, the audience will have to be very careful to pick truth as it edges into lies. A favorite trick in the
A new yuletide e-book for making cards, letters etc with Microsoft Office. Christmas Cheer with Office – PREMIUM Edition, is the new yuletidee-book from the makers of the Organizing Outlook Email, Eye-Catching Signs with Word and the Office Watch newsletters. Office Watch head honcho, Peter Deegan has teamed up with
Redmond boasts about MS Office are excessive or merely what you’d expect. As part of the Office 2010 hype, Microsoft has given some numbers to the reach of their Office suite. But as usual, these numbers need a reality check. They seem to be either excessive or merely what you’d expect
Prepare for Office Web Applications – get a Windows Live login. A prerequisite for using the public version of Office Web Applications (browser versions of Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Onenote) will be having a Windows Live login. We’re suggesting that you get a Windows Live login now, before you decide
Microsoft has two products called OWA – which one is which? Microsoft has two browser-based products with the same acronym. Anyone who has worked in an organization with Exchange Server will know about ‘Outlook Web Access’ – it’s a way to get to your email from a browser instead of
If you get access to Office via your browser, what’s on offer now? Only half. Microsoft is gradually rolling out browser-based versions of Word, Excel, Powerpoint and OneNote. If you have a Windows Live / Hotmail login you might receive an invitation to join the pre-release trials. If you accept
Microsoft offers nothing for Office users in their new Zune Microsoft has released its new Zune HD in the USA and it’s hard to get at all excited about it compared to the Apple iTouch. It really is amazing to see the Zune stumble from version to version in a
A court has ordered sales of Word to cease – but it won’t happen. A judge in Texas has decreed that Microsoft has to stop selling Word within 60 days, as part of losing one round in a patent dispute. If it went ahead, that means Microsoft would have to
Don’t get your hopes up, Office 2010 is a done deal. A few weeks ago a curious campaign started, mostly via Twitter, to ask Microsoft is ‘fix‘ Outlook 2010. The complaint is about the way Outlook creates HTML formatted emails, which is the way most people send emails with ‘full’
You can buy Windows 7 soon – should Office users bother? Windows 7 is now ‘RTM’ Released to Manufacturing which is Microsoft speak to say that all the programming and testing is done – now they make the DVD’s and boxes as well as fully unleashing the marketing mavens. We’ve
A first in-depth look at ribbon ‘hand weaving’ in the next Office. Microsoft’s second attempt at the ribbon interface is coming in Office 2010 and this time we’ll not be stuck with Microsoft’s ribbon – you can weave your own. Office 2007 gave us the ribbon interface but no practical
We’ve just heard a talk about ActionBase in Office 2010 and still don’t know what it is. UPDATE: Though it’s not at all clear from the conference video. ActionBase is a non-Microsoft product, not a part of Office 2010 or any upcoming Microsoft product, or indeed the VBA class called
A new ebook on using Microsoft Access to make great Word documents. Office Watch and Helen Feddema are delighted to announce the publication of a new Office Watch ebook especially for Microsoft Access users. Access Archon – Working with Word by Helen Feddema, editor of Access Watch. Like
What to do if you’ve lost your Microsoft Office install disks? Let’s say you’ve lost your Microsoft Office installation CD / DVD or even floppy disks from years ago – what can you do? There are two things you need to recover – the installation files and the product key.
A look at the progress of Office 2007 SP2 – bugs fixed or not. It has been over a month since Office 2007 Service Pack 2 was released. Here’s a look Outlook 2007 won’t start We mentioned reports of Outlook 2007 not starting after SP2 was installed. Those initial reports
Dell is now selling Office 2007 as a legal download but is it cheaper? Dell Computers is now selling Microsoft Office as a download – the first company other than Microsoft itself to do that. Until now, Dell has been able to sell MS Office pre-installed on their computers or
