Even after Service Pack 2, there are more fixes for Office 2007. Service Pack 2 has been out less than a week and already there are more fixes for Office 2007. These ‘hotfixes’ are temporary and ‘ not fully tested’ updates. Most are dated 30 April 2009 – only a
We look at some reports of Office 2007 SP2 bugs. There are some complaints appearing of problems are installing Office 2007 Service Pack 2 – hardly a surprise. It’s always hard to work out whether an Office Service Pack is truly to blame, though the uninstall option for SP2 makes
Six new patches for Office 2003, Word 2003, Excel 2003 and PowerPoint 2003. The update ‘fun’ this week users isn’t limited to Office 2007 – there are also several ‘hotfixes’ for Office 2003. These ‘hotfixes’ are temporary and ‘ not fully tested’ updates. Only install them if you have the
Some highlights and low lights of Service Pack 2. Only 24 hours since Office 2007 Service Pack 2 was released, here are some highlights and lowlights that have caught our eye. Over the coming weeks we’ll look at some features in detail and, hopefully, report as Microsoft discloses more information
Separate downloads of Service Pack 2 updated help files if you know where to look. Nowhere on Microsoft’s Service Pack 2 info pages will you find mention of yet more Office 2007 downloads. At the same time as Service Pack 2 was released are updated Help file downloads as well.
Office 2000, Office XP and Office 2003 users have an Office 2007 related update too. There is an Office 2007 related update for Office 2000, Office XP and Office 2003 users. We strongly suggest installing the’ Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats‘ which let
Details on the many downloads that make up Office 2007 SP2 plus 8 for server software. Details on the many downloads that make up Office 2007 SP2, plus the uninstall tool, and more download options for server software. Our advice is the same this time as for past Office Service Packs.
The known problems and major ‘behavior changes’ in SP2. If you look waaaay down Microsoft’s SP2 documentation you’ll find a list of ‘Known Issues and behavior changes’ , or in other words, things that work differently once you install Service Pack 2 or don’t work at all. Why? Microsoft Office
The official fix list for Access 2007 both the summary and the complete list. Here’s the official fix list for Access 2007 both the summary and the complete list. We’ve published it here for easy reference instead of hunting around Microsoft’s web site and an Excel worksheet. This list does
The official fix list for OneNote 2007 SP2 both the summary and the complete list Here’s the official fix list for OneNote 2007 SP2 both the summary and the complete list. We’ve published it here for easy reference instead of hunting around Microsoft’s web site and an Excel worksheet. This
Improvements summary for the latest update to Office 2007. Office 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) will be available soon (not as we type this but not long now). In the meantime here’s a summary list of what Microsoft considers the major fixes or ‘improvements’ Office Watch will have its own
A trick for quickly printing part of a document, worksheet or slides plus when it does NOT work. Sometimes you just want to print part of a document, maybe a few paragraphs or many pages. One option available is to print the current selection. The basics are simple. In Word,
You can use Microsoft Excel to read your Tweets, incoming and outgoing. Yesterday we talked about SpreadTweet, a program that looks like Excel but really lets you to read and send tweets without being caught by your boss. Excel itself can be used to read incoming Tweets and your own
SpreadTweet is a way to view your Twitter account, looking like an Excel worksheet. It seems that not a day or maybe even an hour goes by without some new Twitter program or service is released, but we had to love this one – SpreadTweet. SpreadTweet is a way to
Try Office 2008 free for 30 days but watch out for the high price at the end. Mac users can now try Office 2008 free for 30 days. We have some money saving conversion tips that can save you a few hundred dollars. Where to start Microsoft itself hasn’t realized
More details and a cautionary note on the coming Office 2007 update. As Office Watch suggested last week, Office 2007 Service Pack 2 will be released to the public on 28 April – less than two weeks away. The main contents of SP2 has been announced in the past: Integrated
Details on Word & Excel updates from Office 2000 onwards plus Office for Mac. The usual security updates for Microsoft products this month include updates for Word and Excel from Office 2000 to Office 2007 plus Office for Mac. Security holes in Word’s text converter and Excel headline this month’s
Why can’t Office open docs made by Office itself? When Microsoft was trying to gain market share over rivals like WordPerfect, they spent a lot of time and trouble making Office import other document formats easily and correctly. Times have changed, Microsoft Office has the overwhelming share of the office
Much as the Microsoft marketing people would like you to believe that – it’s not true. Much as the Microsoft marketing people would like you to believe that – it’s not true. Plenty of individuals and companies are sticking with earlier versions of Office – Office 2003 or Office XP
SP2 is out soon, but don’t rush in. Microsoft has announced that Office 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) will be released later this month, at least to corporate users of Windows Service Update Services (WSUS). UPDATE: it’s now confirmed for 28 April 2009. WSUS is a way for administrators to
It’s prudent to delay activating MS Office until well after installation. Microsoft’s setup encourages you to activate your copy of Office as soon as you install – however you don’t have to do that and we’d encourage people NOT to. Getting a product activation registers your use of Office on
Putting Office variations on the one machine. You can install and run multiple versions of Word, Excel and Powerpoint on the one computer. For example you can have Word 2003 and Word 2007 installed together. Outlook is the exception – only one version of Outlook can exist on a computer
Is it true that you can only install Office twice before buying another copy? Microsoft’s Product Activation is the source of a lot of questions to Office Watch and clearly it’s not well understood. Microsoft has little interest in making the rules clearer, partly for their security reasons and partly because
Office 2003 users have a hard choice now main support for their software is ending. Office 2003 users have a hard choice now main support for their software is ending. Microsoft has quietly announced that the main lines of support and updates for Office 2003 will stop in less than
