There’s a big question mark over the third service pack for Office 2003 – should you install it or not? Microsoft has chosen to make that decision a difficult one for all Office 2003 users. There’s a big question mark over the third service pack for Office 2003 – should
Excel 2007 had a serious bug where some numbers display as ” 100,000 ” regardless of the true value around 65,535 and 65,536. Excel 2007 and Excel Services 2007 had a problem with a few numbers it doesn’t like … truly. A few numbers around the 65,535 and the 65,536
If and how to use Outlook’s AutoArchive feature – by Kara Monroe. STORING OLD EMAIL WITH AUTOARCHIVE AND OTHER OPTIONS by Kara Monroe Chances are if you’ve used Microsoft Outlook for any period of time, you’ve been prompted to AutoArchive your old items. AutoArchive is a tool that backs up
There are critical updates for Excel 2003, Excel 2002 (XP) and Excel 2000 plus Office for Mac Microsoft’s regular monthly patch release includes a patch for a problem in Excel. A ‘malformed’ worksheet could give access to the computer. Microsoft Office 2000 patch needs Service Pack 3 Microsoft Excel 2000
From: Microsoft Q&A: From Macworld Conference & Expo 2007, the head of Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit discusses the story behind the next generation of Microsoft’s productivity software suite for the Mac. Microsoft continues to deliver world-class technology products for the Mac platform – as it has for more than 20
Microsoft has dropped their own automation system from the next Office for Mac. Visual Basic for Applications is the common macro language for Office users, whether they work on Windows or the Mac. It’s a great shame that Microsoft has decided to drop VBA support from the next version of
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
We’ve started a ‘Microsoft Office’ search engine to make it easier to find tips, help and info about Office. Google has launched a new search engine – the ‘Custom Search Engine’ feature where people can create their own specialized Search Engines. We’ve started a ‘Microsoft Office’ search engine to make
From: Microsoft Microsoft Office Visio 2007, Every Picture Tells a Richer Story- a Microsoft Q & A Richard Wolf, general manager of the Microsoft Office Graphics Division, highlights new data visualization capabilities in the upcoming release of Microsoft Office Visio that will enable business and IT professionals to more easily
Here’s a list of the October 2006 security updates for Microsoft Office for Windows. There are five security updates for Microsoft Office this month, all of which are rated ‘Critical’ by Microsoft. Powerpoint for Windows and Mac See https://office-watch.com/kb?924163 PowerPoint 2000, PowerPoint 2002, PowerPoint 2003, Excel 2004 for Mac, Excel
Windows Vista will ship on a single DVD regardless of which variant of the operating system you buy. Microsoft still has some more tricks up their sleeve for selling more software and keeping more of the money for themselves. Windows Vista will ship on a single DVD regardless of which
There’s only one Microsoft Office related security update this month. There’s only one Microsoft Office related security update this month. It applies to users of Publisher only – the 2000, 2002 (XP) and 2003 versions. Publisher 2000 Update needs Microsoft Office 2000 Service Pack 3 – download here Publisher 2002
In part 2 of our “Invisible Office” articles, we point out another assortment of simple, yet often “invisible” features in Office. THE INVISIBLE 80% OF OFFICE – PART 2 By Michael Barden According to Microsoft, around 80% of the feature requests they get for Office are already currently within the
Microsoft has a number of free programs that you can use to view (but not change) Microsoft Office documents. USING THE FREE OFFICE VIEWERS Microsoft has a number of free programs that you can use to view (but not change) Microsoft Office documents. In this issue we’ll show you why
What would make an effective ODF plug-in for MS Office? In a previous article we talked about Microsoft’s clever move to ‘outsource’ an Open Document Format (ODF) plug-in for Microsoft Office. Rather than do it themselves, it’s going to be done by an group of outside companies and ODF supporters.
A potentially serious nastie has been released which could affect Microsoft Office users. Over the weekend a potentially serious nastie has been released which could affect Microsoft Office users. There’s NO fix for the security hole in Office which the virus exploits which makes it more serious than a usual
Many readers have asked if Microsoft is trying to stop Office Watch being read! We’d prefer to think not. IS MICROSOFT FILTERING OFFICE WATCH EMAIL? Many readers have asked if Microsoft is trying to stop Office Watch being read! They’ve noticed that our newsletters are sometimes caught in the Outlook
Microsoft has announced a ‘covenant not to sue’ which applies to the Office 2003 formats and will apply to the Office 2007 once the formats are finalized. MICROSOFT’S COVENANT NOT TO SUE Microsoft has always been torn between keeping their Office document formats exclusive to them (which keep people tied
In this article we look at the AutoText, AutoFormat, and SmartTags tabs in the AutoCorrect Options dialog box. MAKING AUTOCORRECT DO THE WORK FOR YOU – PART 2 By Kara Monroe In the last edition of Office for Mere Mortals we looked at the first two tabs of the AutoCorrect
Microsoft continues to bury their head about the forced upgrades of Office being mandated after Redmond lost part of a patent trial. MORE PATENT PROBLEMS Microsoft continues to bury their head about the forced upgrades of Office being mandated after Redmond lost part of a patent trial. Details in last
News on Office for Mac and the effect of the move to Intel-based Macintosh. With Macintosh computers moving to use Intel chips the whole question of software compatibility arises. As usual, we received some questions from concerned Office users and looking at the public statements from Microsoft we find it
Microsoft has a New Years gift to their customers, otherwise known as the Windows / WMF exploit. A few days ago in this newsletter we said that 2006 would be an interesting year – perhaps in the manner of the Chinese curse. Who knew Microsoft would make the curse come
We continue our look at the “Replace” function in Office by examining more advanced replacing techniques. By Michael Barden In the last issue of Office for Mere Mortals we looked at how to search within a document in the various Office programs. There is a lot of hidden power accompanying the
We look at the basics of replacing text, followed by more specifics such as replacing formatting and special characters such as paragraph marks. By Michael Barden In the last issues of Office for Mere Mortals (part 1 and part 2) we looked at how to search within a document in the
