Three places to save password information in MS Office. Ideally each login to a computer or web site should have its own password but it’s a given that we all use the same passwords too often. Remembering all those passwords is hard enough but you also have to remember the
An easy way to rotate your display to portrait mode. iRotate is a simple and cross-graphics way to switch display modes. Many LCD monitors have the ability to physically rotate from the standard landscape mode to portrait orientation with the narrow side of the screen at the top. This can
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
The official fix list for Word 2007 SP2 both the summary and the complete list. Here’s the official fix list for Word 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. The
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,
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
One reader uses OpenOffice to bypass ‘features’ in Word 2003 SP3. Julie P writes, “I read the articles on “Problems opening ‘old’ documents” and thought they didn’t pertain to me. The earliest version of Word I had ever used was 6.0, which was supposed to be okay. Today I tried
There’s always another joke at the expense of Word’s spell checker. Last year we had the politically charged question of Obama and Osama then later the omission of Michael Palin (or was it Sarah Palin?) from the Word dictionary. We’ve noticed another one that will offend Democrats and Star Trek
A clever option to print a foldable booklet that won’t cost you anything. One of the eternal requests for Microsoft Office is the ability to make a booklet. That is a set of two pages on one side of paper but double-sided and ordered so you can fold the lot
Cross-referencing is an imposing name for something we’re all familiar with in books, especially reference books. Microsoft Word makes it much easier to do. A cross-reference is simply a mention or link in the text to another part of the same document. In olden days (thirty years ago ) you
How to print a document when the paper sizes are different. On our new Twitter account we saw this question: “When I send an Excel file to someone, should I have to set it up so they can print? I don’t know the printer/size they use.” Part of that answer
How to format a Word or Excel document to print on someone else’s computer. On our new Twitter account we saw this question: ” When I send an Excel file to someone, should I have to set it up so they can print it? I don’t know the printer/size paper
How to remove single entries from the most recently used list. In Office for Mere Mortals we recently covered the basics of the most recently used (MRU) list in Office. Removing individual entries It is possible to an individual ‘recently used document’ but it’s not obvious and a far cry
There is a full screen editing mode in Word 2007, if you know where to look. We’re obliged to Rob G from Pennsylvania who found the full screen mode in Word 2007. Full screen editing is great on smaller displays like laptops or netbooks as well as anyone who likes
Getting the most from the small screen. We look at options for making Office 2003 or Office 2007 work better in the smaller netbook screens. In the final part of our series, we’ll look at options for making Office 2003 or Office 2007 work better in the smaller netbook screens.
Sections are in every Word document – here’s how to use them to make Word do what you need. In the last issue I described how to omit the page number on the last page of a document by using a section break and “de-linking” the header/footer between the sections.
If you’re trying out the beta version of Windows 7 then you can open Word 2007 documents (.docx) and OpenDocument ODF (.odt) just using Wordpad 7. But you can’t open the older .doc files used by Word 2003 and earlier versions. If you’re trying out the beta version of Windows
Microsoft has released a Word 2007 patch for a problem with .docx files being opened in Word 2003. Microsoft has released a Word 2007 patch for a problem with .docx files being opened in Word 2003. Confused yet? It’s a problem when Word 2003 (with the Office Compatibility Pack installed)
Microsoft has released a December 2008 patch for a grab-bag of problems with Word 2007. Microsoft has released a December 2008 patch for a grab-bag of problems with Word 2007. You have to apply to Microsoft for the patch – details here – but unless you have one of the
More security patches for lapses in Microsoft products including various versions of Office from Office 2000 to 2007 plus some incarnations of FrontPage. More security patches for lapses in Microsoft products including various versions of Office from Office 2000 to 2007 plus some incarnations of FrontPage. As usual, we’ll list
Q: Dawn Crosier writes: I read through your “Access 2007 VBA For Data-Centric Microsoft Office Applications” and have questions about how to get formatted text out of the Access database into a Word Bookmark without bringing all the HTML code. A: I did some experimentation, using my Rich Text Demo
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
Office Watch has just released a new edition of the popular ebook Christmas Cheer with Office. Office Watch has just released a new edition of the popular ebook Christmas Cheer with Office. We’ll show you how to use it to create great Xmas cards, letters, emails and gift cards for
Even after two years, the Lords and Members of Parliament in the UK can’t easily open Office 2007 documents. We explain the simple options available to the honorable members. Silicon.com is reporting that the UK’s Members of Parliament and the House of Lords are having trouble opening documents that are
