First Look Office 2007 System – a Microsoft Press book is available for download This book was released by Microsoft back in July 2006 and offers a look at what Office 2007 was expected to be at that time. And being a Microsoft Press publication don’t expect it to be
Step-by-step instructions on forcing plain text display of all emails in Outlook or Outlook Express. It is possible to force all incoming messages to be displayed as plain text in either Outlook or Outlook Express and in this issue we’ll tell you how to do that, in case you prefer
The ‘Technology Guarantee’ for Office 2007 and Vista have some traps for the unwary. Microsoft has announced their ‘Technology Guarantee’ program for both Windows Vista and Office 2007. This is the offer to let people who buy software in a certain date range to upgrade to the newly released version
From: Microsoft Microsoft working with PC manufacturers and system builders to provide holiday PC buyers with low-cost upgrades to Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office release. Microsoft, Industry Partners Offer Early Holiday Gifts to PC Buyers Around the World Microsoft working with PC manufacturers and system builders to provide
From: Microsoft Knowledge Base Windows Desktop Search (WDS) 3.0 lets you perform an instant search of your computer. WDS 3.0 helps you find and preview documents, e-mail messages, music files, photos, and other items on the computer. INTRODUCTION Windows Desktop Search (WDS) 3.0 lets you perform an instant search of
Office 2007 has many subtle updates in the dictionary. There’s many subtle updates in the dictionary for Office 2007. The team is boasting that they’ve added some 58,000 words to the default dictionary. More names They’ve taken the US census data and added the more popular first names to the
The second part of our series on the basics of reviewing documents in Word. In a previous issue https://office-watch.com/?12 we gave a simple overview of the reviewing features in Word. When you strip away all the fancy jargon and marketing hype then you are left with a simple way to
There’s a nice new time zone feature in Outlook 2007 – but it doesn’t go far enough. One feature we like in Outlook 2007 is the, long overdue, support for appointments from different time zones but, as usual, when you dig deeper the improvement doesn’t go far enough. In the
We’re still waiting for some good integration between online services and more traditional office applications – the best of both worlds. We’re still waiting for some good integration between online services and more traditional office applications – the best of both worlds. Microsoft Office makes that possible at the moment,
In this article, we point out an assortment of simple, yet often “invisible” features in Office. THE INVISIBLE 80% OF OFFICE – PART 1 By Michael Barden According to Microsoft, around 80% of the feature requests they get for Office are already currently within the applications. That’s right – the
Microsoft’s Macintosh division has quietly made some announcements about their product lines. Microsoft’s Macintosh division has quietly made some announcements about their product lines. Office for Mac will continue with the next version supporting the new Office 2007 document formats but dropping Visual Basic scripting. Office for Mac will tie
In this article, we look at section breaks with a particular emphasis on page numbering. SECTION BREAKS AND PAGE NUMBERING By Michael Barden In a recent Office for Mere Mortals newsletter, we covered the basics of creating and manipulating headers and footers in a Word document. Last week we looked
A header or footer is the text that is printed at the top or bottom of every page in a document. HEADERS AND FOOTERS A header or footer is the text that is printed at the top or bottom of every page in a document. As you can probably guess,
Options for reducing the size of email attachments. Reducing the size of attachments I think most people know they can squeeze the size of a file using a tool like WinZIP winzip.com, WinRAR rarlabs.com (our personal choice) or many other similar file compressors. Both those products and many others have
It’s easy to share appointments between Outlook and Google Calendar users. Savvy Outlook users know that they can email appointment details to each other and if you accept the meeting it is added to your calendar and RSVP’d to the sender. Our Office beginners newsletter, Office for Mere Mortals, covered
A potentially serious nastie has been released which could affect Microsoft Excel users. Over the weekend a potentially serious nastie has been released which could affect Microsoft Office users. This isn’t deja vu – it happened a few weeks ago but it’s now happened again – this time with Excel.
Use RemoteCalendars to synchronize your Outlook 2003 calendar with your Google Calendar. Google Calendar is very interesting but lacks an offline / software option. As we’ve mentioned before, the thing that would give Google Calendar a real boost is a way to synchronize your Outlook 2003 calendar with the online
Microsoft has announced that Office 2007 will not have the ‘Save as PDF’ feature ‘out of the box’ as previously promised for the next release of the Office Suite. OFFICE 2007 VS ADOBE Microsoft has announced that Office 2007 will not have the ‘Save as PDF’ feature ‘out of the
Microsoft confirms that the security hole affects Word 2003 and Word 2002 (XP). WORD SECURITY UPDATE Since our special issue last Monday, Microsoft has released a security advisory on the subject This confirms that the security hole affects Word 2003 and Word 2002 (XP). Word 2000 is NOT affected. The
Microsoft have released an Office 2003 Maori Language Pack for Word, Outlook, PowerPoint and Excel 2003. MAORI LANGUAGE PACK I’m obliged to Fred, one of our New Zealand readers, for pointing us to the Office 2003 Maori Language Pack for Word, Outlook, PowerPoint and Excel 2003. Maori are the indigenous
Microsoft Office has some features that can help when stuck for a word. The Thesaurus; lexicon, vocabulary, glossary, phrase book or word list. INSIDE WORD’S THESAURUS Microsoft Office has some features that can help when stuck for a word. The Thesaurus; lexicon, vocabulary, glossary, phrase book or word list. The
Why there are two Outlook file formats, both called .PST and how convert to the better one. Outlook stores all your email, appointments etc in one big file with the extension .PST with the exception of those connected to Exchange Server machines when it’s called an .OST file. With Outlook
The retail release of Office 2007 will now be in early 2007 – and we have a modest proposal for how to announce these things. Since Windows Vista will now arrive later than previously expected, Office 2007 is getting a similar push-back. The retail release of Office 2007 will now
A tip to help you cope with a spamming tactic that Outlook can’t quite cope with. OUTLOOK JUNK MAIL TRICK Thanks to Office Watch reader Larry for this tip to cope with a spammers tactic which Outlook can’t quite cope with. “Sender addresses are displayed with the IP address instead
