Adobe, makers of the Acrobat / PDF system, have entered the world of online word-processing with their ‘Buzzword’ product available for free from Acrobat.com. Adobe, makers of the Acrobat / PDF system, have entered the world of online word-processing with their ‘Buzzword’ product available for free from Acrobat.com. It’s a slick looking online word-processor because […]
Now you know NOT to trust the precision of Excel’s results even for simple additions, what can you do about it? As we’ve shown in recent articles (Excel SUM anomaly, More Excel addition strangeness and Excel addition problems – bug or not? among others) , Excel’s arithmetic isn’t as reliable as Microsoft would like us […]
Last week, Microsoft announced support for the ODF document format in Microsoft Office. But don’t get too excited about it, it’s a long time coming. Last week, Microsoft announced support for the ODF document format in Microsoft Office. But don’t get too excited about it, for it’ll be long time coming. The support for ODF documents […]
Cells in Excel are linked by references – whether they are relative, absolute or mixed – named or unnamed – Rose Vines will explain all. When you refer to a cell in an Excel formula, you can use any of three different types of reference: relative, absolute and mixed. Relative cell references are the most […]
Microsoft’s May 2008 patches include Word, Outlook, Publisher and Access. As usual we look at the patches to help you get all the updates you need. There are four security patches from Microsoft this month – three relate to Microsoft Office and the fourth is worth mentioning because of the ironic twist. The Word update […]
