Microsoft’s own divisions are slow to embrace the Office 2007 / OpenXML document formats. The Office 2007 document formats are out there but if they are to fulfill their potential Microsoft needs to do a lot more work. Even within Microsoft the support for ‘.docx’ and its companion is surprisingly lacking. Many companies will […]
A web site that will convert your .docx file into fairly raw text. If you get a .docx file and can’t convert it, one free option is http://docx-converter.com/ This site will take a .docx file and return the text with formatting. The features have improved a lot over time – these days it can handle […]
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 Office for the Mac. There […]
The MSDN news feeds commonly seen on Sharepoint sites will end in early February 2007 but there is an alternative The MSDN news headlines are supplied with Sharepoint 2003 and commonly used on Sharepoint home pages. That service ends in February 2007 – from 6 February there will be no headlines and at the end […]
What to do about the ‘offers’ for Office 2007 infesting inboxes. Those bottom feeding opportunists known as spammers are at it again. Predictably they are sending out offers to get ‘Office 2007’ now for an absurdly low price. The prices are usually less than US$100 and sometimes are combined with other software. Emails with headings […]
