Office 2007 comes to MSDN subscribers earlier than expected. Office 2007 is now available to MSDN subscribers for download via their web site msdn.microsoft.com – if you can get on. Available are Office 2007 Professional, English, German and Japanese editions plus other incarnations of Office 2007 like Visio, OneNote, InfoPath,
Office 2007 escapes onto pirate sites. Earlier this week copies of Office 2007 with a license key appeared on various Warez and peer-to-peer sharing sites. Surprisingly the license key is accepted and the software is the final version. But you can expect that Microsoft will put that license key on
What happens to Frontpage 2003 when you install Office 2007? FrontPage, Microsoft’s web page editor, has been dropped from the Office 2007 lineup. It’s been replaced with two products, one part of Office 2007 and the other still in development. Sharepoint Designer 2007 looks like Frontpage at first glance and
The latest ebook from Office Watch. Our latest ‘Quickie’ ebook will be published in the next few days – it’s a companion to our popular Organizing Outlook Email – this time we’re looking at the Contacts feature in Outlook. http://shop.office-watch.com/coc/ Clever Outlook Contacts goes beyond just entering a few phone
How does Office 2007 pricing in other countries like Australia compare with the charge in the USA? Down in Australia they are screaming about the price of Vista and Office 2007. We’re obliged to David Firth for an analysis of comparable pricing between Vista in the USA and ‘down under’,
Office 2007 has finished development and gone off to manufacturing After the usual long gestation period, Office 2007 has gone ‘gold’ or ‘RTM’, released to manufacturing. That means the developers have finished their work for a while and Office 2007 is off to be made into DVD’s and retail boxes.
Office 2007 retail boxes revealed – complete with ‘dimensional stability’. Microsoft has released images of the retail packaging for Office 2007. Clearly this plastic box is designed to look good and stand out on the retail shelf. click here to see a full size image So far it’s been described
A neat little hack to add the Word 2007 and Excel 2007 icons to Sharepoint 2003. Wictor Wilén has a neat little trick to add the Word 2007 and Excel 2007 icons to Sharepoint 2003 when you upload .docx and .xlsx documents. He provides the two small GIF icons plus
How to get the Office 2007 features to save documents to XPS or Acrobat PDF formats. Harry G writes: “OK – I give up. I’ve got Office 2007 but can’t work out how to save to PDF files or XPS (whatever that is). The link in Word 2007 takes me
Microsoft own site with Office 2007 teaching resources. The 2007 Microsoft Office System – Learning Portal has some interesting free things to try. There’s the PDF version of the ‘First Look’ book, as we noted before in Office Watch. There are also some ‘free for a limited time’ online courses
Microsoft entry in the desktop search arena reached v3 – which is important for anyone using Outlook 2007 Windows Desktop Search v3 is out now and can be downloaded from here. This is Microsoft’s rival to things like Google Desktop Search. WDS v3 is a virtually essential part of Outlook
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
A quick reader poll – “to Office 2007 or not Office 2007” With Office 2007 about to be released the time has come to decide whether to switch to the new version of Office. Some ‘early adopters’ are probably already using the beta and will switch over as soon as
How to add Quick Launch icons for specific folders in Outlook. Getting quickly to the Outlook folder you want can be a little easier if you use the Windows XP Quick Launch toolbar. Any Outlook folder can be dragged onto the Quick Launch toolbar for fast access. If you don’t
Google goes public with an online word-processor and spreadsheet. Google has bundled their acquisition of Writely and their own Google Spreadsheets into a single package known as Google Docs and Spreadsheets. If you were trying out Writely or Google Spreadsheet go to http://docs.google.com/ and you’ll go through a few simple
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
Cumulative updates of Office for Mac There are also some updates for Office for Mac: Microsoft Office v. X for Mac 10.1.8 Update This 40MB download has new security and stability updates as well as including all past updates. Office 2004 for Mac This 59MB download also has new updates
Microsoft announces end of Office 2007 – ‘RTM’ is nigh. Microsoft has sent an email announcing the end of the Office 2007 beta. That means the ‘Release to Manufacturing’ (RTM) will be in the next few weeks. There won’t be a ‘Release Candidate’ put out for wider testing – the
Marking the tenth anniversary of Office Watch. We’ve passed a milestone – the tenth anniversary of Office Watch. Since 1 October 1996 we’ve been keeping a close eye on Microsoft Office – Office 97 was about to be released back then and now Office 2007 is appearing over the horizon.
Tesco – the big UK retail chain is to release their own office suite. The big UK retail chain, Tesco’s has announced that they will start selling their own Office suite as a competition to Microsoft Office. The office suite will be part of a range of new products sold
Google has expanded their Gmail service into a new area – Google Apps for domains. This might sound very complex and for business but it is neither. Google’s service lets you manage the email accounts for an entire domain – not just a single address. This gives you many options
A new security threat known as the VML vulnerability has just been patched by Microsoft. As we’ve mentioned in Office Watch, a new security threat known as the VML vulnerability has just been patched by Microsoft. This is important because there’s a possibility of email messages taking advantage of this
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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
