Who said superstition is dead – Corel hasn’t released version ’13’ of Corel WordPerfect Office, instead it’s called ‘X3’. WORDPERFECT 13 – SORRY X3 Who said superstition is dead – Corel hasn’t released version ’13’ of Corel WordPerfect Office, instead it’s called ‘X3’. ‘X3’ most interesting new feature is the
News on Office for Mac and the effect of the move to Intel-based Macintosh. With Macintosh computers moving to use Intel chips the whole question of software compatibility arises. As usual, we received some questions from concerned Office users and looking at the public statements from Microsoft we find it
More details on the ‘request’ to update Excel after Microsoft lost a patent suit. (You’ll find lots of missing information in this article – we have asked many questions of Microsoft on this matter and received only short, ambiguous and incomplete responses.) Back in June 2005 Microsoft lost one part
Some 2006 calendars from the Microsoft web site. Microsoft has released some 2006 calendar templates for Word. Check out this site. There’s a one month per page version plus some ‘Birthday and special occasion’ versions. Since they are normal Word documents, you can amend the wording or color schemes once
Until 30 April 2006 you can buy Microsoft Small Business Accounting for $100 off the retail price Microsoft is making another effort to get people away from paper based accounting or, more importantly for Microsoft, competitors like Quicken. Until 30 April 2006 you can buy Microsoft Small Business Accounting for
You can take OpenOffice (an MS Office rival) on the road with a USB key. The open source Office suite OpenOffice now has a portable version, something that MS Office does NOT have. Portable, in this context, means having the programs and data stored on a portable drive (most likely
How to switch the Outlook Bar and Folder list in Outlook or Outlook Express. Outlook and Outlook Express both have (depending on the version) an Outlook Bar and a folder list. The Outlook Bar has larger icons against a dark background while the folder list is the more familiar ‘tree’
Microsoft has a New Years gift to their customers, otherwise known as the Windows / WMF exploit. A few days ago in this newsletter we said that 2006 would be an interesting year – perhaps in the manner of the Chinese curse. Who knew Microsoft would make the curse come
Whilst the next version of Outlook won’t be out until the second half of 2006 – we’re having ‘fun’ trying out the latest version in its beta format. That’s if you include software crashes, lost documents and hunting for features in your definition of ‘fun’. One thing we did like
Phil Young looks at how to print out an address list based on your Contacts in Outlook 2003. PRINTING AN OUTLOOK ADDRESS/PHONE LIST DIRECTORY Here’s a tip from Phil Young, one of the Office Watch team. Phil had to print out an address book only last night, he worked out
Excel is one of the best tools around for working with numerical data sets, but it is also a valuable tool to utilize when working with sets of textual data. By Kara Monroe Excel is one of the best tools around for working with numerical data sets, but it is
There’s more than one way to get your Excel macro to run when there’s an event like changes to your worksheet. You can use a special macro name which tells Excel when to trigger that code. By Office Watch reader, Howard Tanner There’s more than one way to get your
Strip away the hype and “Office Live” means very little in the short term for customers. It’s a catchy title but what does it mean? Strip away the hype and “Office Live” means very little in the short term for customers. The announcement of Windows Live and Office Live were little more
CRM v3.0 is about to be released and from what we’ve seen it looks quite good. For some years Microsoft has had a Customer Relationship Management package – CRM but it’s been quite limited. It’s been so limited that we’ve barely considered it worth mentioning here in Office Watch. As
We look at the Outlook 2003 SP2 anti-phishing feature to uncover what’s going on, how the feature works and how effective it is. There’s a lot of talk about Outlook 2003 SP2 and the only new feature in Service Pack 2 – an anti-phishing feature. There’s plenty of talk but
Microsoft Student 2006 is a collection of tools aimed at students – or more likely the parents and grandparents of those students. In this issue we’re going to look at a Microsoft add-in for Office that has been gracing store shelves in recent time. Microsoft Student 2006 is a collection
A recent deal between Google and Sun has some people thinking that a web-based version of an office suite is imminent. Google and Sun must have loved the media coverage last week. As soon as it became known that the two companies would make some announcements the rumor mill went
Microsoft have released the Office 2004 for Mac service pack 2. Over on the precursor for Windows Vista / Longhorn (aka Mac OS X) there is a new update. I expect most people will get this update via the Microsoft update service for Mac but if not you can open
Much of the talk about the UI (user interface) has been ill-informed and there’s been something of a knee-jerk reaction against the whole idea. We’ve sat down and spent some hours working with the new interface and think we have a pretty good idea of its benefits and pitfalls. There’s
Office Watch reader Jeff Jones shares one of his macros with us to add headers and footers automatically and consistently in Word. See Also Omitting page numbers in Word
After many years, Microsoft has released to the public an update service for all its products, not just Windows. After many years, Microsoft has released to the public an update service for all its products, not just Windows. The new Microsoft Update, which replaces the old Windows Update, has been
We look at Google’s long-awaited instant messaging client “Google Talk”. A big move by Google is its long-awaited instant messaging client – a direct competitor to Yahoo and Microsoft. IM offerings from these two companies and from others don’t interact with each other resulting in a mix of technologies and incompatible
We look at the faux printer that comes with Office 2003 plus the Document Imaging Tool that brings the scanning tool (mentioned in part 1) and the imaging writer together into a useful trio. By Helen Bradley and Peter Deegan This is a ‘printer’ that actually saves the document as
A list of all the new file extensions used in Office 2007 Like most people we talk about the ‘.docx’ format as a shorthand way of referring to the new Office 2007 document formats. There are really many new document extensions. An innovation are document extensions that indicate if the
