No doubt you’ve heard by now that Office 2003 ships with a font that contains two swastikas. (I think Reuters first published the story, but apparently Microsoft itself fed the story to the press). Apologies have been made all around, MS has promised a tool for removing the offending characters
Microsoft Word documents are notorious for containing private information in file headers which people would sometimes rather not share. The British government of Tony Blair just learned this lesson the hard way. A few weeks ago, Richard Smith – whom many of you will recall as a tireless defender of
The “Arial Unicode MS” font – which is regarded by many as the ultimate Unicode font, containing virtually every character from every written language – disappeared from the Microsoft website in August 2002. Sometime in mid-August 2002, Microsoft removed a giant reference font from its Web site. The “Arial Unicode
We continue our look at the bogus “Confessions of a Mac to PC Convert” report. All of you regular Office Watch readers know that Microsoft hired a PR firm to come up with a completely bogus testimonial – “Confessions of a Mac to PC Convert” – which MS posted on
When Word 2002 asks you if you want to merge changes back into the original document, clicking “No, And don’t ask again” won’t help you. It’s like the paper clip all over again! Word MVP Beth Melton has helped me enormously in sifting through the Byzantine details of the 16 October
We have a look at the File | Properties dialog in detail. No doubt you know that you can open any Office file, click File | Properties, and get at a bunch of worthwhile information about the file – when it was created, who created it, and so on. If
“Confessions of a Mac to PC Convert” croons the headline on Microsoft’s Web page. Who would have thought it was written by Microsoft PR? “Confessions of a Mac to PC Convert” croons the headline on Microsoft’s Web page. “After eight years as a Macintosh owner, I switched to a PC
Directly view the travel itineraries created by travel agents or airlines. Almost all the travel bookings you make either directly or via an agent get placed on enormous mainframe computers. In recent years these computers have become available to the public, but travel agents and airline like to keep it
How to programmatically change custom document properties in Word – and and example of why you should not trust Microsoft help files! I have received a number of messages from readers (Word guru George Mair was the first) informing me that I was mistaken in saying the Word custom document properties collection
