Now you have to pay for the ODF converter, what are the alternatives? Oracle, the new owners of Sun, are now charging for the previously free ODF plug-in for Microsoft Office. The plug-in lets MS Office read and write to the ODF file format which is a rival to Microsoft Office 2007/OpenXML document standard. It […]
Fixes for security bugs in Publisher and Visio. In a long list of security bugs, the April list only has a few related to MS Office. Publisher Yet more ways to run a program via a hacked Office document, this time with Publisher Publisher 2007 with SP1 or SP2 – update Publisher 2003 with SP2 […]
Security patches for Publisher and Visio. This month’s security updates from Microsoft are ‘only’ for Publisher (2002/XP, 2003 2007) and Visio (2002/XP, 2003, 2007) Publisher Yet another method of making a file which, when opened, allows other programs to be run. There’s been many, many of these problems found. This time it affects Publisher. Here […]
Producer for Powerpoint 2003 shows that Microsoft will patch security bugs, but not if they can find an excuse, however feeble. In the March 2010 list of security patches from Microsoft was one labeled “Vulnerability in Windows Movie Maker Could Allow Remote Code Execution” but it also affects a Microsoft Office application. That program has […]
Wrapping up our look at Master Documents in Word with some extra tips. We’ve been looking at Master Documents in Word and here’s some extra tips to help you get the most from this once feared Word feature that’s come good … · Feature like Page number, Header and Footer, Date and time, index […]
