Can you have a vertical ribbon in Microsoft Office? Is it possible to make the ribbon go vertically down the side of a document instead of horizontally? Back in Office 2003, it was possible to move the toolbar from the top row to any side of the Office window –
How you can protect yourself against mail being intercepted by a fake domain The Godai Group have made a big splash with their report on ‘doppleganger domains’ that can spy on emails to and from an organization, but what can Outlook users do about it? What is a Doppleganger domain?
The Nook Color tablet/ereader supports an impressive list of Microsoft Office documents. Office Watch reader, Dale M writes: ” for the NookColor …. it reads natively, office documents in Office 2003 and in Office 2007 format. Works for Word, Excel and PowerPoint and maybe others. Also, PDFs display quite nicely
More tips and details about putting one Word document inside another. Following our article on Word linking and embedding in Office for Mere Mortals, here’s some additional tips and help to do things not allowing in the Word dialog boxes. Making it permanent For future reference you’ll want the main
How to make one Word document appear in another document by linking or embedding. A Word document can be placed inside another so it appears in the second document. This can be done as a ‘one-off’ insertion or a linking where changes to the source document automatically appear elsewhere. For
Office XP drops off the edge of the Microsoft support cliffside. It’s more than ten years since Office XP was unleashed to the public. That means Microsoft will stop supporting the software from 11 July 2011. As far as Microsoft support is concerned, Office XP will be no more, it
Where is the Select All command and why you don’t need to find it. “As software changes so do the tool bars. A simple change for the location of the “select all” button is frustrating’ – Anthony C. We assume Anthony is asking about the ribbon in Office 2007 and
Some anti-spam settings to avoid in Outlook We spend a lot of time writing about Outlook settings and how to use them. It occurred to us that there are settings we don’t talk about because they are NOT good and best avoided. In the past we looked at Navigation Buttons.
One important but hidden feature in Outlook will let you see more and faster. Outlook has a lot of different aspects; email, calendar, contacts etc and we see many people switching between them, waiting for different views to load …. and they don’t have to. If you click on a
Put more useful navigation options on the Outlook screen. The default Outlook Navigation pane isn’t meant for you, it’s intended for absolute beginners to the program and to reduce the number of support calls. Once you’ve started to use Outlook, it’s time to change the way it looks to suit
What to do when Outlook won’t reconnect to Exchange Server Ira J writes from his work laptop: “I have Outlook on my laptop for work. I leave it on all the time whether I’m connected to the Internet or not. Sometimes Outlook won’t connect to the office even when there’s
Another way to enter lists in Excel, why Microsoft’s effort sucks and an alternative. Excel has two ways of typing in data, there’s the usual direct entry into the worksheet or you can make a form with a single click of a button. For example here’s a ‘typical’ Excel list:
How to get your Office Product Key when the computer is broken. Shelia M has an Office install problem …. ” My two year old computer broke down in 2010 and the hard drive was replaced by the engineer. When I started the computer Microsoft Office was GONE. This year
Free training manuals for Office 2007 and before plus Quick References for Office 2010. Mouse Training in the UK has released their training manuals free for all comers plus some Quick Reference Guides. The Training Manuals are for Office 2007, Office 2003, Office XP (2002) and Office 2000. They cover
Why the low use of Bitlocker when it can secure your private documents and emails? A recent survey has found that nearly 99% of computers that could encrypt their hard drives with Microsoft’s Bitlocker don’t bother. On a normal computer, the hard drive is ‘open’. Even if someone doesn’t have
How to change the Product Key in Office 2007, Office 2003 and Office XP. Changing the Product Key in Office 2007 isn’t as easy as with Office 2010. In effect what you have to do is remove the existing Office 2007 software registration info and force Office 2007 to ask
Switch from imperial/metric from inside Word 2002/XP to Word 2010. The Measurement Converter is a Smart Tag (Action in Word 2010) that can change your text from imperial/US to metric or vice-versa. As the name suggests converts measurement units used in the Word document for example convert miles to kilometers
A look at Smart Tags from Word 2002 to Word 2010. Smart Tags (or Actions as they are called in Office 2010) is a way to put special commands against certain words or phrases. Smart Tags look at the text and, if applicable, become available – in geek speak they
It’s so easy to avoid being caught by Word’s hidden data, yet it still happens. Rep. Jay Inslee from the US House of Representatives is the latest victim of the ‘hidden data’ in a Word document. He released a letter of support for the FCC Chairman, unfortunately the document made
How to write an email now and send it later. For many versions of Outlook you’ve been able to write an email now but delay sending it until a later time. Like many things with Outlook, there are several catches to the supposedly simple feature. Why delay sending a message?
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
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 –
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
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
