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235 Software - Office Resources 10 Burning Questions About Microsoft Office 2007 Nearly a year ago, Microsoft released Office 2007 to corporate users and so began the slow and methodical evaluation of the software (unless, of course, you were an early adopter). Open Open Tab November 8, 2007 Provides Information 10 obscure Excel tricks that can expedite common chores The business world is full of users who have neither the opportunity nor the inclination to figure out Excel's shortcuts. They end up wasting a lot of time (and adding to your support burden) because they just don't know the smartest ways to work with spreadsheet data. Here are some highly useful tips that can streamline typical tasks and boost productivity. Open Open Tab   Provides Information 10 slide design tips for producing powerful and effective presentations You can't build a compelling presentation that communicates your message if your slides are cluttered, text-heavy, or ugly. Open Open Tab   Provides Information 10 tips for using wildcard characters in Microsoft Access criteria expressions Wildcards come in handy when you need to locate records with similar data or you're trying to track down a specific record based on limited information. But if you don't use the right wildcard characters the right way, you could wind up with the wrong data--a potentially app-corrupting nightmare. Open Open Tab   Provides Information 10 tricks for handling null values in Microsoft Access Null values indicate that data is missing or unknown, and if you don't take steps to handle them, you could wind up with runtime errors or erroneous data. These Access pointers will help you understand and effectively address null values in various situations. Open Open Tab   Provides Information 10 tips for customizing menus and toolbars in your Access apps When you build an Access application, you'll generally want to tailor the menus and toolbars so that users have all the tools they need but won't stumble over the built-in options. These tips will help you manipulate your interface so that it's effective and user friendly. Open Open Tab   Provides Information A Add a header to Word 2007 documents with three mouse clicks Word 2007 makes dealing with headers easier than ever. Here's how to create a basic header that you can edit and adjust as necessary to streamline your Word documents. Open Open Tab   Provides Information Add chapter numbering to your Word documents If you've ever tried to organize a dropped stack of documents, you know the importance of chapter and page numbering. In this tip, Mary Ann Richardson tells how you can automatically add chapter numbering to your Word documents. Open Open Tab   Provides Information Add high/low lines to your Excel charts Analyze your Excel information by creating high/low lines for your data charts, allowing you to easily view parameters of a given range. Mary Ann Richardson gives you the lowdown. Open Open Tab   Provides Information Add time and date stamps to your Access records automatically With all the Access records created every day, it's not surprising that you may need to go back and reference what you've already done—but you may not know where to begin. Mary Ann Richardson shows how to automatically add a time and date stamp to Access records in a snap. Open Open Tab   Provides Information Address letters in a snap with Word's Insert Address toolbar button When writing letters in Word, stop interrupting yourself to look up and insert addresses from your Outlook address book. Mary Ann Richardson describes how you can add a button to your Word toolbar that will allow you to easily reference your addresses. Open Open Tab   Provides Information Adjust row heights to make Excel spreadsheets easier to read Are all the rows in your Excel spreadsheet crunched together? Open Open Tab   Provides Information Adobe buys into web word processing Adobe has piled into the escalating web-based office applications scrap with the acquisition of Virtual Ubiquity, a Massachusetts-based start-up. Open Open Tab October 1, 2007 Provides Information Adobe moves towards the online office Seamless online and offline use will boost Adobe's new web-hosted word processor. Open Open Tab October 19, 2007 Provides Information Adobe pushes Acrobat into online office space against Microsoft, Google Vendor launches beta of hosted collaboration service; Acrobat 9 update also on tap. Open Open Tab June 2, 2008 Provides Information AJax13 Founded in early 2006, Ajax 13 Inc. is a software development company that introduces web-based applications written using the AJAX based methodology. Ajax 13 Inc. was founded by Hisham El-Emam, it's CTO, and Georg Wüstefeld to pursue the software-as-a-service vision that is gaining more and more momentum in both the enterprise and the small business / home office marketplaces. Ajax 13 Inc. is headquartered in San Diego, CA. Open Open Tab   Provides a Service An introduction to the Microsoft Office 2007 ribbon interface From Word to Excel to PowerPoint, the new Microsoft Office 2007 interface is designed to increase efficiency and make it easier for users to find features to get their work done. The end result is an interface that does make it easier to get things done, but there are some caveats. Open Open Tab   Provides Information Analyze Excel data with the Match function You can use Excel's Match function to scan data for certain parameters, such as a specific product sold in a particular month. Mary Ann Richardson narrows down the process in this Excel tip. Open Open Tab   Provides Information Analyze performance through common-sized income statements with Excel Perform percentage and comparison analyses in Excel by creating a common-sized income statement. Find out how in this tip by Mary Ann Richardson. Open Open Tab   Provides Information Apple beats Microsoft at its own Open XML game Embarrassing that Microsoft hasn't delivered file compatibility on its own format. Open Open Tab August 10, 2007 Provides Information Apple iWork and Microsoft Office: Can they work together? How to share files between the two Mac office suites -- and with Windows-based Office users. Open Open Tab June 13, 2008 Provides Information Apple iWork Strong, but no Match for Office It may be winter, but that's not stopping Apple from reaping what it can with its beefed-up iWork '08 productivity suite. Open Open Tab December 4, 2007 Provides Information Assign values to Access records automatically Use macros in Access to give your data a life of its own, complete with its own values and record assignments. Mary Ann Richardson explains how to add identity to your Access records. Open Open Tab   Provides Information Attackers Targeting Zero-Day Access Flaw Merely opening a rigged Microsoft Office Access database file is enough to trigger a system takeover. Open Open Tab December 13, 2007 Provides Information Avoid nested formula errors with Excel's Insert Function dialog box Excel's nested formulas option may be useful, but many people find it a challenge fraught with potential errors. Open Open Tab   Provides Information B Brazil bitchslaps ratification of OOXML Brazil has fired off a formal objection to the International Standardisation Organisation (ISO) against the approval of Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document format as an international standard. Open Open Tab May 30, 2008 Provides Information C Can IBM save OpenOffice.org from itself? New member of open-source group must contend with development monoculture. Open Open Tab September 19, 2007 Provides Information Celframe Office Compatible to Windows Vista Celframe's US Development center recently announced that it has tested Celframe Office successfully in all the different version of Windows Vista.Celframe Office is the widely used office suite, which has more than 10 applications and works perfectly with it's hugely popular rival Microsoft office. Open Open Tab July 20, 2007 Provides Information Change the default margins of your Word 2007 documents If all your documents require the same formatting, such as margins, you don't need to set the specs each time. Here's how to set a default for each of your Word 2007 documents, so you won't have to do it again with every new file. Open Open Tab   Provides Information Change the labels in an Excel data series he Chart Wizard in Excel may work a little too well at times, which is why you'll want to read this tip from Mary Ann Richardson. Learn how to change the labels in a data series so you have one set of information from multiple selections. Open Open Tab   Provides Information Changes to OOXML draft standard waved through But questions remain about possible defects in the standard. Open Open Tab February 29, 2008 Provides Information Chinese firm sets legal dragons on Microsoft A small Beijing software firm is taking Microsoft to court, alleging that it hasn't been keeping its end of a bargain to license technology for converting the Roman alphabet into Chinese characters. Open Open Tab January 18, 2008 Provides Information Chinese OpenOffice 4.0 beta takes design cues from Office 2007 RedOffice, the suite of Office products based upon OpenOffice.org and optimized for Chinese users has received a new UI in its 4.0 beta. Open Open Tab June 2, 2008 Provides Information Concatenate date cells with text cells in Excel Mary Ann Richardson explains that when concatenating date and text cell data in an Excel formula, you need to convert date cells to text to avoid unexpected results. Open Open Tab   Provides Information Control text flow in Word with linked text boxes When working with columns in Word, you can wind up spending a lot of time making sure the text flows evenly from one column to another. You can avoid much of this formatting by replacing columns with linked text boxes. Open Open Tab   Provides Information Convert an XML file into an Excel spreadsheet with this technique One way to present XML information to a user is by converting it to a file format they user actually knows. Edmond Woychowsky walks you through his process, including all the necessary sample code, to convert an XML file to an Excel spreadsheet. Open Open Tab   Provides Information Convert Word Docs to Web Pages Microsoft Word has its place, but that place isn't the web. If you've ever tried to convert a Word document to an HTML document, you know that Word's built-in tools can have disastrous results -- bloated files, proprietary markup and exposed personal information are among the gems you'll get with Word's "Convert to HTML" function. Open Open Tab   Provides Information Copy an Excel formula without changing its cell references If you copy a formula from one place to another, Excel will want to readjust the references to reflect the change. Open Open Tab   Provides Information Corel's New 'Format-Neutral' WordPerfect Office X3 Update in Beta It isn't really a new version of WordPerfect, and in more than one way, that fact is starting to show. But for the product that still purports to be the world's #2 commercial word processor, just behind Microsoft by about 85 points give or take a few, even the smallest change may as well be a monumental shift. Open Open Tab October 5, 2007 Provides Information Create a General Ledger in Excel from General Journal data Convert your daily General Journal data into a more extensive, yet focused, General Ledger using Excel in this tip from Mary Ann Richardson. Open Open Tab   Provides Information Create a new warning for Access record deletion If you have started to glaze over the message you get whenever you delete an Access record, you may want to record a message that is more likely to grab your attention. Open Open Tab   Provides Information Create a quick report for a filtered table in Access Access' table filtering tools are handy, but they can be unwieldy and produce results that look unprofessional. Here's how to use AutoReport to create sharp and specific records based on the data of your choice. Open Open Tab   Provides Information Create a shortcut to your favorite font in Word Scroll…scroll…scroll… and pass up your favorite font no more. Create a keyboard shortcut and apply your most-wanted Word fonts wherever and whenever you want. Open Open Tab   Provides Information Create Access reports from crosstab queries Did you know that you can create a report from your Access file's crosstab data? Here's how to organize and clarify your data in a unique Access report. Open Open Tab   Provides Information Create Excel charts that show data comparisons at a glance If you or your users need data from certain time periods, you can create an Excel chart that makes the specified dates or times contiguous on a stacked column. Here's how to make an easy graphic visualization of information from what may be scattered times. Open Open Tab   Provides Information Create Excel order forms that automatically compute shipping charges Online order forms are great for figuring out shipping charges—as long as you're working with the right data. Mary Ann Richardson tells how to set up Excel so it automatically calculates the right shipping charges based on the bottom line. Open Open Tab   Provides Information Create high-impact charts with Excel's AutoShapes Charts are visual representations of data, so why not use Excel to further illustrate your information using actual illustrations? Mary Ann Richardson talks about AutoShapes and how to use them in your Excel charts. Open Open Tab   Provides Information Create hyperlinks from one Word document to another You can link your documents together—hyperlink, that is. Mary Ann Richardson explains how you can create hyperlinks to refer your readers back to information in different Word documents. Open Open Tab   Provides Information Cuba, India vote no on OOXML Cuba and India are the latest countries to vote against Microsoft’s Office Open XML (OOXML) file format being adopted by the International Standards Organisation (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). Open Open Tab March 25, 2008 Provides Information Customize the separator line for your Word document's footnotes Gray lines are going to clear up! If you use footnotes in your Word documents, you aren't confined to the same old gray separator line. Here's how to change the color and thickness to something more your style. Open Open Tab   Provides Information Customizing WordArt objects in Word documents WordArt is handy for creating type treatments in Microsoft Word. If you want to customize the look of your WordArt objects. Open Open Tab   Provides Information D Danish Delegate Disputes OOXML Standard Vote By voting to adopt a standard based on Microsoft's OOXML document format, the Danish national standards body has approved an unknown text against the wishes of the main representatives on its own technical committee, according to a technical committee representative from the Danish city of Aarhus. Open Open Tab May 18, 2008 Provides Information Dutch Gov releases Open Source tool THE DUTCH COUNCIL OF STATE will let loose the software it uses to convert proprietary document formats created in MS Office into Open Source documents which follow the Open Document Format (ODF) protocol. Open Open Tab May 28, 2008 Provides Information E Easily convert 2-D objects into 3-D in Word how to make a two-dimensional object pop as a three-dimensional image in Word—and how to add a pattern or texture, too. Open Open Tab   Provides Information Easily create report snapshots of your Access files Say cheese! Rather than sending the entire Access file to another user, you can create snapshots of relevant reports. Mary Ann Richardson explains how to do it in a snap. Open Open Tab   Provides Information Eliminate white space in Word documents with automatic hyphenation If there are too many ragged lines in your document, Word's automatic hyphenation feature can help align your paragraphs, tables, or entire text. Open Open Tab   Provides Information EU investigates Microsoft's OOXML campaign Microsoft's failed attempt to get its Office Open XML (OOXML) file format adopted by the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) could land the software giant in hot water with the European Commission (EC). Open Open Tab February 8, 2008 Provides Information EC takes own sweet time backing Microsoft ODF move The European Commission is investigating Microsoft’s interoperability pledge that it will support OpenDocument Format (ODF) in Office 2007 service pack two (SP2). Open Open Tab May 22, 2008 Provides Information Excel 2007 Cheat Sheet Here's how to find your way around and get the most out of Excel 2007. Open Open Tab   Provides Information Excel 2008 vs. Numbers '08 I started by creating a single worksheet, with a fictional company’s product sales by month across the top and a row for each of six sales representatives. I then added cells at the bottom and to the right, where I calculated totals and averages for each month and each salesperson. Open Open Tab April 15, 2008 Provides Information F Fallout from Office Open XML Vote Continues Work in the ISO/IEC committee that addresses document formats has come to a complete halt. Open Open Tab October 19, 2007 Provides Information FAQ: Office 14 and Microsoft's support for ODF Answering a few lingering questions. Open Open Tab May 27, 2008 Provides Information Filter Access forms with one button Looking for a needle in an Access haystack? Mary Ann Richardson shows how to add a button that will easily filter the records you use the most. Open Open Tab   Provides Information First new principles, now an interoperability initiative for OOXML Microsoft wants to show that it's working really, really hard on adopting the principle of interoperability in its key software. To keep the rhythm flowing in its direction, it's building new alliances with software vendors. Open Open Tab March 6, 2008 Provides Information First Look: OpenOffice.org 3.0 for Windows Open source observers can argue until the end of time over the validity of developing and enhancing free software for Windows, but the fact remains OpenOffice.org is thoroughly committed to the platform and continues to produce a top-notch, cross-platform office productivity suite that work perfectly well on Windows. In this article, we take a look at getting the latest OpenOffice.org 3.0 developer build up-and-running for Windows XP. Open Open Tab June 1, 2008 Provides Information First Office update due in March, XML converter delayed Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit on Thursday said the first update for Office 2008 should be available in mid March. However, getting the update out will push back the release of the final Open XML File Format Converter Update to Office 2004 for Mac. Open Open Tab February 21, 2008 Provides Information Flashing Text in Excel I use animation flashing in Microsoft Word; is there a way to make a cell flash in Excel? Open Open Tab   Provides Information G Get Excel to calculate formulas with circular references Don't go around in circles unnecessarily—when you have a circular reference in Excel, the program usually gives you an error message. Open Open Tab   Provides Information Get Wild With Excel Let's say I have an Excel file of 10,000 entries and just a handful of them end in an asterisk. Open Open Tab   Provides Information Google and Sun tag team MS Office StarOffice joins free Google Pack. Open Open Tab August 15, 2007 Provides Information Google Pack Now Offers Sun's StarOffice The search giant's free software download package expands with addition of Sun Microsystems' office suite. Open Open Tab August 13, 2007 Provides Information Google takes a swipe at OOXML Google has slammed Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) format as being "insufficient and unnecessary". Open Open Tab February 27, 2008 Provides Information H Hackers Exploit Excel Hole Researchers at Symantec identify a Web site with malware that takes advantage of systems lacking a recent Excel patch. Open Open Tab March 26, 2008 Provides Information Help users find information with an interactive Excel chart When you create an interactive Excel chart, the way to really make your users happy is by letting them find data they want according to their parameters. Learn how to do that by following these step-by-step instructions. Open Open Tab   Provides Information How do I... Change the normal template in Word 2007 to my preferences? The normal template in Microsoft Word 2007 defaults to the Calibri font with one inch margins. Here is how you permanently change the normal template in Word 2007 to your preferred font, style, and page layout. Open Open Tab   Provides Information How do I... create a crosstab query in Microsoft Access? Crosstab queries in Microsoft Access allow you to do what normal SELECT queries do not: aggregate data across columns as well as rows. Open Open Tab   Provides Information How do I... Print a single Microsoft Access record in Form View? Microsoft Access lets users print data while browsing records in Form View, but it prints all of the records in the underlying recordset, not just the current one. By adding a command button and the subprocedure presented here, you can give users an easy, one-click tool for printing only the current record. Open Open Tab   Provides Information How do I... Publish Microsoft Access check box controls to a Word document? When you publish an Access report to Word, you'll lose any check boxes the report contains. Luckily, you can take advantage of a couple of workarounds: either display the literal values or use Wingdings to display the check box controls in Word. Here's a rundown of both tricks. Open Open Tab   Provides Information How do I... Vary headers and footers in a Word document? Word offers some basic tools on the Header And Footer toolbar, but more sophisticated setup requires a trip to the Layout tab. These tips will help your users fine-tune their document headers and footers. Open Open Tab   Provides Information How to recover disappearing table text in Word When working with tables in Word, your text may disappear, but it's not gone forever. Mary Ann Richardson teaches you how to get around this irritating feature by recovering disappearing table text. Open Open Tab   Provides Information I IBM advises staff to opt for a Microsoft Office-free world IBM chief information officer Mark Hennessey and veep Gina Poole issued a memo yesterday urging the firm's staff to take “a new, more integrated approach to desktop productivity software", reports the Irish Times. Open Open Tab June 13, 2008 Provides Information IBM Offers Free Office Tools With Lotus Symphony, IBM beefs up its collaboration software portfolio. Open Open Tab September 18, 2007 Provides Information IBM Releases ODF-Based Office Killer IBM has officially launched the commercial version of its Lotus Symphony suite of productivity applications, and looks set amount a challenge to Microsoft Office in its enterprise heartland. Open Open Tab June 5, 2008 Provides Information IBM Throws Weight Behind OpenOffice.org Project IBM today joined the OpenOffice.org open-source community and will contribute code to the office suite that serves as an alternative to Microsoft's Office software. Open Open Tab September 10, 2007 Provides Information IBM to Sell Support for Rival to Microsoft Office IBM will offer help desk service for its Symphony software, raising the competition with rival Microsoft's Office. Open Open Tab June 3, 2008 Provides Information Increase the accuracy of your Access data with Control Tips One little known but handy Access trick is the capability to add notes to give your users more information on the data they're entering. Here's how to include help tips for any control on any form in use. Open Open Tab   Provides Information Increase your Access options with nonexclusive option groups A, B, or both A and B? You may have your Access forms set up to allow users to choose one option, but what if you want your users to have more choices? Mary Ann Richardson talks about nonexclusive option groups in Access. Open Open Tab   Provides Information India Rejects Office Open XML Again In the meeting of the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) technical committee Thursday, 13 members voted against the standard, while five members, including some outsourcing companies, and the National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom) voted for making Open XML a standard. Open Open Tab March 21, 2008 Provides Information Infected Excel Files Exploit Known Hole Security experts urge Excel users to apply the latest Microsoft patches, because malicious documents are making the rounds. Open Open Tab March 12, 2008 Provides Information Is OpenOffice.org getting faster? Some complain OpenOffice.org is slow and bloated. With each release there may be dozens of performance improvements, but there are also new features, some of which may slow things down. This the natural balance in software development, but in the end, what is the net effect on performance from one version to the next? Open Open Tab May 29, 2008 Provides Information ISO certifies MS Office Open XML, just barely, with 75% approval No, it's not an April Fool: Despite controversy over whether certain countries' voting members truly represented the wishes of their respective standards delegations, it would appear ODF now has company in the world's library of standards.. Open Open Tab April 1, 2008 Provides Information ISO takes full charge of Open XML, sets up 'harmonization' group It will now be up to a new working group, yet to be given an official name, to manage the process of making OXML play nice with ODF. It's out of Microsoft's hands. Open Open Tab April 10, 2008 Provides Information J Just-patched Excel makes calculation mistakes Microsoft 'testing a fix' after Tuesday's patch loosed new Excel 2003 bug. Open Open Tab March 14, 2008 Provides Information K KDE's Windows weapon: KOffice 2.0 Cross platform KOffice to challenge OpenOffice.org Open Open Tab October 9, 2007 Provides Information Keep track of worksheet changes with Excel's shared worksheet feature With Excel's shared worksheet feature, you can view other users' insertions and deletions and decide whether to keep or delete them. Open Open Tab   Provides Information Keep Word commands handy with Office 2007's Quick Access Toolbar There are a lot of useful features on Office 2007's ribbon -- there are even too many to sort through at times. Mary Ann Richardson explains how to use the Quick Access Toolbar to put the Word tools and commands you use most often. Open Open Tab   Provides Information L Let users open Access reports from their desktops Did you know your users can open their most used Access reports directly from their desktops—without traditional shortcut aliases? Open Open Tab   Provides Information Let Word create your document summary Need to summarize the information in your Word document in a hurry? By using Word's AutoSummarize feature, you can condense your document into the length of your choice. Open Open Tab   Provides Information Let Word format your document as you type Word contains a variety of document formats to assist you in assigning particular styles to your pages. Mary Ann Richardson discusses how you can save time while creating a polished look with the help of Word's Style Gallery. Open Open Tab   Provides Information M Make Excel charts easier to read by adjusting data markers Brighten it up! You can adjust the color and spacing of your data markers to organize and codify your Excel charts. This explanation will show you easily you can make the data easy on the eyes, too. Open Open Tab   Provides Information Make Excel charts more meaningful with reference lines Give numbers shape and form by illustrating your Excel reports with charts. Mary Ann Richardson describes how to create a chart that shows the ups and downs of data changes against a constant, targeted value so your users can visually ascertain the differences. Open Open Tab   Provides Information Make Excel data easier to read with these tips If reading an Excel spreadsheet leaves you feeling cross-eyed, there are simple steps you can take to make the information easier to handle. Mary Ann Richardson shows how to delineate the data by changing the gridlines and columns. Open Open Tab   Provides Information Make Excel spreadsheets easier to read with natural language range names Use the labels already in your Excel spreadsheet to help you easily understand what your formulas mean. Mary Ann Richardson gives meaning to the mystery of formula results. Open Open Tab   Provides Information Make Excel worksheets and charts easier to read with custom number formats Working with lots of zeroes? Here's how to display your chart numbers in thousands (or other denominations). Open Open Tab   Provides Information Make it easy for users to enter symbols in Excel worksheets Recalling symbols in your applications can be challenging, but it's easy in Excel. Mary Ann Richardson gives step-by-step instructions for creating shortcuts for some of your most-used symbols in Excel. Open Open Tab   Provides Information Make your Excel charts easier to read with custom data labels If users are spending time trying to match up each data label in your chart with its corresponding data point, then you may need to remove some of the clutter. In this Excel tip, Mary Ann Richardson shows how to make your charts easier to read by substituting custom data labels for data series markers. Open Open Tab   Provides Information Making Excel Remember More Data This situation has a lot of potential for error. It would be easy to mistype a part number or omit some of the alternates for a given part. Your idea of automating the reciprocal relationships is a step in the right direction, but you need to go further Open Open Tab   Provides Information Making Sense of Microsoft's Office Live Strategy On Monday, Microsoft announced it's subdividing its online applications services even further, doling out new features such as storage space for individual Office users, while at the same time offering new e-mail and collaboration hosting features to small businesses. Today, it added some new personal attention services for the small business tier. Could this finally be the strategy that makes Microsoft's lagging online services segment start paying off? Open Open Tab October 3, 2007 Provides Information Mass. Gives Open XML the Official Green Light The commonwealth of Massachusetts has officially thrown its weight behind Microsoft's Office Open XML format along with the OASIS Open Document Format. Open Open Tab August 1, 2007 Provides Information Microsoft Acknowledges Floating Point Bug in Excel 2007 It's the type of bug that, when discovered twenty years ago on the world's leading spreadsheets of the time, generated controversy and sent thousands back to their software stores for refunds: Excel 2007 has a bug with the display of floating-point values. Open Open Tab September 26, 2007 Provides Information Microsoft adds OOXML to its promise not to sue In another carefully timed move to garner support for its document format still under consideration for an international standard, Microsoft today altered the terms under which use of its Office Open XML format by developers is permitted. Open Open Tab February 15, 2008 Provides Information Microsoft beta tests Office subscription software Microsoft has launched a private beta test of a subscription version of its Office and security software. Open Open Tab April 21, 2008 Provides Information Microsoft Blogger Accidentally Leaks Office Mobile Upgrade The upgrade, when it becomes available, should solve an incompatibility issue that left Windows Mobile 6.0 users unable to read Office 2007 file formats. Open Open Tab September 28, 2007 Provides Information Microsoft Confirms Jet DB Flaw, MS Word Attacks Attackers are exploiting a buffer overrun vulnerability in the lightweight database that provides data access to Microsoft Access, Visual Basic and third-party applications. Open Open Tab March 24, 2008 Provides Information Microsoft Confirms Lineup for Mac Office 2008 The suite will include Word 2008, Excel 2008, PowerPoint 2008 and Entourage 2008. Open Open Tab September 25, 2007 Provides Information Microsoft Defends Open XML Work Microsoft says it simply wanted to allow interested organizations to participate in the Open XML standardization process, a company executive said Wednesday. Open Open Tab January 16, 2008 Provides Information Microsoft delivers Office 2007 SP1 The update focuses on bug fixes, not new features. Open Open Tab December 11, 2007 Provides Information Microsoft Expands Office Subscription Pilot Microsoft is exploring new business models for Office in the emerging world, which includes expanding its pay-as-you-go pricing for Office 2003 in South Africa and Romania. Open Open Tab July 19, 2007 Provides Information Microsoft finally dishes up Mac Office converters Microsoft has finally released file format converters that allow Office 2004 for Mac to read the Open XML file formats that were introduced in Office 2007 for Windows. Open Open Tab June 25, 2008 Provides Information Microsoft Fixes Excel Math Mistake Microsoft re-released a flawed security update that had caused some versions of Excel, the company's spreadsheet application, to make mistakes. Open Open Tab March 20, 2008 Provides Information Microsoft grows DAISY for blind computer users while Adobe wilts Accessibility format gets boost from maker of world's biggest text-authoring tool. Open Open Tab May 9, 2008 Provides Information Microsoft Launches OBA Partner Program New Microsoft program helps partners add business processes and intelligence functions to Office 2007. Open Open Tab July 10, 2007 Provides Information Microsoft Launches Office Extension Allowing Online Collaboration Microsoft is unveiling a Web component for its desktop-based Office programs that lets computer users store, share and comment on documents, but the software maker did not go so far as to let people create new files from scratch online. Open Open Tab October 1, 2007 Provides Information Microsoft makes final heroic grab for OOXML votes Microsoft has made one last crack at getting its Office Open XML (OOXML) approved as an international standard by reiterating that it won’t sue over future versions of its file format. Open Open Tab March 28, 2008 Provides Information Microsoft Makes Office 2007 Protocols Available The documentation defines how high-volume Microsoft products communicate with other Microsoft products. Open Open Tab April 8, 2008 Provides Information Microsoft Mum on Whether Google Docs-Killer is Planned Is Microsoft Works, the long-standing, low-end counterpart to Microsoft Office, being groomed to take on Google in the online office software market? Open Open Tab July 31, 2007 Provides Information Microsoft nixes bug, fixes Excel Patch not yet pushed to Windows Update, however Open Open Tab October 10, 2007 Provides Information Microsoft Office Live Workspace Beta A good try, but too Microsoft-centric for its own good. Open Open Tab March 5, 2008 Provides Information Microsoft Office Live Workspace Goes to Public Beta However, users who do not have Office installed will not be able to edit documents. Open Open Tab December 10, 2007 Provides Information Microsoft Office Online falls into Halloween time vortex Either Steve "Uncle Fester" Ballmer is preparing everyone for his star turn at Halloween very early this year, or there's something wrong over at Microsoft's Office Online site. Open Open Tab March 10, 2008 Provides Information Microsoft OOXML SDK Renews Standards Debate The discussions over whether or not OOXML is worthy of being a standard is expected to heat up again. Open Open Tab March 17, 2008 Provides Information Microsoft Opens Office Live Workspace Beta to All Office Live Workspace, which Microsoft says provides Office app users anywhere access to documents and enables sharing functionality, is now available to anyone who wants to try the product. Open Open Tab March 4, 2008 Provides Information Microsoft promises fix for Office 2008 installation issues A pair of installation-related problems involving the new release of Microsoft's Office 2008 won't cause damage to your data or prevent the productivity suite from running. But the issues, discovered by a user, pose potential security and administrative headaches. Microsoft is vowing fixes for both. Open Open Tab January 25, 2008 Provides Information Microsoft pushes Office 2007 with 'try-before-you-buy' Microsoft is shipping limited-use copies of Office 2007 with PCs in a try-before-you-buy scheme to seed the market with its latest suite and drive Windows server and client software sales. Open Open Tab July 12, 2007 Provides Information Microsoft puts older Office file formats in public domain - sort of Makes technical specifications for binary formats openly available to external developers. Open Open Tab February 15, 2008 Provides Information Microsoft Puts Partner Muscle Behind Office Live Microsoft has launched a partner program around Office Live, which it is grooming to be a major product. Open Open Tab July 12, 2007 Provides Information Microsoft Releases First Open XML SDK Open XML SDK 1.0 , available from the company's website, is designed to allow developers to produce code enabling their applications to create, access and manipulate Open XML documents, Microsoft said. Open Open Tab June 13, 2008 Provides Information Microsoft Releases Office 2003 Service Pack 3 The pack makes it easier for users to work with Windows Vista and exchange files with the 2007 Microsoft Office system. Open Open Tab September 18, 2007 Provides Information Microsoft Shows Off Preview of Office Project Software Microsoft showed off some features of the next version of Project, to the delight of the crowd gathered at the Microsoft Office Project Conference in Seattle. Open Open Tab October 30, 2007 Provides Information Microsoft to Help Disabled Access Office Documents The "Save as DAISY XML" add-in makes it easier to create audio books from text files, and was developed by Microsoft, Sonata Software, and the Digital Accessible Information System (DAISY) Consortium as an open-source project. Open Open Tab May 7, 2008 Provides Information Microsoft to Offer Office 2007 SP1 via Automatic Update Microsoft's Automatic Update service will push out Office 2007 Service Pack 1 starting June 16 '08. Open Open Tab May 9, 2008 Provides Information Microsoft to Offer Office 2008 In-Depth Look at Expo Microsoft will offer a full day of training on its new Office 2008 productivity software package during Macworld Expo. Open Open Tab January 10, 2008 Provides Information Microsoft to support ODF, PDF in Office next year Support to be included in Office Service Pack 2. Open Open Tab May 21, 2008 Provides Information Microsoft Updates Open XML Mac File Converter Beta Microsoft has published a new beta of its Open XML File Format Converter for Mac. Open Open Tab December 21, 2007 Provides Information Microsoft Warns of Excel Zero-Day Attack Redmond activates its security response process after learning of a zero-day attack against a new, undocumented Excel spreadsheet vulnerability. Open Open Tab January 16, 2008 Provides Information Microsoft Warns of New Attack on Word Hackers may be exploiting an unpatched hole to plant malicious code in Word docs and any system that opens them. Open Open Tab March 22, 2008 Provides Information Microsoft Warns of Office 2003 SP3 Auto-Update Microsoft Corp. Monday gave users of its Office 2003 application suite a 30-day warning that it will begin pushing the software's Service Pack 3 via Microsoft Update next month. Open Open Tab January 29, 2008 Provides Information Microsoft wraps its response to IBM's 'on-demand' strategy around Office There's still a big chance for Microsoft to make serious inroads in the Web services field for businesses. But in a field where, all things being equal, Web services tend to look pretty much equal to one another, the company is banking on Office to help it distinguish its products. Open Open Tab March 12, 2008 Provides Information Microsoft's Doug Mahugh: Inside the real OOXML debate The Office Open XML format may or may not be ratified by the ISO, but in either event, it will still be a driving force in millions of the world's offices. So one way or the other, its senior product manager tells us, the interoperability debate will be resolved. Open Open Tab March 13, 2008 Provides Information Microsoft's ISO Win May Raise Antitrust Issues Analysis: The European Commission's antitrust probe included scrutiny of Microsoft's bid for Office Open XML approval. Open Open Tab April 2, 2008 Provides Information Microsoft's Sponsored OOXML Study Today, Microsoft made available an IDC study about so-called open desktop file formats. It's yet another Microsoft propaganda effort, as a crucial format standards vote approaches. Open Open Tab August 27, 2007 Provides Information Microsoft's standards bid stalled Four countries have appealed a decision to fast-track the international standardisation of a Microsoft document format, called OpenXML. Open Open Tab June 10, 2008 Provides Information Microsoft: Critical MS Office Patches Coming It is likely that this batch of patches will finally provide cover for well-known-and already exploited-vulnerabilities in Microsoft Excel. Open Open Tab March 6, 2008 Provides Information Microsoft: Whoa now on Vista SP1 Company backs off what appeared to be stated in last month's DOJ filing. Open Open Tab July 20, 2007 Provides Information Mini-glossary: Office 2007 terms you should know Even if you don't plan to upgrade to Office 2007 right now, it's still a good idea to brush up on the terminology surrounding the new applications. Most IT pros are acquainted with a few new Office 2007 elements and features, like the Ribbon. But how about the Version Extraction Tool, Full Screen Reading view, and e-mail postmarks? Open Open Tab   Provides Information Move endnotes to the end of a Word document After creating a Word document, you may find that the notes you so laboriously created belong at the end. Mary Ann Richardson explains how to move the endnotes where they belong. Open Open Tab   Provides Information O Office 14 to be more Web-friendly, Gates says Microsoft will offer limited capabilities to view and edit the data in Office applications. Open Open Tab February 11, 2008 Provides Information Office 2007 fails OXML test Microsoft's Office 2007 Word documents do not conform to the newly-approved Open XML (OXML) international standard. Open Open Tab April 22, 2008 Provides Information Office 2007 more palatable than Vista An expected both-at-once upgrade cycle didn't happen, notes analyst. Open Open Tab April 1, 2008 Provides Information Office 2007: Don't Wait for Vista January's simultaneous operating system and productivity suite releases should have been cause for simultaneous customer upgrades. But there are plenty of reasons for enterprises to deploy separately—and Office 2007 much sooner than Vista. Open Open Tab July 19, 2007 Provides Information Office 2007: One Year Later Fraternal twins sometimes follow very different paths, with one sibling greatly excelling above the other. So the fates would appear to be of Office 2007 and Windows Vista, which Microsoft birthed one year ago today. Open Open Tab November 30, 2007 Provides Information Office 2008 SP1 Released, VBA Support To Return Microsoft has released the first service pack to Microsoft Office:Mac 2008. The company also said that sales of Office:Mac 2008 have "soared", and that it is "selling faster than any previous version of Office for Mac in the past 19 years". Open Open Tab May 13, 2008 Provides Information Office 2008, 2004 updates, XML converter released Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit released three updates for its Mac Office products. Office 2008, Office 2004 and the Open XML File Format Converter for Mac are all available from the company's Web site. Open Open Tab June 24, 2008 Provides Information Office exploit hits the street Rigged PowerPoint file goes public; patch with March update now, Symantec says. Open Open Tab March 31, 2008 Provides Information Office update disables MS files Service pack says 2003 a very bad year. Open Open Tab January 2, 2008 Provides Information OOXML approved as international standard? Microsoft looks almost certain to have got its Office Open XML (OOXML) file format passed as an international standard but the ballot has been tarnished by accusations of voting irregularities. Open Open Tab March 31, 2008 Provides Information Open Office standards row heats up Microsoft is facing growing criticism of its bid to have Office Open XML (OOXML) accepted as an international standard ahead of a crucial vote by the ISO scheduled for February. Open Open Tab December 19, 2007 Provides Information Open two Access forms at once Opening two Access forms at once may be difficult, but it does not need to be. If you need to see data from two different forms side-by-side for comparison or cross-entry purposes. Open Open Tab   Provides Information OpenDocument debate resumes in the Netherlands While Microsoft's Office Open XML format slowly makes inroads towards acceptance as an international format, the Dutch government debates whether the software behind that format must also be open-source. Open Open Tab December 11, 2007 Provides Information OpenOffice 3.0 Beta Released This version of the popular software suite will support the forthcoming OpenDocument Format (ODF) 1.2 standard as well as being able to open files created with Microsoft Office 2007 or Office 2008 for Mac including .docx, .xlsx, and .pptx alongside the traditional Office binary file formats such as .doc, .xls and .ppt. Open Open Tab May 7, 2008 Provides Information OpenOffice 3.0 beta: Can it finally replace Microsoft Office? A new beta of the open-source office suite brings a new Start Centre and some added features. Open Open Tab May 16, 2008 Provides Information OpenOffice update completes bumper patch crop It never rains but it pours. Alongside a slew of Microsoft and Apple updates issued on Tuesday hard-pressed users and security admins also need to apply an important security fix from OpenOffice. Open Open Tab June 11, 2008 Provides Information OpenOffice.org the free, open source office suite. Open Open Tab   Provides Products OpenOffice.org 3.0's new features, an early look OpenOffice.org 3.0 is 167 days away, but who's counting? Maybe the software developers are counting because they have a whopping 2,278 issues targeted for this release. Even though OpenOffice.org 2.4 is not yet out the door, let's see how far they've come with OpenOffice.org 3.0. Open Open Tab March 21, 2008 Provides Information OpenOffice.org Beta Fails the Office 2007 Test The free office suite's support for Microsoft's XML-based Office 2007 file formats leaves much to be desired. Open Open Tab May 8, 2008 Provides Information OpenOffice.org Goes Online with SAAS Version "Our goal is not to compete against Google Apps or others such as Zoho," says Ulteo founder Gael Duval. Open Open Tab December 12, 2007 Provides Information OpenOffice.org Is Powerful, Free and Kind of Dull Everyone who uses OpenOffice.org knows that this gigantic application suite is designed primarily as a free, plug-in replacement for Microsoft Office, complete with support for Microsoft's formats and a feature set that comes close to matching Microsoft's. Open Open Tab October 8, 2007 Provides Information OpenOffice.org Update Arrives OpenOffice.org 2.4, the latest version of the free productivity application suite, was released today and is now available for download for a number of operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. Open Open Tab March 27, 2008 Provides Information P pdf converter Word to pdf Converter is designed to meet all your needs to convert Microsoft Word (.doc) files to PDF format. Word to PDF Converter features includes Digital Signature to protect documents. It is Very user-friendly interface and easy to use and also very quick in conversion speed and no quality is lost. Open Open Tab   Provides Products PDF to Mac Word 2008 Conversion Tool Ships Recosoft's PDF2Office now supports Office 2008 and retains all formatting when converting documents. Open Open Tab March 16, 2008 Provides Information Prevent Excel spreadsheet headers and footers from printing over your data Your Excel spreadsheet may look great onscreen, but when you go to print it, headers and footers may be a problem. Mary Ann Richardson explains how to increase margins and include all your data, while maintaining your document's pertinent information. Open Open Tab   Provides Information Prevent Outlook from adding the country field in Word Writing letters in Word should be a breeze; however, Outlook may throw a snag in the process. Mary Ann Richardson walks you through the steps of how to block Outlook from automatically adding the country field to your letters. Open Open Tab   Provides Information Prevent users from changing hyperlinks in your Word documents While users may not intentionally change the Web hyperlinks in your Word documents, it's easy for them to accidentally change a link simply by following it. Mary Ann Richardson shows how to make your links a bit harder for your users to change. Open Open Tab   Provides Information Prevent users from leaving fields blank in Access If you have empty fields in Access, here's how to keep them out of your records, preventing records duplication and other headaches. Open Open Tab