|
04/01/2008 10:17 PM
|
|
A PowerPoint Blog: Google Docs Plays with Offline Access
|
Google Docs is now providing offline access to editing files on an experimental basis -- as of now this only works with Docs, rather than Spreadsheets and Presentations, but it is definitely a start in a direction that may have far reaching results in the
|
|
02/22/2008 09:59 PM
|
|
A PowerPoint Blog: Open XML Standards: An Update
|
A standards committee will next week begin the next stage of the process that could see Microsoft’s new Open XML formats formally adopted as a global standard – or not
|
|
02/08/2008 12:06 AM
|
|
A PowerPoint Blog: Office Online Web Comics: Conversation with David Salaguinto
|
David Salaguinto is a writer on the Office User Assistance team at Microsoft who uses comics he creates to have fun, and to connect with readers -- see his Office Online Web Comic blog. In this conversation, David discusses how he got started, and where h
|
|
10/06/2007 01:54 AM
|
|
A PowerPoint Blog: The Katherine Murray Interview
|
Katherine Murray is the author of more than 50 books on technology and writes articles for various Microsoft sites. She also writes and edits the Microsoft Mindshare newsletter and contributes articles to CNET's TechRepublic. In addition to books and arti
|
|
09/14/2007 09:41 PM
|
|
A PowerPoint Blog: Google's PowerPoint Plans
|
Will online applications ever replace the ones we use on our desktop? Will Google's slew of online programs shake the Microsoft juggernaut of Office programs? There are no clear answers yet -- but the battle lines are getting drawn more distinctly now as
|
|
09/13/2007 11:25 PM
|
|
A PowerPoint Blog: Microsoft Offers $60 Microsoft Office to College Students
|
Microsoft has announced on Wednesday, a $60 web-based version of the company's Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 software that will be exclusively available to college students. Microsoft dubbed their latest promotion as the "The Ultimate Steal" and will run
|
|
09/05/2007 08:22 PM
|
|
A PowerPoint Blog: Google-Microsoft Office Rivalry to Escalate
|
Microsoft and Google are expected to ramp up their competition in the emerging hosted office productivity market at the Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco. Google is expected to unveil a wiki component to its Google Apps service, as well as a hosted P
|
|
08/07/2007 11:51 PM
|
|
A PowerPoint Blog: Apple Announces iWork '08, New Keynote Version, and New Numbers Program
|
Apple announced iWork '08, a new version of its productivity suite.
|
|
07/10/2007 11:44 PM
|
|
A PowerPoint Blog: Give your PowerPoint Presentations a Heartbeat
|
Your presentations always influence others to take some kind of action. The action might be to listen carefully and learn new information or it might be to drift off toward Dreamworld. The way in which your presentation delivers information has everything
|
|
07/04/2007 10:13 PM
|
|
A PowerPoint Blog: Sun's OpenDocument filter for Microsoft Office
|
Under the name Sun ODF Plug-in for Microsoft Office, Sun has released its import/export filter for the OpenDocument format (ODF), which the ISO has recognized as a standard, for versions 2000, XP, and 2003 of Microsoft's Office suite; the plug-in can be d
|
|
07/02/2007 06:53 PM
|
|
A PowerPoint Blog: Google Apps and Microsoft Office
|
Microsoft's hugely profitable Office software is about to get a more rounded competitor from nemesis Google.
|
|
05/01/2007 04:18 AM
|
|
A PowerPoint Blog: RibbonCustomizer v1.1 Update
|
RibbonCustomizer (see screenshots later on this page), the add-in product for Microsoft Office 2007 that allows you to customize the tabs within the Ribbon has now been updated to version 1.1 -- the new update is free for all users.
|
|
04/18/2007 12:38 AM
|
|
A PowerPoint Blog: Classic Menu for Office 2007
|
The biggest feature in Microsoft's new Office 2007 suite is most certainly the interface. Gone are the menus and the toolbars -- now all the commands are available in the various tabs of the Ribbon. The Ribbon is much more intuitive -- but for seasoned us
|
|
03/03/2007 01:00 AM
|
|
A PowerPoint Blog: PackITSuite Review
|
Most of us would not want to delete anything -- so how can we do something so that the same files take less space? PackITSuite is the product from I-Logik which helps reduce the size of stored file data without deleting or archiving them.
|
|
02/28/2007 02:15 AM
|
|
A PowerPoint Blog: Microsoft Tool Helps Plan Office 2007 Conversions
|
Microsoft Corp. last week released the final part of a free tool kit designed to help corporate users convert their existing Office files to Office 2007's new Open XML file format. The new technology, called the Office Migration Planning Manager, combs th
|
|
02/14/2007 12:23 AM
|
|
A PowerPoint Blog: Using MathType with Office 2007
|
If you use MathType with Word or PowerPoint, and then upgrade to Office 2007, you will find that you no longer have the icons or buttons to insert a MathType equation in Word 2007 or PowerPoint 2007.
|
|
01/07/2007 06:28 PM
|
|
A PowerPoint Blog: New Version of Office Is a Radical Departure
|
I don't use the word "radical" lightly. The entire user interface, the way you do things in these familiar old programs, has been thrown out and replaced with something new.
|
|
01/05/2007 10:21 PM
|
|
A PowerPoint Blog: Microsoft Schedules Eight Bug Fixes Next Week
|
According to eEye Digital Security's Zero-Day Tracker, three bugs in Microsoft Word and one in PowerPoint remain unpatched, while two more in Windows and another in Internet Explorer need fixing....The updates will be available for manual download from th
|
|
01/01/2007 11:26 PM
|
|
A PowerPoint Blog: RibbonCustomizer 0.9 Update
|
Patrick Schmid's RibbonCustomizer product that allows you to edit Ribbon tabs in Microsoft Office 2007 applications has been updated to version 0.9.
|
|
12/17/2006 08:43 PM
|
|
A PowerPoint Blog: Open Office 2007 Formats in Older Office Versions
|
Can I really continue using Office 2003, or some other older version of Microsoft Office on Windows or Mac, and still work with the new Office 2007 file formats?
|
|
12/07/2006 09:18 PM
|
|
A PowerPoint Blog: RibbonCustomizer: Conversation with Patrick Schmid
|
Patrick Schmid is a Microsoft OneNote MVP who works with several other Microsoft Office programs including PowerPoint. He can be frequently found in the public newsgroups for Microsoft Office products. At other times, he fine tunes and works on his Ribbon
|
|
12/07/2006 09:15 PM
|
|
A PowerPoint Blog: Microsoft sails through document standard vote
|
A vote to make Microsoft Office document formats an international standard was approved on Thursday, according to a Microsoft representative.
|
|
12/06/2006 10:32 PM
|
|
A PowerPoint Blog: Focus on RibbonCustomizer
|
It's true that the biggest new feature in Office 2007 is the interface and thus usability improvements. The new ribbon tabs change dynamically depending upon what task you are doing -- yet unlike the old toolbars of pre-Office 2007 applications, there's n
|
|
12/03/2006 10:17 PM
|
|
A PowerPoint Blog: Moving Into a New Office
|
Julie Larson-Green had presented her work to Bill Gates earlier in her career, and like just about everyone in her shoes, had to manage some butterflies beforehand. But in January 2005, the stakes were higher. The 39-year-old program manager was out to pe
|
|
11/30/2006 09:57 PM
|
|
A PowerPoint Blog: Microsoft Office makes encouraging strides
|
Common menus and toolbars have been replaced by the "ribbon," a strip of commands at the top of the screen that make sense only in the context of what you are doing. In Excel, for example, you'll see commands for editing a chart only if a chart appears in
|
|
11/28/2006 10:00 PM
|
|
A PowerPoint Blog: Office 2007: Help Is On The Way
|
Users who need more hands-on help with Excel and Outlook can get in-depth training at Office Online. Also available are 30- to 60-minute "Get up to Speed" training courses that familiarize users with the Office 2007 suite of applications and the ribbon in
|
|
11/09/2006 07:19 PM
|
|
A PowerPoint Blog: Microsoft On Schedule for Big Launch
|
Microsoft is gearing up for a huge product launch on November 30. That's when the company will officially announce the business availability of a whole raft of new products, including Windows Vista, Office 2007, and Exchange Server 2007.
|
|
11/06/2006 10:40 PM
|
|
A PowerPoint Blog: Microsoft Announces RTM for Office 2007
|
Microsoft announced that Office 2007 has been RTMed (Released to Manufacturing) -- this means that the final copy has been released although it might be a while before it is actually available.
|
|
08/06/2006 10:18 PM
|
|
A PowerPoint Blog: PowerPoint Flaw Patch Soon
|
Microsoft said that it plans to issue at least 12 security updates to fix vulnerabilities in its Windows and Office products. Redmond says 10 of the updates will address flaws -- some of them "critical" -- in Windows. No doubt one of the two Office update
|
|
07/30/2006 10:52 PM
|
|
A PowerPoint Blog: Documents To Go for UIQ 3
|
Documents To Go , the office suite software, is now available for UIQ 3 phones such as the Sony Ericsson M600i, P990i and W950i. Documents To Go enables the viewing and editing of Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint files on your phone.
|
|
07/28/2006 12:23 AM
|
|
A PowerPoint Blog: Support for ODF Is Step in the Right Direction
|
Earlier this month, Microsoft announced its support for an open-source project to create a translator plug-in for its Office applications that, eventually, will enable Word, Excel and PowerPoint users to read and write word processor, spreadsheet and pres
|
