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Archive for the ‘Office’ Category

October 23rd, 2007

Significantly Less Spam with Hotmail Through Outlook

Not too long ago I wrote about downloading and installing the Microsoft Office Outlook Connector to begin managing my Hotmail account with Outlook on my laptop. Something significant has happened since I started doing that, I’ve barely gotten ANY spam into my account.
It appears that it’s not even hitting Outlook at all because my Junk […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

October 17th, 2007

Calendar Juggling in Outlook 2007

PC Magazine has a nice short article with a slide show on how to manage multiple calendars in Outlook 2007. As this is something I’ve just recently learned how to do and have begun using (I’m using 4 calendars now) it’s a bit of a refresher.
Check it out and help organize your day some more, […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

October 8th, 2007

SMS in Outlook Error

I’ve been playing around more with the Outlook Mobile features and have come across a bug/error. When I start a new text message to someone and click on the “To…” field to pull up my address book it crashes Outlook.
If I just type in the phone number for the person I’m sending a message […]

By Jason Bean -- 3 comments

September 26th, 2007

Excel 2007 Forgot Multiplication Skills

I personally am loving the new Office 2007. I’ve been using it since way back in the early beta days and I think it’s great. There’s still stuff I can’t find, but it’s no more than the stuff I couldn’t find or rarely used in the earlier versions. My boss and brother on the […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

September 19th, 2007

Lotus Symphony - Is Microsoft Worried

Big announcement from IBM that they’ve now launched a free version of an office productivity suite named Lotus Symphony. Symphony is based on OpenOffice.org and the Open Document format.
David Berlind reports that Microsoft quickly followed up IBM’s announcement with alerts to various news outlets to give them a chance to hear Microsoft’s version of the […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

September 11th, 2007

Pasting Various Clipboard Items to Word 2007

Here’s another burr in my saddle today.
Whenever I try to paste something into Word 2007, I get this little image. It doesn’t matter if I’m pasting text (which is what I’m trying to do in this example) or a photo/image. I get this little icon.
I figured it out once what was going on and […]

By Jason Bean -- 2 comments

September 11th, 2007

Outlook Address Book

Why in the world, after all these years on the Internet doesn’t Microsoft Outlook have a field for a personal website address and a business website address?
I know I can add my own custom field, but that seems like a pain in the neck for what I would think is a very common piece of […]

By Jason Bean -- 2 comments

August 31st, 2007

Should Microsoft Stop Selling and Just Rent Their Software?

An article by Dana Blankenhorn on ZDNet.com has an interesting question she’s posing. At least I think this is a question she’s posing. Her article actually states that Microsoft should be afraid of open-source software, but I’m not sure that’s actually the case.
What they may need to be concerned with is a change in the […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

July 27th, 2007

Sharing Word 2007 Documents with Older Versions

For those of you using Word 2007, you probably are really enjoying the features that it provides. The only problem is that you’re also sending your documents to people that aren’t also using Word 2007 like you.
I could never remember to change my file format when I saved a document to the normal .doc […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

July 26th, 2007

Excel 2007 Error Message - DistMon

I keep getting this error when I try to open a document in Excel 2007. Anyone else getting it? I’m researching Google now. Just thought I’d ask.
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By Jason Bean -- 5 comments