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Archive for the ‘Office’ Category

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 -- 6 comments

July 21st, 2007

Are You An Office Genius?

UPDATE: Looks like I missed the boat on this one. The deadline for this was back at the end of June. I need to update my e-mail address for some of my Microsoft newsletters to Gmail. Is that ironic?
Do you really know what you’re doing with Office? Are you the one everyone comes to […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

July 14th, 2007

Having Problems Opening Old WordPad Files

How many of you out there don’t think you need the full-blown features of Microsoft Word and just need a simple text editor. Do you use WordPad? Do you have a bunch of old WordPad files that you can’t open now on your computer. The converters aren’t available by default on your initial installation.
There’s […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

June 1st, 2007

Outlook: Grab Addresses Out of Your Auto-Complete History

How many addresses do you have in your auto-complete history? How many of those are for people you e-mail regularly but aren’t added into your address book? If you wanted to send an e-mail to everyone you e-mail regularly, in and out of your address book, how would you do it?
If you didn’t know, and […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment