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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

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 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

May 30th, 2007

Frustration with Word 2007 Full-Screen Reading Mode

I’ve been reminded of another frustration of mine with the full-screen reading mode in Word 2007. It screws with the margins and layout and changes the page breaks from how they would be seen when the document is printed. I was reading through a script with my wife tonight, she was reading a printed copy […]

By Jason Bean -- 4 comments

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