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November 14th, 2008

New Help Files for Microsoft Products… Still Suck?

Image: Screen capture of Microsoft Update website
I’m working through my weekly updates and scans on my system today and I came across a list of optional software updates that were available for a few of my Microsoft Office 2007 applications.
This is normally good news, but here’s my question. The Help information available in just […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

June 11th, 2008

Get Smart with These 8 Secret Gems in Word

Catching up on some past e-mails and came across this little article about “Eight Handy Tools in Microsoft Word You Probably Don’t Know About” on PC Magazine’s website.
Given that Word and Excel are probably the two top applications that are used by the widest group of people from business information specialists to students; getting tips […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

April 7th, 2008

What is Microsoft "Albany"

Has anyone else been hearing information about a new product entering beta (or is it alpha) testing?
A recent article by Mary Jo Foley shared a few different options of what it could be:

the latest version of Microsoft Works that may or may not be advertisement funded
a new package of “Authoring” components that would include Word, […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

April 9th, 2007

New Users Quicker to Adopt Office Ribbon

Are you using the new Office 2007 yet? Have you seen it? How long have you been using a computer?
According to a recent article in PC Magazine, new users are more apt to quickly adopt the changes presented in the interface provided by the Office 2007 ribbon. I think that’s probably a pretty accurate assessment, […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

March 29th, 2007

Is Office 2007 Too Slow For You?

Reading through another old article at Forever Geek about Office 2007’s problems being sluggish, it makes me wonder if everyone is experiencing this type of bottleneck on speed when using the latest version of the Microsoft product.
Anytime there’s a question I’m curious about, one of the great things about this blog is that I can […]

By Jason Bean -- 56 comments

March 28th, 2007

Office 2007 Good… and slow

I’ve been using Office 2007 now just about exclusively since the initial beta versions have been available for use. I will say that I love the new versions of each application. Similarly to other users, I still find myself searching through some options to find the task that I’ve done before, but am only doing […]

By Jason Bean -- 5 comments