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Legal worries led Massachusetts to open standards
Talkback As we have seen with the Microsoft Word .doc format, lots of companies have been totally locked in for perceived compatibility issues. It doesn't amaze me that Microsoft will be doing as much as it can to ensure that government agencies and...
[September 6, 2005, 16:15]
Attackers exploit 'extremely critical flaw' in Word
News As with other recent (Microsoft) Office vulnerabilities, documents incorporating the exploit code must be opened with a vulnerable copy of Microsoft Word 2000 for it to work," Symantec's advisory stated.
[September 5, 2006, 17:00]
One Year Ago: MS posts Office patch
News The Service Release patch alleviates several glitches that have made it hard to share documents written on Microsoft's Word 97 with those using older word processing programs, such as Word 6.0 and Word95.
[August 11, 1998, 6:00]
Office Web Apps won't have offline ability
News Microsoft's forthcoming Office Web Applications will allow users to create and edit spreadsheets, presentations and Word documents through a browser — but only so long as there is an active internet connection.
[November 18, 2008, 9:13]
Adobe begins public testing of ColdFusion 9
News The new release, issued on Monday, is intended to help developers improve productivity while better integrating with Adobe's own technologies and Microsoft Office applications such as SharePoint, Excel, Word and PowerPoint, Adobe said.
[July 13, 2009, 16:07]
OpenOffice.org gives MS Office a run for no money
News The OpenOffice.org suite of tools has the ability to work with all the standard Microsoft Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) without the addition of any third-party add-ons. The OpenOffice.org application suite performs almost identically...
[November 27, 2002, 9:42]
MS kills Mac Office bugs
News The service release addresses problems in all four of the programs in Office 2001: the Word word-processing program, Excel spreadsheet, PowerPoint presentation program and Entourage email client. Microsoft on Monday called on the exterminators to...
[April 3, 2001, 9:15]
Inside PowerPoint 12 (beta 1) review
Reviews The new interface of PowerPoint 12 reflects the changes to the entire Office 12 system and enables this application to share content with Word 12 and Excel 12. As with the rest of the Microsoft Office 12 system, PowerPoint 12 features a tabbed...
[November 18, 2005, 15:50]
Put safety first in the rush to get hosted
Leader By adding support for word processing and spreadsheets — plus 10GB of storage per user — this Premier upgrade begins to look like a worthy alternative to Office. But at least with Microsoft Office, you can push out the latest fixes across the...
[February 26, 2007, 15:28]
Microsoft opens up charting program's XML schemas
News The Visio move follows the release late last year of XML schemas for three of the main applications in its Office System line: the Excel spreadsheet and InfoPath electronic forms programs, and the word processor, Word.
[April 16, 2004, 10:30]
Inside Word 2007 beta 2 review
Reviews Microsoft wants Word 2007 to put more features at your fingertips, without making you grope for them the way previous iterations of the application did. If you're among the 2 percent of Word devotees that Microsoft considers power users, then you...
[May 31, 2006, 2:05]
Locking, logging and linking: What's coming in Office 12
News That's a big deal to Microsoft, which wants to make sure that however the rules change, businesses are still using Excel (and Word and PowerPoint) for their computerised files. Capossela said things will change when Microsoft introduces Office 12...
[May 24, 2005, 15:11]
OpenOffice.org 1.1 review
Reviews Microsoft Office users -- indeed, anyone who's used a computer in the past twenty years -- will have no problems with the interface. OpenOffice consistently took over a minute to digest the document, while Microsoft Office took around five seconds...
[October 20, 2003, 9:45]
Google Apps for Your Domain review
Reviews However, Google Apps for Your Domain does not provide Web site registration and hosting, which Microsoft Office Live beta (currently only available in the US) does for free. There's no word processor, spreadsheet or presentation program, although...
[August 29, 2006, 9:15]
Writely or wrongly
Leader There are already good online office applications in development, such as thinkfree — more advanced and feature-rich than Google's unintegrated mix of spreadsheet, calendaring and word processing but getting a tenth of the attention.
[August 21, 2006, 15:20]
Guy Kewney's Weekend Diary
News I was supposed to be with Microsoft, studying Office 97, but "because of the Olympics, Guy, we've had to drop your invite, because we can't get seats on the flight. Tuesday:A programmer hacks into America Online, and calls me to say that they have...
[July 20, 1996, 11:00]
Move Around in a Document
White Papers Microsoft Office Word provides quick and easy ways to find one's way around within a document - whether the document is short or long, and whether one knows exactly what one is looking for or one is browsing from one item to the next.
[April 16, 2008, 1:02]
Smart Tags in Word-Level 100
White Papers Learn how to use the default smart tags included with Microsoft Word and how you can take advantage of additional smart tags available for download from microsoft.com. Microsoft Office applications recognize certain kinds of data that it labels...
[October 18, 2004, 0:00]
Word or Publisher: Choose the Best Tool for the Job
White Papers For many, Microsoft Office Word is the air that one breathes. Though one can create many of the same publications in Word, Microsoft Office Publisher is designed to provide flexible and precise page layout and design, with the additional advantages...
[April 11, 2008, 1:02]
PST Import Tool for Entourage 2004 for Mac
Downloads Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac Service Pack 2 (11.2.0) provides expanded support for mailboxes on servers running Microsoft Exchange Server, performance improvements, security enhancements, and increased stability for Microsoft Word, Excel...
[September 4, 2007, 13:15]
