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Microsoft Office System Webcast: Secure Your Legal Documents: Tips And Tricks For Managing Hidden Content In Word, Excel, And PowerPoint (Level 300)
White Papers This webcast gives the straight scoop on what document metadata is and what it is not and what types of hidden content can exist in the Microsoft Office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files including what a user can do about it.
[March 9, 2007, 0:00]
Microsoft Office System Webcast: Tips And Tricks (Part 2 Of 2): Microsoft Office Word And Excel (Level 100)
White Papers From document sharing with Windows SharePoint Services to information rights management, Microsoft has added numerous enhancements and productivity features to its Office cornerstones, Word 2003 and Excel 2003.
[August 4, 2008, 0:00]
Microsoft Publishes Office Specs In OOXML Push
News The Word, Excel and PowerPoint file format specifications, which were previously only available from Microsoft by request, were published on Friday, together with details of an open-source Office binary-to-Office Open XML (OOXML) translator project.
[February 18, 2008, 14:04]
Office 12 To Take On BI Market
News The company has said the server-based "Excel Services" abilities will come as part of a future version of the company's SharePoint technology. On Monday, the company will share some of its plans in that area, including the outlines of a new server...
[October 24, 2005, 14:55]
Microsoft Gives Powerful Support To Executive Decision Making Process With Enhanced Functionality In Microsoft Office Excel 2007
White Papers The original solution, developed for use with earlier versions of Microsoft Office Excel, has served the company well by helping Microsoft executives to examine and adjust priorities in a consistent, repeatable, and real-time manner with minimum...
[November 1, 2006, 0:00]
Second Zero-day Excel Flaw Emerges
News Attack code for a new security hole in Excel has surfaced on the Internet, just as Microsoft is scrambling to respond to a separate bug in the spreadsheet program. The latest Excel vulnerability comes just as Microsoft is grappling with another yet...
[June 21, 2006, 10:15]
Microsoft Excels Itself With Late Trademark Application
News Microsoft has posted an online guide to using the trademarks and names of products in its Office package, including Excel and Word. Microsoft introduced its Excel spreadsheet program in 1985, but didn't get around to officially registering its...
[November 12, 2004, 7:50]
Office 12 To 'bring XML To The Masses'
News Microsoft said Thursday that it will introduce new XML-based file formats for its Excel, PowerPoint and Word applications when the company launches its Office 12 software package next year. While Microsoft's Excel and Word programs already offer...
[June 2, 2005, 9:15]
Microsoft Holds Out Hand To EBay
News Gytis Barzdukas, director of Office System product management for Microsoft, said that Excel, the spreadsheet program included in Microsoft's Office package, will be one of the main targets for eBay developers.
[March 2, 2004, 14:00]
Office 2003 Keeps A Lock On XML File Formats
News Microsoft's fact sheet on the Office SKUs highlights user-defined XML schemas, RMS and Excel Lists as features part of the Office Enterprise and Professional, but doesn't indicate that those features won't be part of other Office versions.
[April 14, 2003, 10:16]
Speech Recognition To Hit MS Office
News On the Excel spreadsheet front, Microsoft is focusing on the "unlocking data" concept in Beta 1 for Office 10. Excel 10 will make it easier to find, analyse and publish data," Microsoft said in the beta release notes.
[August 9, 2000, 9:10]
Microsoft Patches Seven Holes
News Five of the six vulnerabilities in Office are specific to Excel. The Windows flaw and two of the Excel vulnerabilities had been previously disclosed, Microsoft said. In all cases, the miscreant would have to persuade the user to open a malformed...
[March 15, 2006, 8:45]
Office 2003 Prices Leak Online
News According to Amazon's listings -- pointed out by ZDNet UK reader Jean-Claude Romanino -- Microsoft Office 2003 for Windows XP, which comprises Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint, is priced at £349.99, while the professional version, which adds...
[August 13, 2003, 13:40]
Google Guns For Microsoft
News Rather than an online Web edition of Excel or Word, Office Live is designed to complement an on-premise installation of Office. Microsoft does not have a hosted or Web-based version of Excel yet, but third parties already provide the online sharing...
[June 7, 2006, 9:30]
Collaboration Takes Centre Stage For Office 12
News I can't tell you how many shops I go to that use Excel for everything - accounting, payroll," Hilf said. He declined to say whether an Excel server would be among the new software added. Microsoft has said that Office 12, the next version of its...
[May 17, 2005, 9:20]
Microsoft Locks Down Office Documents
News Until now, PC users have been able to count on opening and manipulating any document saved in Microsoft Word's ".doc" format or Excel's ".xls" in any compatible program, including older versions of Office and competing packages such as Sun...
[September 2, 2003, 14:25]
Office 2008 For Mac Will Arrive This Year
News A final feature specific to the Mac version of Office is a new set of templates in Excel, called ledger sheets. It really opens up the power of Excel for everybody else," Jones said. Putting lingering questions about update timing to rest...
[January 10, 2007, 9:22]
StarOffice 8 Set To Shine
News StarOffice will support new features such as password protection for Word and Excel documents and spreadsheets; tables, paragraphs, page breaks and column breaks in Word documents; large Excel spreadsheets; Excel spreadsheet formulas; and...
[May 3, 2005, 9:10]
US Report: MS Outlines Y2K Program
News Matusow said the biggest Year 2000 glitches are likely to surface in Microsoft products containing customised code and applications tailored to use numerous date functions such as an Excel document (although Excel is listed as fully compliant).
[June 4, 1998, 10:23]
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. For most of their 20 years, Word and Excel documents have had free rein...
[May 24, 2005, 15:11]
