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Office Users Face New Macro Risk
News A new vulnerability has been detected in systems running Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, which allows a specially crafted macro to avoid detection and run malicious code on a victim's machine. Microsoft has issued a security bulletin about the...
[October 10, 2001, 12:48]
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]
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]
Office 2003 Update Blocks Older File Formats
News The latest service pack for Microsoft Office 2003 has made a range of older files inaccessible, including Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations, it emerged this week. It also blocks older versions of Excel, PowerPoint...
[January 3, 2008, 12:18]
MS Touts Integration In Mac Office 2001
News Office 2001 Macintosh Edition, which will be available in the second half of the year, will include new versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint and will mark the debut of an e-mail and personal information manager application, currently code-named...
[June 15, 2000, 12:14]
Office XP Service Pack Released
News Among the glitches fixed: failure to set transparent colour in PowerPoint; Word failure when running the Italian grammar checker; Outlook email attachments fail to appear when connecting to a Unix server; pictures in documents saved in earlier...
[August 21, 2002, 11:27]
Microsoft Sets Date For Mac Office
News Along with the marketing news, Microsoft also disclosed a few additional tidbits about the features of the forthcoming suite, which will include a PIM and email package dubbed Entourage along with the traditional Word, Excel and PowerPoint...
[July 19, 2000, 16:49]
Microsoft Patches Seven Holes
News The sixth problem affects a range of Office applications, including some versions of Word, Outlook and PowerPoint. The Windows flaw and two of the Excel vulnerabilities had been previously disclosed, Microsoft said.
[March 15, 2006, 8:45]
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. That's where an Excel (type program) is not ideal because of its...
[May 24, 2005, 15:11]
PowerPoint Misses Out On XML
News Microsoft is promoting XML support as a key element of Office 2003 and while the suite's versions of Word and Excel include extensive support for XML, including the ability to tag and save data in XML format, those features aren't being made...
[August 12, 2003, 11:25]
MS: Office 10 To Be A 'major' Release
News Microsoft also is adding other ease-of-use features to the suite, which is comprised of Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint and Outlook: new "smart tags", are icons that automatically correct, format or paste data within Office and on the Web.
[August 30, 2000, 9:13]
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]
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]
Microsoft Prepares Office 2003 SP3 Auto Update
News Some of the security enhancements inconvenienced users by blocking access to older file formats, including Word 6.0 and Word 97 for Windows, and Word 2004 for Mac, as well as older versions of Excel, PowerPoint, Lotus Notes, Corel Quattro...
[February 1, 2008, 7:15]
Microsoft Tries To Cage Security Gremlins
News In the past few weeks, holes have been found in Excel and PowerPoint and a new system for protecting music content. Microsoft realises that they have to be perceived as a more secure company if .Net is ever going to be a success," Pescatore said.
[November 6, 2001, 14:05]
Microsoft To Release ODF Translator For Word
News The same group of Microsoft partners will now start work on code to translate file formats between Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet and PowerPoint presentation software and the corresponding ODF files, said Jean Paoli, the general manager of...
[February 2, 2007, 8:34]
Sun Launches StarOffice 8
News The latest version of StarOffice offers improved compatibility with Microsoft Office, including support for password-protected Microsoft Word and Excel files and support for PowerPoint presentations with animations, autoshapes and slide...
[September 27, 2005, 16:05]
Microsoft Plans OpenDocument Translator
News The goal is to have a Word plug-in for Office 2007 by the end of this year and translators for Excel and PowerPoint next year, said Jean Paoli, the general manager of interoperability and XML architecture at Microsoft.
[July 6, 2006, 10:15]
Win CE 2.0 Aims Global, Adds Colour
News In terms of applications, Pocket PowerPoint is added, allowing presentations to be authored and/or played back on HPCs. Pocket Word gets spellchecking; Pocket Excel gets customisable views with split-screen and freeze pane features.
[October 30, 1997, 17:20]
MS .doc Bug Hibernates On Net
News The applications responsible for producing these leaky documents were Microsoft Word versions 6.0 and 7.0 plus version 7.0 of PowerPoint and Excel. US Government Web sites also appear vulnerable to these potential legacy leaks with some 240,000 MS...
[May 7, 2002, 14:33]
