Microsoft Office 2007 Beta
Download Office 2007 Beta 2 to ensure you are ready when Office 2007 ships later next year.
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Office 2007 User Interface
According to Jensen Harris, the Office 2007 User Interface has been updated and can be previewed by visiting the Office 2007 UI Preview Site. One of the nice things is the introduction of the Office Button. I feel that this will help make troubleshooting problems much easier. The new interface also showcases the ability to customize the look and feel of Office 2007 by way of themes and perhaps most significant in this update is the overall face lift given to the Contextual Tabs. Jensen Harris’ blog is a great read for anyone interested in usability studies and the design choices made in Office 2007.
Microsoft Office 2007
Microsoft has officially announced the upcoming Microsoft Office 2007 system. The product is currently in beta and is code-named Microsoft Office 12.
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Office Live
Microsoft has just launched Office Live. Although, the rumors of Office Live made it seem like Microsoft was ready to launch a web based office suite to take on products such as Writely, the current beta is definitely not a web based office suite.
Microsoft Office Live is some of the following:
- Easy-to-use Web site design tool
- Free domain name and hosting
- 5 personalized e-mail accounts
- Storage and data transfer
- Web site traffic analysis and reporting tools
If the above feature set integrates nicely with AdCenter and Custom Domains I think Microsoft will have a very attractive product for end clients and eventually a new market for advertising revenue.
PDF Format Support in Office 12
Old news now, but for those who care, Microsoft will support native ability to save files in PDF format. I’m curious how this will play in Microsoft Metro.
Source: Microsoft�s Steven Sinofsky Discusses Support for the PDF Format in Office �12�
Rows and Columns are numbers in Microsoft Excel
Why is Microsoft Excel displaying all my rows and columns with numbers instead of the standard R1C1 reference? I tried changing the settings back to the default by clicking on Tools – Options and selecting R1C1 reference style under the General tab, however, this didn’t make a difference. Does Excel have a similar Normal.dot default document template or are there command line options to repair the Excel template? As a temporary solution I opened a previously saved Excel file with R1C1 row/ column references and this seems to have corrected the problem, but I’m still stumped and quite baffled as to how this problem started.
Mail Merge to Individual Documents
I came across a problem last week when a client wanted to use Microsoft Word to perform a mail merge to individual documents. By default Microsoft Word allows you to merge to a single Word document or merge directly to the printer. This works well if you’re working with Address labels or similar document structures. However, instead of saving 100 letters to 1 document what if you wanted to save 100 letters as 100 different documents?
Incase you’re looking for a similar solution try the following Microsoft knowledge base article.
Office 2003 Service Pack 1
The Office 2003 Service Pack 1 can be downloaded from the Office Update site. According to ActiveWin, new features include:
Calendar logging in Outlook
Access Wizard file updates are built into the main service pack
Performance improvements in Project Server
Org chart and printing fixes in Visio
Charting and function improvements in Excel
Improved Mail Merge capability with RTF docs in Word
Bug that could cause CAB files to be removed from the \MSOCache folder is fixed
Improved alert message for FileOpen failures caused by out of date Norton AntiVirus software
Security and stability fixes that have been addressed
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