Archive for the ‘MS Office’ Category

  • Microsoft Office 2010 Beta Free Download

    Microsoft Office 2010 Beta Free Download
    Microsoft Office 2010 is the latest version of the office suite from Microsoft. It comes with a number of new features and improvements. Some of these new features include:
    * Refined Ribbon interface and Backstage View across all applications
    * Background Removal Tool
    * Letter Styling
    * New SmartArt templates
    * New text and image [...]

  • How to Set up Microsoft Outlook

    This tutorial will show you how to set up Microsoft Outlook to work with your e-mail account. These directions focus on setting up Microsoft Outlook 2003, but these settings are similar in other versions of Microsoft Outlook.

    Select Tools > E-mail Accounts from Microsoft Outlook
    Select “Add a new e-mail account” from the Email Accounts wizard window, [...]

  • Microsoft Exchange 2010 released to manufacturing

    Microsoft has announced that Microsoft Exchange 2010 is code complete and has been released to manufacture. More information is available on the Microsoft Exchange Team’s blog.
    The Microsoft Exchange Team posted:
    “We are happy to announce that Exchange 2010 is Code Complete! Our senior leadership team has signed off on the final code, and it has been [...]

  • Microsoft to Offer a Free Ad-Supported Version of Office 2010

    Microsoft will be offering a free advertisement-supported version of Office 2010. This software will only have basic document viewing and editing functions.
    In a blog post on Wednesday, Microsoft stated that the main goal of Office Starter 2010 edition was to expose new users to Office 2010.
    If users like Office 2010, they can buy a license [...]

  • How to Choose an Office Suite

    Computers were originally developed for the office and to do tasks traditional offices did using paper such as typing and accounting. Word processors and spreadsheet software are the basic components of an office suite.
    Here are instructions to choose an office suite that is correct for you:
    1. Determine the type of computer you have in your [...]

  • Google Docs Now More Student-Oriented

    Google Docs is now more student-friendly–it now features tools that will help students better.
    This improved version of Google Docs is the result of suggestions from summer interns at Google. Summer interns were asked to work on improving Google Docs with emphasis on usage by students.
    Thanks to those interns’ suggestions, Google Docs now features an equation [...]

  • OpenOffice vs. MS Office

    MS Office is without doubt the market leader when it comes to office applications. However, this is not an indication that MS Office is the best office suite. MS Office is the market leader, not because it is the best, but because it has Microsoft’s marketing muscle.
    Alternatives do exist to MS Office and one such [...]

  • Microsoft Office 2007 on Linux

    How to Install Microsoft Office 2007 on Linux
    This tutorial will demonstrate you how to install Microsoft Office 2007 on Linux using software package called WINE.
    Instructions
    1. Ensure that your computer conforms to the specs.
    2. Acquire winetricks from www.kegel.com. At the terminal type
    wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
    3. sh winetricks msxml3 dotnet20 gdiplus riched20 riched30 vcrun2005sp1
    4. change rpcrt4.dll ng Wine with [...]

  • Microsoft wins delay of order tied to Word patent dispute

    Recently, Microsoft Corporation won a delay of a federal-court order that mandated that the software giant stop MS Word, its flagship word processor software that is a part of its Office productivity suite.
    Last month, a Toronto based company, i4i won a $290 million lawsuit against Microsoft which claimed that it had infringed one of its [...]

  • How to Record Macros in Excel

    Excel macros can be used to automate complex repetative tasks. Using the macro function, you can record a series of actions or other commonly used commands and play the macro multiple times whenever you want to perform these actions. The instructions provided in this blog post will work with all versions of Microsoft Excel after [...]