Posts Tagged ‘Office 2007’

Corporates are still fighting the move from Office 2003 to 2007, predominantly due to UI changes AKA “the ribbon bar”. In Office 2007 the ribbon was only present in Microsoft’s core Office applications, namely Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. The Office 2010 release will extend this to Visio, Publisher and no doubt Project. Speaking from […]

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 at 11:12 | 0 comments
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I kid you not, my wife works from home and uses a MacBook to connect to an Exchange 2007 Server – girls like “pretty” computers what can I say? As Mac OS does not use Outlook (in 2010 this will all change with the new release of Office for Mac), you have to use Entourage and previously […]

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009 at 18:28 | 0 comments
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Yesterday Microsoft PressPass announced a teleconference between Microsoft Corp. and Nokia executives, with no more information. But that does not stop the blogs speculating and the beliefs suggest that Nokia will be releasing a Symbian based version of Microsoft Office for their smartphones. Nokia (like Apple) has already licensed ActiveSync for Exchange connectivity so a […]

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009 at 07:52 | 0 comments
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Something that slipped me by is that the Microsoft Office XML based document standard allows you to extract and examine the internal workings of the file. Did you know that if you rename an Office document, for example .docx to .zip, you can the open the file in your friendly zip extraction software and view […]

Monday, June 15th, 2009 at 18:35 | 0 comments
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Today’s Microsoft Connect event “Save Time. Work Smarter. Reduce Costs”, is over and I’m on a flight back to the UK (just when I thought Ryanair have cashed in on all they could I was wrong, they now sell in-flight smokeless cigarettes!), but they fly to London Luton and it works for me. Now back […]

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 at 21:27 | 0 comments
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For those of you in the Dublin area on May 26th, Microsoft Ireland are putting on a Unified Comms, SharePoint and Office event “Save Time. Work Smarter. Reduce Costs”. I will be speaking on behalf of First Rate Event Overview Join us on May 26th to find out how leading Irish organisations in the Public and Private sector […]

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009 at 18:25 | 0 comments
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