Office Tweaks

May 21st, 2008

Quick and Easy Forms With Google Docs

Here’s a Youtube video showing you around Google Docs; on how to create forms, questionnaires, surveys, etc.

[ via Google Docs Blog ]
Tags: Google Docs, Web Forms

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May 20th, 2008

Quickoffice® and DynoPlex, eOffice for BlackBerry Devices

Quickoffice, the world leader in providing mobile office productivity software and services for mobile devices and recently acquired DynoPlex, now offers mobile office productivity for Blackberry devices called eOffice.
“Mobile professionals rely heavily on their BlackBerry handhelds to conduct work while away from the office,” said Paul Moreton, vice president of product management for Quickoffice. “Our […]

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May 19th, 2008

Automatated Microsoft Office 2007 SP1 by June 16th

The Office and MU teams issued an advance month earlier notice to all Microsoft Office 2007 users that they will release the SP1 (Service Pack 1) 2007 Microsoft Office System via MU Automatic Update starting mid-June or June 16th. SP1 was the result of millions of users’ feedbacks, after 5 months since its release in […]

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May 16th, 2008

Office Depot with Google Business Tools

Not only deliver you with the office products and office furnitures, Office Depot now collaborated with Google to Provide Online Marketing & Collaboration Tools for Small Business Customers.
With this Business Resource Center, they will have access to Google products which includes Google AdWords Google Apps, and Google Local Business Center; all for […]

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May 15th, 2008

Open XML Complain from Britain

BECTA ( British Educational Communications and Technology Agency) recently filed a complaint to European Commission against Microsoft with regards with their Open XML interoperability issues.
Prior to this, BECTA already filed a complain last October 2007 to the UK competition regulator – the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) in the following grounds:

anti-competitive licensing practices by Microsoft […]

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May 14th, 2008

Embedding Google Forms in Websites

I wrote something about how to create forms using Google Docs last time, and now let’s see how to embed those forms directly in your websites.

Now, adding the created form in Google Docs is simple, just copy and paste the code provided to you. Look for the “Embed” tag for the code. Now you see […]

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May 14th, 2008

Latest Microsoft Security Fixes, including for Office

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-026
This security update resolves several privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Word that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Word file. An attacker who successfully exploited these vulnerabilities could take complete control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; […]

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May 13th, 2008

91 Percent Off for Microsoft Office???

Yes, since September 12, 2007 , Microsoft offers this 91% off for Microsoft Office purchases. The promo is called Microsoft – The Ultimate Steal Promotion and is about to end by May 16, 2008. Yes!
Here’s the program description:
Eligible students may have free access to Microsoft® Office Ultimate 2007 Trial for a limited amount of time. […]

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May 12th, 2008

Choosing the right Microsoft Office Alternatives

If you are using Microsoft Office everyday, like you can’t live without it, you better prepare and try other alternatives of Microsoft Office. There are actually lots to choose from and they are free.
You have Lotus Symphony from IBM, a free office suite, available for Windows and Linux users. Also, you can try OpenOffice.org, […]

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May 9th, 2008

Xero with Google Docs

The world’s easiest accounting system, Xero, now allows you to report spreadsheet reports to Google Docs. With this additional option, aside from having it exported to PDF and Excel, this allows you to work you files anywhere, anytime. That’s the beauty of SaaS, (see screenshot for preview).

Xero interacts directly with Google Docs via APIs […]

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