November 19th, 2008
Microsoft has confirmed that they will be releasing web based versions of Word, Excel and Powerpoint that will run on any browser, including Firefox and Safari. This new service will allow for creating, editing, collaborating, and sharing documents using the web.
Microsoft won’t say when the new version of Office, known as Office 14, will arrive, […]
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January 27th, 2007
You may remember an article I wrote awhile back that talked about the changes to HTML support in Outlook 2007. They stopped using the IE7 rendering engine in favor of using the Word HTML engine. Doesn’t make much sense does it?
Molly E. Holzschlag took it upon herself to investigate the issue further and get a […]
By Jason -- 0 comments
January 17th, 2007
I’ve been using Office 2007 now for quite awhile. I’ve got to say I’m very pleased with every application I work with. There are some random things that have irritated me about some things, but nothing much different from things that bother me with final and existing versions of software that I use.
In my professional […]
By Jason -- 0 comments
December 15th, 2006
As I was writing my last post about my experiences with Google Spreadsheets, I began thinking of some options for other solutions. If Microsoft wanted to shore-up some market share and make sure that webtop apps didn’t cut too much into their core business of packaged software delivery, they could offer a free, but stripped-down […]
By Jason -- 1 comment
October 26th, 2006
Yesterday evening I installed the full Office 2007 beta on my work laptop. This is a big step, but I figure it’s a good one to really pound out and test Office 2007 in the real world for me. I also figured it would help me get some more information and posts to get included […]
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October 11th, 2006
Looks like Google hasn’t just been focusing on their YouTube purchase and nothing else. The pseudo-tagged “Google Office” is now available at http://docs.google.com.
Google Office isn’t quite accurate though, the name on the site itself is Google Docs & Spreadsheet. Pretty boring don’t you think? And too long! I doubt they could have really gotten away […]
By Jason -- 0 comments
August 14th, 2006
There seems to be a Blogging Grudge Match taking place internally at Microsoft.
In this corner, weighing in at $FREE and single install of just 4.74MB, Microsoft just released Windows Live Writer, a stand alone blogging application that works with a variety of blog platforms.
And in the other corner, weighing in at $HUNDREDS and a massive […]
By Jason -- 1 comment
July 25th, 2006
Adam Pash provides a great overview and solution to people who may not need the features and complexities of a full-blown desktop Office suite. Adam feels that both Microsoft Office and OpenOffice are too bloated for his needs.
Before you go getting too riled up, I’m not heralding the death of the desktop Office suite. If […]
By Jason -- 0 comments
June 14th, 2006
Here’s the screen shot showing all the new, color-coded squigglies!
Tags: colors, grammar, spelling, Word
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June 14th, 2006
Just click on the “Review” tab (1), then click on the “ABC Spelling & Grammar” button (2) and it pops right up! See the screen shot below.
Tags: 2007, feature, readability, review, User Experience, Word, word-count
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