Microsoft Office add-ins add a wide variety of features to Microsoft’s Office. Most are designed to add functionality to specific programs like Microsoft Word, Excel or Outlook. The Office Live Workspace add-in is an official add-in that is being developed by Microsoft. It provides Microsoft Office users with the ability to upload their documents to [...]
Microsoft Office Word 2007 AutoHistory
One element that is missing in Microsoft’s Office Word 2007 program is the ability to manage document revisions. The software program comes with revision tracking features but those do not help that much once the document has been saved and closed in Word 2007. Enter AutoHistory; A Microsoft Office Word 2007 add-in that adds document [...]
Google Docs Adds Office Excel 2007 XLSX Support
While Google Mail (Gmail) is already able to process Office 2007 file formats such as xlsx, docx or pptx by converting them to html format so that they can be viewed online Google Docs could not until now. This is kinda strange as one would think that Google Docs would be the primary application to [...]
Microsoft Word Metadata Scrubber
Metadata in Word documents can reveal information that the creator of the document had no intention to distribute. This ranges from information about the author to comments and a unique identifying ID. It can lead to all kind of privacy leaks. Microsoft even recommends to distribute documents in paper form only on their website.
Doc Scrubber [...]
Microsoft Office Add In ClickSolve
Clicksolve is a Microsoft Office Add In that integrates an Internet mapping and searching feature into several Microsoft Office programs. The programs that benefit from the Office add in are Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft Outlook.
The Office add in basically adds two new context menu entries to the right-click menu of those [...]
Recover Corrupt Word File
Word cannot open this document. This and similar error messages when opening Microsoft Word documents are usually (according to good ol’ Murphy) appearing when the user is in dire need to view, edit and print the document. A corrupt Word file can be recovered (with some luck) and the help of Repair My Word (via [...]
Sendshield Prevents Private Data Leaks When Sending Office Documents
Experienced users know that Microsoft Office documents can contain hidden information that can be revealed after enabling functions to see them in Microsoft Office products. This can include hidden rows and data in Excel spreadsheets, embedded information in Powerpoint presentations or revision histories in Microsoft Word documents.
Hidden data can have severe consequences for the sender [...]
