A corrupt Word document can mean potential disaster especially in a business environment. But there are other situations where an unreadable Word document can cause lots of problems for the owner of the file. One possible option to recover the text information of the Word document is to open it in a text editor like [...]
Microsoft To Start Word Patch Delivery In The US
Microsoft recently lost a patent infringement case in the United States with the court’s ruling in favor of software development company tiny i4i. Many websites and blogs proclaimed after the court’s ruling that Microsoft would have to stop selling Microsoft Word and Microsoft Office in the beginning of January. Experts on the other hand knew [...]
Microsoft Word: Jump To Last Cursor Position
If you open a Microsoft Word document you will notice that it will always open with the first page of the document being displayed. That’s fine under most circumstances but could be problematic for users who work with large documents if they cannot remember exactly where they left off at the last time. Microsoft Excel [...]
Redact Text In Microsoft Word 2007 Documents
Word documents can sometimes contain hidden but also visible information that have to be removed before sharing these documents with other users. Tools have been developed to take care of the hidden data (Microsoft Word Metadata Scrubber is one) but until now there were not many tools to take care of visible data that needed [...]
Word Document Hyperlink Checker
If you are working with Word documents regularly chance is that you sometimes work with documents that contain hyperlinks that point to additional information on the Internet. Some documents are created over the course of a few weeks or even months and hyperlinks that have been added in the beginning might not be valid in [...]
Microsoft Office Live Workspace Add-in
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 [...]