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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jun 26th, 2009
  • Comments: 4

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 [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jun 25th, 2009
  • Comments: 3

Apply To Become A Microsoft Office 2010 Tester (US Only)

Microsoft Office 2010 will be the next installment of Microsoft’s popular Office suite. We already mentioned Outlook 2010 or more specifically the user protest that Microsoft’s decision to use the Word rendering engine for HTML emails sparked yesterday. Microsoft is looking for participants for the Microsoft’s Office 2010 Real Life Stories program.
Eligible are families, students [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jun 9th, 2009
  • Comments: 6

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 [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jun 2nd, 2009
  • Comments: 2

Google Docs Adds Docx And Xlsx Support

Microsoft’s decision to change the default file format in Office 2007 for some of its most popular Office programs has caused some confusion and controversy, especially shortly after introduction. Back then no one was able to open the docx, xlsx or pptx file formats if they would not have Microsoft Office installed. This changed quickly [...]

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Categories: Online Services

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: May 21st, 2009
  • Comments: 12

Convert PDF To Word And Excel

Many users who want to extract non-textual data from a pdf document help themselves by creating a screenshot of that data to embed it into their documents. While most pdf readers are nowadays capable of copying text from pdf documents they usually do lack the ability to copy more complex data like tables or drawings [...]

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Categories: Online Services

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: May 10th, 2009
  • Comments: 11

Microsoft Office Add-ins Manager

Add-ins are a great way of increasing the functionality of Microsoft Office. Some add-ins are compatible with all Microsoft Office programs while others only work in specific applications such as the email client Microsoft Outlook or the presentation software Microsoft PowerPoint. Microsoft Office does not however provide an easily accessible interface to manage all add-ins [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 18th, 2008
  • Comments: 8

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 [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

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