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whitepaper One can use Microsoft Word to check the document for grammatical errors and to point out instances where the document does not conform to the style guidelines one has selected. The word-processing program can help one write well.
[12 May 2008]
whitepaper Use Microsoft Office Word 2007 to find and replace text, formatting, paragraph breaks, page breaks (page break: The point at which one page ends and another begins. Microsoft Word inserts an "Automatic" (or soft) page break for the user, or the...
[03 May 2008]
whitepaper To insert a sound file into a Microsoft Word document, one must have a sound program such as Sound Recorder - a Microsoft Windows accessory that lets the user record, edit, and play sound files - and one must have a sound card installed on the...
[02 May 2008]
whitepaper Starting with Word 97, one can point to key words or phrases in the documents and right-click to switch to some other word or phrase. To accomplish this, all one has to do is set up an AutoTextList field for each key word or phrase.
[02 May 2008]
whitepaper Templates give the user a starting point as he or she modifies job information to match one's own experience. One can find the boost one need at the Templates on Microsoft Office Online Web site, which offers hundreds of preformatted templates and...
[02 May 2008]
Round-Up Need a word with the man on the moon? The other point, made in a reader comment, is how you’d operate a mobile phone on the moon's surface wearing those thick, heavy gloves. Microsoft has also warned that the list of apps is not comprehensive.
[22 Feb 2008]
Comment The DOS operating system was bought in by Microsoft, Windows was based on ideas from Xerox Palo Alto Research Center already implemented by Apple, word processing was well established before Word, spreadsheets were popular before Excel and so on.
[20 Feb 2008]
Comment For Google, applications mean office tools: calendars, spreadsheets, word processors and so on - a direct challenge to Microsoft's hugely popular Office products - but all delivered on-demand via a web browser from one of Google's glistening data...
[23 Jan 2008]
whitepaper The ubiquity of Microsoft Excel and Word on desktop computers has made it a default entry point for many users to view and edit their information. Once Excel was included into the MS Office suite in 1993, it became the killer app overtaking other...
[06 Nov 2007]
whitepaper For an ad hoc analytical or research project, they may need to insert graphs in a custom, hands-on-developed Microsoft PowerPoint presentation or Microsoft Word document. For production packaging, they can go directly to a finished product/file...
[06 Nov 2007]
Comment The dropping of the word 'computer' from Apple's official name didn't get as much attention as the showcasing of the iPhone earlier this year, writes Seb Janacek, but it's had lots of us wondering where Apple sees its future.
[03 May 2007]
News The company has struck a deal with white label software developer Formjet to supply a range of seven home applications, including internet security, antivirus, word processing, photo editing, back-up and 'edutainment' software.
[28 Mar 2007]
Round-Up And the Round-Up isn't talking irony in the Alanis Morissette simply-not-ironic-in-the-least-bit sense of the word. And each one, try as he might, has managed to shoot himself in the foot or otherwise expose his inability to do the job at some...
[09 Mar 2007]
Comment Definitely not the time to write the word Hoover. The other point that struck me as honest was Lawn's assessment of Microsoft's role. But my simple point is that we should actually look to all the rest of the world for inspiration on innovation...
[02 Mar 2007]
whitepaper Most people start their mail merges in Microsoft Word. But if the addresses to which a person is sending a merge document are in a Microsoft Outlook contact list, the better starting point may be Outlook.
[10 Dec 2006]
Photo The BlackBerry-reminiscent phone also offers the ability to interact with the usual array of Microsoft programs - Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook - and email options including connections to RIM's BlackBerry Connect and Microsoft Exchange.
[09 Nov 2006]
Comment I take Tesco's point that these instances are few and far between, though anyone affected should be treated well by the retailer and their card issuers, I would hope. Our resident expert on this subject made the point yesterday in an interview with...
[05 Oct 2006]
News A flaw in Word has gone unpatched since early this month and a flaw in an IE ActiveX control called daxctle.ocx first surfaced on 14 September. At one point several million domains were redirecting to malicious VML sites, according to iDefense.
[28 Sep 2006]
News Word of the vulnerability came last week, when the weakness was already being exploited in cyber attacks. In at least one case, cyber criminals broke into a web hosting company and redirected 500 internet domains to point to a malicious site that...
[25 Sep 2006]
Round-Up And presumably even less so while the to-ing and fro-ing with the EC is going on with the s-word being mentioned. The point is that the iPod Shuffle is now smaller. When Microsoft said this week it hopes the European Commission will not require the...
[15 Sep 2006]
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