Office

This brief tutorial will guide you through installing OpenOffice.org extensions. [click to continue...]

This tutorial will show you how to add items to the Microsoft Office Publisher 2007 Content Library, and then re-use them whenever you want. [click to continue...]

I’m very pleased to introduce the 2nd guest blogger at Simple Help, Aseem Kishore. Aseem is a technology enthusiast and lead blogger for Online-Tech-Tips, a terrific how-to site I’d strongly suggest you subscribe to.

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If you’re one of the millions of people using Microsoft Outlook, either at home or at the office, you’ve probably had to move your email from one computer to another at some point in time. Transferring Outlook emails, calendar, contacts and tasks is a fairly simple procedure, but it would also be nice to transfer the autocomplete addresses we’ve come to depend on.

In case you’re not sure what I am talking about, autocomplete is when you open a new email form and begin typing in an address into the To: box:

Notice that I typed the letter c and several Outlook contacts automatically appeared below. These are addresses that I have previously sent emails to and that’s why they show up. This is extremely useful if someones email address is very different from their name because all you have to remember is there name instead of “greek_god109293@supermail.com”! [click to continue...]

If you’re using Word 2008, even on a very, very fast Mac, you’ve probably noticed that Word 2008 can take upwards of a minute to open a .doc file. Here are 3 tips to speeding up MS Word 2008’s opening time. [click to continue...]

This brief tutorial will guide you through the steps required to export Facebook events and import them to iCal or Entourage on your Mac. [click to continue...]

The PortableApps.com Suite is a collection of free portable apps including a web browser (Firefox), email client (Thunderbird), office suite, calendar/scheduler, instant messaging client, antivirus, sudoku game, backup utility and integrated menu, all preconfigured to work portably. This guide will take you through installing and setting up PortableApps to best suit your needs. [click to continue...]

Previously I did a tutorial on how to customize the “Save As” shortcut folders in XP. But that tutorial doesn’t apply to the Microsoft Office Save As window. This brief overview will show you how to add custom folders to the MS Office 2007 “Save As” dialog box. By adding custom folders you can save valuable time by jumping to folders with fewer clicks. [click to continue...]

Sunbird, the open source calendar application from Mozilla, is approaching version 0.8 (the current stable release is 0.7). If you’d rather not upgrade to a beta version, but are curious to see the changes, here’s some info on the new release, and a few screenshots. [click to continue...]

This tutorial will guide you through using Easy Microsoft Word Document Properties, a small and free tool that allows you to set the properties of multiple Microsoft Word documents in just a few simple steps. You can set the properties for an entire folder of docs (and sub-folders) or only selected files. [click to continue...]

You can open, edit and save Office 2007 files using an older version of Office (2K/XP/2003) if you download and install the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack. So if you’ve been sent a file created with Word, Excel, or PowerPoint 2007 - and you don’t have MS Office 2007, you’ll still be able to view and edit it (though some of the features very specific to 2007 might not work, you’ll usually be notified if it happens).

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Office Mobile 6.1 has been released for Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC and Windows Mobile 6 devices. The upgrade is a free download and will allow you to open and edit Office 2007 documents from Word (.docx), Excel (.xlsx) and Powerpoint 2007 (pptx).

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Using the small and free program NOMu, your OpenOffice.org documents are just a click or two away.

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This article will take you through the steps to set up and sync your Windows Mobile device with a PC running Windows Vista. [click to continue...]

I’m a big fan of NeoOffice. I actually prefer Open Office.org to Microsoft Office. So I’m always pleased when new patches and releases are issued, as they almost always include bug fixes. Patch 1 for 2.2.2 is no different.

As an aside, the folks over @ NeoOffice are also providing a list of known issues and incompatibilities in Leopard (OS X 10.5). Though none of the problems are specific to NeoOffice, they’re just providing the list as a service to their users. Pretty cool of them.

The updates/fixes for 2.2.2 Patch 1 include:

1. Fixed problems displaying MathType objects created on the Mac or Windows
2. Fixed a problem where the spellchecker would not fall back to OpenOffice.org dictionaries
3. Fixed an error saving a new file to iDisk
4. Fixed several crashes or hangs when opening or saving documents
5. Fixed several problems specific to Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard”
6. Fixes for many PDF and printing-related bugs
7. Fixed a number of other bugs reported against NeoOffice 2.2.2 with Patch-0