You can change the background color of Microsoft Word from White to Blue.
How to update the Date automatically when you open Microsoft Word 2003
How to update the Date automatically when you open Microsoft Word 2003.
Archive of posts filed under the News category.
How to Add Special Effects to your Next Business Report
How to Animate Text in a Word Document
How to Improve Readability on Laptops and HD Flat Panel Displays
This free download from MS “delivers improved font display quality over traditional forms of font smoothing or anti-aliasing. ClearType improves readability on color LCD displays with a digital interface, such as those in laptops and high-quality flat panel displays. Readability on CRT screens can also be somewhat improved.
5 Tips for Keyboard Fanatics & Time Poor Tech Writers
Donationcoder continue their excellent series of products with TapTap Hotkey Extender, a tiny super-efficient tray-based utility (under <100k) for keyboard fanatics.
Tracking Business Processes from within MS Office
Israeli-based ActionBase have released an interesting application that provides Security Officers with “wave” collaborative software that addresses corporate governance, audit trails security. What interesting from a Microsoft Office perspective is that all of this can be done from within Microsoft Outlook and other Office applications.
New Wikipedia of Organization Charts
No Inc have taken AJAX and “Web 2.0-ness” to create CogMap, which is a terrific Wikipedia of organization charts.
Their own site is an organization chart wiki! This means that it is a collection of organization charts online that anyone can edit, add to, and help maintain.
How to Quickly Reduce Microsoft Word File Size – Secret #1
Ever had your Microsoft Word file explode from 1MB to 10MB in just a few minutes? In the tech writing world, Microsoft Word tends to get a bad rap.
One of the arguments put against Word is that its fairly unstable and prone to creating ‘horrors’, such as bloating in size until your (Microsoft!) operating system [...]
When is a Word document not a document?
When is a Word document not a document?
Review The Office 2007 UI Bible
Review The Office 2007 UI Bible
Visio Hyperlink Problem in Internet Explorer 7
Visio Hyperlink Problem in Internet Explorer 7
Quark’s XML Authoring Tool Now Supports Microsoft Office 2007
Technical Writers who want to create documents in MS Word and also use Quark will be pleased to read this press release. Quark XML Author 3.0 for Microsoft Word allows users to create XML content easily within Microsoft Word, This XML authoring tool allows non-technical business workers to use Microsoft Word to create intelligent [...]
Get SharePoint Designer 2007 for Free
You can now download SHAREPOINT DESIGNER 2007 for free as MS have decided to phase out the product. Formerly known as MS Frontpage, this is a very powerful HTML editor and worth the download.
Mobile Work Teams Get Windows Mobile 6.1
Treo Pro promises mobile workers an easy-to-use smartphone for businesses that want to simplify their IT infrastructures. Treo Pro includes email, Wi-Fi and GPS capabilities. It can deliver increased security, easier device management and access to information on the corporate network that Windows Mobile 6.1 provides.
Office Live Store Manager in Beta
James Senior over on Technet introduces Office Live Store Manager, which is currently in private beta with several small business customers.
He highlights that ”The store manager portion of Office Live enables this small business to have an online store tightly incorporated within their website with the minimum of fuss.”
James gives an example of Office Live Store Manager helped Larouex Gourmet [...]
