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Stop Microsoft Office From Always Asking You to Accept the EULA

(How To) Is this Office glitch driving you nuts? I think "EULA"-gree this fast and easy fix is well worth your time.

Free Office 2010 Apps Won't Arrive Until June

(News) Free Office 2010 Apps Won't Arrive Until June

Microsoft Office 2010 Web Apps: Try them Right Now

(News) Microsoft Office 2010 Web Apps: Try them Right Now

Microsoft Word Tip: Quickly Skip to the Font You Want

(How To) Tired of scrolling through Word's lengthy font list to find a particular typeface? If you know the name, a couple keystrokes gets you there faster.

Oregon Schools To Use Google Apps--And Why Microsoft Should Worry

(News) Oregon Schools To Use Google Apps--And Why Microsoft Should Worry

Corel WordPerfect Office X5

(Reviews) Corel WordPerfect Office X5

Microsoft Office 2010 Technology Guarantee: FAQ

(News) Microsoft Office 2010 Technology Guarantee: FAQ

Office Tips: Work More Efficiently in Word

(How To) Office Tips: Work More Efficiently in Word

Microsoft Word Tip: Change Text Size Using Only Your Keyboard

(How To) Still using Word's toolbars and menus to adjust font size? The horror! Here's how accomplish the same thing with easy keyboard shortcuts.

Microsoft Word Tip: Quickly Add Filler Text to Your Document

(How To) Whether you're putting together some kind of mock-up document or trying to learn Word's formatting features, filler text can come in mighty handy.

Microsoft Word Tip: Strip Hyperlinks From Pasted Text

(How To) Tired of unwanted e-mail and Web links in your Word documents? This handy (and little-known) shortcut gets rid of them in a flash.

Microsoft Word Tip: Print Multiple Copies of Individual Pages

(How To) A little-known Word feature makes it simple to print extra copies of specific pages in your document.

Move Paragraphs in Word Using Only Your Keyboard

(How To) More keyboard-shortcut goodness, this time for Word users who want to shuffle paragraphs without touching the mouse.

Three Alternatives to Office 2010

(News) Three Alternatives to Office 2010

Microsoft DirectAccess: The Ugly Truth

(News) The seamless secure remote access built into Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 is fantastic, if you don't mind a forklift upgrade or complexity and...

Microsoft Yanks Office From Its Online Store

(News) Microsoft Yanks Office From Its Online Store

Microsoft Will Patch Mac Word to Comply With Court Order

(News) Microsoft Will Patch Mac Word to Comply With Court Order

Microsoft Office Coming in Ad-supported Version

(News) Microsoft Tuesday said it would include an advertising supported version of Office 2010 on new PCs as well as offer users a virtualized version that streams...

Microsoft Dumps Upgrade Pricing for Office 2010

(News) Microsoft today disclosed retail prices for Office 2010, and said it has no plans to offer "upgrade" editions. The move will effectively raise the price for...

Microsoft Word Remains Under Scrutiny After Patent Loss

(News) Microsoft Word Remains Under Scrutiny After Patent Loss

Microsoft Yanks Custom XML From Word, Offers Patch to OEMs

(News) Microsoft already has a patch available that strips out XML technology the company is barred from using after Jan. 11, in Word 2007 and Office 2007, according...

Microsoft Patches Office 2003 Lockout Bug

(News) Microsoft on Saturday fixed a bug that locked out Office 2003 users from accessing documents safeguarded with the company's rights management security...

Office 2010 Coming in June, But Who Needs It?

(News) Office 2010 Coming in June, But Who Needs It?

Corel Saves Itself, WordPerfect, and CorelDraw from Brink

(News) Corel Saves Itself, WordPerfect, and CorelDraw from Brink

FAQ: Microsoft Office 2010 Beta

(News) FAQ: Microsoft Office 2010 Beta

Microsoft Cuts Mac Office Prices up to $50

(News) Microsoft has cut the price of Office 2008 for the Mac by between $20 and $50 as part of its annual holiday sale.

Microsoft Office 2010: 5 Ways to Make It Better

(News) Microsoft Office 2010: 5 Ways to Make It Better

Microsoft Offers Public Beta of Office 2010: Download Details

(News) Microsoft Offers Public Beta of Office 2010: Download Details

Microsoft Office 2010: So Many Reasons to Hate It

(News) Microsoft Office 2010: So Many Reasons to Hate It

Microsoft Office 2010: An Intriguing Beta

(News) Microsoft Office 2010: An Intriguing Beta

Google Docs Won't Topple Word Any Time Soon

(News) Google Docs Won't Topple Word Any Time Soon

Office 2010 Beta Exposed

(News) Office 2010 Beta Exposed

Three-year-old Office Patch Stymies Most Attacks

(News) Users running Microsoft Office can stump nearly three-fourths of all known attacks targeting the suite by applying just one three-year-old patch, according to...

Microsoft Targets Google Apps, Cuts Exchange Online Price

(News) Microsoft has cut in half its per user per month list price for Exchange Online services and cut by 33 percent the price of its Business Productivity Online...

Avoid Death by E-mail

(News) Avoid Death by E-mail

Fix a Corrupt Outlook Profile

(How To) Step one: don't panic! It's scary when Outlook won't run and gives you nothing but cryptic error messages, but there may be a fairly simple fix.

Microsoft Slates Office 2010 Public Beta for November

(News) Microsoft will launch the public beta of Office 2010 next month, company CEO Steve Ballmer said on Monday at the company's SharePoint Conference 2009...

Free Version of Office 2010 Supported by Ads

(News) Free Version of Office 2010 Supported by Ads

Ad-Supported Office Starter 2010 to Replace MS Works

(News) Ad-Supported Office Starter 2010 to Replace MS Works

Google Docs Adds Student-Friendly Features

(News) Google Docs Adds Student-Friendly Features

Review: Microsoft's Office's Slow Road to the Web

(News) Review: Microsoft's Office's Slow Road to the Web

Google Docs 'widely Used' at 1-in-5 Workplaces, Reports Survey

(News) The near total dominance of Microsoft Office in the workplace may be getting a serious challenge from Google Docs, according to a new survey by market...

Redmond Trumpets Project 2010

(News) Redmond Trumpets Project 2010

Microsoft: Word Legal Foe Paints Cockeyed Tale

(News) Microsoft Corp. called the claim by Canadian developer i4i Inc. that it plotted to drive the company out of business "distorted," and "a breathless tale" that...

Outlook Tip: View Your Google Reader Feeds

(How To) Put a little RSS into your Outlook life with this easy hack.

Microsoft Brings Office Nagware to the States

(News) Microsoft Brings Office Nagware to the States

Microsoft's 'Ribbon' is in Apps to Stay

(News) Microsoft's 'Ribbon' is in Apps to Stay

Microsoft Says Word Ban Threatens Industry

(News) Microsoft Says Word Ban Threatens Industry

Why I Can Live Without Mac Office — Perhaps You Can Too

(News) Why I Can Live Without Mac Office — Perhaps You Can Too

Don't Ban Microsoft Word — Ban Patent Lawyers Instead

(News) Don't Ban Microsoft Word — Ban Patent Lawyers Instead

Microsoft Word Patent Ruling: So Who Is i4i?

(News) Microsoft Word Patent Ruling: So Who Is i4i?

Microsoft Word Lawsuit: XML Explained

(News) Microsoft Word Lawsuit: XML Explained

Office 2007 Tip: Use the Mouse Wheel to Scroll the Ribbon

(How To) Move your cursor north to discover Office 2007's "hidden" mouse-wheel feature.

Applications on a Flash Drive

(How To) Applications on a Flash Drive

Microsoft Workers Unveil Office Suggestion Site

(News) Two Microsoft employees have created an online suggestion box where users can submit feature or fix requests for Office, the company's popular productivity...

Open-source Users Revolt Over OpenOffice.org Ribbon-esque UI

(News) The open-source faithful are lambasting a proposed overhaul of OpenOffice.org's user interface, with critics saying it would "ape" Microsoft Office's...

Microsoft Offers Office 2010 File Format 'ballot' to Stop EU Antitrust Probe

(News) Microsoft will add a file format "ballot" to Office 2010, part of a wider move to fend off European Union (EU) antitrust regulators and block massive fines...

Serif PagePlus X4 Desktop Publishing Software

(Reviews) Serif PagePlus X4 Desktop Publishing Software

Google Billboard Ads Gun for Microsoft and Promote Google Apps

(News) Google Billboard Ads Gun for Microsoft and Promote Google Apps

Be More Productive in Microsoft Outlook

(How To) Be More Productive in Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Office File Format 'Vulnerable'

(News) Microsoft Office File Format 'Vulnerable'

How Office 2010 Beta Stacks Up Against Office 2007

(News) How Office 2010 Beta Stacks Up Against Office 2007

Modify the Subject Lines of Archived Outlook E-Mail

(How To) If you routinely save messages for future reference, there's an easy way to change the subject line so you can more easily recognize the content.

Turn Off Outlook's New-Message Alerts

(How To) It may sound crazy, but there's something to be said for not getting interrupted by new-mail notifications every five minutes.

Microsoft Ships Major Update for Mac Office 2008

(News) Microsoft today updated Office 2008 for Mac to Service Pack 2 (SP2), adding a tool that beefs up access to documents stored on enterprise SharePoint servers...

Office Web Apps: Five Questions

(News) Office Web Apps: Five Questions

Microsoft Office 2010: A Simple FAQ

(News) Microsoft has officially unveiled its Office 2010 software suite, and the upgrade boasts plenty of changes.

Downloads to Boost Your Productivity

(Reviews) Downloads to Boost Your Productivity

Microsoft Office 2010 Pushes Collaboration, Productivity

(News) Microsoft Office 2010 Pushes Collaboration, Productivity

Microsoft Office vs.Google Docs: A Web Apps Showdown

(News) Microsoft Office vs.Google Docs: A Web Apps Showdown

Office 2010's Free Web Versions Fend off Google Docs

(News) Office 2010's Free Web Versions Fend off Google Docs

First Look: Office 2010

(News) First Look: Office 2010

Office 2010: A Complete Overview of What's New

(News) Office 2010: A Complete Overview of What's New

Office 2010: Most Innovations Are Online

(Reviews) Office 2010: Most Innovations Are Online

Why Does Word Load So Slowly?

(How To) Why Does Word Load So Slowly?

Open Old PowerPoint Documents in PowerPoint 2007

(How To) Curse you and your ever-changing file formats, Microsoft! Here's how to import 20th-century presentations into PowerPoint 2007.

Users Pressure Microsoft to Fix Outlook

(News) Users Pressure Microsoft to Fix Outlook

Lotus Symphony Now Reads Office 2007 Documents

(News) IBM today announced the release of Lotus Symphony 1.3, an update to its year-old free productivity suite that for the first time lets users import files saved...

Close a Word 2007 Document without Closing Word

(How To) I've really grown to like Word 2007, but there's one little change that bugs me--and at least one reader, too. Here's how to fix it.

OmniPage Professional 17 OCR Software

(Reviews) OmniPage Professional 17 OCR Software

Solve Your Word 2003/2007 Compatibility Issues

(How To) Solve Your Word 2003/2007 Compatibility Issues

Pirated Copies of Office 2010 Surface on Web

(News) Pirated Copies of Office 2010 Surface on Web

Users Get Invited to Try Office 2010 Preview

(News) Users Get Invited to Try Office 2010 Preview

PowerPoint Gets Mega Patch

(News) PowerPoint Gets Mega Patch

OpenOffice.org 3.1: The Next Generation

(News) The latest version of the open-source office suite OpenOffice.org 3.1 has just arrived, and it's a good one. While some of the improvements are visible to the...

Office 2007 Service Pack 2 Now Available for Download: SP2 Overview

(News) Office 2007 Service Pack 2 Now Available for Download: SP2 Overview

Microsoft Sets Office 2007 SP2 Release for April 28

(News) Also debuts first free Office for Mac 2008 trial download

Can Microsoft Count on Inertia to Spur Office 2010 Upgrades

(News) The final release of the upcoming suite is set for the first half of 2010

Microsoft: No Office 2010 Beta for You

(News) Beta won't be offered to the public; final will offer first-ever 64-bit edition

Microsoft Office 2007 Update Due

(News) Microsoft Office 2007 Update Due

Docs to Go Now Available for Android Handsets

(News) Docs to Go Now Available for Android Handsets

Restore 'Classic' Menus to Office 2007

(How To) Not a fan of the Office 2007 Ribbon? A tiny plug-in brings back the pull-down menus you loved so dear.

Customize Office 2007 Apps With Hassle-Free PC

(How To) Customize Office 2007 Apps With Hassle-Free PC

Make Outlook Automatically Spell-Check Your E-mail

(How To) Sure, you can spell-check your messages with the click of a button, but you can also make Outlook launch the spell-checker every time you click Send.

Kick Word 2007's Mini Toolbar to the Curb

(How To) Tired of the pop-up toolbar that appears every time you highlight text? Follow these simple steps to turn it off.

Add Features to Office 2007's Quick Access Toolbar

(How To) Want one-click access to your most frequently used Word, Excel, and PowerPoint commands? Here's how to customize the Quick Access Toolbar.

Microsoft Office: An Advertising Platform

(News) Microsoft Office: An Advertising Platform

Microsoft Office 14 Won’t Ship This Year -- Does Anyone Care?

(News) Microsoft Office 14 Won’t Ship This Year -- Does Anyone Care?

Postbox E-Mail Client Software

(Reviews) Postbox E-Mail Client Software

Keyboard Shortcuts From Hassle-Free PC

(How To) PC World blogger Rick Broida shares editing shortcuts for most word processors, plus Windows Quick Launch tips and more.

How to Lock Down the Data in Your Apps

(How To) Microsoft's Remove Hidden Data tool makes sure that no embarrassing comments are left in your older Microsoft Office documents. For Office 2007, use the Document Inspector command to vet your metadata. Also: NASA tells you how to make sure blacked out info in electronic documents remains unavailable.

Downloads for Hard Economic Times

(Reviews) In this economy, you need to watch every penny. With these 12 downloads, almost all of them free, you can manage your finances, maintain your PC, and be productive without spending hundreds of dollars.

Use ODIR to Remove Duplicate Outlook Records

(How To) If sync software or some other anomaly has peppered Outlook with duplicate entries, use this fast, free utility to get rid of them.

Microsoft Testing a Better Rival to Google Docs

(News) Microsoft is testing an update to Live Workspace that lets users create and edit documents without needing Office, it said.

Microsoft Says That 77 Percent of Mac Users Use Office

(News) Despite Apple's best efforts to make some inroads in the office software field, a new study by Microsoft says that 77 percent...

Change Outlook's Default Attachment Folder

(How To) Prefer to pluck your attachments from someplace other than My Documents? Here's how to make Outlook start elsewhere.

Lotus Notes Gets a Makeover, Symphony Beta Released

(News) IBM has introduced at Macworld Expo Lotus Notes 8.5, now featuring integration with social calendaring Web sites. The company...

Microsoft Enhances Office for the Mac

(News) A quarter-century after it began making products for the Mac, Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit announced future updates to...

New Year's Resolutions: Fix Your Finances

(News) Web and mobile personal-finance tools are more abundant and useful than ever. It's a good year to consider using them.

Customizing Word's Toolbars

(News) Reader Barbara Van Gorder misses some of the cosmetic features found in earlier versions of Microsoft Word. She writes:

Can I Reactivate Office Without Losing It?

(How To) Kevin Germino wants to know if he can reinstall Microsoft Office onto a reformatted hard drive without losing one of the licenses to use it.

Mindjet MindManager 8

(Reviews) Solid mind-mapping application, but some new features are glitchy.

Add a Word Count Button to Microsoft Word

(How To) Are you constantly menu-diving to get your document's word count? Save time with this quick and easy toolbar button.

Start Page Yanked From New Google Apps Signups

(News) Google has stopped offering Start Page for new users of its Apps hosted suite.

OpenOffice.org 3

(Reviews) OpenOffice.org is a powerful productivity suite--including tools for word processing, spreadsheets, slideshows and more--with...

Microsoft Updates Office 2004, 2008

(News) Microsoft's MacBU has posted updates to Office 2004 and Office 2008 for the Macintosh. Both updates are available for download...

Get More From Outlook With Hassle-Free PC

(How To) PC World blogger Rick Broida reviews the Xobni search tool and YouSendIt Outlook plug-in, plus a terrific program that inserts text in any app.

WriteRoom 2.3

(Reviews) WriteRoom is what TV chef Alton Brown would call a "unitasker": It's a tool designed for only one function. But while Brown...

Sun Offers Mac-native StarOffice 9 Suite

(News) Sun Microsystems on Monday announced the release of StarOffice 9, their office productivity software suite. It's available for...

NeoOffice Update Fixes Export as PDF Function

(News) Alternative Office suite, NeoOffice, has been updated with fixes in several areas including a problem that caused a corrupt...

Bugs & Fixes: When Updating Microsoft Office Fails

(News) It happened with the recent 12.1.3 update to Microsoft Office 2008. It will inevitably happen again with the just-released...

Microsoft Updates Office for Mac 2008

(News) Microsoft on Thursday released an update for Office for Mac 2008, bringing the most current version to 12.1.4.

Microsoft Brings Office to the Web Browser

(News) The next version of Office for Windows will contain lightweight versions of its apps that will be delivered through Web...

Microsoft Unveils Google Docs Killer: Office 14

(News) Microsoft today announced plans to introduce Web-based versions of its core Office apps that will integrate seamlessly with the traditional desktop versions. The combination could give serious competition to Google Docs and its brethren.

OpenOffice.org Ships for Mac OS X

(News) The newest release of the open-source suite is the first native version for Mac OS X.

16 E-Mail and Instant Messaging Boosters

(Reviews) Juice up your online communication with these helpful downloads.

How Do I Get a Text-Based Report Into Excel

(How To) Bob De Tchon has a mailing list kept in an old DOS program. He wants to import it into Excel.

Visualize Your Data in Whole New Ways

(Reviews) Tableau's visual representations of data are easier to understand than long lists of numbers.

End Office and Windows Annoyances

(How To) Deal with e-mail hassles, Office file-format woes, and lost passwords--and see what happens when a wolf wants to play.

15 Great Microsoft Office Optimization Tools

(Reviews) Get the most out of Microsoft Office by using these helpful downloads, which will increase your efficiency and simplify routine tasks.

File Storage and Viewing Apps for IPhone

(News) Storing media like photos, music, and video on your iPhone is a snap: after all that's what the device was designed for. But...

Office 2008 Survival Guide

(News) If you've recently upgraded to Microsoft Office 2008, you may like the productivity suite's new features, but you may also...

Microsoft Office Web Apps: Five Needed Fixes

(News) Microsoft Office Web Apps: Five Needed Fixes

Fix Outlook 'General Failure' Error for E-Mail Links

(How To) If you're an Outlook user having trouble getting links to open in Firefox, a quick visit to the Registry should fix it.

Restore Outlook After a Windows 7 Upgrade

(How To) Restore Outlook After a Windows 7 Upgrade

Office 2010 Sales Are Lagging, Says NPD

(News) Office 2010 Sales Are Lagging, Says NPD

Learn Office 2010 with Two Free Books

(How To) One's for novices, the other's for experts. Both will require a lot of toner and paper--if you plan to print hard copies.

Sync Outlook 2010 with Your Google Calendar

(How To) Only the 32-bit version for now, but at least Google's Calendar Sync utility now supports the latest Outlook.

New QuickBooks for Mac Adds Multi-User Supporth

(News) New QuickBooks for Mac Adds Multi-User Supporth

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