Sometimes the fine print can actually save you money. Case in point: the latest copies of Microsoft Office. Many assume Microsoft wants money for every installation, but Office is technically licensed for at least two installations.
Microsoft’s put the word out that their Office for Mac 2011 productivity suite will be available “at the end of October”. What’s more, anyone buying Office for Mac 2008, starting August 1, will be eligible for a free upgrade.
Microsoft rolled out its free Office Web Apps earlier this week, introducing a free, basic Office suite for the web. How does it compare to Google’s own Docs offering? Here’s a rundown of each web app’s strengths and weaknesses.
Office Web Apps, the free, cloud-based viewing and editing suite that Microsoft promised would be available to everyone, has opened wide its doors. It’s a decent set of basic-plus editing tools, powered by SkyDrive’s generous 25GB of storage space.
Sometimes, you have time to check something off your to-do list, but no one task is particularly pressing. Reader Ricardo shows us how to make Outlook pick a random one for you, so you can skip the decision-making and get to work.
With new version of Microsoft Office, extracting images from PowerPoint presentations is easy — all you need to do is change the extension of your documents.
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If you don’t feel like downloading extra software or diving into the command line, here’s an easy way to hide more sensitive files within DOCX files.
Microsoft Office 2010 is about to be released, and you aren’t sure if you should upgrade or switch to Google Docs. But have you considered using the best features of both, together? Today we’ll run down how to do just that.
I’ve always used Microsoft Office for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations. Now that Office 2010 is launching for business customers and coming in June for the rest of us, I’m curious: Is it worth upgrading?
