office 2007

Design

Design Floor Plans With Excel

6:00AM The How-To Geek | Rather than spend money on a commercial tool for designing floor plans, interior design, or laying out your landscaping, you can tweak Microsoft Excel to make an adequate replacement. More »
Work

Make Excel Open Spreadsheets In A Separate Window

4:00AM The How-To Geek | If you spend a large part of your day dealing with boring, TPS-like reports, you’ve probably noticed that Excel 2007 won’t let you put spreadsheets side-by-side on your multi-monitor desktop. Luckily, there’s a fix for that. More »
Design

Fix Common PowerPoint Problems

10:30AM Angus Kidman | What’s the most commonly encountered issue with PowerPoint? Turns out it’s not designing poor presentations or objects not lining up properly. More »
Work

Making The Most Of The Microsoft Office 2007 Ribbon

1:04PM Angus Kidman | Microsoft’s Ribbon interface represents a radical change from standard menu-based applications, but if you’re a regular user of Office 2007, you need to come to grips with it. Here’s some handy strategies to make the transition easier. More »
Work

Hit F4 To Redo That Last Office Command

10:30AM Angus Kidman | Need to repeat the same task in Office, like typing a block of text or deleting a lot of rows? You don’t have to go burrowing through the menus — simply use the F4 key to repeat your last action. More »
Fix

TopAlt EnableDisable Makes Office Add-On Management A Snap

1:00AM Kevin Purdy | Windows: There are a lot of great add-ons for Microsoft’s premier productivity product, but there’s no central spot to turn them on or off. TopAlt EnableDisable controls Microsoft Office add-ons with simple check-boxes. More »
Fix

MS Office 2007 Service Pack 2 Available, Brings Performance Boost

1:45AM Adam Pash | Windows only: Microsoft is pushing out Service Pack 2 for Office 2007, promising significant performance improvements and support for the OpenDocument format, among other things. More »

Office Add-On Makes Live Search The Default Translator

10:30PM Kevin Purdy | Windows only: Microsoft has a new add-on for Office 2003 and 2007 that sets Microsoft Translator—used in the Live Search service—as a more robust and multi-language translator than the WorldLingo default. More »
Work

Office 2007 Mapping Workbooks Show Where Everything Went

4:30PM Angus Kidman | Confused by Office 2007’s Ribbon? Some free spreadsheet guides might help you untangle the mess. More »
Work

Freeze Word Documents For Easier Editing

4:30PM Angus Kidman | The concept of freezing the header row or leftmost column is pretty familiar to Excel users, but it turns out there’s also a parallel feature in Word that lets you work on long documents while drawing on information from two sections. More »