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• Microsoft fights back against Google

  Published: July 25, 2007, 6:19 am

  Tags: Goog, Google, Google Apps, Googleapps, Microsoft, Microsoft Office Online, Microsoftofficeonline, Msft

  strategy, Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT)Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is going to add to its Office applications on the online-front in the next "year or so," according to a recent Financial Times article. This move is clearly in response to Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) continued attack on Microsoft and its various product segments, in this case

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• Microsoft Office Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 0.2 (Beta)

  Published: July 31, 2007, 10:15 am

  Tags: Beta, Microsoft, Office 2004, Office 2007, Office2004, Office2007, Open Xml, Openxml, Xml

  Remote Desktop client from Microsoft, but also a new beta Microsoft Office Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 0.2 (Beta). What the heck is this? It converts Office files that use Microsoft's new Open XML file format (i.e. files created in Office 2007 for Windows) into a file format that Office 2004 for the Mac can read. This release

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• Pilgrim's Picks for July 27

  Published: July 27, 2007, 11:29 am

  Tags: General, Bbc, Eric Schmidt, Interbrand, Iplayer, Microsoft Office

  to Interbrand. (via SEL) Microsoft has plans to provide their popular desktop applications as internet services. While you’ve been taking trips to the beach this summer, Google’s Eric Schmidt has had a “Summer of Public Policy.” The BBC is launching iPlayer, allowing viewers to download their favorite shows from the

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• Microsoft Office 2008 for the Mac delayed until January 2008

  Published: August 1, 2007, 10:59 pm

  Tags: Craig Eisler, Craigeisler, Macbu, Microsoft, Office 2008, Office 2008 For The Mac, Office2008, Office2008forthemac

  TUAW with some news about Microsoft's much anticipated Universal release of Office, Microsoft Office 2008 for the Mac. Craig let us know that Microsoft has pushed back the release of Office 2008 for the Mac to make sure that the suite is up to snuff.Office 2008 for the Mac will be released for manufacture in December of this year for a US

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• In Brief: Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac delayed until ...

  Published: August 2, 2007, 10:57 am

  Tags: Apple, Mac, Microsoft Office 2008, Software

  Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac delayed until January '08 [TUAW]

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• In Brief: In what's sure to come as a disappointment ...

  Published: August 2, 2007, 11:59 am

  Tags: Delays, Mac, Microsoft, Microsoft Office, News

  disappointment for a lot of Microsoft-at-work Mac owners, Microsoft Office 2008 for the Mac, which had been slated for Fall '07, has been pushed back to a US release date of mid-January 2008. Not sure how we could have seen this coming, though I guess maybe, what with 2008 in the software title and all, it shouldn't have come as that much of a

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• Microsoft Word Tip: Go back to where you left off in a document

  Published: August 6, 2007, 8:00 am

  Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Word Tip, Word, Word Processors

  plan or book chapter in Microsoft Word for weeks now, and you want to get back into it right where you left off yesterday. After you open the document, hit Shift+F5 to zip straight back to the location of the last change you made. Handy! Find this and a few other great Word tips over at the Web Worker Daily weblog. What are your favorite

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• Web Publishing: Permalink office documents with Zoho Viewer

  Published: August 9, 2007, 10:30 am

  Tags: File Sharing, Google Docs, Microsoft Office, Top, Web As Desktop, Web Publishing

  The Zoho suite of online office apps adds new utility Zoho Viewer to the mix today. Upload your documents to Zoho Viewer - which doesn't require registration - and it publishes the document at a regular old web page address, which it hands to you for emailing around to your friends and co-workers or linking or embedding on your web site. Zoho

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• Google Pack: Google Pack now includes Star Office

  Published: August 14, 2007, 1:18 am

  Tags: Google, Google Pack, Microsoft Office, Office

  available for $70, StarOffice is free with Google Pack. Star Office is the basis for the free and open source OpenOffice.org application suite. Unlike OpenOffice.org, Star Office requires the Java runtime to use. So why would GOOG choose Star Office over Open Office for the Pack? Beats us, but since launch (and even through an iteration

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• Office 11.3.7 update fixes security hole

  Published: August 14, 2007, 10:28 am

  Tags: Microsoft, Office 2004, Office2004, Patch, Security

  never ends -- Patch Tuesday. Microsoft's once-a-month day to caulk and fill security holes and repair product bugs has a special treat for all of us this time around: a patch for Microsoft Office 2004. The vulnerability in question also affects Windows 2000, 2003 and XP along with Visual Basic 6.0, and could theoretically allow the crafter of a

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• Featured Download: Excel Gantt chart template

  Published: August 15, 2007, 9:30 am

  Tags: Downloads, Excel, Featured Download, Microsoft Office Tip, Project Management, Spreadsheets

  than actual software like Microsoft Project. A Gantt chart is a great way to see task dependencies in a big project - what delays will slow down the completion date and which won't. If you've got a huge deliverable on your hands and no expensive project management software, this spreadsheet template may be for you. The Gantt template is in

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• Powerpoint: Create web-based presentations at Preezo

  Published: August 14, 2007, 11:00 am

  Tags: Microsoft Office, Powerpoint, Web As Desktop

  Webapp Preezo is a stripped-down version of PowerPoint right inside your web browser. Create, edit, collaborate on and permalink slideshows at Preezo, which isn't as featureful as PowerPoint proper but has all the essential tools you need to create a full-on presentation minus desktop software. Rumor has it that Google Docs & Spreadsheets will

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• Walt Mossberg tackles Apple's iWork '08

  Published: August 17, 2007, 11:14 am

  Tags: Apple, Applications, Excel, Iwork, Iwork 08, Iwork 08, Microsoft Office, Microsoftoffice, Mossberg, Review, Software, Walt Mossberg, Waltmossberg, Word

  latest version of its Office-battling software suite iWork '08 (which includes Pages, Keynote, and the new spreadsheet program Numbers) and delivers a one-two punch to the new package. Apparently, Cupertino's entry just can't match up to Office's triple power play of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, though Walt says that iWork '08 is an

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• Excel Tip: Reference Cell Ranges by Label

  Published: August 23, 2007, 9:00 am

  Tags: Excel, Excel Tip, Microsoft Office, Spreadsheets

  While you're writing formulas in Excel, you can refer to cell ranges not only by hard-to-read row and column numbers and letters but by label. So instead of totaling a column using =SUM(B2:B5), you can write the formula =SUM('Widgets Cranked'). After I mentioned this is a nice feature in Apple's new spreadsheet application Numbers '08, reader

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• Keyboard Shortcuts: Change Case in MS Office Apps from the Keyboard

  Published: August 28, 2007, 4:00 pm

  Tags: Formatting, Keyboard Shortcuts, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word

  case of any selected text in Microsoft Office applications between all lowercase, all uppercase or smart initial letter capitalization with the Shift-F3 keyboard shortcut. This shortcut isn't everday-useful for most of us, but if you do a lot of formatting in Word—especially from all lowercase emails or the like—the smart first

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