Archive for MS Office System

Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1)

Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 1 is now ready for download…

Microsoft has today made the Office 2007 Service Pack 1 public… One may download via following link, Download Details Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack

Alternatively you may visit the Microsoft Update web site to download the service pack for your self…

Save your Word Documents from sudden power outage

Though we have heavy duty UPS and with Notebooks we have better battery backup but some time while you are working on a important word document, you dont want it to be lost at any cost…

Some time because of many reason your windows may stop responding and if that happens between a typing process which you were doing under Microsoft Office Word, you may lose the un-saved data…

Microsoft Office Word by default is set to auto-save the data in every 10mins… Which you can change to 1 or 2 mins for Maximum protection…

How to Change the Auto-Save interval ??

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Lotus Symphony

IBM on recently announced the release of Lotus Symphony, a suite of free desktop applications based on the OpenOffice.org open-source product.

This is to many a sign that its an attempt to make a run at Rivals Microsoft Office system market share…. Read more..

Some FAQ about the Software,

1. Very high system requirement for a Free Office Apps…
2. Not fully Compatible with Microsoft Office Apps…
3. Supports Windows XP and Vista..

Read more on FAQ Section

Quick things to note are the draw backs, 

Very High system requirementof the application, as it needs full one GB of RAM to run… Compare that with Open Office which would run fine under 128 MB of RAM and even Office 2003 too… Its pretty odd to see such high requirement and who would run a free apps is expected to be low on budget and so low system configuration too like for example 3rd world education institutes or even Office computers…

Also the support for OS, No MAC, NO Windows Server or Windows 2000 support…

One can see its not fully compatible with MS office documents…

So when we have OpenOffice.org, why would one want to shift to Lotus Symphony ??

Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 3 (SP3)

Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 3 has been released….

It comes with all 2 Previous Service Packs, and will update all comnonets available under Office 2003.

Please read more on Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 3

Its recomended that if you are using Microsoft Office 2003, then you must installa the Service Pack, so Please download Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 3

Lost Windows / Office Installation Disk / Media !!

Many times I see users desperate for help as they have lost their Installation Media for Windows of Office…

This is common problem faced by many, as You have installed windows and worked in it for long time but later on you may face issue like HDD crash, or any hardware or software failure which may require re or clean installation of Windows and Office system, and then you find after such long time of no requirement, either you have miss-placed the installation media / CD or you have managed to damaged the CD/DVD…

So what next ?? You are a genuine customer of Microsoft so how do you obtain a Replacement Media ??

There are 2 ways, now if you have a Branded system which came with pre-installed Windows and software then you have to get in touch with vendor (like, HP / Dell / IBM / etc)

In case you have bought your software separately from a local software vendor of Online store, then you can get in touch with Microsoft Connect or their product support service, through Bellow Method,

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx

For India, you may call these Bellow Numbers,

1800 102 1100(Toll Free number – Accessible from anywhere in India from Airtel land line and mobile phone)
1800 111100(Toll Free number – Accessible from 36 cities in India from MTNL/BSNL landline)
+91 80 40103000(Toll number – Accessible from anywhere in the world from any telecom)

Please note the replacement disk from Microsoft wont be free, you will be charged for the same, and it takes maximum of 90 days to get one re-placement media, where as usually its lot quicker…

Where to buy Windows Locally ??

We see when buying Branded Laptop or Desktop windows comes pre-installed, but in India Maximum of Computers (desktop) sold are assembled ones….

Most of the time these systems comes with Pirated Windows and Office System… while using Internet users gets the unfortunate information that their version of Windows is a non genuine one… Many ignore but some do care and think of buying one Genuine Windows…

Where to Get Genuine Microsoft Software in India ??

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Change the Default Save File Format on MS Office 2007

When you save a document under Microsoft Office by default MS Office 2007 applications uses a new file format to save the file, for example

Microsoft Word 2007 will use new file format .docx
Microsoft Excel 2007 will use new file format .xlsx
Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 will use new File format .pptx

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Open MS Office 2007 Documents in Older Version of MS Office

Microsoft office compatibility Pack is one of the Must install if you are running Microsoft Office Pririor to MS Office 2007.

The Office 2007 application such as Word, Excle, PowerPoint, will no more than use the Older File Extention like .doc for Word, in fact the new Word 2007 uses .docx as its Default format…

So even if you dont have any thing to do with MS Office 2007 but your clients of contacts may use the new office now when they save a file ex. in Word 2007, they will find file saved as Default format .docx, so when you receive such file this free update will allow your older Office setup, like Office 2000, Office XP and 2003 to access those files and open them for you…

Download the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats.

 

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