A Free Microsoft Office? by John McILwraith
If your budget is limited and you need a full features Office suite, we know of one that has got everything you might conceivably need. The deeper question, is whether anyone will ever need all of these features. It's nice to know that a FREE Office Suite of applications has probably more to it... It is hard for one to not have Microsoft office when at the time of this writing 90% of word possessing is done on Microsoft Office and one needs it to read, print, write, edit, and save in Microsoft Office formats.

How Can You Benefit from Microsoft Office? by Finn Jensen
Where is Microsoft Office today? Today Microsoft Office has evolved from a group of private productivity products to a more complete and integrated system. Building on the well-known tools that a lot of people are familiar with already, the Microsoft Office System includes servers, services,... The servers, services, programs and solutions, which put together, forms the Microsoft Office System, are: Office Editions is the successor to Microsoft Office XP, and the foundation of the Microsoft Office System.

Word Processing Office Suite by John McILwraith
You need to have a word processor period. Each and every computer user needs one. It is like sugar in the pantry, you just have to have it on hand. At least I have never in my over Ten years in the I.T. field met some one that did not need a word processor at one time or another. ... But Microsoft Office and or Microsoft Office Professional does not come with Windows. ... For some there is no choice but to have an Office Suite such as Microsoft Office or Open Office. ... But might I digress, this article is not to convince you you need a word processor, it is to show you how to get a Free...

When is the Right Time to Upgrade Software? by Cynthia Morse
I don't claim to be a "techie," but I thought I would say a few words about upgrading software programs. If you use software, such as Microsoft Office, on a regular basis, how often should you upgrade to a newer version? That depends on several factors, such as support (is your current version... I recently upgraded my version of Office XP to Office 2003. ... The programs - Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint, all seemed to be working fine, and XP was still supported by Microsoft. ... As I came across online training classes for Word, Excel, etc., I started to realize that classes in XP...

How Autocorrect in Microsoft Word Can Help You With Acronyms by Chris Le Roy
The world today has gone literally gone acronym crazy. Every industry has its own plethora of acronyms to bamboozle the uninitiated. Acronyms are also often a source of great pain for those people who have to create procedure documents for their industry. ... Autocorrect was originally developed by Microsoft to help those people using Microsoft Office and in particular Microsoft Word overcome typing issues but it has also become the saviour to those working in an acronym world. ... Autocorrect is actually available in all Microsoft Office Applications which include Microsoft Word, Excel,...

You Can Write Microsoft Office Program in About 60 Minutes by Tenny Ing
Microsoft Office program is a programming tool called Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) that comes with Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook, Power Point, and Publisher. VBA can make your repeating jobs automatic. It also can customize Excel, Word and other Office procedures for your own needs. ... To make Excel work or control Word is called Excel automates Word. ... For example, we can write a VBA application to make Word read an Excel address list that is saved in a spreadsheet, and then show the addresses in the Word document.

Looking for an Alternative to Microsoft Office? You Should Be! by Greg Diehl
Now is the time to look at an alternative to Microsoft Office. Are you locked into using Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint? Are you spending extra because you need a database, and Access does not come with the basic Office package? Well, the time has come to look at alternatives, or at least... o runs on Windows (R), just like Microsoft Office o all files can be saved in Microsoft Office formats o a word processor o a spreadsheet o a presentation tool o a database o a drawing tool o export to Acrobat PDF format (requires third-party add ins to do this in Microsoft Office) o...

Passwords Used In Microsoft Word Documents by Denis Gladysh
You would like to protect your documents, wouldn't you? Reasons may vary but the problem is the same – you need to protect your Microsoft Word documents from unauthorized editing or viewing. What document protection features does Microsoft® Office Word 2003, a part of Microsoft Office... But it is not that easy with Password to open : The first versions of Microsoft Word had rather weak security; it took a bit more time to crack it compared to the other types used in Microsoft Word. ... Please note that it doesn't apply to Microsoft Word 97 version supplied to the French market as these...

Sorry! No Bill Gates Article Today - Word Took Over by John T Jones, Ph.D.
Dear Reader: I won’t be writing an article today. I thought that you would like to know. I decided to put the article in letter format. Although Microsoft Word® asked if I would like help in writing this “letter,” I declined. If I let Word® help me pretty soon it would take over all of my writing. ... If Word® were capable of writing, we authors would just type in a title and let Word® go at it. ... "In his office on the Microsoft corporate campus in Redmond, Wash., Bill Gates took a few moments to reflect on the impact of the IBM PC.

Three Alternatives To Microsoft Word by Matthew Penn
Somebody called me crazy the other day for not having Microsoft Office, specifically, Microsoft Word, on my PC. Maybe I am. Or maybe not! On one hand, it seems as if almost every small business process today involves the Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc). ... Bottom line for me — I only need about 5% of the features that Microsoft Word offers to run my business. ... OpenOffice Suite ( http://www.openoffice.org ) I started using OpenOffice about three years ago when the laptop that my previous employer purchased only came with a 60-day trial of Microsoft Office.