Microsoft Office
Protect your Word, Excel, and PowerPoint history
Microsoft Office has a feature that maintains a list of recently viewed documents within the applications of the suite. From a usability perspective this is quite handy as the odds of you needing access to a recent document is quite high – and they are just a few clicks away now. However from a security [...]
Bring Back the Classic Menu in Office 2007
It’s been about two years now since Microsoft released the radical ribbon user interface in Office 2007 to the general public. Microsoft is in a tough position when it comes to maintaining and updating their software. Most would imagine that having a monopoly in a marketplace is a great thing, and usually it is. However, [...]
Get Rid of the Annoying Microsoft Office Clipboard Bar
Anyone that uses Microsoft Office day in and day out likely has a laundry list of annoyances. On the surface, each one is so relatively minor that many users may suggest to you to just let it go – Microsoft knows best right? At the end of the fictitious day, the pile has grown and [...]
Defaulting to .doc File Format in Word 2007
Up until recently, Microsoft has been pretty good at maintaining binary compatibility across releases of Microsoft Office. Binary compatibility simply means that documents saved in a newer version of Office are readable in previous iterations. This has actually been the case from Office 97 through Office 2003 – but as you are likely aware of [...]
Open and Edit Documents Directly from Firefox
Have you ever had to view or edit a Microsoft Office document that was sent in your direction but lacked the proper applications to do it – say, Office? There are many free and fully featured office applications that can read and write Microsoft file formats, such as OpenOffice, but they are often pretty heavy [...]
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