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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 compatiblity across releases of Microsoft Office. Binary compatiblity 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 [...]
Metadata and Privacy in Microsoft Office
Ever heard of the term metadata? Quite literally, metadata is data about data – that is to say, data that typically is used to describe another piece of data. Metadata is typically encapsulated inside the data it is describing. Photo tagging is quite popular and a now accepted way of tagging and organizing your myriad [...]
Shrink Those Word Documents
Those of you that do a lot of editing on large Word documents loaded graphics, charts, or other objects have probably noticed that the document file size can quickly become unwieldy. The proper method when adding pictures is to actually do so via the Insert mechanism rather than the typical Copy/Paste. While the end result [...]
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