Microsoft Word
Office 2007: The Missing Manual, 1st Edition
By Chris Grover, Matthew MacDonald, E. A. Vander Veer
Quickly learn the most useful features of Microsoft Office 2007 with our easy to read four-in-one guide. This fast-paced book gives you the basics of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access so you can start using the new versions of these major Office app...
[Publish Date: April 2007]
Microsoft and Science Commons Team Up To Add Semantic Content to Online ...
By James Turner
John Wilbanks, VP of Science for Creative Commons, gave O'Reilly Media an exclusive sneak preview of a joint announcement that they will be making with Microsoft later today at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. According to John, who talked to us shortly after getting off a plane from Brazil, Microsoft will be releasing, under an open source license, Word plugins that will allow scientists to mark up their papers with scientific entities directly.
[Publish Date: March 11, 2009]
Google Plays to Microsoft's Weaknesses - O'Reilly Radar
By Nat Torkington
What I love about Google's battle with Microsoft so far is that they've been playing to Microsoft's weaknesses rather than attempting to confront the colossus head-on. No Word-feature-complete attempts, instead they target the use cases where everyone runs into trouble with Microsoft products. Most recently, they've launched an informal collaboration version of Google Apps. The idea is to let people...
[Publish Date: February 08, 2008]
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac: What's New? - O'Reilly Digital Media Blog
By Todd Ogasawara
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac is out. And, here's what's new... Microsoft really likes to have multiple versions of the same product. There are five versions of Windows Vista. And, there will be eight versions of Windows Server 2008 when it is released. So, we should be happy there are only three versions of Office for Mac 2008 to choose from :-) All three versions come with the five core applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Entourage, and Messenger. Office for the Mac 2008 (which I'll call standard edition here) is US$399.95 (239.95 upgrade). Office 2008 for Mac Special Media Edition is $499.95 ($299.95 upgrade). And, Office for Mac 2008 Home and Student Edition is $149.95. The Media Edition adds the Microsoft Expression (60-day trial edition available). The Home and Student Edition doesn't have Office-specifc...
[Publish Date: January 16, 2008]
Think Digital and Get Accessible for Free - Tools of Change for Publishing
By Andrew Savikas
Today brought news of the release of a "Save to Daisy" add-in for Microsoft Word, and while a new Word add-in wouldn't normally be news for publishers, there's a...
[Publish Date: May 07, 2008]
Freeware/Open Source for Windows Weekly Summary - O'Reilly Windows ...
By Todd Ogasawara
This week: Revo Uninstaller 1.42, Windows Live SkyDrive, NewsPond, and Free PDF to Word Doc Converter 1.1. Revo Uninstaller 1.42 Sat, 23 Feb 2008 22:58:18 Uninstalling software from Microsoft Windows can sometimes be a lot more challenging that it should...
[Publish Date: February 28, 2008]
Ballmer Says MS Will Release a New Version of Windows for the Cloud this ...
By John Osborn
On Tuesday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer reportedly gas said that the Company will release a new version of its Windows operating system as part of a new cloud computing platform in a matter of weeks. Call it "Windows Cloud" for now, but how seriously should we take his words?
[Publish Date: October 01, 2008]
Plugins for converting between OpenDocument and Microsoft Office file ...
By Jean Hollis Weber
Three plugins for converting between Microsoft Word (.DOC) and OpenDocument Text (.ODT) file formats have been announced in the last two weeks: daVinci (OpenDocument Foundation), Open XML Translator (Microsoft), and Conversion Technology Preview (Sun Microsystems). Here's a quick summary; see...
[Publish Date: February 07, 2007]
Need a (free) replacement for Word? Try Abiword - O'Reilly Mac DevCenter Blog
By Jeremiah Foster
Recently I received the same question from two different people; "What is a good replacement for Word on my Mac?" My brother Nathaniel asked me this when his version of Word stopped working on his new Mac. Microsoft apparently...
[Publish Date: February 26, 2007]
A Word of Warning about Microsoft Live Writer - O'Reilly Radar
By Andrew Savikas
I know, I know, that's what I get for using beta software (from Microsoft no less), but might I recommend that if you choose to try out Windows Live Writer, that you decline when it offers to try and download your blog theme to improve the preview feature: Reminds of my college newspaper days, when 20,000 copies hit the street...
[Publish Date: October 09, 2007]
O'Reilly Releases Office 2007: The Missing Manual: A Super Handy Guide to ...
Sebastopol, CA--The news about Microsoft Office's gutsy overhaul is upbeat. Folks call the centerpiece of the redesign--a craftsman-like super-toolbar called the ribbon--the best thing to hit the Office scene in years. Another useful innovation, the ...
[Publish Date: April 30, 2007]
Sun To Ship "highly optimised build of OpenOffice.org as a conversion ...
By M. David Peterson
Shifting some of the love in Sun's direction, Simon Phipps reports, Sun Announces ODF Plug-In for MS Office Great news today. Sun has announced that it will make available a plug-in for Microsoft Office that adds seamless support for ISO/IEC...
[Publish Date: February 07, 2007]
