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December 1st, 2009

Spelling Checkers Don’t Work if You Ignore Them

Reminding my brain not to block out the red underlines that indicate potential spelling problems.

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November 24th, 2009

"Office 2008 for Mac: Small Business Projects" is Now Available on Lynda.com

New Lynda.com course helps small business owners use Office to build their businesses.

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November 11th, 2009

What Tasks Do You Need to Complete for Your Small Business?

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November 10th, 2009

Office 2008 12.2.3 Update Now Available

Information from Microsoft AutoUpdate.

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October 7th, 2009

Office 2008 Installer Needs Rosetta? Duh-oh!

Just something idiotic I wanted to share.

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August 8th, 2009

Word 2004 Does Not Like Mac OS X 10.5.8

It may be time to update Office.

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January 29th, 2009

In Defense of Microsoft Word

It does the whole job.

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October 14th, 2008

Office 2008 12.1.3 Update Now Available

Information from Microsoft AutoUpdate.

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August 12th, 2008

Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac 12.1.2 Update Now Avialable

Information from Microsoft’s Web site.

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July 10th, 2008

Why I Downgraded to Word 2004

I said I’d never upgrade to 2008 and I lied. Then I paid for it.

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June 27th, 2008

Microsoft Office 2008 12.1.1 Update Now Available

Information from Microsoft’s updater.

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March 2nd, 2008

Microsoft AutoUpdate 2.1.1 Now Available

Information from Microsoft AutoUpdate.

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January 13th, 2008

January 12 Links

Links worth following.

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December 15th, 2007

Removing Words from Word’s Custom Dictionary

It’s a bit involved, but doable.

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December 3rd, 2007

One Way to Speed up Word’s Launch Time

It works but it’s not for everyone.

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November 16th, 2007

Site Topics Available as RSS Feeds and E-Mail Subscriptions

Get content delivered to your RSS reader or e-mail box.

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November 15th, 2007

Two Blogs? Again?

After over a year of soul-searching, I decide to spin off my book support topics to their own site.

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November 13th, 2007

A Computer without Word?

I try an experiment to see if I can stay productive without Microsoft Word.

Last week, in an effort to get my old 12″ PowerBook to run more efficiently, I decided to wipe the hard disk clean and reinstall Tiger with a clean install. After installing it, I got a little crazy and decided

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August 21st, 2007

Peachpit Launches New Web Site

And offers 40% discounts on books purchased online.

Just a quick note to pass along some info I got in e-mail from Peachpit Press, one of my publishers.

Over the last several months, you’ve been talking and now it’s our chance to show you that we’ve been listening. You told us you wanted better

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August 14th, 2007

Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.3.7 Update

Information from the Microsoft Web Site.

This update fixes a vulnerability that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer’s memory with malicious code. For more information about this update, see the Microsoft Knowledge Base article (KB940763).

System requirements

Before you install this update, make sure that the Microsoft Office 2004

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June 18th, 2007

Microsoft Office Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 0.1.1 (Beta) Now Available

Information from Microsoft’s Web Site.

This update fixes an issue with beta expiration functionality. The issue causes the converter application to become unusable well ahead of its intended expiration date. This update is highly recommended for all users of the Microsoft Office Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 0.1 (Beta).

With the

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May 16th, 2007

Microsoft Releases a Word 2007 Conversion Tool for Mac Users

Oh. Gee. Thanks.

I got an e-mail message from my editor, Cliff, today. He wanted me to send him a Word 2007 file to test a converter on his Mac.

I don’t use Word 2007 regularly. That’s a Windows program. I’m primarily a Mac user. I still use Word 2004 on my Mac. But

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May 10th, 2007

Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.3.5 Update Now Available

Information from the Microsoft Web site.

This update contains several improvements to enhance security and stability, including fixes for vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer’s memory with malicious code. In addition, this update includes all the improvements released in all previous Office 2004 updates.

System requirements

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February 13th, 2007

Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.3.4 Update Now Available

Information from the Microsoft Web site.

This update contains several improvements to enhance security and stability, including fixes for vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer’s memory with malicious code.

System requirements

Before you install this update, make sure that the Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.3.3

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January 12th, 2007

Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.3.3 Update Now Available

Information from the Microsoft Office Web Site

This update contains several improvements to enhance security and stability, including fixes for vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer’s memory with malicious code. In addition, this update includes all of the improvements released in all previous Office 2004 updates.

System

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