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November 30th, 2009

November 2009 Links

Links for the month of November.

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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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July 31st, 2009

July 2009 Links

Links for the month of July.

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April 11th, 2009

Back to Basics with my 12" PowerBook

Who needs a netbook? I got this old clunker.

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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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June 27th, 2008

Microsoft Office 2008 12.1.1 Update Now Available

Information from Microsoft’s updater.

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February 1st, 2008

Buy Excel 2007 Books for 50% Off

Buy my Excel 2007 books at 50% off retail price.

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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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October 15th, 2007

Excel 2007 QuickProject Excerpts

Two Excerpts from Creating Spreadsheets and Charts in Microsoft Office Excel 2007: Visual QuickProject Guide.

Want to see some sample pages from my Excel Visual QuickProject? Here are a few links.

Front Matter (including complete Table of Contents) Excerpt from Chapter

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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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July 10th, 2007

Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.3.6 Update Now Available

Information from Microsoft’s Web site.

This update fixes a vulnerability that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer’s memory with malicious code. This update also addresses an issue with using public folders in Entourage, and it contains the latest postal code information for Japanese addresses.

System requirements

Before you install

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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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April 3rd, 2007

Excel Book Done

That’s book number 68.

I put the finishing touches on Microsoft Office Excel 2007: Visual QuickStart Guide. It’s my 68th book (I just counted) and right now, I feel as if I wrote them all yesterday.

Okay, so not that tired.

I had some trouble with this book. First, there was the beta

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March 28th, 2007

Printing an Excel Function Reference Sheet

A how-to for Excel users.

My Visual QuickStart Guide books for Excel — from the edition for Excel 95 for Windows through the edition for Excel X for Macintosh — have always included an Excel function reference. In an effort to make pages available for other content, however, we’ve cut that appendix from

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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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December 30th, 2006

Excel 2007 QuickProject Sample Files

Sample Files from the Book.

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