MICROSOFT OFFICE 2003 STUDENT EDITION

Oct 29, 2003 | Office

Microsoft Office 2003 has arrived in the stores. The “Basic Edition” includes Word, Excel, and Outlook. The “Standard Edition” adds Powerpoint. There’s increasing interest in Powerpoint – think about it before you decide which...

MICROSOFT OFFICE 2003

Oct 20, 2003 | Office

Microsoft Office 2003 goes on sale this week. If you’re using Office 2000 or Office 97, there are improvements throughout the programs in the suite that make upgrading worthwhile. And Outlook 2003 has significant changes that deserve a look regardless of what...

MICROSOFT OFFICE 2003

Apr 17, 2003 | Microsoft, Office

Microsoft has quietly set the stage for a revolutionary change in pricing for Microsoft Office for individuals and small businesses. Office (Word, Excel, Outlook) has traditionally been so expensive that most people used the version that shipped with their new...

COOL ENVELOPE TRICK

Jan 12, 2003 | Office, Outlook

Microsoft Word is full of tricks. On this page, I described one simple trick to customize the way addresses appear when you drop them in from Microsoft Outlook. A client told me about how to make Word print out customized return addresses on envelopes – special font...

ON SALE

Sep 13, 2002 | hardware, Office, software

Costco has been carrying Sylvania conventional and flat screen monitors for a while now – and they’re perfectly good, in my experience. Today, though, the 17” monitors in stock were manufactured by Princeton Graphics – with fabulous specs, and on sale dirt-cheap at...

SERVICE PACKS

Sep 9, 2002 | Office, WinXP

Now that Windows XP Service Pack 1 is out the door, almost everybody should be installing one of the recent updates. Although the service packs fix a slew of bugs, their primary purpose these days is security, plugging the various ways people have found to break into...