Category: Word processor
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OpenOffice nearly ready for Mac OS-X
We just learned that the OpenOffice development team will show its desktop software suite running on Mac OS-X in the upcoming Apple Expo (next month in Paris). Welcome to the Mac lovers in the world of free Word, Excel and PowerPoint (we remember that Microsoft Office is seriously abandonned on the Mac nowadays).
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Microsoft invents paying beta test
You thought that they wouldn’t dare: From the 2nd of August, Microsoft is going to charge 1.50$ per download of the beta version of Microsoft Office. Yes! Now, there are so many crzay people willing to test a bug-ridden version of Microsoft Office that the firm from Redmond can make them pay for this privilege.…
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Why you must not install MS Office 2007 beta
I think this would be a bad idea. This is why.
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Word tip #1: Letter template
Because, despite my repeated advice of migrating from Word (still expensive at Microsoft) to OpenOffice (freely downloadable and as powerful as MS-Word), you may still be using Word, I am giving you here the business letter template that I offered yesterday for OpenOffice, but adapted to Microsoft Word. With still the same advantages: There is…
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OpenOffice tip #1: Letter template
Nearly all users of a word processor have been faced with this minor annoyance of writing a passable commercial-like letter. But, worse, at the time of filling the envelope, you have to fight with a sheet of paper that would not accept to align itself with the address window of the envelope. Today, I am…
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No PDF for MS-Office
Adobe is trying hard to avoid having Microsoft include a PDF generator in its upcoming Microsoft Office newest desktop suite. They decided that this would be too much a menace against their business model and so told Microsoft that they would fight up to a judge if they tried to put PDF in MS-Office. In…