Microsoft Office

You may have heard the news about the upcoming Service Pack for Microsoft Office 2007, that will let you access more document formats like the XML Paper Specification (XPS), Portable Document Format (PDF) 1.5, PDF/A and Open Document Format (ODF) v1.1. The ODF format is becoming quite popular these…

Wow, these are nice! The Small Business site is offering some really good looking designer templates for Microsoft Office 2007 as a free download. There are templates for presentations, spreadsheets, invoices, business cards, emails, and newsletters. And if you're using a Mac, you'll be happy to…

The Digital Inspiration blog had some cool tips on how to open the internet right into your desktop applications, but what caught my eye was their example of opening a web page in Microsoft Word. To do so, all you need to do is type in a URL in the "Open" box - just don't forget the…

iStockphoto, one of the top online destinations for stock images announced the extension of its year-old program to provide low-res images and illustrations online, for free, to Microsoft Office users via Microsoft Office Online. Because the initial run of the program was so successful, iStockphoto…

Along with the announcement of the new features to Office Live, there also arrives a new add-in for Microsoft Office users. With this add-in, you can now open and save documents directly from Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, directly into your Office Live Workspace. The add-in works by providing you…

Microsoft Office Live Workspace, the recently announced online companion to Microsoft Office, now has a website where you can pre-register to use this new, free service. Once the beta launches, Microsoft Office Live Workspace users will be able to store 1000+ documents online and access them…

Do you want to use Outlook 2003 or Outlook 2007 to check your Windows Live Mail (formerly known as Hotmail)?  You used to be able to configure HTTP through Outlook, but then need a paid subscription to do so. However, with the new Microsoft Office Outlook Connector Beta, you…

Sharing your calendar with a co-worker is as easy as sending an email. Click the calendar tab in Outlook 2007 and select “Share my calendar…” an email-like window comes up allowing you to share calendars with co-workers. But what about sharing your calendar with friends and family members who don’t…

Back in January, I wrote a piece entitled Big Healthcare Savings from Surprisingly Simple Solutions. I profiled some excellent work at Childrens Memorial Hospital of Chicago where they are using solutions built with Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Office, and InfoPath to absolutely…

Even if you work in a so-called “most wired” American healthcare facility, I guarantee if you look around you’ll still find lots of paper forms and processes. Paper is endemic in American hospitals and clinics, even in those with fairly robust enterprise information systems and electronic medical…