When Microsoft rolled out Office 2007, the company made some fundamental changes to its file formats, updating them from binary files to XML-based packages. The default format for Excel 2007 followed ...

Small databases of a few rows, to a few thousand rows, can often be created more quickly and easily in Microsoft Excel, than by using a dedicated database system. Excel is available as a stand-alone ...

Just a heads up...<BR><BR>Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office Excel, and Microsoft Office PowerPoint versions 2000 through 2003 cannot natively open documents that are stored in the Office Open ...

The biggest reason to upgrade to Microsoft's latest office software suite isn't the new native document format or the Ribbon -- it's because the talking paperclip is finally dead. Actually, it's the ...

The Chart Wizard of earlier versions may be gone in Excel 2007, but creating charts is still as easy as ever. Beyond building basic charts there are various techniques you can use to make your charts ...

A 500-pound gorilla sits pretty much wherever it pleases. But can that gorilla force everyone to upgrade? Office 2007, now in public beta release, is the next ...

Microsoft has issued a fix for the calculation bug that was discovered in Excel 2007: Two weeks ago, we posted about an issue involving the calculation of numbers around 65,535 and 65,536. As of today ...

Rollouts of Office 2007 are on the rise, but are there caveats you haven’t considered? The folks at ConverterTechnology think so, and although I love Office 2007 and its ribbon interface, I recognize ...

On December 11, Microsoft released the first service pack (SP) for Office 2007 and SharePoint Server 2007 -- a calendar quarter ahead of schedule. The new service packs, known collectively as "the ...

Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' Computer Select, back when CDs were new-fangled, and IBM's PC XT was wowing the crowds at Comdex. He spent more ...