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In Brief: Amazon tips hand on Microsoft Office release date

by Michael Rose (Sep 10th, 2010)

Computerworld points to an October 26 ship date for Microsoft Office 2011, based on Amazon's page updates indicating the 10/26 availability -- the products have since been switched back to "sign up to be notified" pre-release mode. Gregg Keizler's piece also reiterates the discount options for ...

Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac screenshots leaked

by Michael Grothaus (Mar 30th, 2010)

BoyGeniusReport has posted a series of screen shots from the next version of Microsoft Office for the Mac. The screen shots show the updated versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. They also show the first look at the new Outlook for Mac, which replaces Entourage. The screen shots show how the ...

Microsoft updates Office for Mac 2008 and 2004

by Sang Tang (Mar 9th, 2010)

Microsoft has just released updates to the 2004 and 2008 versions of Microsoft Office. According to the company, the updates, which weigh in at 9.7 MB and 221.5 MB respectively, provide "fixes for vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer's memory with ...

Macworld 2010: Quickoffice Connect Mobile Suite demonstration

by Steven Sande (Feb 13th, 2010)

If you've ever had a need to create or edit Microsoft Office documents on your iPhone or any other mobile device, you're probably familiar with Quickoffice. It's a solid app that provides a way to transfer documents to your iPhone, open them, make changes, and then save them back to the device. At ...

Macworld 2010: Microsoft's MacBU talks Office for Mac 2011

by Steven Sande (Feb 12th, 2010)

The next version of Microsoft's Office suite, slated for arrival during the fourth quarter of 2010, has a new name, enhanced functionality, and even a more streamlined look. TUAW met with members of the Microsoft Mac Business Unit (MacBU) on Thursday to hear how the developers of Office for Mac are ...

Making Microsoft Office on the Mac look more PC-like

by Sang Tang (Dec 28th, 2009)

Previously, I've mentioned that, despite their similar DNA and file interoperability, Microsoft Office for the PC and Mac are different in their own little subtle ways. This is part function: for example, Microsoft Excel on the Mac uses the 1904 date system, while its PC counterpart uses the 1900 ...

Court orders Microsoft to stop selling Office 2007 by January 11th

by Joachim Bean (Dec 22nd, 2009)

Update: A statement from Microsoft's director of public affairs, Kevin Kutz, clarifies the affected versions. Note that Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac was not cited as an infringing product, so this ruling is not applicable to Mac versions of Office. We have just learned that the Court of Appeals ...

Pasting with style in Apple's iWork suite

by Sang Tang (Nov 16th, 2009)

In Apple's iWork suite, the "Paste and Match Style" or "Paste Style" options, as implied in their names, allow you to paste the style from one element onto another; or to paste an element into a document and to match the style of the document that it's getting pasted to. In many ways, they're the ...

Microsoft Mac Business Unit announces details of next version of Office for Mac

by Steven Sande (Aug 13th, 2009)

With Microsoft Office for Mac still owning a hefty portion of the Mac software market, it's always news when the Mac Business Unit decides to spill the beans on their product plans for the future.TUAW's Michael Rose was on the press call this morning and noted the headlines, with details in the ...

Patch for Microsoft Office 2008 XML issues now available

by Sang Tang (Aug 7th, 2009)

As promised, Microsoft has released a patch (dubbed version 12.2.1) to address issues that some Microsoft Office 2008 users have had with opening XML-based documents. When attempting to open a document in Microsoft Office 2008, some users have been presented with an error message that resembles the ...

Open XML compatiblity issues spring up in Service Pack 2 update for Office 2008

by Sang Tang (Jul 31st, 2009)

A few weeks back, Microsoft released its Service Pack 2 update for Microsoft Office 2008 for the Mac. While adding a host of features and refinements (such as Custom Path Animation in PowerPoint and increased speed and load times in Word and Excel), the service pack apparently packed too much of a ...

What to do when the wrong date is pasted in Excel

by Sang Tang (Jul 30th, 2009)

From Quentin Tarantino's classic, Pulp Fiction: Vincent: ...But you know what the funniest thing about Europe is? Jules: What? Vincent: It's the little differences. I mean, they got the same [things] over there that we got here, but it's just - it's just there it's a little different. Jules: ...

TUAW Review: Quickoffice for iPhone

by Steven Sande (Apr 29th, 2009)

Having worked with Quickoffice on both the Palm and Windows Mobile platforms in the past, I was eagerly anticipating the release of the iPhone version. Quickoffice gives you the power to view, edit, and create Microsoft Office documents. The new Quickoffice for iPhone "only" works with Word and ...

Microsoft Office rolls up to 12.1.7, trial edition downloadable

by Michael Rose (Apr 15th, 2009)

There's an update in town, and it's all about locking it down: the 12.1.7 update to Microsoft Office 2008 (available within the suite via the software update tool, or downloadable from Microsoft) closes two security holes present in multiple versions of Microsoft Excel and first acknowledged by the ...

TUAW Featured Video: Dennis Liu's 'Pretending to Work'

by Chris Ullrich (Mar 12th, 2009)

As you may recall, previously on TUAW we brought you innovative filmmaker Dennis Liu's extremely creative music video for The Bird and the Bee's song "Again and Again." Next, I managed to snag an interview with the busy Liu while he was preparing one of his next projects. And now, though the ...