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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 ...

Microsoft releases Office 2008 Service Pack 2

by Joachim Bean (Jul 20th, 2009)

Today, Microsoft released the Office 2008 Service Pack 2 update. This update brings many improvements and fixes to Office 2008, including improved speed and stability to Word and Excel, new features in PowerPoint, as well as improvements to connecting to SharePoint servers. A brief list of fixes ...

ProfCast 75% off until January 24

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jan 21st, 2009)

Humble Daisy's ProfCast is a well-respected tool for turning PowerPoint and Keynote slideshows into podcasts, among many other features (including the ability to record live presentations). The software was recently updated to version 2.3.0 and if you haven't been motivated to try it before, it is ...

Ladies and gentlemen, start your lectures: ProfCast 2.3.0 arrives

by Steven Sande (Jan 5th, 2009)

Educators and professionals who need to record and podcast lectures often turn to Humble Daisy's ProfCast, a tool for adding enhancements to PowerPoint or Keynote slideshows to create powerful podcasts. ProfCast today received a major update to version 2.3. The original app allows recording of ...

Free Stuff: Keynote Objects

by Steven Sande (Jun 23rd, 2008)

iPresentee, a small company providing themes and objects for Apple's iLife and iWeb software suites, is offering a free download of Keynote Objects. Keynote Objects is a package of 100 attractive icon-like objects that can be used not only with Keynote, but also with Microsoft PowerPoint and Word. ...

OpenOffice.org 3 for Mac Beta is available

by Steven Sande (May 8th, 2008)

If you've been cursing the big price tag and lack of VBA support in Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac, OpenOffice.org is coming to your rescue. Last September, the OpenOffice.org dev team announced that they would be porting the suite to run natively on the Mac. Previous versions ran under the X11 ...

Mac Automation: automating Microsoft PowerPoint 2008

by Cory Bohon (Mar 26th, 2008)

Welcome to the 3rd Microsoft Office 2008 automation post. Previously we covered automating Excel 2008 and Word 2008, now we shine the spotlight on PowerPoint 2008. In this how-to, I will show you how to create an Automator workflow to automate the daunting task of applying animations to the slides ...

Mac Automation: automating Microsoft Word 2008

by Cory Bohon (Mar 10th, 2008)

When Microsoft released Office 2008 for Mac, they did something that I must applaud -- they joined the ranks of Mac developers creating Automator-able applications. When you do a search in Automator for "Microsoft," it will reveal all of the Automator actions that ship with Microsoft Office 2008. ...

APC reports Office 2008 in private beta

by Michael Rose (Mar 30th, 2007)

Happy Friday everyone! From Down Under it emerges (via APC, the Aussie computer magazine): a preview article on Office 2008, including the tempting tidbit that the suite is now in private beta, with the 'Escher' graphics engine and plenty of shiny bits. MBU managers also admit that the initial ...

Widget Watch: ThinkFree/Office doc viewer (Dashboard, Yahoo! and Google)

by David Chartier (Dec 1st, 2006)

If, for one reason or another, you don't have or don't want Microsoft Office installed, but you still need to view a doc, spreadsheet or presentation, the ThinkFree Online office crew have created a couple widgets (and even a Google module) to help ease your pain. I haven't been following ...

Keynote gets some love

by Scott McNulty (Nov 10th, 2006)

When you think Apple applications you think iLife, Final Cut, Motion, iChat, OS X. Those are the biggies, right? But what about poor little iWork? Well, it looks like iWork, Keynote in particular, is getting some love from the blogosphere. Tim Bray, XML geek and all around cool computer guy, penned ...

iPod your Keynote (or PowerPoint) presentations

by Scott McNulty (Aug 28th, 2006)

Steve Rubel has a nice post about using your iPod as a way to transport your presentations to and fro. The crux of the post is that you should get iPresent It, an $18 cross platform app that converts your presentation files into iPod friendly formats. It even autosyncs that that your presentation ...

Book: Discovering Automator

by David Chartier (Apr 30th, 2006)

Discovering Automator is a new book from Hanaan Rosenthal that delves into the many facets of making your Mac do more work in less time for you with the power of Mac OS X Tiger's Automator. From Automator World's description, Discovering Automator details "the ins-and-outs of Automator: basic ...

MacTech benchmarks Office 2004 on Rosetta

by David Chartier (Apr 23rd, 2006)

MacTech has published what I am fairly certain are the comprehensive Office 2004 on Rosetta test results for Intel Macs. Honestly, there is so much literature and testing in this article that I simply skimmed most of it and skipped ahead to the conclusion: "in general, Office 2004 under Rosetta ...