ODF is the default format of OpenOffice.org Most common OpenOffice file extensions are odt : Word Processor ods: Spreadsheet ( Excel) odp: Presentation (PowerPoint) By default MS Office doesn’t support those formats'. For Office 2003 To open one of the following formats you need to install Sun ODF Plugin You can download the Sun ODF Plugin from here  For office 2007 users Install Sun ODF Plugin for Microsoft Office. You must have Office 2007 SP 1 installed to make it Read more

Terminal Server Office 2003/2007/2010 Installation issue If you installed office in the same way you install it on your desktop. Your user information will be replicated to all other users. You may receive complaints that some excel or word files are been hold by your username or username you used to install Office. You can fix it the following way. Search for the user in registry One of the keys under HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurentVersionInstallerUserData will have office instalation Read more

To delete Microsoft Office 2003/2007 add-ins from registry follow the steps bellow Go to start>run type regedit and hit the enter key For Word – Delete the keys bellow – You can delete the key by pressing right click and delete HKEY_Local_Machine Software Microsoft OfficewordAddins HKEY_Local_Machine Software Microsoft OfficeX.0wordAddins HKEY_CURRENT_USER Software Microsoft OfficeX.0 WordAddins HKEY_CURRENT_USER Software Microsoft Office WordAddins For PowerPoint – Delete Read more

  If you’re planning reinstall of your Windows VistaXPServer 200020032008  you’ll need to locate your copy of your product installation key. An easy way is to use Product Key Viewer utility to find forgotten Windows Office or SQL Product Keys. Read more

In Office 2007 Microsoft changed file formats. From now the following formats are used: docx – Word pptx – PowerPoint xlsx – Excell To be able to open those files in older versions of office please use Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats By installing the Compatibility Pack in addition to Microsoft Office 2000, Office XP, or Office 2003, you will be able to open, edit, and save files using the file formats new to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Read more

Recently I had to release email after work hours and I wondered if outlook have that option and I was verry happy to find it. To schedule automatic email send follow the steps. After you finished writing your  email, don't click Send (yet). In Outlook 2007: Click Options Then click on Delay Delivery and schedule when to send the message     Just fill when you want to send the message as seen on the image bellow _______________________________________________________________________________________ Read more

Microsoft Office 2007 Setup / Installation command switches. /admin - Runs the Office Customization Tool to create a Setup customization file (Setup customization file: File generated by the Office Customization Tool and applied during or after installation to customize the user's default configuration.) (MSP file). Example: \servernamesharenameOffice12setup.exe /admin /adminfile [path] - Applies the specified Setup customization file to the installation. You can specify a path to a particular Read more

As you probably know Microsoft releases set of DST patches for their systems every year at December . To avoid DST calendar issues  make sure to install/deploy the following updates to entire organization. Microsoft Windows Server and Windows XP/Vista Clients : KB 955839 Microsoft Exchange Server and outlook 2000/2003/2007 Clients:KB 941018 make sure to read MS DST Blog The country that was skipped in MS  Day Light Saving update are Argentina/Brazil and Chile. Daylight saving time begins: Read more

When user is trying to save attachment from outlook or save word/excell file usualy hi is directly redirected to his "My Documents"  folder set in his profile. When you work on Terminal server and want to restrict C: drive access it becomes a problem . User receives multiple errors when he try's to save file or email attachment. To change default save location for office applications via GPO you first must download office 2007 GPO ADM to your Domain Controler . Extract files to a local folder. Go Read more

Save your DOC files in PDF formant using Office 2007 Save as PDF plugin The Save as PDF plugin allows you to export and save files in PDF format in all Microsoft Office programs. Also you can convert your old DOC , XLS, PPT and MDB files to PDF format. Although this is an old thread I recently discovered that very few people know about it. The plugin is compatible with all Microsoft Office 2007 programs Access, Excel, Infopath, Word, Visio, Publisher, Powerpoint and OneNote. Download Microsoft Read more