04 November 2009 ~ Comments

Microsoft discontinues Office Accounting after 16th Nov

If you have been using Microsoft Office Accounting software, then there is some news for you.  As per the communications email from Microsoft, it will no longer be distributing Office Accounting after 16th November, 2009.  Though you may continue using it, but some of the service will not work as mentioned below:

Continue Reading

10 September 2008 ~ Comments

Adobe Online Services – Share, Connect, Store and Buzz with Acrobat

Adobe – A company which you may have always known because of pdf only.  Though there are many thing Adobe as a company does like Photoshop, Flash and other stuff.   But you might have never heard of Adobe Online Suite of Applications.

Today I am introducing you to the Best of the Web application suite from [...]

Continue Reading

08 September 2008 ~ Comments

How to Share large files without attaching them in email?

I am sure you would have definitely received bounce back mails from the recipients when you sent large attachments in mail. Or you were not even able to send those big attachments because your service provider doesn’t allow those large size mails.Now what to do, how to send those large important documents to [...]

Continue Reading

08 May 2008 ~ Comments

OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta : A complete Office Suite

The public beta release of OpenOffice.org 3.0 is now available for download. You can install it along with your existing OpenOffice.org 2.4 installation. You don’t need to uninstall 2.4 to give 3.0 beta a try. 3.0 Beta has got some cool interface. Other than that some noticable features are:

You get a desktop [...]

Continue Reading

07 April 2008 ~ Comments

25 Reasons to use Ubuntu Linux instead of Windows

Lots of people argue why I should use Linux (any distro, I prefer Ubuntu) when I am currently using Windows or Mac. Given a chance to select your choice of operating system (OS), people may prefer to use Linux than anything else. The other thing which prevents users using Linux is the hardware support [...]

Continue Reading

10 October 2007 ~ Comments

Calculation Issue Update : Microsoft Excel 2007

Two weeks ago, there was a bug reported in Microsoft Excel 2007. The bug information is available on my previous post dated 27 September, 2007.
Microsoft has announced a fix for this bug with a patch. The same will be pushed to the users through Microsoft regular updates also. For more information read [...]

Continue Reading

01 October 2007 ~ Comments

Microsoft trying to catch up with Google

In its latest effort to catch up with its rival Google, Microsoft today announced a free online storage, file-sharing and collaboration service designed for users of its Office software suite : Microsoft Office Live Workspace – Beta.
This service is only available for pre-registration.
Office Live Workspace beta will initially be available in English [...]

Continue Reading

29 September 2007 ~ Comments

Blog of Knowledge – Monthly Recap : September 2007

If you have missed something over the month, you can read that again following the links provided here.  Every month end I will be providing this recap, just to make sure that none of my post go un-noticed and the readers visiting for the first time can quickly run through the posts.  Hope you would [...]

Continue Reading

27 September 2007 ~ Comments

Bug in Microsoft Excel 2007 : Calculation Issue

Recently a bug has been reported in Excel 2007 which causes the result of calculations near 65,635 to display wrongly. For example, try to find out the result for ‘=77.1*850, the result comes 100000 but it should have been 65,535. There are other instances also.
Microsoft has been notified for this bug [...]

Continue Reading

21 September 2007 ~ Comments

Adding Bullets on the same row with multiple columns

Actually, there is a trick in doing that.

First write everything in a single column with bullets or numbers.
Select the entire list you created.
Convert it into columns (2 or 3 or whatever)

You are all set.
See the example below:
List with a single column
List with 3 columns.
That was a question asked on Microsoft Technet Forum.
Hope it helps others [...]

Continue Reading

28 August 2007 ~ Comments

Store your file on the web with Windows Live SkyDrive

Last year there were lots of Web Applications launched by Google, which includes Google Docs & Spreadsheets. That application makes it easy for you to store all your Microsoft Word & Excel documents online. You don’t need to carry a Pen-Drive or a Flash Drive with you if you wanna access them in [...]

Continue Reading

27 August 2007 ~ Comments

Mass Mailing or Private Mailing

Recently I was going through the Microsoft Technical Forum where lots of people asked how to send a private mail to lots of people at the same time with the same content, kind of a Mass Mailing thing. Actually there are couple of ways of doing that.The quickest way of doing that is [...]

Continue Reading

22 August 2007 ~ Comments

Get Windows Live Hotmail in Outlook 2007

I tried many times to get Hotmail/Live mails in my Outlook 2007. But whatever I do, I always got an error during setup. Later, I figured that I can’t get free Windows Live Hotmail mails in Outlook, for that I will have to have a paid subscription. Then only I can do so. But if [...]

Continue Reading

04 April 2007 ~ Comments

Outlook 2007 Sluggish Performance

Recently I bought a Dell Inspiron E1505 Core 2 Duo T5600, 2GB RAM, 256MB NVIDIA Ge Force Go 7400 laptop with Windows Vista Home Premium pre-installed on it. Pretty fast and beautiful interface of Vista. Lot of pre-installed trial softwares from Dell which I didn’t request. Had to uninstall all of them [...]

Continue Reading

05 October 2006 ~ Comments

Beta Revolution

In my previous article I wrote about the BETA thing all over. So now I started seeing more of Beta. I will call it as Beta Revolution. Recently I saw Yahoo! Mail Beta and Live Mail Beta. Both of them are more like Microsoft Outlook environment. Blogger is already there into Beta as Beta Blogger [...]

Continue Reading