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Free PDF Creator add-in for Microsoft Office 2007

by MikeM on September 16, 2008

A free Adobe Acrobat Reader has been available for years for reading documents in PDF format. However if you owned a version of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) prior to Office 2007 and wanted to convert your MS Office documents into PDF format you needed to purchase a full copy of Adobe Acrobat for ~ $299. Another [...]

New File Formats for Office 2007 Documents

by MikeM on April 17, 2008

With the release of Office 2007 Microsoft began using a new default file formats for Office documents in Word, Excel and PowerPoint 2007. The default formats for saving files in Office 2007 programs are quite different from the default formats for saving files in earlier versions of Office and the are not backwardly compatible. The [...]

Copying Text from A Web Page

by MikeM on March 17, 2008

Question: I periodically copy text from a web page into a document or into an email and many times the formatting of the document I was working on becomes all messed up. Is there a way around this? Answer: Your problem is caused by unseen formatting instructions that are embedded within the text in the [...]