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According a report on The Daily, an iPad only newspaper Microsoft is working on a version of Office for the iPad. Continue reading »

Training solutions provider Infinite Skills Inc has released a new video series to help Mac users work productively with the latest edition of Excel for OS X. The Learning Microsoft Excel 2011 Tutorial, narrated by trainer Guy Vacarro, includes beginner-targeted lessons that show how to use Excel in common applications such as monitoring sales data, calculating profits versus losses, creating expense forms, managing contact lists and more. Continue reading »

This article on Microsoft’s web site tell us how to troubleshoot issues that occur in Office for Mac on a computer that is running Mac OS X 10.4.x or a later version. Continue reading »

Back in May, Joshua Johnson posted this article on free applications for the Mac. Yes, I know yet another list.
This time it is a list of 100 free applications. And there are many here that I didn’t know about.
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On Friday, Mariner Software, developers and publishers of professional and personal software announced the release of Mariner Calc for the iPad. Introduced in 1991 for the Mac and in 2009 for the iPhone and iPod Touch, Mariner Calc for iPad brings one more level of mobile productivity to the small business, enterprise or home user who needs access to Excel files.
(Note, also on Friday Microsoft announced that they had no plans for Office for the iPad.)
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Recently on the UGAB mailing list we were asked about support for iWork. The first response that I saw was actually one of the last. Nicholas Pyers, Founder & Publisher of AppleUsers.org said: “I don’t know how active they are now, but there is still the iWork Users Group (iWUG) that was started by the AppleWorks Users Group. Its URL is: http://www.awug.org/.”

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How long have you used Stuffit? It started as freeware, then evolved into the shareware millions of Mac users confidently used for years. Then it was ported to Windows for cross-platform compression. Today, it has become a dynamic, full featured, yet inexpensive, compression powerhouse : Stuffit Deluxe 2010. I’ve already upgraded!

Judge Leonard Davis of the US District Court here in Texas has ordered a permanent injunction that says Microsoft can’t sell or import any MS Word products that have the capability of opening .XML, .DOCX or .DOCM files. Continue reading »

Office 2008 for Mac Service Pack 2 is what the marketing folks call it. The Engineers call it Mac Office 12.2.0 or “SP2” for short. As of July 20th, it is available. Continue reading »

I have long been a fan of DataViz and their translators for various file formats. I used MacLink and hMacLinkPlus from version 1.0 until I switched to MacOS X. Now they make Documents to Go for the iPhone. They just announced version 1.1 just three weeks after the original launch of the product. Continue reading »

Nisus(R) Software Inc. has announced the release of Nisus Writer Pro 1.3, the latest version of our critically acclaimed word processor. Nisus Writer Pro 1.3 adds a completely new document manager. The document manager now can manage any file on your drive, regardless of its location. You can create file groups, or use the predefined smart groups. There is also a style library, and an advanced search that leverages Apple’s Spotlight technology. Continue reading »

VBA stands for Visual BASIC for Applications. I currently am trying to learn it for use at my full time job on a PC to automate some tasks in Excel. Continue reading »

Microsoft has announced that Office for Mac 2008 is now available from MacTopia as a 30 day trial. I believe that it has had fewer upgrades from 2004 than expected, even if the sales to switchers are good. Continue reading »

As you may be aware, Microsoft Excel for Mac 2008 has dropped several important features that we available in previous versions. Solver is one of them. (VBA is the major one.) Continue reading »