The education sector has by far the most potential to steer and promote the direction of open-source than anything else in the UK. So why has Becta waited a year to whinge about Office and Vista instead of doing what it’s there to do – lead?

I’ve been using Office 2007 quite happily for some time now. But the niggles are starting to hit me.
One of the main issues is the new .docx format not being supported across the board yet. And with me being a sucker for all things new, I have to make a point of saving an alternate [...]

Now that MS Office 2007 is doing the rounds, I suppose it’s time to lookat some of its shortcomings.
It has a few when it comes to deployment. The biggest nuisance being deployment.
You have four options:

Install it on a PC manually (not great)
Deploy through group policy with no customisations
Use a deployment system such as SMS
Use a [...]

I was hopping around the Palm site looking for some Outlook 2007 conduits for my Tungsten T3 today. I realised that I haven’t actually synchronized my Palm in about a month!
I was lucky to find Outlook 2007 Conduits on the Palm site, only after following a link within the Outlook 2003 conduits. Oddly, Palm haven’t [...]

Release 1 of the OpenXML Translator for Microsoft Word is now available through Sourceforge.
This tool allows MS Word users to open files saved in OpenOffice Write format (.ODF), make modifications and save the files.
Microsoft is due to release this through its website shortly, and apparently there will be Impress and Calc converters, too.
For people who [...]

Following my Word to PDF convertor script, here is the Excel version.
Prerequisites
MS Excel 2007
Office 2007 Save As PDF Plugin
Same rules apply. Copy and paste the code into notepad and save onto the desktop as ExceltoPdf.vbs.
‘Excel to PDF
‘By John Reid
‘(c) 2007 bloggingIT – http://ccgi.maxpower.plus.com/wp

‘Feel free to use, modify, and redistribute – just leave the credits intact

‘Quick [...]