Small databases of a few rows, to a few thousand rows, can often be created more quickly and easily in Microsoft Excel, than by using a dedicated database system. Excel is available as a stand-alone ...

When Microsoft rolled out Office 2007, the company made some fundamental changes to its file formats, updating them from binary files to XML-based packages. The default format for Excel 2007 followed ...

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Microsoft Corp. today confirmed that it has completed work on the system code for Office 2007 and released it to manufacturing. Customers in Canada and the U.S. can start downloading Office 2007 on ...

One of the new features in Microsoft Office 2007 that has everyone talking is Themes. The new themes include colors, fonts and designs that help you create attractive, professional-looking documents ...

Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' Computer Select, back when CDs were new-fangled, and IBM's PC XT was wowing the crowds at Comdex. He spent more ...