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• Google begins Gears-enabling its office apps

  The Google Docs' word processor will be the first Google app to be made available offline using the free Google Gears extension, which means users will soon be able to read and edit their documents even without an Internet connection.

• Google Spreadsheets turns up heat on Excel

  Google is set to launch this week a Web-based spreadsheet program that will allow people to view and simultaneously edit data while conducting "in-document" chat, a company product manager said on Monday.

• Second zero-day Excel flaw emerges

  Attack code for a new security hole in Excel has surfaced on the Internet, just as Microsoft is scrambling to respond to a separate bug in the spreadsheet program.

• Office 12: Is that your spreadsheet on my server?

  With the next version of Office, Microsoft is trying to help inspire smarter cubicle dwellers.

• Excel hole opens PCs to hackers

  security hole in Microsoft Excel XP spreadsheet application could allow hackers to take over a user's PC by using specially formed XML stylesheets.

Features and Case Studies (82)

• Prevent auto creation of URLs in Excel

  You may not always want Microsoft Excel to automatically create hyperlinks as you enter them into a cell. Disabling this feature in Excel 2000, Excel 2002, and Excel 2003 can be accomplished by changing AutoCorrect settings or with a VBA macro.

• The open source guide to the galaxy

  Could your business be paying for a proprietary program when an open source alternative exists? Take a look at our guide as we count down the most popular open source products.

• Determine Server 2003 migration costs

  One of the costliest of migrations is moving to Windows Server 2003. A comprehensive budget is the best way to prepare for the effort, and here is an Excel budget workbook tool to help.

• The long march to Longhorn

  There's been no end to potholes and detours with Longhorn, the future version of Windows. Will Microsoft finally accept that it has bitten more than it can chew?

• Windows Rights Management--conspiracy or customer value?

  Is WRM in Office 2003 another way for Redmond to fend off competition, or does it legitimately protect intellectual property?

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• Google combines word processing, spreadsheets

  Google is diving further into the Web-based productivity-applications market by offering a new product that combines its online word-processing and spreadsheet programs.

• Free OpenOffice picks up from StarOffice

  OpenOffice.org developers have put the finishing touches on their productivity suite, which provides users and businesses with an alternative to Microsoft's Office suite.

• Windows Mobile 6

  Though it doesn't offer earth-shattering new features and interface issues remain, Windows Mobile 6 brings a collection of noteworthy improvements that makes its mobile devices easier to use and equips mobile professionals with more robust productivity tools.

• Microsoft Office: Then and Now

  Help, where did Undo go? Here's where to find that and other must-have commands in the new Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007.

• Images: Excel 2007 beta 2

  Microsoft is designing Excel's next generation to better visualise data, analyse trends. We take a look.

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