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26 unusual facts about Microsoft Office


Adoption of free and open-source software by public institutions

As of 29th January, 2014 the UK government is considering switching from Microsoft Office products to open-source alternatives such as OpenOffice and Google Docs.

Apache POI

This is essentially the information that one can see by using the File"?title=Microsoft Office">Office application.

Since all Microsoft Office files are OLE 2 files, this component is the basic building block of all the other POI elements.

Battlefield High School

The program offers courses in computer science and programming, as well as advanced certification programs including A+, Oracle, Cisco, Microsoft Certified Systems, and is a certification center for the Certified Internet Web Professional program.

Brad Silverberg

Brad Silverberg is an American computer scientist and businessman, most noted for his work at Microsoft in 1990–1999 as Senior VP and product manager for MS-DOS, Windows, Internet Explorer, and Office.

British and Malaysian English differences

Most computer software in Malaysia including Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office come pre-set with English (United States) as the default and these settings are seldom changed to English (United Kingdom) resulting in the proliferation of American English in many places of work, local universities and other places with heavy reliance on documents and content created by using computers.

Cambridge IT Skills Diploma

The Cambridge IT Skills Diploma is a certificate that is based on the Microsoft Office software, this certificate assesses a range of the most important IT skills required and is available at two levels: Foundation and Standard.

City Charter High School

Students receive instruction on Adobe Photoshop, submit papers electronically, and can receive certification in any Microsoft Office program.

ColumbiaSoft

It allowed users to perform keyword searches on documents, such as those produced by the Microsoft Office suite of applications (Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and other application documents).

Continuous obsolescence

Many accuse Microsoft of doing exactly this with the file formats used by its Office application suite.

Data exchange

The term is also applied to any file format that can be read by more than one program, including proprietary formats such as Microsoft Office documents.

Digital studio

:The five computers in the FSU Digital Studio each have Microsoft Office 2007 and Adobe Design Premium CS5 installed.

GendBuntu

2004 - OpenOffice.org software replaces 20,000 copies of the Microsoft Office suite on Gendarmerie computers, with the transfer of all 90,000 office suites being completed in 2005.

IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence

Office component lets users work with IBM Cognos content in their familiar Microsoft Office environment.

Károly Simonyi

He is the father of Charles Simonyi, a prominent computer-software executive who oversaw the creation of Microsoft Office.

Kingsoft

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Kingsoft researched and developed word processors and other office applications, such as its flagship product, Word Processing System 1.0, which launched in 1989, six years before the first version of Microsoft Office launched.

Language Interface Pack

Unlike MUI packs which are available only to Microsoft volume license customers and for select SKUs of Windows Vista, a Language Interface Pack is available freely and can be installed on a licensed copy of Microsoft Windows or Office and a fixed base language.

Microsoft Exchange Server

Microsoft now appears to be positioning a combination of Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office Live Communications Server, Live Meeting and Sharepoint as its collaboration software of choice.

MyFax

Some of the features of MyFax include the ability to send and receive faxes by email and through the internet, as well as send faxes directly from Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook, and Microsoft Windows-based applications including Google Docs, OpenOffice.org, and Intuit QuickBooks.

Paul Thurrott

He regularly writes news, previews, and reviews for beta and completed Microsoft products, such as Windows, Microsoft Surface, Windows 8, Windows Phone, Microsoft Office, and other products.

PCMark

Unlike previous versions, PCMark 8 includes battery life testing and benchmarks using 3rd party applications from Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft Office.

Pikes Peak Library District

The district has free Internet and Microsoft Office access at all locations, free wireless connectivity at most locations, as well as a collection of eBooks and eAudios, email reading lists, and Ask-a-Librarian online reference service.

Reforms of French orthography

On 23 March 2005, a version of Encarta was published using the new spelling, and, on 14 April 2005, an update of Microsoft Office was offered.

Skegness Academy

During years 7, 8 and 9, pupils are taught aspects of Microsoft Office, and in years 10 and 11, can opt for ICT which includes computing skills, Networking, website development and Designing & Implementing Software solutions.

UIUC Engineering Hall

In addition to Microsoft Office, it also includes AutoCAD, Autodesk Inventor, Eclipse, MATLAB, and Iode, an educational software package developed by UIUC professor in mathematics Peter Brinkmann.

Xuedong Huang

From 2000 to 2004, Huang served as general manager of Microsoft's Speech Platforms Group, where he led both the business and engineering teams that shipped Microsoft Speech Server and other voice technologies used in Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Windows Mobile and Microsoft Exchange Server.


Apex High School

The applications courses range from Applications I, covering the use of applications such as Microsoft Office, up to E-Commerce I which covers static web development including XHTML and basic JavaScript and a new capstone course for Seniors: Digital Video and Media.

Instructional design coordinator

Familiarity with common desktop development and office applications, such as Microsoft Office, Macromedia Dreamweaver and other applications in the Macromedia Studio series, Adobe Photoshop, GoLive, applications designed for use in academic settings, such as Camtasia, and other applications used for developing web content and facilitating remote instruction.

Intelligent code completion

Other Microsoft products that incorporate IntelliSense include FrontPage, Expression Web (in code view), the Visual Basic for Applications IDEs in the Microsoft Office products, and many others.

MojoPac

MojoPac supports popular applications such as Firefox and Microsoft Office, and it is also high performance enough to run popular PC Games such as World of Warcraft, Minecraft and Half-Life 2.

SoftArtisans

The company has two products: OfficeWriter, a .NET-based Microsoft Office reporting solution and FileUp, a client-server-server HTTP file transfer provider.

The Secret Guide to Computers

It includes updated and "new info on modern computer dealers, Windows 7, modern Web browsers (Internet Explorer 8&9, Firefox 4&5, and Chrome 12), best Websites, modern e-mail systems (Live Mail, Yahoo Mail, and Gmail), the iPad, Microsoft Office 2010, modern programming (in Java 6, QB64, Visual Basic 2010, Visual C++ 2010, and Visual C# 2010), axiomatic math, Spanish pronunciation, Bible translations, and fun stuff."

Visual Basic

Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) is included in many Microsoft applications (Microsoft Office), and also in many third-party products like SolidWorks, AutoCAD, WordPerfect Office 2002, ArcGIS, Sage 300 ERP, and Business Objects Desktop Intelligence.

Visual Basic for Applications

VBA is built into most Microsoft Office applications, including Office for Mac OS X (apart from version 2008) and other Microsoft applications such as Microsoft MapPoint and Microsoft Visio, as well as being at least partially implemented in other applications such as ArcGIS, AutoCAD, CATIA and WordPerfect.