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Box for Office: Open, Edit and Share Files Stored on Box Directly From Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

Kannan — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:03:53 +0000

As you might know, Box.net is a user-friendly cloud storage service that allows you to store, sync and share your contents securely over online. You get 5GB of free memory accessible from anywhere in the world on any system and devices. Its developer has released an add-on for Microsoft Office 2007 and 2010 called Box for Office in order to helps you easily open, edit, save, and share using Box from within Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Box for Office is a free add-on and you can open Box files directly from Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, then edit and save to the cloud and share with colleagues using Box shared links without ever leaving the Office programs you use the most.

It is quite simple to use. Download (19MB) and install the add-on, run Microsoft Office application and click on the Box option (Open, Share, Save) to work with your Office files (Word, Excel and PowerPoint).

Box for Office Offers the Followings:

Open a file already stored on Box, edit locally, and continue saving to the cloud
Open a new or existing file locally in Word, PowerPoint, or Excel, then save directly to Box
Grab a Box shared link and send a file to co-workers without leaving Office

This add-on is compatible with Microsoft Office 2007 and 2010, and is available to all Box PC users. (via)

Microsoft Office Plugin Google Cloud Connect Now Available to All

Kannan — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 02:38:57 +0000

Google has announced the availability of Google Cloud Connect to everyone. It is a free plug-in for Microsoft Office 2003, 2007, and 2010 with that you can share and edit your Word, PowerPoint, and Excel documents simultaneously with other people remotely.
It is very easy to use and completely free. It is just like this – install the plug-in, sign-in with your Google account, create a document and share or edit with others by adding other people as editors to a document.

Watch the video below to know how it works.

You can download Google Cloud Connect at source here, read more about it, and know how it works at here. (Via)

Shortcut Key to Hide and Unhide Ribbon Menu in Office 2007 and 2010

Kannan — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 06:42:32 +0000

The all-new Ribbon interface of Office 2007 and 2010 is very attractive, easy to handle and helps to makes your work faster. But one shortcoming of it is that it occupies large space on your screen than a normal menu. If you are using Netbook or similar device with smaller screen size, you can fold down the Ribbon with a shortcut key.

To hide the Ribbon interface, just double click on the ‘Home’ tab on the Ribbon (or any tab). The Ribbon interface will vanish instantly.

To bring back the ribbon temporarily just click on any menu tab or use the shortcut key Ctrl + F1.
Hope you’ll enjoy this post.

Two methods to completely remove Microsoft Office 2010 from your PC

Kannan — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 09:58:06 +0000

Even though the installation and uninstallation process of Microsoft Office 2010 is simple and straightforward, few people encounter some issues when installing or uninstalling Office 2010.

The following tips may help you in two situations: when the normal uninstallation of Office 2010 failed and when the fresh installation freezes in the middle and prevents further installation or uninstallation of Office 2010.

How to uninstall Office 2010 beta completely?

If you got an error message that saying “this product installation has been corrupted…..” when trying to uninstall Office 2010 (beta), the tips that I found on Techgeekmore may help you.

There are two methods: Most probably the error is caused by a missing xml file from the Grove portion of the Office installation. However, if you haven’t installed Groove, there are other reasons also.

First method with Groove installed: To solve this issue, you will need a copy of your installation source / CD.

1 – Locate the Grove Folder on your installation Source / CD

2 – Copy the setup.xml from the groove folder, and paste it in C:\Program Files – Common Files – Microsoft Shared – OFFICE14 – Office Setup Controller – Groove.en-us –

3 – Try to uninstall Office again

Second method without Grove Installed or without the Office Installation Source

Go to the Microsoft Support Page at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971179/. Using the Microsoft Fix It function, you can solve your problem. The process helps you remove Office 2010 (also 2007) from your PC.

How to remove partially installed Office 2010 for installing it again?

In certain situations the installation process of Office 2010 freezes before completion, you cannot rollback it or uninstall it as there is no entry for this installation in the Add/Remove list. Moreover it’s also impossible to install any other version of Office (such as Office 2007).

You can try to manually uninstall Office 2010 by the steps below as suggested by Microsoft:

1. Download and install the Windows Installer Cleanup Utility.

2. After you install the Windows Installer CleanUp Utility, click Start -> All Programs -> Windows Install Clean Up.

3. Highlight Microsoft Office 2010 entry in the list and then click Remove. Quit the Utility.

Note: If you have got any other old or redundant office entries such as Office 2007 or other Office stand alone products such as Visio in the list, please remove them together.

4. Close all applications.

5. Click Start, in the Search box, type “regedit” (without the quotation marks) and press Enter.

6. Expand the registry tree on the left pane and locate the following two registry subkeys:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER – Software – Microsoft – Office
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE – Software – Microsoft – Office

7. Right-click on this registry subkey and click Delete to delete those keys.
8. Open Windows Explorer, and then browse to the “C:\Program Files” folder

If it exists, rename the “Microsoft Office” to “Microsoft Office OLD”
If it exists, rename “OfficeUpdate” to “OfficeUpdateOLD”
If it exists, rename “OfficeUpdate14″ to “OfficeUpdate14OLD”

9. Click Start, in the Search box, type “%Temp%” (without the quotation marks) and press Enter.

10. Empty the Temp folder.

Note: If some files can’t be deleted, please skip them, which don’t influence the result of the troubleshooting.

11. Empty the Recycle Bin.

12. Restart your computer. Try to install Office 2010 again.

Get classic menu & toolbars in Office 2010 with UBitMenu

Kannan — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 15:45:05 +0000

As I told in my previous post, the ribbon interface of Microsoft Office 2007 and Office 2010 is very easy to use, but some new users who switch from the Office 2003 find some difficulty to use new menu and commands.

If you have spent several minutes trying to find features in Office ribbons that would have been at your finger tips in Office 2003, here is a simple solution to get accustomed to the new ribbon interface.

The lightweight solution UBitMenu emulate and/or activate the Office 2003 menu in Microsoft Office 2010 and 2007 (Word/Excel/PowerPoint).

UBitMenu does not hide the ribbon interface, but adds the classic menu as a new ribbon. It definitely simplifies your work and is free for personal use.

You can download UBitMenu at source.

Simple way to find Office 2003 menu & commands in Office 2010

Kannan — Mon, 17 May 2010 17:40:14 +0000

Microsoft has just launched Office 2010 and a free trial download is available at here. This version has many new features such as an intuitive navigation, better copy paste options, inline photo editing option, etc.

Here I am talking about a different topic. Like Office 2007 Office 2010 also comes with the famous ribbon interface, and of course it is very easy to use.

However, many people who switch directly from the 2003 version to the 2010 version find a bit difficult to use menu and commands, as many tools and functions are reorganized and moved to a different menu.

To help you, Microsoft has released interactive guides, which show you where your favorite menu and toolbar commands are located in Office 2010.

Or, you can download and use the Office 2010 reference workbooks created by Microsoft. They’re available as Excel documents (XLSX) and included all the command equivalences between the 2003 and the 2010 Office versions.

Office 2010 add-in to detect grammar mistakes

Kannan — Mon, 17 May 2010 11:31:29 +0000

When you’re writing an official document, it should be perfect and neat; otherwise it might cause trouble for you later. Even if you proof read your documents many times, still there are chances for missing something.

The free Microsoft Office 2010 add-in (Office 2007 & 2003 are also supported) Grammarly can give a comprehensive report on grammatical mistakes and related problems such as spelling, plagiarism, vocabulary, etc.
The add-on is very simple to use. After installation, just click Grammarly and then Check Grammar button (see screenshot above) from your Word or PowerPoint, it will instantly analyze your document online and let you know the problems.

However, this utility will not solve your problems. You need to subscribe and pay to get the answer. Even so, you can make sure that your document is perfect.

Grammarly Add-In requires Microsoft Office 2003, 2007 or 2010. Download the add-on at the source