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The Forgotten Attachment Detector (FAD) is a Grassroots Project from Bhavesh Chauhan, who works in Hyderabad, India, as a Software Development Engineer for Microsoft’s IT team. He created FAD as a side project in his personal time, and Office Labs is helping him release FAD publicly and collect...

In this image, you can see all the pages in a section, and we think that this is one of the places you'll be spending the most time. This is what it looks like when you've zoomed out from a single page to a section, and to do to do that, you use the right-click button. If you want to zoom in to a page...

Say you've never heard of interactive guides. You're brand new to Office 2007 and you're frustrated and you're mad and you're wondering where in the heck everything went! See, you know there’s a page orientation drop-down choice in Word but it isn't where it used to be! And you know you need to...

If you're like me (hey, it ain't so bad!) you probably have Outlook open all the time. And if you're NOT like me, you tweet all the time, hopping back and forth between your browser and Outlook (and whatever else you're working on—you ARE working on other things besides Twitter...aren't you?)....

The love of a good dog? Loyal, steady, sincere (and freely given). Always sending promised attachments? Not quite as reliable. Missing Attachment Power Toy to remind you about missing attachment? Welcome back to loyal, steady, and sincere. If you've ever forgotten to include an attachment to an important...

I know that there exists people who—without fail—stick closely to their budget, always pay every single bill on time (and in full) and still have money in their paper route or babysitting savings account. I would not be one of those people. (I'm not even sure I know one of those people—oh...

Alrighty, my point: Cheese (and other extras) at this particular restaurant were free , and the hungry patrons who didn't even KNOW that they wanted cheese were thrilled to have it once it appeared on their plates. What could be better than something warm, gooey, and...free? So this week, I'm serving...

There are a couple of ways to make sure that everyone is able to read, view, and work with Office 2007 documents, presentations, and workbooks. If you are the one who created the Office 2007 file, you can save a copy of it that is compatible with Word 97-2003, PowerPoint 97-2003, or Excel 97-2003. Read...

If you receive a file that you can’t open, all is not lost. You can download a viewer from Office Downloads and see what it is the sender wants you to see. Same thing applies if you're sending a file to someone who doesn't have the program: Either attach the viewer to your e-mail or include a link...

When the new Ribbon user interface was introduced for Office 2007, good gracious, did we get an earful of moaning and groaning. But eventually you found your way by reading up on it , using interactive guides , watching demos , and maybe just through trial and error. Okay, so, you've gotten through the...

Microsoft Office is great on its own; you can accomplish most anything with it. But you can never be too productive, too efficient, or too dolled up with features. Let's get accessorized at the Office Marketplace. Everyone loves a good deal and everyone loves something new, so let's slap on a...

Sometimes you just need a little something to tide you over until a new version of Office is released: an add-in, an update, a white paper to prevent your Office programs from going all flabby on you. A nip here, a tuck there ... a quick visit to Office downloads can make you feel alive again. There...