On October 25, Microsoft released Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 3. KB Article 2591039 ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2591039) contains technical details about SP3, while 2526086 ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2526086) contains general information...

In addition to the two other side effects to installing MS11-072 ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2553091) , as mentioned in the previous blog, there is yet another issue - this time with charts. Mind you this problem doesn't happen with all charts,...

Office File Validation, or OFV, was a new security feature (an add-in) released in Office 2010 and is installed as part of MS11-021, released in April 2011. It was back ported to Office 2007 and 2003. KB Article 2501584 states, "Office File Validation...

There are a couple of new problems that we are seeing on some machines after installing MS11-072: an issue with links and a problem saving files that are opened off a network. Problem 1 - Links contain duplicate folders We are seeing reports that...

In the beginning, there was KB Article 218153 - "Error message when clicking hyperlink in Office: 'Cannot locate the Internet server or proxy server' ". And it was good. This KB Article contains a registry key change that implements the 'ForceShellExecute...

If you're like me, you've got your Excel 2007 or 2010 icon pinned to the Windows 7 task bar. It's no secret that when you right click the icon you are able to left click on any of the recent or frequent files that appear. But what happens when this right...

Normally copy/paste operations in Excel are pretty instantaneous. You copy data from one place and then paste into a cell in Excel. Pretty straightforward. But what do you do if you notice that copy/paste seems to take an excesseively long time when doing...

Some people like the ability to open a new Excel spreadsheet in its own instance of Microsoft Excel, but it isn't overly apparent how to make this happen. This post will discuss the way you can modify your registry and make Excel spreadsheets each open...

There are fixes aplenty for Excel in Office 2010 Service Pack 1. You can download the patch from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2460049 . On this page you can choose to download the 32 or 64-bit version. This is dependent on the bit version of Office...

The cumulative update for Office 2007 and Office 2010 for February 2011 has been released! These updates can be found here: Office 2007 CU for February 2011 ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2493732 ) and the Office 2011 CU for February 2011 is here...

If you've ever used ActiveX controls on your Excel Spreadsheet you may have run into the problem of the control suddenly no longer working. When you open the workbook there's nothing but a big red X in the place of where your control used to be. The tree...