How to Make A Website in Word For Mac

By | May 5, 2011 | 1 Comment

word-mac-logoThere are a lot of basic HTML editors out there for your Mac. Many of them can even be downloaded and used for an indefinite span of time at no cost to you at all. No one is going to deny that fact. The real question is, do you actually need to download one of them at all?

If your needs are basic, and you have Word already installed on your Mac, then you do not need to download anything at all. Even if you have never used Word as a web editor in the past, it does have that feature and you can use it to save yourself some hard drive space. This is especially good news if you have an older Mac laptop that is short on space.
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Busy Docs Syncs Local Documents With Google Docs

By | November 12, 2010 |

busydocs-logoA lot of municipalities and companies both big and small are migrating to Google for email and document management. There are lots of pros and cons for migrating to the cloud. What no one seems to really talk about is the effort it takes to move all of the documents.

Busy Docs is a service that makes the move easier. Allowing you to edit documents locally and have the sync with your cloud storage will help ease your mind and still allow you to edit and house local copies.
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PDFTiger Free Giveaway

By | October 15, 2010 |

pdftigerWe have previously covered how to convert PDF file to Word document, but if you are looking to convert your PDF into images, spreadsheet, HTML or even SWF files, then you got to give PDFTiger a try. The best of all, it’s free for now.

PDFTiger is having a time-limited giveaway promotion for… well, you already guess it, PDFTiger. PDFTiger is both a PDF conversion tool as well as a PDF creator. From existing PDFs, you can convert them to DOC, RTF, TXT, BMP, JPG, GIF, TIF, HTML or SWF files with only 3 mouse clicks. You can also create PDF file from Word, Excel, Powerpoint, text, Images and all printable files.
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Quanp Adds Microsoft Office Addin, Allowing You to Manage Your Online Files

By | September 4, 2010 |

quanp-addin-iconQuanp, the online storage service that gives you a whopping 10GB of free storage space has now come up with another way for you to utilize your account – Microsoft Office Addin. If you are not aware, quanp has been pretty active in developing interactive widgets recently to get people to use their storage services. Widgets like quanp send, quanp.drop and quanp.on are useful stuff that you can make use of.

With this latest quanp Office addin, you will be able to download, edit, upload and share your document directly from your Office.
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How to Use Word 2010 As An Offline Blog Editor

By | May 10, 2010 |

word2010-iconMost Windows users and bloggers will agree that Windows Live Writer is one of the best blogging editor around. However, unknown to many, Microsoft Office Word (since version 2007) also comes with blog editing feature that you can quickly setup without having to install any extra software.

With the release of Microsoft Office 2010 in June, let us explore how you can use your Word 2010 as an offline blog editor.

Note: Microsoft Office 2010 beta is available for free download and testing.
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9 More OpenOffice Extensions

By | April 17, 2010 |

openoffice-logoMoving all of your apps and information in the cloud has been adopted by a great number of people. However, there are also a large number who still prefer having a desktop application. Pretty much everyone like free.

I am typically use Google Docs for my word processing and spreadsheets, but do on occasion tinker with OpenOffice. I tend to use OpenOffice if I am on my netbook and not connected to the internet. I can use the word processor to write and not be tempted to go on Twitter or use Stumbleupon to find random sites.

At first, I didn’t realize you could use extensions; once I found that out, I was hooked. One of my favorites was covered in a previous post about OpenOffice extensions. It allows you to import, export and update documents you create in OpenOffice with Google Docs and other cloud office apps.

Below are several more extensions to help you tailor this opensource app to the way you use it.
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3 Sites to Easily Share Your Documents With Others

By | November 15, 2009 |

socialdocs-introWith all of the different ways to be social on the web, one of the things you may not think of sharing is your documents and presentations. I was surprised there are as many sites out there offering just such a service. When I really thought about it, it makes a lot of sense. These sites are they are like Youtube or Vimeo for documents.

Like many other types of social sites, these document sharing sites have the same basic idea to them; post all of your documents and presentations for all to see. Large companies like Ford use these sites to share fact sheets and marketing PDFs. They can be a really great place to research a topic or get ideas for a project you you may be stuck on.

Some of the sites offer the option to buy documents such as contracts, invoices and even ebooks. I noticed, while perusing through some of the sites, quite a few publishers and online magazines have accounts.
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How To Convert PDF Files to Word

By | March 11, 2009 |

adobe_pdf_logoPDF files are easy to view and simple to read, however they can be a pain to edit (even if you do have the editor). This is where the app we’ll discuss in this article comes in -Some PDF. With this desktop app (compatible with Windows XP/Vista) you’ll be able to take any PDF document that you’d like to edit, convert it to Word format, and edit it with the tools found in Word.

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