Category: Office Tips

How to display an equal sign in Excel

June 29th, 2009 | No Comments

The equal sign is a special sign used to indicates that we are typing a formula in a cell. It will never be shown in a cell. But, is it possible to display the equal sign in Microsoft Excel?

Actually you can display the equal sign. What you need to do is just add an apostrophe in front of the equal sign, like this:

'=

Once you press Enter, the apostrophe will disappear, leaving the equal sign.

Note: To display the apostrophe, just enter the apostrophe twice.


Microsoft Office 2007 service pack 2 download

June 2nd, 2009 | No Comments

The 2007 Microsoft Office Suite Service Pack 2 (SP2) provides the latest updates to the 2007 Office suite.

The updates includes improvements in stability, performance, and security.

Click here to download.


How to merge or combine PDF files with Ghostscript

April 23rd, 2009 | 2 Comments

Ghostscript is an interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF.

To merge or combine two or more PDF files, presuming that gswin32 (for Windows) or gs (for Linux) is in path,

For Windows

gswin32 -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOUTPUTFILE=combine.pdf -dBATCH file1.pdf file2.pdf file3.pdf

For Linux

gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOUTPUTFILE=combine.pdf -dBATCH file1.pdf file2.pdf file3.pdf


Adobe Reader 9 full standalone installation

March 24th, 2009 | 1 Comment

Adobe Reader 9 is the latest release of this PDF viewing tool. It lets you view, print, search and share Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files using a variety of platforms and devices. Version 9.1 fixes a security holes in Adobe Reader, related to a buffer overflow issue, and the ability to view FLV and SWF files in PDF documents.

Click here to download.


Create PDF with Microsoft Office 2007

March 19th, 2009 | No Comments

If you are a user of Microsoft Office 2007, there is a free add-in provided by Microsoft to publish your documents as PDF. Besides, it also allows you to send files as e-mail attachments in the PDF format.

This add-in will works with the following office programs:

  • Microsoft Office Access 2007
  • Microsoft Office Excel 2007
  • Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007
  • Microsoft Office OneNote 2007
  • Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007
  • Microsoft Office Publisher 2007
  • Microsoft Office Visio 2007
  • Microsoft Office Word 2007

To produce PDF, select Save to PDF from the Office or File menu.

The free add-in can be downloaded from here (SaveAsPDF.exe).