About Akram

I am an IT Consultant and before that, had been a software developer. I had to write and develop computational formulations in both jobs.

Having cut my teeth on proprietary text editors such as Wordstar, Unix’s vi and Wang’s word processor and Multimate as well as Visicalc and Multiplan, when I first used Word and Excel on the Mac in the late 80s it was a very fresh and invigorating experience. I still miss it. Everything was new and everything was super powerful. Happily, we have a reverse kind of freshness today, like searching in a forest for new fruit.

I hope to share some of these “fresh catches” with you: tips, workarounds, discussions and plain nagging about annoyances. Most of the posts will be common to both Office 2003 and 2007. Discussions will also cover Office’s other components: Project and Visio.