Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Office 2007 File Compatibility Update

If you are looking for ways to open the new Office 2007 files you can install the Office Compatibility Pack and it will enable your Office 2003/2000 installation to be able to work with the 2007 version of the files.

 

The original link to Microsoft:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=941b3470-3ae9-4aee-8f43-c6bb74cd1466&displaylang=en

 

You can also download and install OpenOffice which will give you access to the Microsoft Files and be able to create / edit them for free.  OpenOffice is available free under the GNU / OpenSource stuff at: http://www.openoffice.org

 

 

Make your own South Park Character

If you are a youth pastor, children’s ministry worker, etc, this site will allow you to create your own South Park character.  This can be a great ice breaker, especially if you are funny, to meet your kids right where they are.   Especially effective when you are making fun of yourself.

 

http://www.sp-studio.de/

 

 

Interesting SharePoint Discovery

In an effort to create a tool that is effective for ministry usage outside of the domain, I have put WSS 3.0 on a server and enabled forms based authentication.  Today was interesting as I was able to add multi-user alerts using a simple copy and paste.