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August 18 Ultimate List of Free Office Software from Microsoft150 Free Windows programs was the first in the series of "Ultimate List of Free Software from Microsoft" -- this second "Ultimate List" covers over 150 pieces of software, add-ins and templates for Microsoft Office.
MICROSOFT OFFICE SYSTEM
Desktop Language Settings allows you to identify and change language, keyboard, and regional settings for Windows, Internet Explorer, and Office programs with a single tool.
Creative Commons Add-in for Office enables you to embed a Creative Commons license into a document created by: Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. With a Creative Commons license, authors can express their intentions regarding how their works may be used by others.
Enterprise Setup replacement of the Microsoft Office 2003 setup.exe file for administrators who plan to deploy Office 2003 with Local Installation Source (LIS) enabled.
File Converter Pack provides file converters and image filters for older or seldom used program formats.
Learning Essentials is a free add-in for schools, transforms familiar applications into customized tools for teaching and learning. Curriculum-based toolbars, templates, project assistance, and tutorials from leading publishers help students and teachers to do their best work. (Supporting Software: Content Development Kit (CDK))
Office Live Add-in installs a toolbar in Microsoft Office XP & 2003. You will be able to Open & Save documents located in Office Live Workspace directly from Microsoft Office Word, Office Excel, and Office PowerPoint.
Office Web Parts and Components is a collection of Web Parts, Web Part Page solutions, templates, and data retrieval services that work closely with Office 2003 and Windows SharePoint Services 2.0. (For Office XP)
Office 2007 Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats - Open, edit, and save documents, workbooks, and presentations in Microsoft Office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 file formats.
Remove Hidden Data permanently remove hidden and collaboration data, such as change tracking and comments, from Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files with documentation. (Or you may have the same problem as pharmaceutical company Merck! :-)
Resource Kit Tools 2000, XP, & 2003 for those deploying Microsoft Office in a corporate environment.
Sounds add sounds to have fun audio cues play as you work with Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word.
Web Components are a collection of Component Object Model (COM) controls for publishing spreadsheets, charts, and databases to the Web. (For Office XP)
Works 6–9 File Converter allows you to open, edit, and save files in the Microsoft Works Word Processor file format supported by the Works versions 6, 7, 8, and 9.
Software Developer Kits (SDK)
InfoPath 2003 SDK — Sample forms, tools, and documentation to assist with InfoPath 2003 form development and deployment.
Office 2003 Smart Tag SDK — Use the documentation, tools, sample code, and XML schemas in this SDK when creating solutions that use smart tags.
ACCESS
Links Add-in helps maintains your Excel data-link with Access
Report Manager Add-in allows you to combine Excel worksheets, views, and scenarios into reports that can then be printed.
Templates
EXCEL
SQL Server Analysis Services Add-in enables users to access and analyze data from multiple Analysis Services Cubes, and to create rich, customized reports directly in Excel 2002 & 2003.
Treemapper Add-In research tool allows a user to quickly and easily generate a treemap visualization of any hierarchical data in Excel, or from a CSV or XML file. Treemapper is based on the Data Visualization Components also available from this group.
FRONTPAGE
1 Cool Menu FX Tool is a 3rd party tool to adding animated buttons, expandable menus, floating navigation and other Flash animations.
bCentral Commerce Manager is an add-in providing you with the tools you need to create, update, and manage a fully-powered e-commerce Web site.
Creating an RSS Feed is sample code providing a Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) solution to programmatically generate an RSS feed.
Database Troubleshooting Utility checks for the following items that may cause a Database Results Region page to fail: The absence of a Global.asa file, Whether the Global.asa file is running, Whether the Global.asa file is running outside of the Web, The absense of any database connections in the Web.
Fiddler is an HTTP Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP traffic between your computer and the Internet; and can inspected all HTTP Traffic, set breakpoints, and "fiddle" with incoming or outgoing data. Additional help is availble for debugging and performance.
FrontLook Media Maker is a 3rd party add-in makes publishing & creating CDs for use with the presentation viewer.
Help Publisher is a 3rd party add-in to create full-featured HTML help files.
Mobile HTML Optimizer is an add-in for versions 2000 & 2002 that can jumpstart your development of a WML (Wireless Markup Language) site by converting existing HTML (HyperText Markup Language) files created for a static Web site to WML format.
Page Margins is a 3rd party add-that helps the user easily set page margins that are compatible with both Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator.
Page Titles is a 3rd party add-in that changes page titles quickly and easily, individually and in-bulk.
Pre-publish is a 3rd party add-in that prompts you to save unsaved pages before your Web is published.
Templates
ONENOTE
My Font Tool converts your own handwriting into a TrueType font, making typed text appear as though you had written it by hand.
OUTLOOK
Calendar Views is an add-in that allows viewing your Calendar appointments through a filter that is based on Outlook labels and categories.
Business Contact Manager Add-in for Pocket PC: allows you to synchronize your business contacts and a subset of your communication history to your Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC.
Junk E-mail Reporting Tool lets you directly report junk e-mail to Microsoft and its affiliates for analysis to help us improve the effectiveness of our junk e-mail filtering technologies.
Lookout provides lightning-fast search for your e-mail, files, and desktop from within Outlook!
Notes Connector enable access your e-mail messages, calendar, address book, and To Do (task) items on an IBM Lotus Domino Release 5.x or Release 6.x server.
Office Outlook Connector, you can use Outlook 2002(XP), 2003 or 2007 to access and manage your Windows Live Mail or Office Live Mail accounts, including e-mail messages, calendar, tasks, notes, and contacts.
Outlook Mobile Manager (OMM) brings the power of Microsoft Outlook to your portable device. OMM can prioritize your messages and makes smart decisions about when to send email. OMM also sends calendar reminders, task reminders, and an Outlook Today style daily summary all to your wireless device.
Personal Folders Backup creates backup copies of your .PST files at regular intervals. (Support Documents: How to automatically backup your personal folders file in Outlook 2000/2003 & 2002/XP - KB910873 "The Backup command is missing from the File menu")
Pro Photo Shoot add-in allows photographers to add details of the client and equipment for a photo shoot appointment in Outlook. This allows photographers to greater leverage the power of Outlook when managing their photography. (Support: Never Forget a Lens Again)
SMS (MOSA) download will enable you to send SMS text messages through most GSM mobile phones connected to your PC.
Snip IT Internet Explorer Add-on sends text selected in Internet Explorer as email. SnipIT can email selected text in Internet Explorer using your default (Google Gmail, Microsoft Hotmail & Outlook and Yahoo Mail) email client.
Thread Compressor macro compresses all mail messages from a specific conversation into a single mail message, thus reducing Inbox clutter and size.
Windows Live Local Add-in enables you to add maps and directions to your Outlook meeting requests, calculate the travel distance between your start location and your appointment location, adjust your meeting departure time based on the estimated travel time, store custom locations, as well as print the map and step-by-step driving directions to take with you on the road. (Support Document: Read Me)
STATIONERY
POWERPOINT
Presentation Broadcast makes it easier to synchronize audio, video, slides, and images to deliver your presentations.
Producer makes it easier to synchronize audio, video, slides, and images to create engaging and effective rich-media presentations.
Report Presentation Add-in helps a user to quickly and easily create a presentation from a Project file. The tool extracts task information from the Project file and populates a template with the user-selected information. This add-in provides an effective, integrated means for project managers and other users to create presentations with real-time project data while avoiding redundant data entry and potential input errors. (Support Document: Read Me)
These samples allow PowerPoint 2002 to create an organization chart from a database of employees in Word and PowerPoint, or an animated presentation from a Word outline.
PROJECT
Scrum Solution Starter is an Agile project management practice that employs short iterations and continuous improvement. The Scrum solution starter extends Microsoft Office Project Professional 2003 or Project Standard 2003 and enables project managers to perform basic Scrum work.
The Software Development Kit (SDK) is designed for solution providers, value-added resellers, and other developers to help customize Project 2003, and to extend and integrate Project Server 2003 with other applications for Enterprise Project Management. It features articles, programming references, tools, and sample code, including extensive articles called Solution Starters.
Template Creation Wizard add-in gives you the ability to create your own design templates incorporating custom backgrounds. This Wizard allows you to create new design templates using custom images as title master and slide master backgrounds.
VISIO
IFilter is a component used by the Windows Indexing service and SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to extract text strings from Microsoft Visio files (.VSD, .VSS, .VST, .VDX, .VSX, and .VTX formats). The text strings are then indexed by these servers and the resulting indices are made available to several client applications that provide a user interface to search for text strings in files. These search clients include Visio 2003 Find Shape, Windows 2000 and Windows XP File Explorer search, Office 2003 search, Microsoft Windows SharePoint™ Services 2003 search, and SharePoint Portal Server search.
Software Development Kit (SDK) contains sample applications, code librarian code snippets, documentation, and tools, including the ShapeStudio, Event Monitor, Persistent Events, Print ShapeSheet, and Solution Publishing tools.
WORD
Avery Wizard is a plug-in to Word XP, 2000, & 2003 and provides templates for hundreds of Avery laser and inkjet products. Use the Avery Wizard to print mailing labels, shipping labels, tab titles, Ready Index table of contents sheets, diskette labels, name badges, name tags, business cards, and tent cards.
Create Calendar in Word from Outlook 2000 Calendar Data The automated calendar template creates Outlook calendars in Word 97/2000. The template contains macros that automatically take the data from Outlook 2000 and re-create your monthly calendar view in Word. After you use this template to re-create your calendar, you can print it, with or without weekends, in either portrait or landscape orientation. You can also modify the document.
Microsoft Reader Add-In uses Word to create your own Microsoft Reader eBooks by converting new or existing Word documents, letting you benefit from the features and convenience of Microsoft Reader.
Word Redaction Add-in allows marking sections of Word 2003 documents for redaction. Create a new, redacted version of the document in which the marked text is replaced with a black bar that cannot be converted back to text. (Support Document: Readme File & Online Support).
The XSLT Inference Tool creates XSL Transformations (XSLT) that quickly transform XML files into WordprocessingML files with complex and rich formatting.
AND. . .if you don’t own Microsoft Office – you can always use the Microsoft Office Viewers:
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