You probably all know this one. You write an e-mail that mentions an attachment and you send it out. Then a few minutes later, one of the recipients who actually did read your mail properly replies, telling you that there was no document attached. So you end up replying to all with the document mentioned attached and apologizing for not having it attached in your first message.

Today when I was actually searching for something totally different, but related to MS Office 2007, I came across the “Forgotten Attachment Detector” add-in for Outlook.

This FREE add-on will give you a warning message if you have pushed the Send Button in case you have mentioned an attached document, but the mail doesn’t contain any attachments.

The Add-in can be downloaded from here

Speaking about useful things for Outlook, also read out my earlier blog post “Don’t send outlook messages without subject”.

What technologies will we use in the near future, how will our work environment look like? Watch the video below or explore the Microsoft Office Labs web site and see how Microsoft thinks this is going to look like.

With the release of the Office 2007 suite, Microsoft made some radical changes to the UI. Gone were the menus and toolbars, replaced by the “Ribbon”

I’ve seen many users (including myself) struggling with the new user interface. It’s not that the concept of the Ribbon isn’t good, it’s rather the time it takes until you find the new location within the Ribbon to do something you have been doing for years with the old classic menu with just a few clicks.

Once you have familiarized yourself with the new UI, I personally find it quite easy to use and intuitive as well. During one of my web-surfing tours I came across a website where one has created a nice little free utility that adds the classic menu and toolbars back into Word 2007.

Although I encourage everyone to get used with the Ribbon, sometimes things just need to go quick, and here the Word Menu utility can be really a life and time saver.

Talking about WinWord, did you know that Word has a history of nearly 28 years?.

I wanted to go back in history a bit and found a couple of interesting links:

The Why of the New UI (Part 1) by Jensen Harris

Ye Olde Museum Of Office Past (Why the UI, Part 2) by Jensen Harris

The Story of the Ribbon by Jensen Harris

Presentation “The Story of the Ribbon” (I really recommend looking at this one)

Microsoft Word on Wikipedia