Office 2013 promises a consistent profile for users across several devices, including smartphones and tablets. Users will be able to store their files in the cloud and access them in a multiple locations. According to Microsoft, internet connectivity should not be an obstacle to productivity and people should be able to work both online and offline. According to the partner group program manager in Office, John Jendrezak, this is the core idea behind connecting Office to the cloud.

By creating one profile using any current Microsoft account, users can avail storage of their files and personal preferences in the cloud and use them on any device that has Office installed on it. Customers will no longer have to worry if they are not finished with their work on a document or a presentation at the end of a work day. They can simply start off wherever they left it on their tablet or their Windows 8 smartphone. Microsoft has also pointed out that the new Office, with the cloud at its core, will provide a satisfactory user experience not just on a PC but also on tablets, both Surface RT and Surface Pro.

In addition to SkyDrive, you can even stream and launch a temporary Microsoft Office copy of any individual Office application without having to install it permanently, thanks to the innovative Office on Demand feature. With this you can access all your recent Office presentations, documents and sheets and on closing, no record of the application or your data will be left on the temporary system you use. So far experts and analysts agree that Microsoft has greatly simplified and improved the overall user interface and got rid of all that was confusing or cluttered.

On purchasing Office 2013, you will be able to install it on up to five PCs, both Windows and Mac. But it will only run on Windows 7 and later. Microsoft’s revolutionary new Office 365 will give users universal access to their applications with the power to collaborate, share and communicate, all within a single industry-standard productivity suite. In short, as Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer believes, Microsoft Office 2013 is designed not as a product but as a service.

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You must have come across the following message a lot of times.

Word cannot start the converter mswrd632

You need to unregister the mswrd632 converter in order to fix this issue. You can do it by either modifying the registry manually or using the fix provided by Microsoft. Before modifying the registry, make sure you have exited all Microsoft office applications. Now from the Run Command(Ctrl+R), type regedit and click on OK to open the registry editor for Windows. Now, locate the following key on the registry editor.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftShared ToolsText ConvertersImportMSWord6.wpc

Now, delete this key from the Edit Menu(Edit>Delete).

On 64 bit version, delete the following key in the registry.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREWow6432NodeMicrosoftShared ToolsText ConvertersImportMSWord6.wpc

After doing this, Microsoft Word will use its own converters to convert and open the document. You’ll see a dialogue box with File Conversion option, the next time you open the file on Word.

Microsoft also provides a dedicated Fix tool to help you fix this quickly. Download this fix file from Microsoft and Run it. Follow the instructions carefully. But be sure to exit Microsoft Word and other Office Applications before doing this.

Thus, you can easily fix the converter mswrd632 issue by manually editing the registry or using the fix from Microsoft Corporation.

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Total Assistant bulk word counter tool can not only count the total number of words but also characters and lines too. You just need to select a file or a folder and Total Word Count will give you the word count reports within seconds. It also supports drag and drop adding of multiple files. Just drag and drop your document files from the windows explorer to Total Word Count’s window and it will count the words and lines for you.

Bulk word counting software, Total Assistant works not only for Word or Excel documents but practically for all major text file formats like PDF, HTML etc. You can directly specify a folder to count the words in the documents inside it. You can also evaluate the cost for each line of text you wrote through the cost calculator tool of Total Word Count. You can copy the summary of word/line/character count report and paste it to your document.

All in all Total Assistant is a really very useful software for counting the words and characters of multiple files. Although the software doesn’t come for free, it can really be worth its price and can be very useful for article writers and translators.

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There are two ways to do it. Microsoft has released a fix for this. Simply download this Fix for Opening office files with the appropriate application and install it to apply.

Another way is the manual way. You will need to modify your Folder Options to configure Internet Explorer to open office files(.doc, .xls or .ppt) in the respective program. Open “My Computer” and go to Tools>Folder Options from the menubar. Now click on File Types Tab. Under File types tab, you’ll see “Registered file types” list. Now click on the appropriate file type for example DOC for Microsoft word documents and click Advanced. This will open up the dialogue box “Edit File Type”. Remove the tickmark from “Browse in Same Window” and click OK. Do this for all Office Document file types and you’re done.

So, you can easily make Internet Explorer open the Office files with the respective applications rather than in the browser itself. If you want to revert back to opening such files in the browser itself, just put a tickmark to the “Browse in same window” as discussed above and click OK.



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filename:doc OR filename:ppt OR filename:xls

This won’t work for files created with Microsoft Office 2007 or later versions. For that create another filter with the following search command or append the search command to the one above.

filename:docx OR filename:pptx OR filename:xlsx

Now click on the “Next Step” button. Now you’ll be asked to choose an action for the messages containing these attachments. Put a tickmark on “Appy the Label” option and create a New Label from there called “Documents” (or anything you like). Apply this filter to the emails already in your Inbox as well through an option on the same page and finally save your filter. Now whenever any email containing an office file arrives to your Inbox, a “Documents” label is automatically applied to it and you can find all such emails by opening your “Documents” label.

You can also filter the documents separately i.e. by applying different labels to .DOC, PPT or XLS files. To do that, create separate labels like “Word”, “Excel” etc. and use the code given above without using “OR” (“OR” is used to search for messages containing a term A or term B). For example, to filter Word files use the following command.

filename:doc

For both doc and docx files, use the following,

filename:doc OR filename:docx

Similarly, you can also filter images into labels. For that, repeat the same process as above, replacing the file extension with JPG, GIF and PNG in the “Has the words” section. The following will work for images.

filename:jpg OR filename:gif OR filename:png

If you need to categorize E-books that are generally in PDF or LIT format, replace file extension with PDF or LIT in the “Has the words” section.

Thus by using Filters, you can easily categorize or filter your Document and Pictures into Documents, or Pictures folder(label) as soon as they reach your Inbox.

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Google Docs Viewer : Google Docs is one of the most popular cloud based document editors as known by all. Google Docs Viewer is a very easy tool to view documents online. Once you give the URL of the document to be read, it will give you options for viewing the document or embedding it. The Google Docs viewer is very simple but has options for page navigation, search etc. This tool is used by default for viewing attachments in Gmail.

Zoho document viewer: Zoho also a leader in providing web based documents and spreadsheets editing functionalities also has a very handy Zoho document viewer. Its document viewer is rather simple as compared with Google docs. To view any document, you can either give its URL or upload it from your computer. Zoho docs also gives an option for embedding the document via an iframe code.

Samurajdata Viewer: This is a very simple document viewer which also allows viewing a document on the internet via its URL or by uploading any document from your computer. This is open source as well and also lets anyone download it. Besides .doc files and PDFs, it also lets viewing Post Script and Gzipped Post script files which is rarely found in other document viewers. You can also rotate the document. A simple page navigation option with plain links to the corresponding pages is present.

View Docs Online: View Docs Online has a cool interface for viewing documents. The flash based interface has almost all useful features like zooming, selecting text and viewing pages as tiles. View Docs Offline also gives you an embed code for embedding to your website or blog.

DocsPal: DocsPal has an added feature of converting the documents from one format to another. It has a very beautiful interface and you’ll be given two options at the beginning, asking you to either convert or just view a document. Upload your file or give its URL and view it on the fly. The file format converter is also very impressive and gives good results.

All of these free online document viewers can take up both .doc file and PDFs. They can prove to be very handy sometimes.

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Now when you upload a .xlsx file in Google Spreadsheets, your document is readily accepted and can be quickly edited. Google Docs can import all the cell data, formulas etc. The formatting is not preserved by the way.

Google Spreadsheets supports file extensions like .xls, .xlsx, .ods, .csv, .tsv, .txt, .tsb. The ability for uploading Excel 2007 files in google docs doesn’t mean that you can also upload Word 2007 files. Google docs has still to work on this as currently Google Documents only supports uploading of .txt, .doc and .rtf extensions. .docx is still not supported and third party applications should be relied upon to upload such files in Google Docs.

So, you can now have a greater flexibility for your Spreadsheets documents and needn’t worry about converting your Excel 2007 files to older version.

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You’ll need Mozilla Firefox and Google Toolbar to open your documents in Google Docs. If you don’t have Firefox or Google Toolbar, download and install them.

Once you install Google Toolbar after installing Mozilla Firefox, you will need to manipulate some Google Toolbar’s Settings such that it opens your Word/Excel Documents in Google Docs. Select “Settings” from Google Toolbars Options menu. Now in the dialogue box that appears, select “Docs and Spreadsheets” and then click on File Settings. Select the filetypes which you desire to open in Google Docs. Now also check the option “Double-click a file icon”. You can also choose to open the file on your computer with Google Docs by dragging its icon into Firefox. And the option “Click on a link to the file on a webpage” will let you open Office files in other webpages, directly into Google Docs.

To open your office files in Google Docs, simply double-click on it. Documents and Spreadsheets with extensions like RTF, XLS, ODS,DOC, CSV will open in Google Docs. The icon of such files will also be changed from Word or Excel’s icon. You can also open your Documents in Google Docs by simply dragging them in Firefox. But you cannot open a document in offline mode.

One cool thing about this is that once you open these documents in Google Docs, they will automatically be uploaded in Google Docs. But one downside to this is that the changes made to these documents in Google Docs will not appear in the corresponding documents on your hard disk unless you decide to overwrite them. Anyway with Google Toolbar installed, you can not only open your office documents in Google Docs but also upload them at the same time.

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When you visit the site freepdfconvert.com, you can see a browser based file uploader for uploading your documents and images to convert them to PDF. You can also convert files to PDF with Adobe Acrobat Professional or Foxit Reader addon but they come with a price tag and have security issues too. Just choose a file, like you were uploading your image in Flickr, enter your email address and then click Convert to roll on. You can also get the file in your email as an attachment or download it right away from the very page after it gets converted. The site supports a lot of formats for converting like CSV, DCX, DIB, EMF, FPX, GIF etc. (You can see the full list here)

This is just one side of the story. You can also get your PDF files converted to other file formats. You can see the options in the left hand pane. If you choose to convert your PDF to Word or Excel, freepdfconvert will convert them upon your upload and also extract the images contained in the original PDF file. You can get the files delivered to your email for this type of conversion too.

If you own a site or a blog, then freepdfconvert can be a boon to you. The web to PDF conversion feature of the site lets your visitors to download any useful post on your blog just with a single mouse click. All you need to do is add a piece of code to your blog or website. Or if you wish to download any webpage then that option is also available.

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Due to some advanced features available on Desktop Word Processing applications like Grammar checking, suggesting synonyms on the fly and many other features, people prefer to use them first hand for writing and then upload those files to Google Docs. Even though you can directly create and open documents in Google docs, it doesn’t have the plethora of tools found in Microsoft word.  But if you work on a large number of documents, this can be painstaking. But no more. These nifty applications will help you synchronize your documents on the fly.

Doc Syncer: This is a beta version of the software available from DocSyncer.com. After you sign up, you should grant it an access to your Google Docs account. Then you will be allowed to download this amazing document synchronizing software. Once you are on, Docsyncer starts scanning you My Documents and Desktop folders for office documents and syncs them with your Google Docs. Well the new file format of Microsoft Office 2007 namely docx will not be synchronised because Google Docs doesn’t support such files. You need to refresh the page at times to see the files uploaded. So both your computer and your Google Docs will have the same files with latest updates. You can also see revisions of the file. So isn’t it easy?

Syncplicity: This is much similar to Doc Syncer. This is a service from GigaOM . This also syncs you offline works on computer with Google Docs. Syncplicity converts the document from Word to a compatible format in Google Docs and then syncs them instantly. It also helps you sync your photo galleries with Facebook.

OpenOffice.org2GoogleDocs: This is an extension that will allow you to sync your Google Docs and Open Office documents. It can sync all of your Documents, Presentations or spreadsheets between Google Docs, Zoho, Microsoft Word and OpenOffice.org. This will require Open Office installed. But you will require Java 6 for this.

So, try these applications and syncrhonise your Google Docs with other Word Processing Applications.

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