Update Released: Office Document Support Added

I’ve just released an important update for Home Document Manager. We now have support for the most popular Microsoft Office document formats! Currently this is .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt and .pptx.

In order to read Office documents, Home Document Manager requires that you have Office installed on your machine. If you have Office 2003 installed, you will be able to import .doc, .xls and .ppt files, but you won’t be able to preview them within the app (preview wasn’t introduced until Office 2007). If you have Office 2007 installed, you’ll be able to import and preview the full range of Office docs.

Microsoft Word Support

Microsoft Excel Support

Microsoft PowerPoint Support

We’ve also added an option which allows Home Document Manager to use Adobe/Foxit PDF viewers inside the app to preview PDFs. You can enable this in the options.

Enabling 3rd Party PDF Support

3rd Party PDF Viewer

Any issues or suggestions, feel free to drop us a line.

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ScanSnap Support on Mac OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard

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ScanSnappers who have made a rapid jump to Snow Leopard may have noticed a few, ahem, problems. It seems that there are numerous issues surrounding ScanSnap Manager and the QuickMenu support. Needless to say, the MacSnappers are all atwitter with this.

I spoke to a senior guy at Fujitsu USA yesterday, and from the sounds of it, they’re taking this very seriously indeed and are working to resolve the issues as quickly as possible, although Fujitsu have publicly stated (and my contact confirmed) that it will be towards the back end of this year before a full fix will be released.

Panic ye not. Fujitsu have released a bulletin detailing what works, and what doesn’t. They’ve also issued patches which will make it easier to work around the problem. There are separate patches for the S1500M and S300M.

So, read the bulletins and install the patches. It would also be worth following @ScanSnapIT on Twitter to keep abreast of developments.

Hat tip to DocumentSnap for staying on top of it.