Showing posts with label Microsoft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Microsoft. Show all posts

Thursday, March 5, 2020

End the madness and STOP using proprietary document formats!

Free Word Processors from SSuite Office!You may have noticed that there are no docx or xlsx document formats supported in our applications. This is because in order to support any MS Office document format, we require a very expensive license {...in the million$...} from Microsoft for each format.

The reason for this is that they are all proprietary patented formats. So you may ask us this then; "...but what about the other open source, free, and retail office suites that claim to be 100% compatible?...". Well, their document formats are all cracked or reverse engineered versions of the original format and are NOT 100% compatible with the original MS Office document formats. None of them are, except Google Docs, as far as I know.

OpenOffice's own document formats are also not even compatible with other open source document formats of the same type. This is because the open source community never set a fixed technical specification's guide for their own document formats. So their formats odf / odt are also not 100% compatible with software supporting these formats.



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All Microsoft Excel documents created in SpreadForm One and Accel, are fully compatible with any spreadsheet application that can open and read the Microsoft Excel file format.

Our own presentation document format "SSP" can be opened by any current web browser. Just select the "Open..." option on the main menu and select the "*.*" document format and open your presentation file. This makes our presentation document format the most compatible with all systems and computers.

Using a compatible document format to play nice with everybody

If you need to create and exchange MS Word documents(*.doc) as a rule, then there is another way in staying completely compatible with everybody, no matter what software they use. This format is the most compatible document format currently available next to the rich text document format.
Simply save all your documents in MS Word or SSuite WordGraph in the following manner:


Only use RTF documents, Rich Text Format, from SSuite Office!When you save your documents, use this format...    Word 97-2003 & 6.0/95 - RTF (*.doc)


To simplify this procedure in MS Word, simply go to the "Tools >> Options..." menu item, and under the "Save" tab item, select your default document type as the above mentioned document type. This will ensure that all your documents will stay compatible no matter where you need to use them, either in MS Word or SSuite Office's WordGraph word processor. This procedure may also be used in Word 95 up to Word 2007.

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All Excel documents created in SpreadForm One and Accel, are fully compatible with any spreadsheet application that can open and read the Excel file format. Excel files created in Excel itself, are locked to prevent other office suites from being compatible with MS Office. To open these locked Excel files, follow the steps below.


Please Note! - This procedure cannot be used in Excel 2007 or Excel 2010. Microsoft does not support older formats in Excel 2007 and Excel 2010 that are below the standard Office 97. Click here for further details.

For compatibility with Excel, use the following method:

To make a Single Excel 97(or Higher - 2003) worksheet compatible with SSuite Office's SpreadForm One and Accel, follow these steps:
  1. Save your active Excel 97(or Higher - 2003) Worksheet as an Excel 4 Worksheet.
  2. Immediately save the same worksheet as an Excel Workbook, using the "Save As" function,  with a different name as the worksheet.
  3. You can now open your Excel 4 worksheet in SpreadForm One or Accel as an Excel spreadsheet.



Please Note - For further information, see the helpfile under "File Handling".

Saturday, February 22, 2020

How to setup your web browser to secure your internet connection using DNS-OVER-HTTPS

Protect yourself by modifying your web browser's internal security settings...



Image inserted by SSuite Office Fandango Desktop EditorBefore you start doing anything, you will need to change your DNS server settings on your network connection to the internet. Go to your network connection in the Windows Control panel and open its network properties dialog window. In the dialog window, you need to change the DNS server addresses to a server that supports encrypted connections over HTTPS.


In our example we will be changing it to CloudFlare's servers e.g. Preferred 1.1.1.1. and Alternate 1.0.0.1 - Below you will see what you need to change to begin...




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Now that you have made the necessary changes, we will now start with your web browser's security settings in order to modify and accommodate the correct protocols.

We will be using Google Chrome, Vivaldi , Opera, and Microsoft's Edge browsers as our main examples as they are all Chromium based...



To make the changes, type in the following command in the URL editbox at the top of your browser:

Chrome://flags   -   Opera://flags   -   Edge://flags   -   Vivaldi://flags


The following page will now present itself...


Security settings for DNS-Over-HTTPS






You need to type in each of the following hash tags to find the appropriate setting:
  1. #enable-quic
  2. #enable-tls13-early-data
  3. #dns-over-https
  4. #edge-tracking-prevention, MS Edge browser ONLY!



You may be asked to restart or relaunch the browser after each setting you have changed. Unfortunately Google Chrome, Opera, and Microsoft Edge does not yet support the ESNI encryption protocol, except for FireFox which supports all the protocols. Keep checking after each browser update to see when it becomes available.


After making the appropriate changes to your browser's security settings, you must now test your web browser and see if it's working.


Click on the following link to navigate to CloudFlare's test page:


CloudFlare - Browser - Test





You should get the following results...



CloudFlare Browser Test to make sure your network connections is secure and encrypted.



Now you're mostly protected against the prying eyes of hackers and intelligence services all over the world...


...Only FireFox(for now) will be able to give you full security and encryption on your internet network connection from your browser to each and every website you visit.


But you must remember, if the website you visit does not support these protocols, then there is nothing to protect you even with all of these changes made!


SSuite Office supports all of the above security protocols... DNSSEC - TLS 1.3 - QUIC - ESNI

...with us you are completely safe and secure!





...Go Online and enjoy complete productivity freedom...



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