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As of July 30, 2010, this is a new feature in Windows Live Hotmail.  You can now open, edit and save documents from MS Office (Excel, Word, etc.) through your Hotmail account.  MS is trying to compete with Google Docs so they created the ability to use Office programs withought having the Office Suite installed on your computer.  Documents you use or create are saved "in the cloud" on SkyDrive rather than on your computer.

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Just had a difficult one...I tried to convert a check register (a 2-page PDF) to Excel using Zamzar.  The converted Excel file had two sheets - both were blank.

Then I tried YouConvertIt, but that won't convert PDF files. 

I tried FreePDFConverter - the converted file contained 25 sheets, with portions of the orignal document on each sheet, and the data fields didn't match.

Finally I used Cometdocs, and it worked as perfectly as can be expected...some of the data fields didn't match, but they were easily fixed manually.

Garrett Yee, former Ombudsman at the California WCIRB, is running for the Bay Area's 20th Assembly district, challenging the state Democratic Party's favorite, Bob Wieckowski.

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The Building Industry Association of Washington collected more than enough petitions to put an initiative on the November 2010 ballot which would allow voters to decide if the state should remain monopolistic or become competitive.  Read all about it You must login to view links.
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If the initiative successfully passes, only three states would remain monopolistic: North Dakota, Ohio, & Wyoming.
 
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Very interesting AuditorLisa!  I'll give that a try sometime