Press Release: 4 March 2015 VoIPstudio is releasing a Softphone that integrates with Microsoft’s Outlook email client. This new service can be used as a direct replacement for Microsoft’s Lync client and allows users to integrate contacts and make calls straight from the Outlook interface. Due to the high demand for easier and more specialised […]
All over the world, governments are intruding into our private lives in the name of safety and anti-terrorism. They talk about ‘metadata’ to make out that the information they are collecting isn’t that important. This ‘metadata’ will be collected, held for a long time and accessible by government agencies without a warrant or judicial oversight. […]
Microsoft has changed their Exchange Server hosting (under the Office 365 banner) to allow for longer holding of Deleted Items up to ‘forever’. Until now, Office 365 hosting had a fixed 30 days for Deleted Items retention. Any item in the Deleted Items folder older than 30 days was automatically removed and wasn’t directly visible […]
Back in 2014, Microsoft made Office 365, including Office software, available to many US students. The same program is now available globally. If the school buys Office software for their faculty and staff, the students get free Office 365 accounts. The program now covers, among many, 1.1 million students in New York City, all students […]
Q: Don Ruppel writes: “I am using Access 2010 to track my collection and have photos attached. I want to filter and list any records that do not have an attachment (photo) so I know which items that need to take photos of. Every time I try to filter the table or create a filter […]
Q: Jane writes that when she makes a new form by clicking the Form button in the Create tab of the Ribbon, all the controls are the same width, and she can’t resize them individually, as in older versions of Access. A: This is a “feature” of recent versions of Access. It is called Layout, […]
Access Archon Column #237 By Helen Feddema Access versions: 2007-2013 Level: Intermediate The Problem Back in Access 2003 and Windows XP, it was easy to make a shortcut to open a specific Access database – just right-drag the database from an Explorer pane to the Quick Launch area of the taskbar. But if you try […]
We’ve used Lenovo laptops for a long time, back when they were IBM computers. They are usually good machines with excellent keyboards, pricey but generally reliable. So it’s with great dismay they we’ve been reading about Lenovo and the ‘Superfish’ software that was installed on some of their computers in 2014. Superfish wasn’t ordinary loadware […]
We’ve been looking closely at the Outlook app for iOS and Android as well as online reviews and the many comments from Office-Watch.com readers. We’ve come to the conclusion that there are two different apps. The preview versions that the public are trying and there’s other, quite different, apps which are being given to journalists. […]
Rene Winkelmeyer was the first to detail the worrying and undocumented way the Outlook apps store your email account logins. Normal programs and apps keep your login details (server, name, password etc) encrypted on the computer or device. When needed the name/password is sent direct to the mail host to make a connection, send/receive data. […]
I’m not sure how something can get better than free, but a marketing genius at Microsoft has done it. OneNote for Windows has been available free to all comers since 2014 but with some features blocked and only accessible in the paid versions. Now more of the features have been made available. Previously these features […]
You might think that the hyphen is a simple small horizontal line … but no. There’s hidden depths even in horizontal lines within Microsoft Word. Let’s start with the standard hyphen, actually called a ‘Hyphen-Minus’ with ASCII code 45. That hyphen is the one to separate hyphenated words. We have more on hyphenation and special […]
We love words, especially old words that have been largely forgotten. This Valentine’s Day there’s a short item in The Independent UK about 10 old words that modern romantics might like to revive. We tried them out in Office 2013 to see if the in-built dictionary could cope. No real surprise that 9 of them got the […]
Would you like a peek at the next version of Microsoft Office for Windows? Well you can, if you’re willing to take a risk and play by Microsoft’s rules. Office 2016 (also called Office 365 Desktop) Technical Preview is now available for download. Details on how to do that are below. Say Nothing To qualify […]
Press Release: The Innovative New Add-In Allows People to Securely Post Letters Directly from Microsoft Word Sydney, Australia (PRWEB) February 10, 2015 SnappyStamp, a Microsoft Word add-in that allows people to quickly, easily and securely post letters to anywhere in the world, is now officially launched and available. As Greg Donaldson, founder of the Australian-based […]
A substantially improved and upgraded Organizing Outlook Email ebook is available right now. The 3rd edition goes deep into Outlook 2013/2010 & 2007 with new ways to get the most out of your email. The Third Edition is totally updated and revised to cover Outlook 2013/2010 & 2007 email management in detail. There are all sorts of features in Outlook to […]
A few questions from readers about their ISP (Internet Service Provider) based email service that comes with their internet access. We’ll try to explain what normally happens. Keep in mind that each ISP has it’s own rules so you should check with them. Michael B writes: “Once I switch to RoadRunner, will Earthlink disappear our Earthlink […]
The Outlook app for iOS and Android is a ‘preview’ release, meaning it’s not a fully tested release, ready for the general public. But some people at Microsoft don’t realize that and are promoting it as a fully public release. The app itself is called ‘Microsoft Outlook Preview’ and the first notice of the app’s […]
If you thought email scams were all about Nigerian princes and unknown lottery wins, think again. An Omaha man has lost his job after being tricked into sending $17 million of company funds to scammers. The tricksters sent emails that appeared to come from the CEO and its auditors, but not his usual email address. […]
After years of teasing, Microsoft has today released beta versions of their touch interface Office applications. These are proper touch interface versions of Office programs, not the lame ‘touch’ button in Office 2013 which merely makes the ribbon spacing larger. For Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook, there’s now beta versions released of the software that […]
