Here’s how to troubleshoot your Outlook connections to POP, IMAP and SMTP accounts.
Outlook has a ‘Test Account Settings’ button that makes testing a lot easier (also Auto Configuration for many accounts). It’s there when you setup or change account settings. … read the rest ➙
It’s hard to move from an email account you’ve used for years, but there’s a simple way to make the move less painless.
The main reason why Internet Service Providers give email accounts with all their connections (dial-up or broadband) is to make it harder for you to switch to another connection.… read the rest ➙
Office Mix now has links with Moodle, a service for managing online courses.
Office Mix is Microsoft’s PowerPoint extension designed to put slideshows online with quizzes and live content from the web. Office-Watch.com looked at Office Mix in-depth last year.… read the rest ➙
CloudOn, the online service that lets you use ‘real’ Office programs on a range of mobile devices, has been bought by Dropbox.
We looked at CloudOn back in 2012. It runs a copy of the full Office programs (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) on a server and virtualizes the screen display to your tablet device. … read the rest ➙
Microsoft has joined with Communities In Schools (CIS) to get Microsoft Office into the hands of a million students and CIS staff across the USA.
It’s a three year arrangement between Microsoft, ‘technology partner’ COMPAREX and CIS which applies to students in 25 US states plus Washington D.C.… read the rest ➙
Microsoft has released its results for the last quarter of 2014 (aka Q2 2015) with their push towards Office 365 subscriptions/rental annual fees growing strength.
According to the company, there are now over 9.2 million people who have moved from the ‘single pay’ Office option to the heavily pushed Office 365 Home or Office 365 Personal annual payments. … read the rest ➙
I know talking about styles in Word makes eyes glaze over but they are a really useful part of Word (plus Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook).
Today I watched an ‘experienced’ Word user reformatting a document. He laboriously worked through the document, selecting paragraphs, phrases and even individual words then clicking on the ribbon to change the look. … read the rest ➙
Hot on heels of the Windows 10 demonstration was a Microsoft post with more images of the new touch-capable Office for Windows 10 apps.
In all these images you can see the ‘Universal’ Windows 10 apps at work. You’re seeing the same program running on different size screens and adapting to the screen size with different menus.… read the rest ➙
Microsoft has now confirmed what was long suspected; later in 2015 we’ll see two new versions of Microsoft Office.
At the Windows 10 announcement there was also a glimpse at the next Office – the long-promised touch screen version of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
The overall concept is that the ‘same’ Office programs will act similarly whether you’re on a Windows 10 phone, tablet and PC’s. … read the rest ➙
Seems everyone with a web page has thoughts on Windows 10 based on just a carefully planned demo from Microsoft. Many of the comments have taken Microsoft’s statements at face value without any critical eye. We won’t go into detail, we have MS Office to deal with, but here’s some random thoughts anyway.… read the rest ➙
Many reports about hacking into ‘Outlook’ had many regular Outlook software users rightly worried, especially if they are in China, Hong Kong or Macau.
Don’t panic – a lot of the reporting was poorly worded and showed an ignorance of the difference between Outlook software (as sold/rented with Microsoft Office) and Outlook.com, Microsoft’s free email hosting service (formerly called Hotmail).… read the rest ➙
It’s been a long-standing problem for laptop users – you have Outlook running nicely at home but when you travel it’s impossible to send messages. Here’s what’s happening and how to avoid it.
The fix, that should work for most situations is to change the Outlook account settings to login for both receiving and sending messages. … read the rest ➙
It’s happened again … Microsoft releases updates for Outlook which break the important IMAP feature that many people rely upon.
After installing some of the November 2014 updates, some Outlook users find their IMAP or Exchange Server connections stop synchronizing.
And Microsoft’s response has been typical – almost complete silence. … read the rest ➙
It’s an old problem that keeps coming up – an email arrives with a winmail.dat attachment. We’ll explain and how to fix it from receivers and senders point of view.
Winmail.dat problems were once common. They don’t happen a lot these days because Microsoft Outlook and Exchange Server both have default options to stop it. … read the rest ➙
It’s an old problem that keeps coming up – an email arrives with a winmail.dat attachment. We’ll explain and how to fix it from receivers point of view.
Winmail.dat problems were once common. They don’t happen a lot these days because Microsoft Outlook and Exchange Server both have default options to stop it. … read the rest ➙
Here’s what to do if someone complains that you’re sending winmail.dat attachments with your emails.
The problem is in Outlook and you need to change some settings. The setting might be global for all emails but you may need to check the settings for an individual contact or email address.… read the rest ➙
The BBC has an interesting piece on the effect of AutoCorrect and word suggestions for quicker typing.
I dunno about ‘boring’ but AutoCorrect in Office does have a downside – it makes you and your typing fingers stupid.
If you type stupdi into Word it will fix it to stupid as soon as you press the spacebar or Enter key. … read the rest ➙
Microsoft has released its monthly security patches for January 2015 but no fix for the broken patch from last month!
All the talk has been about Google’s disclosure of a security flaw in Windows just before Microsoft released a fix for the problem. … read the rest ➙
Microsoft has expanded the beta testing of Microsoft Office for Android to anyone with a compatible device. Not just the approved beta testers.
But there’s a catch … you need a compatible Android device and not all Android tablets will qualify.… read the rest ➙
