Microsoft has released preview/beta test versions of a standalone ‘Outlook’ app for Apple and Android devices. The apps aim to give one unified place to view email, calendar, contacts, and attachments from cloud based email storage. Anything with Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) or IMAP is compatible Exchange (either from Microsoft’s Office
After a public preview and some bug fixes, the three major Office programs are now available for some Android tablets. Microsoft Word for Android, Excel for Android and PowerPoint for Android are now available from Google Play. There’s also an OneNote app already available. If you’ve installed the preview/beta versions
Microsoft has officially launched an Office Proofing Tool/spell checker for the Scottish Gaelic language. It’s been done by Bòrd na Gàidhlig, the statutory language authority in Scotland, and was announced by Microsoft during a meeting at the Scottish Parliament. Scottish Gaelic has only 60,000 speakers so an Office spell checker
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. Click on the button and Outlook will try to
It’s hard to move from an email account you’ve used for years, but there’s a simple way to make the move easier. 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
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. If you’ve never heard of Moodle (me neither), Wikipedia has
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
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. The students
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
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
Microsoft has now confirmed what was long suspected; later in 2015 we’ll see two new versions of Microsoft Office. Office 2016 An update to the main Office suite for 32/64 bit Windows. The successor to Office 2013, Office 2010 and so on. Office for Windows 10. A new set of
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. How that
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
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)
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
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.
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
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
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.
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
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. Lots of accusations flying both ways on
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. Office for Android needs: An ARM based device (most
Of course, you can’t fully send emails from Outlook if the computer isn’t connected to the Internet … but it’s surprising how many people don’t know they can write and click Send any time – whether the computer is connected to the Internet or not. We often use the relatively
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