It’s somewhat hidden away, but Word, Excel and PowerPoint for Apple devices can now open and save to Apple’s own iCloud storage. It has been a long time coming but the Office for IPad apps have slowly moved from the Microsoft only position (OneDrive and SharePoint only) to now allowing
Microsoft has released preview versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint apps for Android phones. These apps will eventually replace the existing Office Mobile offering. Source: Microsoft These apps will be familiar to anyone who has used Office for iPhone apps or Office for Android tablets. The previews should have 1GB
Microsoft has announced the deployment of their new email management service for Office 365 hosting – Clutter. It will be turned on, by default, for all customers using Microsoft’s mail hosting in June. Clutter works at the server level to read your incoming messages and move the ones that the
The Motley Fool has a look at Microsoft’s latest financial results under the catchy heading 3 Reasons Microsoft Corporation’s Stock Could Fall. They note that there’s been strong growth in Microsoft’s cloud computing service calling it “arguably its single most important business segment”. There are competitors like Amazon Web Services
As we mentioned recently, one way to safely and securely send Office documents around is to use one of the new messaging apps that are available. The many apps vary in features and quality. Any of them have more and better features than standard mobile phone texting. In fact, these
Art A. makes some good points about the cost of Office 365 for business. Microsoft’s CFO admits that Office 365 costs up to 80% more than other buying choices but that doesn’t mean that it’s necessarily a worse choice for business. When Office 365 includes backoffice services (like storage, Exchange
Apple Watch hype has even reached Microsoft. You can use an Apple Watch to control a PowerPoint presentation. All images from Microsoft. PowerPoint Remote for Apple Watch is now part of the PowerPoint for iOs app download. It works in conjunction with PowerPoint running on an iPhone or iPad which
The latest financial disclosures from Microsoft show that the move to annual ‘subscriptions (rentals) mean a price increase to customers of up to 80%! This is a long way from the common media narrative, based on dubious calculations, which says that Office 365 ‘subscriptions’ are better value. Microsoft CFO is
They keep getting younger. A 6 year old London boy has become the youngest ever Word 2013 Microsoft Office specialist. The previous record holder was a whopping 9 years old and took the exams in Nigeria. It’s been news in Pakistan because Humza was born in Lahore and moved to
If you only know one language (like me) then you might think that the language tools in Office don’t matter – think again. Even us solo linguists sometimes need the deep language support in Office. Here’s a quick look at your dictionary and proofing tool options in Office. Proofing Tools
We’d like to tell you more about the English dictionary updates to Office 2013, but Microsoft has chosen secrecy. Is it secrecy, arrogance or apathy? Microsoft has started making more regular changes to the English dictionary. For some reason they’ve decided to do it ‘on the QT’ so few people
Microsoft has released a preview/beta version of Office 2016 to effectively all comers. Here’s how to get it. The Preview version comes with the 2016 versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, OneNote and Publisher. Office 2016 requires Windows 7 or later. Similar memory and drive space requirements to Office
Barry G writes “Peter, nice work waking up Microsoft about the broken link in Outlook 2013. Now they should look at the Outlook 2010 link which isn’t broken but it’s quite useless”. Barry is right, the Outlook 2010 link to ‘View social network providers available online’ does no such thing.
It took many weeks and repeated public shaming but Microsoft has finally fixed the social connectors link in Outlook 2013. The ‘Connect to another social network’ link now works – well sort of. Microsoft’s problem, and the reason why the link went to a ‘Page not found’ error, was the
A reader asks how to install OneNote (available free from Microsoft) with the older versions of Office like Office 2003 or Office 2007. OneNote 2013 is available free from Microsoft as are versions for Mac, Apple and Android. Any attempt to mix versions of Office should begin with installing the
It’s an old scam which has resurfaced for the gullible. You get an email that promises vast wealth from Microsoft in some award scheme you’ve never heard of: “ Your address just won you $500,000 in the Microsoft Word awards.” “ Your address just won you Five hundred thousand pounds sterling in
As part of the 2015 BUILD conference, Microsoft announced a series of new tools for Office developers. They are new and updated API’s (Application Program Interface) which let developers work with software or a web service. For example a OneDrive or DropBox API lets a separate program directly save, read
Microsoft has announced that the concept of add-ins, now limited to Office for Windows, will soon be coming to Office for iPad. Just like in Office for Windows, Office for iPad will have a side pane that can add more to Excel. Here’s Microsoft’s example of a Dun and Bradstreet
There’s plenty of uncritical hype about the Outlook apps for Apple and Android devices that don’t mention the two big downsides of the Microsoft Outlook app. Single app = Single view In Outlook for Windows or Mac you can open up many different views. One each for the Inbox, Calendar
If there’s a common theme through Office Watch these days it’s the lack of disclosure by Microsoft about what they are doing with Office software. One example is the apparently silent update to the English language dictionary in Office. A few days ago we mentioned the addition to the English
A few weeks ago we told you and Microsoft about a broken web link from Outlook 2013. The link to add more social connectors to Outlook 2013 goes to a fancy ‘Page not found’ page that’s no help at all. This isn’t a mistake by Microsoft, they’ve had some time
Ellen F writes: ” Thanks for this: Outlook Categories – Why and How , which Microsoft of course doesn’t tell us about. However, I’m using Outlook Web Access and I can see how to apply categories to my emails but cannot figure out how to assign text labels to the
How can you send an Office document safely and securely to another person? A simple question with no simple answer. Who you are guarding against? A random snooper at the recipient’s end who accidentally finds the document, or someone targeting your or your data, such as a commercial rival,
Almost a year ago we sarcastically complained about the lack of words from ‘Game of Thrones’ in the Office dictionary. We didn’t expect Microsoft to do anything out it and, if they did, thought they’d tell customers. Slate magazine has noticed that many Westeros names now don’t get a red
