Evernote for Android now comes with the ability to edit Office documents. Our favorite notemaking system, Evernote, now has the ability to edit Office documents within their Android version. Yes – we very much prefer Evernote over Office Onenote. Evernote runs very well, syncs seamlessly and completely across all popular
It’s reassuring to see the experts get it wrong. One of the very minor sub-plots in the story of the Ballmer resignation came from ValleyWag. Steve Ballmer sent a company-wide email announcing his retirement plans. The Managing Director of Microsoft Research, Roy Levin, replied from his Windows Phone. Only his
An extended report on our Editor-in-Chief’s visit to Christmas Island or Kiritimati. Kiritimati is a largely unknown dot in the middle of the Pacific Ocean – Google Maps. Known in English as ‘Christmas Island’ though there’s two islands of that name, the other is an Australian territory in the Indian
A good explanation of web & email encryption plus how it’s crippled by the US government. Discover Magazine has a good explanation of the maths behind encryption used in web secure pages and email. It’s somewhat misleadingly headlined “How to create codes that even the NSA can’t break“. The article
Linux developers think ahead, I mean waaaay ahead. Gotta hand it to Linux developers, they think ahead. “At 15:30:08 UTC on Sun, 4 December 292,277,026,596 …. 64-bit based Unix time stamps will overflow as the time stamp will exceed the register space; save your alarm, however, as this is much
What can Office for Mac users do instead of font embedding? Since Office for Mac won’t let you embed fonts, what can you do instead? We’ll look at the options that Office for Mac users can try when sharing a document with Office for Windows. Going the other way (Office
Full list of fonts available in both modern Office for Mac and Office for Windows The following fonts are available on both Macintosh OSX 10.4 and later with Office for Mac and Windows 8 or later with Office for Windows You can use these fonts in Office documents, knowing that
Microsoft makes Office for Mac compatibility harder by omitting an important feature. In the feature list of Office for Mac is one vital omission, one that Microsoft definitely doesn’t like talking about. It effects anyone trying to operate in a ‘mixed’ Office Windows/Mac environment. In theory, a document made on
Some reader suggestions for a renamed Skydrive. With the news that Microsoft’s Skydrive service will be renamed, came some suggestions from readers. Microsoft Cloud Storage 2013 Home and Student edition Office 365 Drive Bob Drive – time to give the ill-fated Microsoft Bob a new job. Universal Microsoft hasn’t used
A quick overview of Word on Android phones. You can open and view documents in either docx or doc format but will only edit docx documents. If you open a .doc file, press the menu button and Save As to the newer format. When you open a document you’re first
Microsoft loses a court battle – Skydrive is no more. Microsoft has lost a court case regarding use of the term ‘Sky’ and is being forced to rename their ‘Skydrive’ cloud storage service to something else. While the case was held in the UK and only covered use of the
Office apps, of a sort, come to Android phones. Hot on the heels of Office for iPhone comes Microsoft’s version of Office for Android phones. The Android release is very similar to Office for iPhone, which effectively means both are quite limited in features and availability. Office for Android (officially
How Microsoft keeps bugs secret until it suits them. For as long as we can remember, an Office Service Pack has been accompanied by the revelation of previous undisclosed bugs in the software. Microsoft has an ongoing policy of keeping bugs secret from customers until they have a fix. Here’s
Past patches and fixes to ‘secret’ bugs in an update to Office 2010 and related programs. Microsoft has released another service pack for Office 2010 and associated programs like SharePoint 2010 with the usual trick of patching software bugs that Microsoft had kept secret from customers. It’s an old trick
Contrary advice – how to add more buzzwords to your documents or remove them! Firstly, new guidelines from the UK government in an effort to reduce jargon in press releases. Some of the rules are pithy in themselves deliver – unless it’s a pizza or post drive – unless it’s
An important thing missing from the photos of the new device. Tricky marketing isn’t the sole preserve of Microsoft – Google is doing similar things with their new Chromecast device. Check out the official Chromecast page which has plenty of photos of the little dongle including one plugged in the
Even Office-Watch can jump on the royal baby bandwagon To celebrate the birth of a son and heir to the Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge, Office-Watch.com is delighted to add a limited* edition sign to their popular ebook Keep Calm with Microsoft Office This one of a kind sign can
Does Microsoft have a list of blocked words like Apple does on the iPhone? One of the more amazing examples of over-control by a software maker is the news that Apple has a ‘Kill List’ of words that it won’t spell-check. It seems that iOS v6 devices have a list
Does the latest shuffling of chairs at Redmond make any difference to Office users? Microsoft has announced their latest corporate reorganization which has been analyzed to death in the press. You can read the email to Microsoft staff here – and catch up on the latest in corporate buzzwords and
After last week’s revelations about Microsoft’s cooperation with the US government, we asked some questions …. Still waiting for a reply of any kind. After last week’s revelations about Microsoft’s cooperation with the US government, we asked some questions to Microsoft. They asked for more time to reply, so we
Microsoft’s official response to the latest news about their work with the NSA and FBI. Office-Watch.com has posed a series of specific questions to Microsoft which we hope will get a response in the next few days. In the meantime here’s their official response to the Guardian article about Microsoft’s
Microsoft closes their Technet program giving an unlikely reason. Microsoft has announced the closure of their popular Technet program from 31 August 2013. You can continue to buy a Technet subscription until that date and current subscriptions will be honored until they expire. So if you were thinking of getting
New disclosures about how Microsoft actively collaborates with the NSA to infiltrate Skydrive and encrypted messages on a large scale. The Guardian newspaper today has damaging revelations about how Microsoft had gone beyond simply responding to specific requests from the US government for information on individuals using Outlook.com, Skydrive and other
An Office-Watch.com reader with an excellent idea for Outlook rules and there’s a part workaround available now. Larry D saw our article on limitations in Outlook Rules and came up with a great idea: ” I think the most important function this feature could offer (which it doesn’t) would be,
