If you don’t like outlook.com you can return to Hotmail – for now. If you’ve tried Outlook.com mail service and don’t like it, you can switch back to the Hotmail interface easily. On the top right of the Outlook.com page is a ‘gear’ icon, click on that and then choose
The new version of Hotmail is called ‘Outlook’ – just ‘Outlook’ – at least on the web site itself. The new version of Hotmail is called ‘Outlook’ – just ‘Outlook’ – at least on the web site itself. In the promotional material for the new service it’s called Outlook.com which
How to connect Outlook software to Outlook.com With the announcement of Outlook.com as a replacement for Hotmail there was one glaring omission – how to sync with Outlook software. Now we know why – the existing Hotmail connector to Outlook software does work but hasn’t been updated yet. So the
How to copy a table from Wikipedia to Word or Excel. Standard web tables can be copied from a web page to Word or Excel, but not many tables on Wikipedia pages. Office-Watch.com shows you how to do it. Even if you’re not copying from Wikipedia, we’ll show you some
Some alternative views of the Olympic medal count and how to Thanks to all the readers who dropped us a note about our article on the London 2012 Olympics calendar and how to overlay it in Outlook. While many are using it to schedule their TV viewing, others use
The latest version of Hotmail has some interesting features and an invitation to confusion. The latest version of Hotmail has some interesting features and an invitation to confusion. It’s called Outlook.com and is available as a preview now. Go to Outlook.com and sign in with your Microsoft, Windows Live or
A look at the Office suite numbers in the MSFT annual report. Having trouble sleeping? Head over to the US Securities and Exchange Commission web site for the latest Annual Report from Microsoft. 95 pages of tedium guaranteed to have your eyelids slamming shut. Among the dry numbers and drier
How to schedule your Olympic viewing with Outlook. At the risk of attracting the attention of the, now infamous, Olympic Branding Police … we’d like to give you some Olympic related tips for Outlook and Office users. With so many events being broadcast live, scheduling your time isn’t going to
A fully revised new edition of one of our most popular ebooks, Organizing Outlook Email, for Outlook 2010 We’re delighted to announce a fully revised new edition of one of our most popular ebooks Organizing Outlook Email for Outlook 2010 We’ll take you through all the email management features available
A different view of prime numbers and clever web programming. Jason Davies has created an amazing web page that shows patterns for prime and non-prime numbers. Go to http://www.jasondavies.com/primos/ and move your mouse pointer along the number line to see the periodic curves change for each integer. For the number 56
Finding the stand-alone version of Office 2013 isn’t made easy – here’s how. Microsoft’s preference for the public trial of Office 2012 is the cloud based system with their ‘click to run’ technology and streaming services. You can do that starting here. That might suit some people however why be the guinea
What you need to know about Office 2013 and getting the preview. Office 2013 is now available for public preview. As you’d expect Office-Watch.com has been and will be looking at Office 2013 in detail. We don’t rely on the glib promises and cozy half-truths sent out by Microsoft. Instead
Outlook 2013 takes a backward step in readability. Grab a ruler and it’s easy to see how Microsoft has wasted screen space with Outlook 2013. The message view with preview turned off uses about 20% more vertical space than Outlook 2007 – That means less messages visible on the screen
Unread messages view returns in Outlook 2013. Viewing ‘Unread mails only’ has returned as a classic ‘flip flop’ from Microsoft. Outlook 2010 dropped the ‘Unread messages’ view because Microsoft assured us their testing showed that people didn’t want or use that feature. Really? People didn’t want to see just unread
All Office 2013 programs have a full screen mode. Up in the top right corner of Office 2013 programs is a useful new button – Full Screen Mode. Word already has a full screen mode just for reading but this is different. The new full screen mode works in all
A PDF editing mode arrives in Word 2013. For a long time people have asked for a way to edit PDF files – Word 2013 has it, sort of. It’s an understandable feature request even though it’s a bit like asking to edit a paper book or a stained glass
A look into the history of Dragon Systems. Long time computer users will remember Dragon Systems and their speech recognition software. The company was taken over by Lernout & Hauspie – a company that continues to be mentioned in the ‘About’ window of Office 2010. The sad and strange story
How to change the font and font size of Comment balloons in Word Recently we wrote about the Word Comments feature and how it can be used even for a solo author. The standard comments font is Calibri 10pt but that can be changed by changing the style linked to
The Office 2010 Starter edition won’t continue for Office 2013 but not for the reason Microsoft says. The Office 2010 Starter Edition, included with some new computers, won’t be returning for Office 2013. According to Microsoft the Starter Edition isn’t compatible with Windows 8 so they can’t have an Office
Microsoft scoops up Yammer for inclusion in a future Office. The social networking for business site Yammer.com has been bought by Microsoft for $1.2billion dollars allowing inclusion of the product in a future release of Office and Sharepoint, Yammer was started in 2008 and is promoted as “The First and
Screen sharing is still free with Skype, but you’d not know it from Microsoft’s weasel words. One of the best features in Skype is screen sharing – the ability to send some or your entire computer screen to your caller, instead of video from a webcam. This feature is still
Watch a hard drive at work, in slow motion and soaking wet. Here’s a clever video, showing the innards of a hard drive at work in slow motion. Hard drives work at very fast speeds as you’ll see. Also worth mentioning that the hard drive arm is passing over the
Buried in today’s Microsoft announcement is the name of the next Office version. While most commentators are looking at the glossy Surface device from Microsoft – Office-Watch.com looks for Office news. Down in the specs for the Surface with Windows RT is the name of the next version of Office.
Microsoft’s Surface offers a new way to buy and use Office. After the super-secret prelude, Microsoft announced what most commentators said they would – a tablet device made by Microsoft to rival the iPad – called Surface. Surface with Windows and Office in one bundle represents a new way to
