Copying or moving many items in Outlook isn’t easy – here’s how to avoid Outlook’s deficiencies. For as long as Outlook has existed, there have been problems when you copy or move many items around. Here are some suggestions from years of experience and frustration. When transferring many items, Outlook
If you can’t use Windows Remote Desktop there are other choices. Remote Desktop works well for compatible Windows computers on the same local network. Beyond that there are other choices, they usually don’t work as well as Remote Desktop but are still good. Live Mesh If you want to reach
How to use a single copy of Outlook on multiple machines. There’s an easy way to run a single copy of Outlook and use it on multiple machines – Remote Desktop. We’ve heard from many Outlook users who move their PST data files between a laptop and desktop computers. We’re
Some important options for Windows Remote Desktop connections. Here’s a quick tour of some Remote Desktop options available when you click the Options button on bottom left of the opening dialog: General For the faster start of a remote connection, click ‘Allow me to save credentials’ and type a user
Office 365 has some unusual limits on the number and size of messages you can send or receive. Office 365 has some restrictions on emails and how many you can send, but some are not calculated the usual way. Message Size The size of an email message is always calculated
How to get detailed SuperPAC donation and spending information into Excel. Today the US Federal Election Commission (FEC) is receiving and publishing details of the controversial SuperPAC’s showing who has donated and what they spent money on. It’s a good and timely example of how you can get information from
The Office 15 Technical Preview has begun. And so it begins …. Microsoft has started testing the next version of Office (called ‘Office 15’ for the moment) to a small group of people outside the company. They aren’t saying much else at this stage except the usual platitudes that have
Using Outlook linked to online storage and you keep on working work if disconnected. Whenever Outlook is connected to online data storage (ie Gmail via IMAP or Exchange Server / Office 365) it will let you keep working if there’s a break in internet access. Outlook is designed to cache
How to manage email in Outlook with your own domain name. Rick J writes “I have my own domain name and I want to make email accounts for me and family using it. What’s the best option for me?”. Firstly, congratulations on making the switch to a permanent email address.
Get your Outlook data to show up with Google services and vice-versa. Using gSyncit you can keep a copy of your Outlook contacts, calendar, tasks and notes in your Google account. Why would you want to do that? Once your Outlook info is syncd with online storage it’s available to
How to get your Outlook data on multiple computers and more. Temple F writes: “I would like to clone my current Outlook file (emails, contacts, calendar, tasks, settings) over to a 2nd and possibly 3rd PC. I don’t believe I’ve seen any reviews on some of the complete add-ins for
Despite Amazon promises, Word DOC files aren’t read directly by the Kindle Fire. Amazon has been a little shifty when it comes to mentioning document compatibility for the Kindle and especially Kindle Fire. The official list includes two file types that DON’T work and omits an important file type that
Who is better? Larry King or Piers Morgan – do your own analysis in Excel. Data is now available to analyze the CNN ratings of Larry King and his successor Pier Morgan (aka Piers Moron as he’s known to readers of Private Eye). We really don’t care about the ratings
How to get a list of files in a folder into Microsoft Word. As long as there have been word processors, we’ve seen the question of how to get a list of files into a document. It should be simple bit it isn’t. Here’s how … You could write or
How can you get more languages for Office – or maybe you already have them? Following our look at Which languages come with Office in the last issue we received quite a few questions from Office Watch readers about language support in Office; this and related articles will attempt to
The details (and lack of) about add-on languages for Office 2010. You can buy additional languages (proofing and interface) for Office 2010, however details are sadly lacking. Getting Office language packs was once a tiresome and difficult process. The packs were sold, at high prices, by a third-party company. They
For Office 2010 you can buy additional language packs, if necessary. Often they are available for free. For Office 2010 you can buy additional language packs, if necessary. Often they are available for free. We say if necessary because you might not need to buy anything. Office 2010 is sold
When you buy Microsoft Office, what language proofing tools do you get ‘in the box’? Each language version of Office sold is called a ‘localized version’ by Microsoft. The most common is the ‘English’ version of Office sold in North America, UK, Australia, New Zealand and many other places. Though,
Why would Microsoft make Office for iPad? It’s being reported that Microsoft is working on an iPad version of Microsoft Office – This is hardly surprising, the iPad’s have become a very popular platform. By contrast, Windows Tablets have hardly taken the world by storm. For all the chest-thumping from
A personal selection of favorite Android apps. Everyone has a recommended selection of apps for their smartphone and Office-Watch.com is no different. We’ve been using Android devices for some time and these apps are always loaded. Most of them work both online and offline. It annoys us when developers assume
There is a possibility of getting a replacement Product Key from Microsoft. A Knowledge Base article from Microsoft suggests they can help recover a lost Office Product Key. If you’re trying to install Microsoft Office, perhaps on a replacement computer, you need installation disk and also the Product Key. That’s
A clever, compact alternative to regular business cards. We’ve become quite attached to Squiz Cards, a small and clever alternative to standard business cards. Mary-Jane Almer co-author of some Office Watch ebooks put us on to Squiz cards. They are 2 2/8” x 1 2/8” (53mm x 28mm), less than
When you buy Office there are several languages you can use with your documents. Office has two levels of language support. There’s the language used on the menus, ribbon and dialog (called ‘Language Interface’) and then there are the languages supported in documents by the spell checker, grammar analysis and
Finding a true Print Preview in Word 2010. Hank S. writes: “Is there any way to remove the approximately left half of the screen (File/Options display) so a print preview may be seen at full size? The new print pane is really handy, but there are times when I want
