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
A tool for syncing your Outlook data with online services. gSyncit is an option for pushing your Outlook data, calendar, contacts, tasks and notes to online services. This is important because it lets you access that Outlook info on other devices like the iPhone or Android smartphones with updates copied
What to do about the ‘Duqu’ malware that can be sent via Word documents. There’s plenty of noise but little hard facts so far about the Duqu malware attack. At the time of writing all we know is: There’s a new Windows exploit that the ‘Duqu’ malware uses to
An iCloud link with Outlook sounds great, a pity it doesn’t work in the real world. Lots of iPhone and iPad users got excited when they learned about iCloud and its ability to sync mail, calendar, contacts and tasks with Outlook via the Internet. Hold the applause, if you actually
How to sync Outlook to your Apple devices with iCloud and why it sucks. Apple’s iCloud service provides a way to synchronize some parts of Outlook with your Apple iPhone, iTouch or iPad but it doesn’t work as most people would like. Before iCloud, you could synchronize your Outlook Contacts,
How to use Apple’s iCloud with your Office documents. iCloud is the new Apple service which lets you easily synchronize files between IPad / iPhone and desktop computers, here’s how it works. Did we say ‘easily’? More correct to say ‘a bit easier’. iCloud is a slightly better way to
Word’s spell check has a serious bug when it comes to symbols. Some time back we looked at the ‘Word ampersand mystery’, that’s where the spell-checker behaves strangely when there’s an ampersand in the text. It turns out to be a bigger problem involving many symbol characters. An ampersand at
At last, an easy way to find Word 2007 commands. We’re delighted to release a Word 2007 Command Finder to help you search through all 1,580 commands. Just like our Word 2010 Command Finder, we’ve taken the All Commands dialog and put them into a single, searchable list. This makes
The Comic Sans haters have risen again as a TV show is plastered with the hated Comic Sans font Stephen Fry’s latest TV show uses Comic Sans as its primary font, so the haters of the common font have risen in protest. We’ve talked about Comic Sans before. It’s not
What is there for Office users in the new Kindle Touch and Kindle Fire? Because there has been no mention of Office document compatibility on the new Kindles, we decided to take a look. There’s a little good news but things mostly stay the same. Document compatibility is important. Devices
Can you have a vertical ribbon in Microsoft Office? Is it possible to make the ribbon go vertically down the side of a document instead of horizontally? Back in Office 2003, it was possible to move the toolbar from the top row to any side of the Office window –
Microsoft has given reporters a brief ‘hands on’ look at Windows 8 – what does it mean for Office users? Windows 8 will have two interfaces – a traditional mouse/keyboard system similar to Windows 7/Vista/XP plus ‘Metro’. Metro is a ‘grown up’ version of the tiles system seen on new
How you can protect yourself against mail being intercepted by a fake domain The Godai Group have made a big splash with their report on ‘doppleganger domains’ that can spy on emails to and from an organization, but what can Outlook users do about it? What is a Doppleganger domain?
The Nook Color tablet/ereader supports an impressive list of Microsoft Office documents. Office Watch reader, Dale M writes: ” for the NookColor …. it reads natively, office documents in Office 2003 and in Office 2007 format. Works for Word, Excel and PowerPoint and maybe others. Also, PDFs display quite nicely
How to accurately work out the boot time for your computer. The Windows Event Log keeps a track of how long it takes to boot up your computer. There’s an interesting and well explained article here that explains where to look in the Event Viewer. This can be useful information
We had a great time on Australia’s Gold Coast for Microsoft’s annual Aussie nerd-fest. Had a great time at TechEd 2011 on Australia’s Gold Coast. For Office users all the talk at this year’s event was Office 365. Plenty of sessions for organizations on how to migrate in whole or
Exactly how large a message can you have with Office 365? Office Watch has managed to get to the bottom of the email size mystery with Office 365. The official size limit for incoming and outgoing messages is stated as 25MB Behind that number lies a tale. During the Office
Office 365 users get a 25% discount after system failure. See Also: How to get a refund of Office 365 Office-Watch.com readers tell us that Microsoft has automatically given them a 25% credit on their August bills. Back on 17 August there was a disconnection of some North American Office
The October Swiss elections might have an ‘Anti PowerPoint’ party on the ballot. In Switzerland they are trying to get the numbers for an ‘Anti-Powerpoint Party’ to stand in the October 2011 elections. The founder of the party, Matthias Poehm says that €350 billion could be saved each year simply
Outlook doesn’t see a scam traffic ticket. At Office Watch, we love finding a new email scam that Outlook’s Junk Email filter doesn’t catch. New to our Inbox are fake traffic tickets from New York. Do we need to tell you they are fakes? The reply address is fake whether
Office 365 went partly offline yesterday, though Microsoft isn’t being too forthcoming with details. Yesterday, 17 August, there were problems with Office 365 and Dynamics CRM, among other Microsoft online services. Some users connected to the North America servers could not access their email or manage accounts for much of
‘Gmail man’ is Microsoft latest promotional tool – is it really that great? Lots of people are getting excited about Microsoft’s Gmail Man video which is now doing the rounds. The video (allegedly only for internal Microsoft use) is a humorous attempt to denigrate Gmail in favor of Microsoft’s Office
The stranded traveler scam is fairly new and we’ve just heard of a clever little twist. The stranded traveler scam is a way to profit from hacking into someone’s webmail account. Understanding how it works will help prevent you and your friends from being a victim. It works like this.
More tips and details about putting one Word document inside another. Following our article on Word linking and embedding in Office for Mere Mortals, here’s some additional tips and help to do things not allowing in the Word dialog boxes. Making it permanent For future reference you’ll want the main
