It seems you can’t drag content from IE11 in Windows 8.1 into Word. As we mentioned recently, you can drag content from a browser to Word. In fact you can drag content between many applications. David K. has noticed an interesting anomaly with Windows 8.1 and Internet Explorer 11. You
Does Microsoft Office have planned obsolescence? What does that mean for Office subscriptions/rental. An item in The New York Times Why Apple wants to bust your iPhone talks about how there’s deliberate design elements in iPhones to encourage people to buy a new model. It’s a ‘carrot and stick’ approach. There’s the ‘stick’
With Windows 8.1 for Surface RT comes a new Outlook – what’s it like? If you have a Surface RT device then there’s an update to Windows 8.1 available* and within that is a new Office program – Outlook RT. The ‘RT’ versions of Office programs look much like the
Office 2013: the real startup guide gets some updates for all readers. Our popular ebook Office 2013: the real startup guide has been updated with some new content for all readers. Volume Licencing chapter greatly expanded to include summary of the options as they apply to buying Office 2013, the
Filtered.com is offering a week long trial of their online courses. In conjunction with Skilledup.com – you can get a 7 day free trial of the Word, Excel and PowerPoint courses offered by Filtered.com Details at skilledup.com – scroll down to the bottom of the article for the sign-up form.
Mixed signals about the core anti-virus protection in Windows. These days, most IT professionals will recommend Microsoft Security Essentials. MSE is the free anti-virus program that’s included with Windows 7 and Windows 8. It’s also available as a free download for Windows Vista and XP users. Security Essentials is all
The Vatican’s latest mistake can be blamed on Microsoft … if you try hard enough. A good laugh can be had with this news from the Vatican: “A commemorative coins issued by the Vatican has been withdrawn because it spells the word ‘Jesus’ incorrectly”. You’d think that knowing how to
If you rent/subscribe to Office software, how does the upgrade work. What if you don’t want to upgrade. If you want to control your Microsoft Office versions, maybe buying the software is a better choice than renting it. One of the ‘benefits’ of an Office software subscription is that you
Charlie Stross unloads on Microsoft Word Author Charles Stross has dumped fully on Microsoft Word in a blog posting called ‘Why Microsoft Word must Die‘ and in case the title isn’t sufficiently clear he opens with: “I hate Microsoft Word. I want Microsoft Word to die. I hate Microsoft
How to use Office for Windows on the Mac. Sometimes Office for Mac isn’t enough, you need its big brother, Office for Windows to run on a Macintosh computer. That’s certainly possible in various ways. It’s done using virtual machines, in effect running Windows ‘inside’ Apple’s operating system. VM’s, as
Win 8 ‘not fit for purpose’? Today’s Financial Times has an interesting letter and sharp indictment of Windows 8 “….For anybody doing real work, Windows 8 has concrete design errors which should never have reached the business user. Leaving aside trying to work with spreadsheets, the start button, the right
Is Office 2010 SP2 safe? Back in July, Microsoft released its second Service Pack for Office 2010. As usual, we suggested a little caution in updating Office 2010, just in case there’s problems. That’s not to say there is or was anything wrong with SP2, but updating Office is a
Another way to have real Microsoft Office. Cloudon, makers of an app to bring MS Office to Apple and Android devices has now expanded to browsers as well. Now you can use Chrome or Safari browsers to open up a Cloudon window with Word, Excel or Powerpoint running. The base
The latest on the buggy September Office patches. In the last issue we told you about some buggy Office updates that are best ignored. What progress from Microsoft after a fortnight? The Office 2010 patches that got themselves into an infinite loop of updating are apparently now fixed. The Never
Apple’s office compatible apps are now free. Buried in the new iPhone hype was some interesting news for anyone editing Office documents on iPhone or iPad. The ‘iWork’ apps are now free on new devices. That’s Pages (word-processing), Keynote (presentations) and Numbers (spreadsheet). Each app cost $9.99 in the past
OneNote for iPad/iPhone has been updated with some important and essential additions. With version 2.1 you have proper control to create notebooks on Skydrive. At last you can create, rename and delete sections. Until now OneNote users had to switch to their computer or Office Web Apps to rearrange notebooks
Office 365 and Exchange Online users get double mailbox size for no extra charge. Microsoft has announced a major increase in the mailbox size for Office 365 / Exchange Online customers. For most people this means their mailbox can now grow past 25GB to 50GB. That’s a lot of space
There’s no nice way to say it – this month’s Office 2013 update is, in military speak, ‘Fubar’ With the usual collection of security patches this month, Microsoft released an update to Office 2013 with various fixes and adding one major bug that amazingly managed to get through testing. The
Microsoft adds a bit more to the dying Technet. Microsoft is closing its too popular Technet program but hopes to dull the pain with a three month bonus. Over the next few weeks Technet subscribers should find their expiry date extend by three months. To qualify your Technet subscription had
Updating Office 207 can literally go on forever! Many users are reporting a problem with the patches for Office 2007. The three troublemakers are: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2760583/ (KB 2760583) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2760411/ (KB 2760411) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2760588/ (KB 2760588) No matter how many times you install them, manually or automatically. Given the widespread nature of the
No details on an update to Office for iPhone. Microsoft has pushed out an update to Office for iPhone and it achieves a new low in the sad history of updates to Office software. Office-Watch.com is accustomed to Microsoft updates with poor documentation and we’ve written about them for many
How accurate is Excel compared to universal needs. On page 45 of the Sept/Oct 2013 Mental Floss magazine is a small item ‘Why do we care so much about the digits if Pi’ which includes this trivia: “The computers that keep the International Space Station humming round off pi at
An online tool from MIT helps you see what the government can see. The Media Lab at MIT has an online service which shows how revealing ‘metadata’ or ‘identifiers’ collected by the US government can really be. Microsoft, the US government and others defending the controversial PRISM program have been
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
