All about Microsoft Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook, Microsoft 365, Office 2021 and earlier versions.
Dropbox gets CloudOn
CloudOn, the online service that lets you use ‘real’ Office programs on a range of mobile devices, has been bought by Dropbox. We looked at CloudOn back in 2012. It runs a copy of the full Office programs (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) on a server and virtualizes the screen display to your tablet device. You can […]
1 million students to get MS Office free
Microsoft has joined with Communities In Schools (CIS) to get Microsoft Office into the hands of a million students and CIS staff across the USA. It’s a three year arrangement between Microsoft, ‘technology partner’ COMPAREX and CIS which applies to students in 25 US states plus Washington D.C. The students will get Office 365 Pro […]
Office releases for 2015 revealed
Microsoft has now confirmed what was long suspected; later in 2015 we’ll see two new versions of Microsoft Office. Office 2016 An update to the main Office suite for 32/64 bit Windows. The successor to Office 2013, Office 2010 and so on. Office for Windows 10. A new set of Office apps for Word, Excel, […]
NSA buries bad news on Xmas Eve
On the TV show ‘The West Wing’ news stories the administration wanted the public to overlook were released on ‘Friday Trash Day‘. In the real world, the US National Security Agency (NSA) has another term for the same practice. The NSA calls it ‘Christmas Eve’. It was on the afternoon of 24 December the NSA chose […]
Office for Android ‘soon’ with Office 16 in 2015
The Office rumor mill has been running hot this week. Office for Android Plenty of rumors that Office for Android is coming soon, possibly in early November. If that’s the case it can’t come soon enough for Office users. If Office for Android is as good as Office for iPad then it will be a […]
Office 365’s unlimited cloud
Microsoft has really made Office 365 more compelling by raising their online OneDrive storage from 1 Terabyte to Unlimited for Office 365 subscribers. If you have Office 365 Personal, Home, University or Business account, the OneDrive storage limit will be effectively removed entirely. For Home subscribers, shared among several people, each account attached to the […]
What is Sway and should we care?
Microsoft has announced the existence but not availability of a new part of Office, Microsoft Sway. https://sway.com/ Sway is a new way to make a web based presentations with text, images, video, social media integrated. It certainly looks interesting. We think of it as a 21st Century version of PowerPoint, aimed at a connected world […]
Sneak Peek at Office 2015
The Verge has been given a look at the next release of Microsoft Office, most likely called Office 2015, and a few of its features. This was a calculated ‘leak’ by Microsoft of selected images in advance of their big ‘Windows 9’ splash on 30 September. We’ve seen these selective leaks too many times before […]
How to make Office document backups and file versions
Eventually we all need to find a deleted document or a past version of an existing document. You never know when it’ll be needed or for which document. There’s many options available for keeping older versions of a document or file, most of them you have to setup in advance. You can choose or more […]
Office is 25 years old
Microsoft celebrates 25 years of the software suite. Microsoft quietly celebrated the 25th anniversary of their Office suite on 1 August 2014 but were they being a little ‘previous’ in their celebrations? While Word, Excel and PowerPoint for Windows were around on 1 August 1989, were they sold as ‘Microsoft Office’ or only as separate […]
One Terabyte of OneDrive is here
Microsoft delivers 1,000GB for Office 365 users. As we mentioned last month, Microsoft decided to greatly increase the OneDrive storage available for Office 365 subscribers. The base storage for paid customers is now 1 Terabyte. That change has now been implemented. If you’re an Office 365 subscriber, go to OneDrive in your browser and look […]
Surface mini is dead but Office for Android nears birth
A smaller Surface machine isn’t coming soon but Office for Android surely is. The rumor mill is running hot about the Surface Mini (comatose, possibly deceased) and Microsoft Office for Android (in gestation). Microsoft did have a plan for a smaller version of their Surface computers but it was apparently killed. Buy why? Surely Microsoft […]
Become an Office beta tester
Join the list of testers for future versions of Microsoft Office. Microsoft has opened their waiting list for people to test future versions of Microsoft Office. Businesses and individuals can apply here http://prereleaseprograms-public.sharepoint.com/ There’s no guarantee you’ll be selected nor which version of Office you’ll be offered (Office for Windows, Mac, iPad. Maybe the upcoming […]
Office for Mac 2011 update
Another update to Office 2011 for Mac, mostly Outlook 2011. Microsoft has released another patch for Office for Mac 2011 called the 14.4.3 update. The update is available from here or AutoUpdate on your Mac should grab and install the patch. Microsoft is typically cagey about what’s changed in the patch. The only three disclosed […]
Office 2001 for Mac – May 2014 update
What’s in the latest Office 2011 for Max update? In late May, Microsoft quietly released an update for Office 2011 for Mac taking it to version 14.4.2. If this was Office for Windows, it would be called a ‘Service Pack’ but somehow, not Office for Mac. Update Secrecy One thing that is the same of […]
Pasting images into Office: size concerns
Does pasting an image into Office take up more space than inserting it? Gary Z read our tip about pasting images into Office and asks: “I remember reading years ago that graphics are copied to the clipboard in BMP. Huge files. Then if paste HUGE increase in Word file size. So INSERT jpg, tiff, png. […]
