All about Microsoft Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook, Microsoft 365, Office 2021 and earlier versions.
Office Mobile, SkyDrive and saving documents
Office Mobile for iPhone is locked into SkyDrive with few other choices.For most people, the new Office Mobile for iPhone is locked into SkyDrive as the sole location for saving files. It’s a 21st Century version of Henry Ford’s famous quote “you can save a document anywhere as long as it’s on a Microsoft server”. […]
Office Mobile for iPhone
A quick first look at the newest version of Microsoft Office. Microsoft has released a version of Office for Apple’s iPhone – we have had a look at how you can get it and what you can do. First impression This is a hastily made app released now so that Microsoft can say they have […]
Language and Dictionaries in MS Word
A quick look at your dictionary options in Word Even if you, like me, only speak one language there are still some powerful language and dictionary options in Word to keep in mind. All copies of Microsoft Office (recent versions anyway) come with English dictionaries. ‘Dictionaries’ plural because there’s many variants supplied. You’d expect English […]
Windows Tablets bundled with MS Office
Some Windows tablets will be bundled with Microsoft Office for no extra cost. As a sign that the sales of Windows Tablets are not as good as the Redmond hype, Microsoft has announced that Office software can now be included free with the hardware. Later this year (not right away) buyers of Windows tablet devices […]
Microsoft’s Aussie charade day
Down in Australia, software companies acted out a little play with politicians In Australia’s capital, the local leaders of software giants like Microsoft, Adobe and Apple got together with politicians to act out a little play. It was all under the guise of a ‘parliamentary enquiry‘ but it was a scripted and predicable as anything […]
Watermarks in Word using VBA
Just one example of VBA users being shortchanged in Microsoft Office An obvious way to apply watermarks in Microsoft Word would be via VBA. For example some code to print a document multiple times – once with an ‘Office Copy’ watermark and other showing a ‘Customer Copy’ watermark. Or using VBA to programmatically insert document […]
HP Printers exposed!
How to check if your printer is exposed to anyone on the Internet. ZDnet is reporting an interesting new use for Google search – finding printers that anyone can print to. Some HP Printers have a web interface. If your network isn’t setup correctly and that mini-web site isn’t password protected then anyone on the […]
Office 2013 – watching the sales pitch
How well are the changed terms for retail sales being disclosed? Now Office 2013 is being sold to the public we’ve been carefully looking for proper disclosure of the new stricter license rules. As regular Office Watch readers will know, Office 2013 retail bundles have very different rules to the past packages. Generally speaking, a […]
Office 2013 – one product, two trials
Choose your Office 2013 trial with care. If you’d like to try Office 2013, there’s more than one choice to make. You can select a traditional download and install OR use the newer ‘Click to Run‘ streaming install. Traditional download You can download Office 2013 Professional Plus trial from here. It’s available in either 32-bit […]
Surface Pro and Office
Get Microsoft’s Surface Pro and then pay more for Office. Microsoft has announced that their Surface Pro computer will be released on February 9th. We hope it has better luck in the market than the rightly belittled Surface machine with its low disk space, lack of compatibility and high price. Surface Pro uses an Intel […]
Keep Calm with Microsoft Office
Make the famous WW2 poster yourself, and countless variations, in Microsoft Office. Make the famous WW2 poster yourself, and countless variations, in Microsoft Office Keep Calm with Microsoft Office is the latest in our series of practical ebooks for Microsoft Office users. We don’t just tell you how to use Office, we supply […]
Another Microsoft Store offer worth avoiding
Microsoft Store presents yet another poor ‘discount’ offer. Regular readers know that if you want the highest prices, go to the Microsoft Store. Even their special offers are overpriced. Over Thanksgiving 2012, the Store has been offering US customers a discount on Office for Mac. Sounds great, a $50 discount and pay $100 for a […]
Microsoft’s billions
Redmond is still talking ‘billion’ and showing their own ‘statistics’ as false. During the launch of Windows 8 it was interesting to hear mention of ‘over a billion people using Windows‘. That’s interesting because only a few months ago Microsoft was assuring us there were a billion Microsoft Office users – an improbable number that […]
Office 2013 not ready for a tablet
Office 2013 with Windows 8 touch interface is disappointing. Last week Office-Watch.com had a chance to try out a Windows 8 tablet with Office 2013 and it was the most underwhelming Microsoft demo we’ve attended in 15 years. We were given Windows 8 tablets to try out, the Samsung Series 7 Slate models with a […]
Office has a billion users – true or false?
Hard to believe Microsoft’s statement that Office has a billion users. Microsoft has been boasting this week about the billion users of Microsoft Office. Over 15 years of listening to Microsoft statistics we’re automatically suspicious of any such number, especially when the speaker can’t give any justification for the number. One billion people sounds credible […]
Word document recovery
Office lets you recover documents lost but it can be hard to choose the right one. For many versions of Office you’ve been able to recover open documents that haven’t been saved before a system crash, but the details aren’t obvious. If Windows or Office unexpectedly stops, there’s a chance that Office can recover the […]
